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Index. 



A 

1-A(i K 

Abrams. Randall J . . , 98 

Adam, Charles H 101 

Ahern, Miss Mary Eileen 120 

Anderson, William Arnold 134 

Adams, Joseph K 1 56 

Anthony, M. D., Emanuel 188 

Anthony, M. D. , E. Grove 228 

Austin, Edward Ames 233 

Allen, M, D. , Wesley 364 

Armantrout. Haivey J 392 

Anderson, Martin C 405 

Alexander, Joseph H 419 

Arbiickle, James F 459 

Ayres, Judge Alexander C 464 

B 

Brown. Hon. Edgar A 25 

Browning. Miss Eliza G 36 

Bevijle, Henry H 38 

Baitholomew. Pliny Webster 48 

Bieler. Capt. Jacob L 66 

Brown. Demarchus C 87 

Benton, Prof. Allen R 91 

Brown, Arthur V 94 

Bell, J. E 97 

Brown, Henrv J 101 

Barnes, M. D. , Henry F 102 

Bedford. M. D.. C. T 109 

Bowser. Edward Thomas 118 

Butler, John Maynard 132 

Bradley, Giles A 133 

Bell, M. D., Guido 138 

Belles, Caleb 139 

Blount, Brazillai M 142 

Bullock, Henry W 146 

Brennan. M. D.. E. J 150 

Barnes, Dr. Charles Aimer 174 

Barnes, M. D. , Carl L 175 

Ballweg, Frederick 176 

Boring, Ephraim 180 

Bceckliug, George A 181 

Buchanan, D. D. S., Albert E 189 



Brown, D. D. S. , Daniel N 197 

Butler. Ovid 204 

Brown, M. D., John Randolph 211 

Brewer, Alfred 213 

Boiler, Peter 220 

Butterlield, Rev. Luke G 223 

Blaker, Mrs. Eliza A 236 

Brown, Dr. Benjamin A 250 

Bowser, William H 258 

Bruce, James P 289 

Bergmann, Francis J 299 

Brayton, Dr. Alemliert Winthrop 303 

Baker, Conrad 309 

Baker, Albert 310 

Bristow, Henry 320 

Buskirk, Hon. Samuel 328 

Bailev, George W 330 

Bolton, Mrs. .Sarah T 343 

Buehler. Dr. Jacob 353 

Buschmann, William 373 

Bruner, Henry Lane 378 

Bremer, Fred 395 

Butiie. August 397 

Bowman, William Norman 404 

Backus. Victor M 430 

Black, Charles H 436 

Bade, William 442 

Boatright, William 444 

Butcher Mrs. Ellen 449 

Bellemore, William H 463 

C 

Cox, Hon. Millard F 19 

Colfax. Hon. Schuyler 23 

Churchman. F. M 30 

Cady, Frederick W 44 

Cook, George J 49 

Comingor, M. D., John A 51 

Corbaley, Jeremiah J 52 

Corljaley, Samuel B 53 

Compton, Samuel M 55 

Calvelage, August H 56 

Cunningham, Dr. Henry S 88 



INDEX. 



Carson, M. D., JoLn H 

Carriger, John J 

(!()lter, Georgp K 

Collins, Epiiraiui 

( "oe, Henry 

Cruse, James S 

Craig, J(jLn V 

Clarke, M. D., WilliMni Bradley . 

Cockrum, John B 

Cnifl, Hon. Willianj H 

Collins. Jerry 

Cruse, Henry 

Caveu, Hon. John 

Castor, M. D., Hirain C 

Cline, M. D., Lewis C 

Caskey, Jacob B 

Carter, George H 

Coble, Jr., (^eorge 

Chambers. Smiley Newtmi 

Combs, M. D., (ieorge W 

Carter, M. D. , James 

Cox, Charles E . 

Coburn, Gen. John 

Combs, John W 

Conroy, John 

Cosier. Orval 1) 

Christian, Thoma.s J 

Collins, Andrew 

Chamliers & Bro. . O. C 

Carter, John V 

Carson, Petor 

(Jossell, WiUiiim 

Cochrane, Sanjiul \\ 

Canfiekl, Woods P 



I'AGK 

. 95 
. 90 
.114 
.144 
.146 
.152 
.153 
.157 
.167 
.173 
.185 
.205 
.207 
212 
'217 
.241 
.248 
.251 
.258 
.294 
.298 
.319 
.328 
.343 
.352 
.357 
.362 
.384 
.389 
.394 
.430 
.446 
.449 
.461 



Daniels, Kdward 81 

Driggs, N. S 83 

Downing, Hon. ilit-hael \ 95 

Daniels, Milton H 104 

Dennv, Hon. Caleb S 108 

Dnnn'ing. M. D., L. H 126 

Dobvns. John Harger 178 

Denny. Bobert 182 

Dennv, Theodore Vernon 199 

Denny, Elizabeth (McLaughlin) 200 

Dunmeyer, Christian 225 

Duzan,"l\L D., George N .230 

DoUmaii. Henry 242 

Dennv, Austin Flint 259 

Deari'uger, Frank B 283 

David, B( njamin F 288 

Dale, diaries A 372 

Demott. John 383 

Dreier, Ernst H. G 396 

Deitch. M. D., Oscar S 398 



Deitcb, M. D.. Othello L 398 

Dunlap, Jose|)h A 418 

Donnelly, Maurice 438 

Davis, Robert 458 



Elliott, Bvion K 18 

Eastman," M. D., LL. D., Joseph 21 

Edenbarter, M. D., George F 35 

Emmett, Robert F 52 

English. William Hayden 73 

Eaton, Thomas Sanduskv 122 

Emmerich. Prof. C. E . ." 132 

Earp, M. S., M. D., Samuel Evingston . . 144 

Elliott. Joel T 193 

English, Joseph K 245 

Eden, Samuel C 299 

English, Hon. Will E 325 

Eaglestield, James T 342 

Elbracht, August 382 

Egan, Jeremiah 411 

ErnestinofP, Prof. Alexander 423 

Ellis, Hiram R 453 



Fohl, Bernie A 31 

Flick, W. B 48 

Fortune. William 112 

Fitzgerald, Philander H 147 

Foutz, John W 148 

Fitzhugb, Joseph F 149 

Fisher. Amos \V., M. D 206 

Furr, John 233 

Foley, John E 236 

Frazier. Sinietm 24o 

Frazier,,Jr., Simeon 246 

Fulton. William H 246 

Frankel. Jacob 255 

Furnas, Robert 286 

Fi.sher. -loseph L 347 

Fairlianks, Charles Warren 362 

Ferree, Dr. Shadrach L 371 

Fessler. Levi H 374 

Fetrow, William 413 

Field, O. T 455 



Gates, Dr. Willard G 113 

Graj', Hon. Isaac P 117 

Greene, James 147 

George, D. D. S., J. H 153 

Greene, John C 169 

Graydou, Dr. Robert Geddes 170 

Guedelhoefer, John 21o 

Gordon, Willard G 271 

Gilbreath, Robert 295 



INDEX. 



Gray, Jonathan 

Goiliy, Sylvester S . . . . 
(Treeiileaf, Clements A. 
Giezemlauuer, William. 

(Tauld, Atlam A 

(-reorge, Lewis 

Gasper, John H 

(iall, Albert 



I'ACK 

.302 
. 307 
,315 
.331 
. 400 
. 42') 
.456 
.405 



H 

Hovey, Gen. Alvin Peterson 17 

Hendricks. Hon. Thomas A 29 

Heideureich, John 32 

Harrison, William Henrv 34 

Heiskell, M. D.. William L 41 

Hasty, M. D., (reorge 54 

Hays, M. D., Franklin 70 

Hartje, John 75 

Hessler, Dr. Robert 80 

Hollingsworth, Ira S4 

HoUingsworth, Daniel 85 

Hollingsworth, Francis Marion. 8f) 

■ Hosbrook, Daniel Bates 92 

Haynes, M. D., John U 108 

Hawkins, W. H 120 

Herve}', M. D., James Walter 129 

•4laynes. E. A. P 135 

Hombnrg. Dr. Couradin (Jacob) 137 

Hendricks, Allan 159 

Hackedorn, W. E 108 

Harlan, L. P 172 

Heath, Dr. Frederic Carroll 182 

Hyde, Nelson J 18fi 

Henderson, J. O 191 

Hoyey, Alfred R 190 

Harvey, Dr. Thomas B 201 

Harvey. M. D., Jesse Butler 203 

Hord, "Oscar B 218 

Hoiiser, M. D., James A 226 

Houser, M. D., Solon K 227 

Howard. Hon. Timothv E 231 

Harold, Dr. David H." 244 

Hilgenl)erg, Christian A 252 

Hall, Hiram Harden 263 

Hall, Prof. Archii)ald M 265 

Hansen, Peter C 270 

Hawkey, Stanton W 271 

Holle, Herman C 281 

Hudson, James W 283 

Heintz, Valentine 289 

Hardin, James Thomas : 293 

Hahn, Orville L 296 

Hake, Carl von 297 

Hyland, James 301 

Hardacre, John 306 

Hartmann. Charles F , . 307 



Holtzman, John W 317 

Head, John E 318 

Hacker, Hon. William 321 

Holman, Hon. William S 335 

Heinrichs, Charles E 341 

Hannah, Alexander M 348 

Hadley, William 353 

Habenev, Henry F 354 

Howe, Prof. Thomas Carr 354 

Harrison, Gen. Benjamin 363 

Harding, Laban 365 

Haeberle, William 367 

Heinv, Eli 367 

Hittle, Joseph 382 

Hollingsworth, William H 403 

Hartley, Col. Benjamin W 406 

Hoerger. Louis E 419 

Herig, John H 420 

Henthorn, M. D. , Leroy S 431 

Hnls, James H 44 * 

Hnkriede, Ernst 448 

Heurj', George S 4;)0 

Haeberle, William 460 

I 

Ittenbach, Gerhard 300 

Indianapolis Basket Company 332 

J 

Jones, Hon. Aquilla 24 

Jones, Aquilla Q 25 

Jameson, M. D. , Patrick Henry 45 

Jennings, Presley 58 

Johnston, James HI 

Johnson, George A 253 . 

Johnson, Caleb 272 

Jameson, Hon. Ovid B 375 

Johnson, Theodore 402 

Johnson, James '. 402 

Johnson, David 410 

Jones, Frederick 432 

Jared, Granville 4ti4 

K 

King, Myron D 28 

King, Isaac 64 

Kinsley, Mrs. Elizabeth 86 

Kahlo, Hon. Charles 115 

Kendrick. William H.. M. D 239 

Kem]ier, Henry Mathews 263 

Kingsley, Adrial Sylvanns 341 

Kraas, William 361 

Knerr, Dr. Charles B 373 

Kellogg, Cliarles N 393 

Karrer, (;harle8 T 403 

Kottlowski, Ernest F 415 

Kissel, Peter 441 



INDEX. 



Linn, T. B 

Lange, Gustave C 

Lockwood, Virgil H 

Lander, AVilliiim F 

Lewis, A. M., M. D., Edwin R. . 

Long, M. D., John 15 

Lambert, M. D., John A 

Laut, Henry W 

Lieber, Peter 

Lieber, A 

Lanktree, James W 

Langenberg, Henry W 

Le Page, John P 

Lawler, Francis M 

Landiueier, William 

Lang, John A 

Leatheiman, JI. D., A. Lincoln. 

Larimore, George \V 

Lowe, Sr. , Nahnm H 

Lange, W. C 

Leeman, William 

Laitner, Lonis 



. i t 
AW) 
.192 
.195 
.209 
.220 
.221 
.257 
.2()1 
. 262 
.268 
.276 
.285 
.287 
.291 
. 295 
.318 
. 350 
.399 
.435 
.444 
.459 



M 

Matthews, Gov. Chinde. . . . 
Morton. Hon. Oliver Perry 
Mitchell, Maj. James L . . . 
Morrison, Frank W 



19 

20 

89 

50 

Maxwell. M. D., Allison 57 

Malott, Yolney Thomas 67 

Mack. Fred J 75 

Mueller, Ferd. A 81 

Mosier, Hon. Cvrns F 88 

Mnrphv, Martiii J 100 

MoBride, Hon. Robert W 110 

McMaster, John L 124 

Mount, Thomas R 141 

McGuilin, John B . ." 142 

Moore, William 143 

McGregor, William 150 

Mills, Thomas P 160 

Mason, Augustus Lynch 164 

^ Miller, George W 1 74 

McNutt, J. C 176 

Morgan, Sylvester A 194 

Myers, D. A 198 

Martindale, E. B 221 

McCormick, John Lewis 230 

ifoorhous, Hiram 239 

McKee, Thomas M 240 

Morau. Thomas 247 

McCormick, William S 260 

McDonald, John W 262 

Morse, Thomas J 266 

Mansfield, Joseph B 266 



McCarty, Nicholas 278 

Martin, John 275 

McCIain, Rev. Matthew 277 

McClain, William T 278 

Maun, Wintield Scott 279 

Mills, Joel 280 

Millhous, Henry 281 

Meadows, Charles 296 

Martin, D.D. S. , G. B 297 

McConnell. J. P 330 

McGuire, Joseph A 333 

McFarland, William 338 

Mayhew, Han y M 370 

Myers, Vincent 387 

McGinnis. AVilliam 3S9 

Matlock, James B 395 

Miethke, Robert 398 

Magennis. James 401 

Meyer, Frederick J 406 

Miller. George F 427 

McConnell, Thomas 427 

Magel, Henry 436 

McOuat, Andrew W 447 

Mitchell, William J 452 

Metsker, John T 457 

Masou, Charles 457 

Miller, Samuel 458 

Miller, W. H. H 464 

N 

Newland, Abner L 165 

Nash, M. D., George W 193 

Noni.s, William F 229 

Neal, Capt. J. Stut 256 

Nelson, Thomas H 269 

Nuerge & Reinking 285 

Nixon, Lee 293 

Nuerge, Charles 397 

Noble, Daniel W 439 

New, Hon. John C 466 



Ontland, M. D. 
O'Meara, Patri 



, Edgar 
^k -1 . . . . 



M. 



.241 
.428 



Pickerill, M. D., George Washington. . . 26 

Patterson, ]\f. D., Amos W 40 

Prunk, M. D.. Daniel H 59 

Prunk, Mrs. Harriet Augnsta 62 

Pressly, John T 65 

Pearson, John R 8o 

Pfeudler, Samuel 121 

Prather, Augustin B 125 

Potter, A. M., M. D., Theodore 159 

Penn, Joseph 162 



INDEX. 



xiu 



Pfaff, M. D., O. G 

Page, M. D., Lafayette F 

Panli, Henry 

Pressler, Guiilo R 

Perry, Ph. D., M. D., Joseph Robert. 

Pantzer, M. D., Hugo Otto 

Prange, Fred W 

Phillips, William Henry Harrison 

Park, John Thomas 

Purman, M. D., Darius M 

Pumphrey, Edward M 

Pape, Fred W 

Prange, Frank 

Pearson, Charles L 

Pierson, John W 

Pahud, Alfred 

Pendergast, John G 

Priudle, David J 



. 16() 
,1(58 
.186 
. 228 
.235 
.253 
.289 
. 292 
.349 
. 352 
.360 
.367 
.376 
.396 
. 399 
.409 
.412 
.435 



Rienian, Charles 93 

Rieman, Henry William 93 

Reynolds, Charles E 139 

Rowe, M. D. , Louis M 1 63 

Roaehe, Judge Addison L 210 

Rathsam, John G 211 

Russe, Henry 212 

Reichwein, Philip 248 

Riley, James Whilcomb 255 

Reynolds, Jesse Allen 282 

Reinking, Henry E 286 

Rauh, Henry 291 

Rink, Joseph A 304 

Roberts, George H 305 

Rothert, John H 339 

Roach, William J 340 

Roberson, William N 35.S 

Roller, Philli]) J 366 

Roth, JohnH 390 

Randall, Nelson A 400 

Robinson, Lew 415 

Reading, William A 424 

Roberts, Prof. J. B 425 

Rutledge, Dr. E. D 433 

Ratlitf, Nathan 443 

Read, Charles W 452 

S 

Schley, Hon. John 41 

Saak, Frank 47 

Schuck, Samuel 69 

Shinn, William J 80 

Swan, Rev. George E. . . 83 

Sullivan, W. A 90 

Sterne, Albert E 91 

Siudlinger, Peter 100 



Shaw, Benjamin C 105 

Schroer, Edward E 127 

Spafford, Thomas E 140 

Sherer, E. J 153 

Schmidt, Anton 154 

Sniall, Samuel 167 

Sullivan, Cornelius W 173 

Scheideler, V. G., Very Rev. Anthony. . .177 

Scott & Sons, William" A ". . . . 180 

Stein, M. D. , Frederick 184 

Stein, Theodore 184 

Smith, William P 187 

Smith, George M 190 

Scherer, M. D., Simon P 195 

Spahr, George W 215 

Sloan, Phar. D., M. D., George W 219 

Schaefer, M. D., Constantine R 224 

Schrimsher, Jasper W 227 

Smythe, William H 238 

Senour, Richard 242 

Schmidt, Christian Frederick 260 

Schmidt, John W 261 

Spielhoff, Henry 265 

Shimer, Asa N 268 

Schweikle, Jacob F 288 

Stone, Dr. Richard French 311 

Streight, Gen. Abel D 313 

Sutcliife, M. D. , John A 316 

Sewall, Theodore Lovett 321 

Sewall, Mrs. May Wright 322 

Springer, Isaac 332 

Smither, William 334 

Slater, Jacob H 345 

Sawyer, Iredell 351 

Shea, James 355 

Swain, James 356 

Strohmeyer, Deitrioh F 361 

Seerley, Martin 369 

Scott. Adam 370 

Schad, Charles H 372 

Smither, Theodore F 376 

Schmidt, Edward 378 

Sloan, William 379 

Schilling, Charles 380 

Schilling, John Frederick Henry 381 

Shaffer, George W 391 

Schmid & Sons, John C 391 

Smith, George F 393 

Shimer, Corydon R 407 

Sanders, John 411 

Sears, John W 413 

Siegmund, William 415 

Shilling, Stephen A .417 

Swartting, Lawrence 421 

Smock, R. M 423 

Stanley, George U' 429 



INDEX. 



Sheehan, Thomas 429 

vSiuith, James H 433 

Singleton, Jobn W 484 

Stoops, Philip 440 

Sanders, William 442 

Stout, Fnrmau 445 

Stout, George W 453 

Slack, John K 454 

Schoershusen. Charles H 456 

Schwegmau, William 460 

Sieg, Jacob 462 

T 

Thrasher, Prof. William 30 

Taylor, Napoleon B 71 

Thompson, Hon. Richard W ys 

Tnrpie, Hon. David 104 

Todd, Dr. Robert Nathaniel 117 

Todd, Levi L., M. D 119 

Taggart, Thomas 1 28 

Todd, Isaac Montreville 229 

Teneyck, Samuel Hanway 270 

Tanner, Harry C 333 

Tallentire, Thomas 355 

Thornton, Charles E 377 

Thurtle, John St. George 404 

Trie.sy, Augustus E 414 

Tall, William K 417 

Truemper, C.J 437 

Tobin, James 4;)1 

Teckenbroek, John H 4.^1 

Turpie, Hon. David W.', 



Udell, Eugene 1 58 



Voorhees, Hon. Daniel W 87 

Varney, Major A. L 141 

Vernon. INI. D., V. S., George W 214 

Von Hake, Carl 297 

Van Deman, Joshua H 346 

W 

Wright, Harvey A 32 

Wiegand, Antoine oo 

Woodburn, James H 36 

Woodburn. Dr. Frederick C 37 



Webster, J. H 43 

Wilson, Hon. John R 50 

Wallace, Gen. Lew 59 

Wishard. M. D.. William H 76 

Wehrman, M. D. , Ernest A 82 

W illiams. Gov. James D 98 

Walker, Col. I. N 124 

Woodard, M. D., Nathan D 134 

Wood, Horace F 1 36 

Wishard, Dr. William Niles 155 

Williams, William 161 

Wright, M. D., William M 179 

Wilson. M. D., AmosL 191 

Wagner, William Henry 208 

WoUenweber, Charles L 222 

Watts, James M 223 

Wright, Isaac 234 

Wright Noah 243 

Wright, Jasper Newton 244 

Wharton, J. W 252 

Wocher, John 267 

Wright. Jesse 273 

Waeker, John 284 

Wishmeyer, Christian F 290 

Wyenberg, Peter C 300 

Wright, M. D., Ivy E 331 

Witty, Capt, John B 337 

Wie.se, Christian F 350 

VVenning, Dick 359 

White. William Woodford 385 

\\'eljb, James 386 

Webb, Ira C 416 

Wulff, Conrad C 420 

Weaver, O. R ^^422 

Wright, T. M 426 

Wright, Wintield Taylor 445 

Worthington, Robert 450 

Wehking, Charles F 455 

Woods, Robert E 462 

Y 

Young, A. A 99 

Youart, Dr. John Milton 336 

Youart, Dr. Joseph D 337 

Z 

Zion, Alonzo A 203 

Zener, Robert 305 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



IL.LUSTRAT10NS. 



PAGE 

^Gen. Alvin P. Hovey Frontispiece 

/Gen. Benjamin Harrison " 

/Gen. Lew Wallace " 

/ Gen. A. D. Streight 

/ Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks. .... " 

■/ Hon. Albert G. Porter 

/Hon. Joseph E. McDonald 

/ Hon. Oscar B. Hord 

/ James Whitcomb Riley " 

■^ Hon. Millard F. Cox facing page It) 

/Joseph Eastman, M. D., LL. D '• 21 

I Hon. Edgar A. Brown " 25 

^George Washington Pickerill, M. D. " 26 

/ F. M. Churchman " 30 

/ George F. Edenharter, M. D " 35 

•/ Maj. James L. Mitchell '• 39 

/J. H. \Veb.ster " 43 

AV. B. Flick " 48 

J Hon. John R. Wilson " 50 

V Robert F. Emmett " 52 

/ Allison Maxwell, M. D " 57 

/ John T. Pressly " 65 

y Volney T. Malott ' ■ 67 

V Fraplilin W. Hays, M. D ' 70 

V Hon. William Hayden English " 73 

/ Fred J. Mack • ' 75 

J T. B.Linn " 77 

s/ Ernest A. Wehrman, M. D " 82 

J Dr. Henry S. Cunningham " 88 

yAlliert E.'Sterne, M. D " 91 

-/John J. Carriger " 96 

7 Peter Sindlinger " 100 

4 Henry F. Barnes, M. D "102 

■( C. T. Bedford, M. D "109 

J Hon. Charles Kahlo "115 

./ W. H. Hawkins "120 

4 Col. I. N. Walker "124 

^ L. H. Dunning, M. D "126 

V James Walter Hervey, M. D "129 

-/ Nathan D. Woodard, M. D "134 

-J P. W. Bartholomew "152 



PAGE 

John B. Cockrum facing page 167 / 

Lafayette F. Page, M. D "168^ 

George A. Boeckling " 181' 

William F. Lander " 195^ 

Theodore V. Denny " 199^ 

Elizabeth Denny " 200y 

Hon. John Caven " 207"^ 

George W. Vernon. M. D., V. S. . . " 214*/ 

George N. Duzan. M. D . " 230 / 

Hon. Timothy E. Howard " 232 ''^. 

William H. Smvthe " 238 '^ 

Hugo Otto Pantzer, M. D " 253 ^ 

Thomas J. Morse " 266 / 

John Martin " 275^^ 

Henry W^. Langenberg " 276 

George W. Combs, M. D " 294-^ 

Clements A. Greenleaf " 315/ 

John W. Holtzman " 317/ 

Hon. Will E. English " 325^^ 

Joshua H. Van Deman " 346v 

Joseph L. Fisher " 348»^ 

Edward M. Pitmphrey " SfiO*' 

A. Q. Jones " 402/ 

A. W. Fisher, M. D " 408'/ 

J. G. Pendergast " 412 /' 

John M. Butler "'418^ 

Bvron K. Elliott " 424*' 

Hon. C. S. Denny " 429' 

W. H. Potter " 431/ 

Dr. J. A. Sutcliffe " 435^^ 

Charles F. Hartmann "438/ 

Charles Rieman (deceased) " 446*' 

Thomas Taggart '' 446 "' 

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison " 458'' 

Mrs. T. A. Hendricks "458 

May Wright Sewall "458 

Miss E. G. Browning " 45S 

Miss M. E. Ahern " 458 ' 

Central College of Physicians and Sur- 
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Medical College of Indiana 462 < 




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Indianapolis anlj Marion County, Indiana. 



/^3T^- ALVIN PETERSON HOVEY, who died while serving his first term as governor 
I 'jrp of Indiana, was a native Hoosier, his birth occurring in that widely famed county 
Vi_J- of Posey September 6, 1821, and, like thousands of others who attained prominence 
in American history, his lot in youth was one of hardship, and gave no hint of the honors 
that a strong intellect, fairly used, coupled with unwearying industry, was to bring him. 
In the common schools of his native county, which were then of the poorest, and are not now 
much better, he managed to pick up a rudimentary education which he supplemented by hard 
study after the active work of liis life had begun. He studied law, and liaving been admitted 
to the bar in 1843, when about twenty-two years of age, he entered at once upon what his 
youth and surroundings considered was a successful and lucrative practice as an attorney at 
Mount Vernon. For seven years he devoted himself to his profession, but about 1851 he was 
elected a member of the constitutional convention by which the constitution of Indiana was 
revised, and so greatly did he distinguish himself in that body that in the next year he was 
chosen circuit judge of the Third Judicial District of his State, and, after three years' 
service upon the bench, was in May, 1854, made one of the judges of the Supreme Court of 
Indiana, Init held the position only a few months. He was appointed by President Pierce, 
in 1855, United States district attorney for the District of Indiana, from which he was removed 
by President Buchanan because of having been an ardent supporter of Douglas. During 
the war with Mexico he was a lieutenant, but his company failed to secure an entry into one 
of the regiments assigned to Indiana. When the war of the Rebellion came upon the 
country, although he had never had any military training and had never shown the slightest 
aptitude or inclination for the military profession, he instantly cast aside his personal consid 
erations, enlisted in the service and started out as colonel of volunteers, by appointment of 
Gov. Morton. His command was first employed in Arkansas, where, without any opjiortu- 
nity of becoming distinguished in battle, he so bore himself that he won the admiration of 
his su[)eriors. Shortly after tiie reduction of Fort Donelson, for meritorious service, he was 
commissioned brigadier general, and a short time after was made major general, although 
he did not receive his commission until two years after it was granted. In time his chance 
came to show the mettle of which he was made. Transferred to the Army of Tennessee, just 
before the opening of the memorable campaign which ended on July 4, 1803, in the surren- 
der of Vicksburg, he was assigned to an important command. At the battle of Champion's 



18 MEMOIRS OF INDlAyAPOUS 

Hill, which was the |)ivotal one of the brief anil briiliatit series of engagements by which 
Gen. Pembertoii was forced l)iick with his entire armv into Vicksbnrg, Gen. llovey so executed 
tlie task which fell to his lot tiiat (icn. Grant spoke of him, in liis otHcial report, in terms 
of highest ]iraise, awarding liiiu the iionor of the victory at Cliaiujiion's Hill, which Grant 
himself called the '' key battle '' of his movements to get in the rear of Vicksbnrg. After the 
fall of this place he was sent to the held of duty where he could gain no military laurels, l)ut 
where his services were of vital value to the Union cause, for he was put in command of the 
District of Indiana, where, with the powerful aid of Oliver P. Morton, then governor, he 
prosecuted and kept the disaffected element under control. The war being ended he resigned 
his commission in the army in October. ISfiS, and soon after was appointed United States 
minister to Peru, having declined the mission to Buenos Ayres, which had been tendered 
him. After holding the post of minister to Peru for tive years, he resigned it in ISTO, when 
he returned to Indiana and resumed the practice of law, to which he confined himself for 
the nest sixteen years; but all the time having a keen interest in public affairs, l)oth national 
and State, he put his ability as a public speaker at the service of the Republican party, 
having, prior to the war, been a Democrat. In 188G he was a candidate of his party for 
Congress and was elected in a close district. In the House of Representatives he showed so 
much civic ability that in 188S he was made the nominee of his party for governor of his 
State, anil entered at once upon the hottest political campaign the State has ever known. 
As a result of the canvass he received a plurality of votes of "2, '200 over his competitor. Gen. 
Matson, who had been a gallant Union soldier, had shown a capacity for civic oflice, and 
was in every way the strongest candidate the Democrats could have nominated. Being thus 
chosen as the first Republican governor Indiana has had since the war, Ciov. Hovey entered 
upon the duties of his oflice, and in their discharge displayed the same courage, clear intel- 
lect and unsullied integrity with which he ever met every other function allotted to him. 
While fulfilling the requirements of his office he was taken ill and died November 23, 1891. 
He was a ripe liatin scholar, was determined and self reliant, a frequent contributor to mag- 
azine literature, and a poet of more tliaii ordinary aljility. 

Byron K. Ellujtt. Tins well known jurist and author was fiorn in Butler County, 
Ohio, Septeml)er 4, 1885, of that sturdy Pennsylvania stock which has furnished to nearly 
all jiarts of the country some of their most progressive and sul)stantial citizens. James 
Elliott, his grandfather, emigrated to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1799. Until 1849 .Judge 
Elliott lived at Hamilton, Ohio. Later he made Cincinnati his home until December, ISoO, 
when he took up his residence in Indianapolis, where, at the "Old Seminary," under the 
tutelage of Mr. Lang, he completed the education he had begun at Hamilton Academy and 
continued at Furman's Seminary. In February, ISoS, he was admitted to the bar, and in 
May, 187)9, was elected city attornej', though he was then only twenty-four years old and 
was in the first year of his practice. After the outbreak of the Rebellion he was in the 
hundred days' service as a captain in the One Hundred and Thirty second Regiment, and 
later was assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Milroy. Returning to Indiaiuipo- 
lis, he resumed the practice of his profession, and in 1805, 18(17 and 1809. successively, 
was elected city attorney. In October, 1870, he was elected judge of the Criminal Court, 
an office which he resigned in November, 187'2, to accept the office of city solicitor, which 
was unanimously tendered him by the Common Council. In 1873 he was again elected 
city attorney. In 1870 he was elected to the bench of the Superior Court. Four years 
afterward the Re])ulilicans elected him judge of the Supreme Court for the Central District 
of Indiana. He was nominated l)y acclamation for the same position in 188t) and elected. 
In 1892 he was again nominated for the office, luit in common with all the other eatulidates 
of his party, was defeated. He has served many terms as chief justice of the Su|ireme 
Court. In and out of his profession he is regarded as one of the purest, fairest and clear- 
est sighted judges in the State, and there is not a judge anywhere in whose rulings and 
opinions more implicit confidence is placed than in his. He has gained a national reputa 
tion as a writer of legal literature. Three volumes, "The Work of the Advocate," "The 
Law of Roads and Streets'' and "Appellate Procedure,"' were the joint production of the 
Judge and his son, William F. Elliott. These works are published liy the Bowen-Merrill 
Company, of Indianapolis. "The Law of Roads antl Streets" has the largest and most 




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general circulation of any law book brought out in recent years. "The Work of the Advo- 
cate" elicited a two-page review in the Albany Laiv Journal, in which the book is highly 
praised, not alone for its value to lawyers, but for its literary merit. "It is a pleasure," 
wrote the able reviewer, "to read such an excellent style, never diffuse and never barren, 
supplied with striking antitheses and enlivened with apt anecdotes. The Judge is always 
acute and ingenious." Commenting on "The Law of Road.s and Streets," the Central Law 
Journal of St. Louis adds: "The high reputation and wide experience of Judge Elliott 
as a member of the Supreme Court of Indiana is such that our readers need not be told 
that he is capable of preparing a thoroughly good law book. He is the oldest and by com 
mon consent the leading member of that court, and, indeed, in point of learning and ability, 
occupies a place in the front rank of the eminent jurists of this country. His opinions on 
the bench always exhibit great care, thought and laborious research, and contain terse, vig- 
orous statements of the law." The latest work, "Appellate Procedure," although it has 
not long been in use, has taken a place as a standard authority. It is quoted with approval 
by many of the courts throughout the country, and is much used by members of the bar of 
many of the States. Judge Elliott's address on thesiiViject of "Local Self Government," read 
before the annual meeting of the National Bar Association at Indianapolis in lS9tl. is regarded 
as a masterpiece of thought and diction. His oration at the memorial services held at 
Goshen in 1890, in honor of the deceased Judge J. A. S. Mitchell, is a perfect classic, and 
is conceded to be one of the finest eftorts of its kind ever delivered in Indiana. Judge 
Elliott is a lecturer on equity and jurisprudence at the De Pauw University at Greencastle, 
and the Northwestern University at Chicago. The old saying to the effect that it is the 
man who makes the office honorable, not the office which dignities the man, was aptly exem- 
plified by Judge Elliott's five terms of service as city attorney, during which he made the 
position one of importance, worth a good lawyer's tenure and attention, whereas it had been 
a mere party makeweight previously. He has added dignity and respect likewise to every 
other of the important places he has been called upon to fill. 

Hon. Millaed F. Cox, Judge of the Criminal Court, Indianapolis, is a son of Aaron and 
Mary A. (Skaggs) Cox, and was born on his father's farm near Noblesville, Ind., February 
25, 1856. His father was of Quaker ancestry and was not only a prominent farmer, but a 
well known and respected citizen. He was postmaster at Noblesville during the administra- 
tion of President Andrew Johnson, which was the only public office he ever held, and it came 
to him unsolicited. Judge Cox's mother was a native of Kentucky, a descendant from one of 
the oldest families in the State. The Judge numbers among his ancestors men who did 
gallant service in the cause of their country in the Revolution and in the War of 1812-14. 
His mother's branch of the family inherited slaves, but freed them and remqved to Ohio, 
where Mrs. Cox was reared, educated and married. Millard F. Cox received his education 
. in the common and high schools. His law studies were well advanced under the direction 
of his uncle. Judge N. R. Overton, of Tipton, Ind., while he was yet comparatively a boy, 
and in 1875 he came to Indianapolis, and for a while was in the offices of 13uell & Bartholo- 
mew and Francis M. Trissal, the latter now in Chicago. While acting as assistant reporter 
of the Supreme Court after this, he finished his law course and was admitted, in 1878, to 
practice in all the courts, including those of the United States. He soon formed a profes- 
sional partnership with Fred Heiner, a young man of then brilliant mind and prospects, 
which terminated a short time after by his removal to Tipton, where he practiced alone until 
January, 1885, meantime serving at the request of the entire bar, for two years as Master 
Commissioner of the Tipton Circuit Court. Against his protest, he was nominated by the 
Democrats for Prosecuting Attorney for Tipton and Howard Counties, and was defeated witii 
the ticket of his party, which was largely in the minority. Returning to Indianapolis in 
1885 he became assistant reporter to the Supreme Court and served in that capacity for four 
years. In 1890 he was nominated by his party for Judge of the Criminal Court and elected 
for a term of four years by a majority of nearly 4,000. 

Gov. Claude "M.vpthews. Generally age and experience are essentials to success in 
\ r branch of human endeavor a man may see fit to devote his life, and it is an indis- 

II- fact that public men seldom rise to distinction suddenly. However, in the example 
• ;.■ .8 we have a man without any special fortuitous circumstances rising by his own 



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force of character, great energy and good judgment, to tbe position of chief executive of his 
State. It is not the nurseling of wealth and fortune who has been dandled into manhood 
oa the lap of prosperity, that carries away the world's honors, or wields the mightiest influ- 
ence; but it is rather the man whose earlier years were cheered by few offers of aid, and 
such has been the experience of Gov. Claude Matthews, who was bora in Bath County, of 
the Blue Grass State, a son of Thomas A. and Eliza (Fletcher) INfatthews, both branches of 
the family being farmers, and the maternal grandfather serving as one of Kentucky's repre- 
sentatives in Congress. He attended such schools as his native State atforded until he attained 
his fifteenth year, then removed to Mason County, his father having purchased a farm near 
Maysville. Here the schools were of a l)etter class and he availed himself of these o])por- 
tunities l)y riding six miles each way daily. In 1S()3 he entered ('enter College, of D:inville, 
Ky., and in June, 1807, was graduateil from that institution. On January l,of the follow- 
ing year, he led to the altar Miss Martha K. Whitcoml), the only child of the late James 
Whitcomb, governor of Indiana from 1843 to 1S4U, and the same year of his marriage re- 
moved to his farm near Clinton, Vermillion County, Ind. , where he has ever since made his 
home, being quite extensively engaged in the raising of grain and stock. The county of 
Vermillion has always been strongly Republican, and although he has always been a Demo- 
crat, he, in 1870, was persuaded to make the race for the Legislature and was elected by a 
majority of neatly 300, nothwithstanding the fact that the County that year had 
a Republican majority of nearly 400 on the State ticket. In 1882, by the advice 
of friends, Mr. Matthews decided to make the race for the State Senate in the district com- 
posed of Park and Vermillion Counties, and although this district had a Republican majority 
of 1,000, he was defeated by less than 300, which fact speaks for itself as to his 
popularity. In 18110 he was called upon by his constituents to head the State ticket 
for Secretary of State, and was elected liy a majority of nearly "20,000. In the State 
Convt^ntion of 18U2, although a candidate for renomination as Secretary of State, his 
party again placed him at the head of the ticket as candidate for Governor, to which posi- 
tion he was triumphantly elected, and has since dischaiged his duties in a manner calculated 
to win the respect and admiration of all Mr. Matthews has always been engaged in farm- 
ing, and at the close of his official life expects to return' to that work. He is a man of posi 
five character, strong intellect, capal>le of a great amount of labor, and uo man is more loyal 
in his citizenship, more faithful in friendship, more devoted in home life or more worthy the 
regard of his fellow men than Gov. Claude Matthews. He has been prominently connected 
with the stock breeding interests of the State, and has made a specialty of raising short- 
horn cattle. He was also an active member, and is yet, of the Farmers" Mutual Benefit As- 
sociation, and upon the agricultural affairs of his section he has left the impress of his own 
energy and keen discernment. 

Hon. Oliver Pekry Morton, deceased. No other man has ever been more renowned . 
and honored in Indiana, none has ever attained so warmly the affection of the people, and, 
of all those born within her borders, none has contributed sc) largely to the honor and 
dignity of the State as the subject of this sketch. Born August 4, 1823, in Wayne County, 
Ind., he was the son of James T. and Sarah (Miller) Morton. His youth and early man- 
hood gave no evidence of his future greatness, but on the contrary was of a similar <-haracter 
to that of thousands of other poor boys of that day. At Miami College, Oxford, Ohio, where 
he completed his schooling, he acquireil the distinction of being the best debater in the col 
lege, and after a two years' course he began the study of law at Indianapolis, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1847. Five j'ears after that time he was a[)pointed circuit judge l)y 
the governor, but he preferred the more active career of a practitioner to that of wearing the 
judicial robes. Until 1800 he was in active practice and during this time became celebrated 
as one of the ablest advocates ever produced l)y the State. Until 1854 he was a Democrat, 
but was radically opposed to the extension of slavery. He became a Republican npo'i the 
organization of that {)arty and in 1850 was one of the three delegates sent from Indiana to 
the Pittsburg convention. This same year he was nominated by the Republicans, by accla- 
mation, for the governorshi)i, and although defeated at the polls, he was elected t" vrt 
side in the hearts of his countrymen as the ideal statesman. He never apjsealed tf) 'ii' s 
passions, but always to their intellect and reason, and whether in attack or defense ]:•:■> ' 



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himself h ready and powerful debater. From this campaign of 1856, unsuccessful though 
it was, Mr. Morton's popularity in the State is dated and from this time forth he became 
the recognized leader of the Republican party in Indiana. In 1860 he was nominated for 
lieutenant-governor, with Hon. H. S. Lane for governor, with the distinct understanding, 
that, if the party was successful, Mr. Lane should ba sent to the United States Senate and 
Mr. Morton become governor. The election of the Kepublican ticket was followed by the 
prompt fiiltillment of this understanding, and thus, at the early age of thirty-seven years, 
Mr. Morton became governor of Indiana. It is said that " great emergencies make great 
men," and as it so did in the case of Gen. Grant, it likewise did in Gov. Morton's Case. 
Like a black thunder-cloud athwart the horizon, the secession movement loomed balefully 
over the political sky and threatened the disruption of the Union. Gov. Morton, upon tak- 
ing his seat, found himself supported by a loyal majority, but, to the shame of Indiana, he 
was confronted by a secret, active, unscruj)ulous minority, whose sympathy was not only 
with the secession movement, but whose active aid and assistance were extended to the dis- 
loyalists. In the face of these obstacles he was the first governor to proffer President Lin- 
coln troo])S, and through his personal pledge was enabled to raise funds for the prosecution 
of the war which a disloyal Legislature refused doing. As " war governor " Mr. Morton 
was perfection, and, taking it all the way through, his two terms as governor, were of such a 
brilliant character as to call forth the admiration of eveiy reading man in the nation. The 
Legislature elected in 1866 made him one of Indiana's United States senators, and he was 
again chosen to this position upon the e.xpiration of his first term. His readiness in debate, 
his keen, analytical mind and his wonderful ability made him one of the foremost men in 
the Senate chamber and enhanced his popularity as a national character. He was a promi- 
nent candidate for the presidential nomination before the Cincinnati convention that nomi- 
nated President Hayes, and in 1870 he was offered the English mission by President Grant 
but declined the position. No name shines with brighter luster in the history of our county 
than that of Gov. Morton. He died November 1, 1877. 

Joseph Eastm.^n, M. D., LL. D. There are specialists and specialists. They are 
countless in number and they vary in skill as stones vary in value from field stones to 
diamonds and rubies. As in everything else in the world, the proof of the ability of the 
specialist is in the trial. If he is really more skillful than his brother physicians in the 
regular practice he demonstrates the wisdom of leaving the treatment of other troubles to 
others who have given them more study and devoting himself to those in the treatment of 
which he excels, and it may not be too much to say that he owes it to humanity to do so. 
Indianajiolis has her full (juota of specialists in many i)ranehes of practice. Some are so 
incompetent as to be conspicuous for that very deficiency, and between the incompetent to 
the really skillful there are so many grades that it would be impossible to classify them. 
As good as the best, as skillful as the most skillful, as successful as the most successful, is 
Dr. Joseph Eastman. Before becoming a specialist Dr. Eastman won a reputation equally 
as great as a general practitioner, and had come to be known as one of the leading phy- 
sicians of Indiana and one of the very greatest surgeons. Dr. Eastman was born in Fulton 
County, N. Y., January 29, 1842, a son of Rilus and Catherine (Jipson) Eastman, the ma- 
ternal ancestry being German. As he was obliged to depend upon his own resources at a 
tender age, his early educational advantages were necessarily circumscribed to those affoided 
in the winter public schools and in such study as he had opportunity for nights, rainy days 
and at odd moments. Of industrious habits, he required no urging to induce him to work 
hard early and late, for work was to him the only means to success in life. Before he had 
attained the age of eighteen he had put in a three years' apprenticeship at the blacksmith's 
trade and had become a proficient worker in iron. At the outbreak of the Civil "War he laid 
down the hammer, and, turning his liack on the anvil, enlisted as a private in the Seventy- 
seventh New York Volunteers, and the incidents and experiences of his soldier life had a 
large part in shaping the destinies of his future career. He iKirticipated in four of the 
leading battles fought in the early part of the war, but after the battle of "Williamsburg, 
Va., he became a victim of typho-malarial fever and was sent to Mount Pleasant Hosjiital at 
Washington, D. C. After his recovery he was placed on light duty and later was dis- 
charged from his regiment and was appointed hospital steward in the United States Army. 



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It was in the performance of the duties of this office that he became cognizant of the ambi- 
tion which later led him to eminence as a physician, and laid a moat practical and useful 
foundation for an exceptionally eminent and successful professional career. During his 
three years' service in the hospital at Washington he attended three courses of lectures 
given at the I'niversity of Georgetown, from which institution he was graduated with the 
degree of M. D. in 1865. He then passed the army examination and was commissioned 
assistant surgeon of the United States Volunteers, and served with much credit in that 
capacity until mustered out of service at Nashville, Tenn., in May, 18')*). Not long after- 
ward he located at Brownsburg, Ind., where, during the succeeding seven years, he was 
engaged very successfully in general practice, and, meanwhile, as opportunity offered, he 
kept up his reading and attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which institu- 
tion he received his second degree of M. D. in 1871. At the request of Drs. Parvin & 
Walker, of Indianapolis, Dr. Eastman accepted the chair of Demonstrator of Anatomy in 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of that city, and took up his residence there in 
1875. Soon afterward lie was appointed consulting surgeon to the City Hospital, a position 
which he held with great credit to himself and with much benefit to that institution for nine 
years, during that time delivering courses of lectures on clinical surgery to the students. 
He was also for eight years the assistant of Dr. Parvin, the distinguished obstetrician and 
gynecologist. In 1879 he was one of the organizers of the Central College of Pliysicians 
and Surgeons of Indianapolis, and was induced to accept the chair of Anatomy and Clinical 
Surgery. After having taught anatomy in the two colleges mentioned for seven years a 
special chair was created for him in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, that of 
diseases of women and abdominal surgery, which he has held continuously ever since. During 
the past live years Dr. Eastman has been president of this college. The fame which the 
Doctor had acquired in the treatment of diseases of women and in abdominal surgery com- 
pelled him perforce to become a specialist whether or no, for the demands upon him for 
services in these branches of medical practice were so fre<juent and so imperative as to prac- 
tically prevent his giving due attention to geneial practice, and since 1886 he has devoted 
his skill and his time entirely to diseases of women and abdominal surgery. His private 
sanitarium, which was the natural outgrowth of this work in its rapid development, was 
originally established about nine years ago, and the building it occupies has recently been 
completed on architectural lines then contemplated, and the property is valued at $40,000. 
The structuri! is modern in design and is in every way adapted to the special uses for which 
it is intended. It has about seventyfive rooms and its sanitary arrangements are complete 
and extensive. It is as nearly fireproof as possible, it is provided with an elevator and with 
open fireplaces, which add greatly to its means for ventilation and enhance its health ful- 
ness in no small degree. The advantages of a private sanitarium over hospitals and insti- 
tutions of like character, where the patient has all the conveniences and comforts of home 
and is in close touch and in constant communication with the skillful and eminent physician, 
are evidenced by the fact that already this institution is taxed to its utmost capacity with patients 
from nearly a score of different States. This sanitarium is a credit to Indianapolis and to 
its originator, and was the first of the kind that was established in the State. During the 
period of his practice in which Di'. Eastman has given his undivided attention to his spe- 
cialty, he has performed operations which have involved incisions into the abdomen four 
hundred limes and has removed cancerous womb forty times. He is the only American sur- 
geon that has ever operated for extra-uterine pregnancy by dissecting out the sack which 
contained the child and saving the life of Isoth the infant and the mother. (See Hirst's 
American Obstetrics, Vol. II, page 270.) His operations are also referred to in other stand- 
ard text books, and have been described and discussed in all the leading American and 
European medical and surgical journals. In ISUl, as a just recognition of his professional 
merit and worth, tlie degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Wabash College, which 
was the occasion of his receiving numerous congratulatory letters from eminent physicians 
and surgeons in all ])arts of the country, which demonstrated more clearly than almost any- 
thing else could have done the extent of his fame amotig his medical and surgical brethren. 
Dr. Eastman has risen to a degree of skill and reputation rarely obtained in his profession 
by essentially self-made men, but he has done so only by the hardest study and research, 



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which has enabled him not only to keep abreast with, but in advance of. the great army of 
physicians and surgeons of hia time. Not long since he attended the International Medical 
Congress at Berlin, and visited Vienna, Paris, Loudon and many of the great centers of 
medical instruction for which the Exiropean continent is noted. The demands upon his 
time and knowledge at State and national conventions of physicians and surgeons are numer- 
ous and exacting, and they have included invitations to read papers before the Chicago 
Gynecological Society and before the American Medical Association at its session at Milwau- 
kee, in June, 189H. He was also selected as one of a limited number to contribute papers 
on gynecology and abdominal surgery, at the meeting of the Pan-American Congress which 
convened at Washington, D. C, in September, 1893, he having twice before acceded to a 
similar demand with distinguished credit to himself and to the most unbounded gratification 
of a large body of eminent physicians anil surgeons before whom he appeared. In 1868 he 
was married to Mary Catherine Barker, daughter of Thomas Barker, of Indianapolis. His 
two sons, Thomas B. and Joseph R. Eastman, are at this time reading medicine under his 
direction. Dr. Eastman is exceptionally well informed, not alone in his profession and 
its history and literature, but in other lines of scientific investigation, and has a range of 
knowledge upon an infinitude of topics which is a constant surprise to all who know him. 
His opinions on political, economical and other questions affecting the general pnl)lic are 
most decided. The Doctor is a member of Roper Commandery, a Knight Templar 
Mason, and is identified with numerous other societies and organizations not connected with 
his profession. He is a member of both the Philadelphia and Boston Gynecological Soci- 
eties, and he is identified with so many lesser associations of jihysicians and surgeons that 
space does not admit of a mention of them all in this connection. He was elected chairman 
on the Section of Diseases of Women of the National Medical Association at the convention 
held at Milwaukee, June, 1893. 

Hon. Schdyler Colfax was a true representative of what an American hoy can become 
by his own unaided efforts. His life began in the city of New York, March 23, 1823, and, 
owing to the death of his father prior to his birth, he became the only living child of a 
widowed mother. Gen. William Colfax, his grandfather, was a lieutenant in the Continental 
army when only nineteen years old, and was a close and confidential friend of Gen. 
Washington. Gen. Colfax married Hester Schuyler and their third son was Schuyler 
Colfax, who was the father of the subject of this sketch. It was in his native city that 
Schuyler, Jr. , received his early schooling. At ten years of age he began clerking in a 
store and at thirteen immigrated westward and found a home in New Carlisle, Ind., where 
he clerked until 1841, when he moved to South Bend. Prior to attaining his majority he 
served as reporter of the Senate for the State Jonrnal and later was appointed deputy 
auditor of St. Joseph County. Instinctively he liked and seemed to grasp the ideas neces- 
sary to make a successful newspaper man. Purchasing the St. Joseph Valley Register in 
1845. of which he was the founder, he continued its editor and publisher for a period of 
eighteen years, obtaining renown as a brilliant writer on all the principal topics of the day. 
His first election to oitice was in 1850, wiien he became a member of the convention which 
framed the new constitution of the State. As a Whig he was nominated, much to his sur- 
prise, for Congress in 1851, but was defeated by about 200 votes, claimed by his friends to 
have been illegally cast at Miciiigan City. The year following he was a delegate to the 
National Convention which nominated Gen. Scott for the presidency, and in 1854 was 
elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress by 1,770 votes, although the district the preceding 
election gave a Democratic majoiity of 1,200. In 1858 he was re-elected to Congress and 
was made chairman of the (Committee on Postoffices and Postroads. He was elected to the 
special session of Congress (the Thirty seventh) called to provide for the prosecution of the 
war, and was active in raising troops for the suppression of the Rebellion. At the organization 
of the Thirty eighth Congress Mr. Colfax was elected speaker on the first ballot, and in the 
Thirty-ninth Congress was re elected to the ]iosition by a majority of 103 votes. At the organi- 
zation of the Fortieth Congress Mr. Colfax was a third time elected speaker which fact 
attested his popularity with his colleagues. The favor with which his name was received was 
not confined to the halls of Congress, but extended all over the country, and so manifest 
was this that he was nominated by the Republican party for the ofitice of Vice President of the 



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XTiiitcil States in ISHS anil was tiinniphantly elected. At the expiration of liis term of otTiee 
he returned to South Bend and. declining further political preferment, was practically retired 
from active life until his death. His home life was t)ne of ])urity. happiness and atfection. 
He was an ardent member of tke I. O. O. F. and was founder of the Daughters of Rebecca 
degree. For h number of years he devoted his leisure to the delivery of lectures, princi- 
pally upon the life and character of Abraham Lincoln, and in the prosecution of this work 
was found in almost every northern state in the I^nion. Mr. C'olfas died in ^lankato, Minn., 
January 18, 1SS5. 

Hon. Agrii.L.i Jones (deceased). There is no name connected with the political, manu- 
facturing and coniniorcial history of Indianajiolis held in more honored memory than that of 
the late Hon. Aiinilla Jones, who was born in Forsyth (then Stokes County), North Carolina, 
July 8, 1811. His parents, Benjamin and JIary Jones, were of Welsh extraction. His 
father emigrated to Indiana iu 1881 and located at Columbus, Bartholomew County, where 
Elisha P. Jones, an older brother of Atjuilla's, had preceded them and was engaged in 
merchandising: was the ])ostmaster, and was otherwise a citizen of prominence. Aquilla 
entered his brother's store as clerk and was thus employed until August, 1881), when he 
removed to Missouri. In 1887 he returned to Columbus and became "mine host" of a well 
known hotel. Not long afterw;ird, his brother, Klisha P. Jones, died, and purchasing his 
stock in 1888, Aquilla succeedetl him as a merchant, and was, by the unanimous choice of 
the people of the town, made postmaster. He had as partners his brothers Charles and B. F. 
Jones, successively, continuing the l)Xisiuess until 185(5, and during much of that long [leriod 
held the ofBee of postmaster. He was the incumbent of this oHice tirst from 1888, when be 
was appointed by Pres. Yan Buren, until removed by Pres. Tyler in 1841. He was 
reinstated by Tyler and retained the ottice until removed by Pres. Taylor iu 1840. His 
abilities were recognized in 1842 by his election to represent Bartholomew County in the 
House of Representatives of 1842 and 1843. In 1854 he received the appointment as 
Indian agent of Washitigton Territory, one of the most desirable and profitable oflices iu 
the gift of the President, but he declined it, as he did later a similar office iu New Mexico. 
Meantinu^ he had continued the mercantile business. This, however, he relinquished on his 
election, iu 1850, to the office of State Treasurer of Indiana on the Democratic ticket by a 
handsome majority of 7,000, running far ahead of the ticket. He was renominated in 1858, 
but declined the honor. About this time he was nominated by a Democratic caucus for 
Agent of the State, but this office he also refused to accept. His incumbency of the office 
of State Treasurer had made him a resident of Indianapolis, and iu 1856 he disposed of his 
stock in the Columbus Bridge Company, which erected the bridge across the east branch of 
the White River and of which he had been president, holding a controlling interest, since its 
organization in 1S4'.'. la 1801 he was chosen treasurer of the Indian;qiolis Rolling Mill 
Company and twelve years later he was made its president. In 1873 he was also chosen 
president of the Indianapolis Water Works Company, but for private reasons resigned four 
mouths later and devoted his time more wholly to other interests: Until Mr. Jones and his 
associates took hold of the rolling mill enterprise, it had never been popular, but under 
their management, in which Mr. Jones was the directing spirit, it entered upon a period of 
prosperity which made it one of the great manufacturing interests of the State and one of 
the leading producers of railroad iron in the West. For more than half a century Mr. 
Jones was engaged in active business and was successful beyond many of his contempo- 
raries, a fact due largely to his industry, his intimate knowledge of everything bearing on 
business transactions and his indefatigal)le enterprise. He might at any time during his 
residence there have had any otlice in the gift of the people of Bartholomew C\iunty, and his 
election to the important office of State Treasurer, demonstrated his more extended popu- 
larity. He was married in 1830, to Sarah .\nn, daughter of Evan Arnold, who did not long 
survive. In 184() he married Harriet, daughter of Hon. John W. and Nancy Cox. of Mor- 
gan County. Ind.. who bore him children named Elisha P.. John W'., Emma, Benjamin F., 
Charles, Aquilla t^.. Edwin S., William M., Frederick, Harriet and Jfary. Mr. and ]\Ir.s. 
Jones were members of the St. PauTs Protestant Episco])al Church, in which Mr. Jones 
was a vestryman. Mr. Jones died July 12, ISUl: his wife and nine children survive him. 




E. A. BROWN. 



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Aquilla Q. Jones, son of Hon. Aijuilla Jones, whose biographical sketch precedes this 
is one of the best known and mont popular and successful lawyers in Indian- 
iipolis. Born in Columbus, Indiana, April 14, 1852, of his father's sons he was the fifth in 
order of nativity. His e.liication was begun in the common schools and carried forward at 
Farmington, Me. , at the State University in Bloomington, and at Kacine College, Wiscon- 
sin. He was graduated from the last mentioned institution in the full clas.sical course with 
the class of 1878, at the age of twenty one. Soon afterward having determined to devote 
bis talents and energies to the study and ]iractice of law, he became a student in the oflice of 
Rand & Taylor, and in the fall of 1S74 he entered the law department of Columbia College, 
New York, and there completed his legal course. He entered actively upon the practice of 
his jirofession in Indianapolis in 1875 and for a time was associated with W. S. Ryan. La- 
ter, for a time, he practiced in connection with Charles B. Rockwood. In 1880 the law firm 
of Sullivan & Jones was formed, the members being Thomas L. Sullivan, the present Mayor 
of Indianapolis, and Aquilla Q. Jones, which has since been unbroken except during the 
time Judge Sullivan has been on the lieuch or occupying the executive chair of the city of 
Indianapolis. In January, 1892, Mr. Jones formed a partnership with Hon. A. C. Ayres, 
late Judge of the Marion County Circuit Court, and that partnership now continues under 
the tirm name of Ayres & Jones. In 1893 Mr. Jones was appointed City Attorney and he is 
now tilling that responsibility with much credit and success. In his private practice he has 
a large and constantly increasing clientage and he is regarded as an able advocate and a safe 
counselor, and it may be said of him that he is equally well known in all the courts. He is 
an influential member of the Bar Association, of the Commercial Club and of the Board of 
Trade, and is also actively identified with the Hendricks Club. For many years he has been 
a vestryman and is now Junior Warden of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Chuich. He was 
married in 1S81 to Miss Anna L. Rasehig, daughter of Charles M. Raschig, for many years a 
prominent citizen of Indianapolis. As a citizen, Mr. Jones is eminently public spirited and 
helpful to every cause tending to the benefit of any large class of his fellow citizens. He is 
personally very popular and counts among his friends many of the leading men of Indiana. 

Hon. Edgar A. Brown. The judges of the various courts established in Indianapolis, 
have always been noted for their character and ability, and one of the most popular of the 
many worthy men elevated to the bench in the history of Marion County jurisprudence, is 
the Hon. Edgar A. Brown, judge of the Marion circuit court. Mr. Brown comes of the 
sturdiest New England stock and is a son of William P. Brown, a native of Vermont. He 
was born at Lennox, Ashtabula County, Ohio, August ]<\ 1848, and passed his boyhood 
assisting his father in his business. He was educated at Grand River Institute, Aiistiuburg, 
Ohio, and then engaged in school teaching, giving all his spare time to the study of law 
which he began under the direction of Hon. Jacob B. Julian, of Centreville, Ind., and com- 
pleted in the office of J. M. Bills of Indianapolis. He was admitted to the bar in 1872. In 
1877 he formed a partnership for the practice of his profession with Hon. A. C. Ayers, 
which existed until the elevation of the latter to the bench. Three years later the firm of 
Ayers, Brown & Harvey was formed and continued until 189t\ when Mr. Brown was elected 
judge of the circuit court for a term of six years. While Judge Brown is at home in the 
field of general literature and is a close student of affairs, it is as a jurist pre-eminently that 
his reputation has been made. He has all the qualifications of a judge; learned in the 
principles of the law, witii the judicial faculty in a high degree of applying them to the 
facts, courteous in his treatment from the bench and utterly fearless in his decisions, he has 
well earned the reputation he enjoys of an able and upright judge. It is well known that 
no member of the Marion County Bar would hesitate to bring an action before him for fear 
that personal or political prejudice would in any manner influence his decision. He has 
established for his court the character of a forum where men and causes shall alone be 
judged by the rules of law and equity, unaffected by extraneous conditions, and has acquired 
for himself a worthy place in the judiciary of his State, with every prospect of a bright pro- 
fessional and political future. Judge Brown is a man of strong domestic tastes, is married 
and has several children. He is a member of the National and County Bar Associations and 
of several of the prominent literary societies of the city, to all of which he has on every 
occasion cheerfully given his time and influence. His term of office expires in November, 1896. 



2f) MEMOIRS OF INDfANAPOJ.IS 

Georoe Washington Pickerill, M. D. In all the elements of bif^ber manhood George 
WiiHhington Pickerill, M. D. , is the peer of the best of his rape and his life is one that merits 
a lengthened record, that it may prove an example for the emulation of others. He was 
liorn at Cicero, Hamilton County, Ohio, August -il, 1S87, his father and mother, Samuel J. 
and Mahala M. Pickerill, having immigrated from Brown C!ounty, Ohio, in ]X'-V> to this 
point, while it was yet a wilderness. The father was among the first of tiu' dauntless spirits 
to engage in platting and organizing the now thriving town of Cicero, and after seing it grow 
into a prosperous village, removed with his family to Clinton County, Ind., where the pioneer 
life was lived over with all its perils and dangers. The wild and savage beasts of the woods 
made the air resound with their cries and the wilder savage red man threatened with toma- 
lia.vk and knife. Amid such scenes the early days of George were passed and his education 
was limited to the subscription school of three months in the year. In 1848 the father took 
his family to La Fayette, Ind., and George, at the age of eleven, went in his father's store, 
but his ambitious mind would not forego the benefit t)f the school, which was taught in the 
winter. At the age of seventeen the intelligent lad entered the Northwestern Christian 
University, now Butler, fired with the determination to be a minister, an idea implanted by 
his father's ardent desire and the urgent pleadings of the preachers who visited his father's 
house, which was ''preacher's home" in all that territory. At the end of three years his 
heart's desire was gratified and he entered upon the preacher's life with the enthusiasm of a 
young Paul. He was fluent in speech, earnest, devout and eloquent. For two years he 
labored earnestly and spoke with pei'suasive force, and then grave doulits tilled his breast. 
He was not lacking in love for the work, nor was his zeal abated: still a voice within bade 
him halt and ''take his hand from the plow." Introspection revealed the fact that his mind 
was speculative, combative, scientific and jnogressive— traits which were taking complete 
control of him and which he could not possibly resist, and which would liring him into con- 
flict with the conservative spirit of the church. The ideal preacher of his youth and college 
days was in absolute antagonism with the actual preacher he was Ijecoming, and the disap- 
pointment was terrible. For the sake of peace in the church and to follow the lead of his 
own conscience he withdrew from the ministry. Rejecting the law from a mistaken under- 
standing of its sco]>ehe turned to the study of medicine, behaving long been a student of books 
on physical life. Reverses in his father's business threw bini upon bis own resources at the 
age of twenty. Still undismayed, he taught school and studied medicine in the meantime. 
For Hve years he taught, his first school being at his old home. La Fayette, and bis second 
at Paxton, III., and at the latter place one of his jiupils, a black-eyed little miss, Melvina E. 
Hall, captured his heart. His love was returned, but they waited for twenty-five long years 
before the day of consummation of their happiness; she waiting in sublime faith anddevotion. 
while he struggled to acrpiire a competency. Ikit, the longest road has its turning, and the 
long waited for day finally arrived, the 17th day of May, 1887, the dawn of a bliss as perfect as 
it is possible lor mortals to attain unto. The happy couple in their married life seemed to be 
repaid for all their years of delay and disapjiointment. Alas, this lirigbt and bap]iy |)eriod 
bad a sad and terrible termination, for in a little less than oneyear this brave wife and beloved 
woman died, a sacrifice upon the sacred altar of maternal love. Of this sad and terrible 
bereavement the following touching account was handed us by a friend, it having appeared 
in the doctor's j)aper, the Me<lic(tl Free I'l-css: 

"IN iMEMORY. 

"The aneel of.deatli ranh- ami claimed our wife and infant child. A wife little less than one short 
year. .\ saciiliee on the sacred allar of maternal love: an incense as pure and holy as the angel ever 
wafted IroMi tlie shrino of conTiul)ial I dolity and affection. She is sfone and we are left alone — utterly, 
sadly alone, lint with the assiu'ance 

"More, down here 'tis dust to dust: 

There, up there 'tis heart to heart," 

Tears may speak, but the heart and pen are crushed. Hence we present an editorial 
from the Paxton (111.) lircord, Mr, N, E. Stevens, editor: 

"GONE TO HER REST." 

Died, in tliis city, on Saturday, April 2, at the home of her parents, .Mr.«nd Jlrs. .1. 1). Hall, .Mrs. 
Melvina E. Pickerill, wife of T)r. George W. Pickerill. of lndiana|)olis, Ind. The deceased was one of 



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the best known and most highly esteemed of Paxton's dauahtcrs, havini; resided in this city and vicinity 
since lier childliood days, until"a year since, wlien she married and removed to Indiana|)i)li8, lier death 
occurriu.;; whih' on a visit to her friends in this city. Mrs. P. was a Oliristian in thi' higliest sense of the 
term. II r life in Paxton was noted for the good work she accomplished in society, the chnrch and 
Sabbath school. In Indianajiolis, thovigh a comparative stranger, she won the esteem of the Christian 
people in and ont of her own chnrch by^her untiring labors. The marriage of tliis conple was something 
of the romantic. Twenty-six years ago. Dr. Pickerill, then a |)eniiiless young man, taught school in the 
Strayer district, in what is now Button townsliip, and Jliss Hall was his pupil. Tlie aci|uaintance ripened 
into'love and they became engaged. The wiHilii-be benedict started out in the world to make the fortune 
which shcudd uuike it |iossihle tor them to many. .Vdopting nu'diciue as a )u-iiressiou he strnggl<'d lor 
an education, and graduated both fnun Ann Arbor, Mich., and the Eclectic Medical Institute, of f'incin- 
nati. and twenty years ago settled down to practice in Indianapolis. Years of time were reijuiredto 
acii\ure a practice and accumulate means, and during the long delay corresjiondence had ceased and 
they liad heard nothing from each other, yet the old love renuiined and neither married. In the mean- 
time the doctor luid taken liigh rank in hi's profession, being at tluit time a professor of physiology in the 
Indiana Eclectic Medical ('(illege, and editor of the liidiinin Erltrtir Mi'ilicul .luiinuil mi\\ Mcdinil Free 
I'l-enx. Two years ago they met at Indianapolis, after twenty-fmir year's separation. The old love 
remained undiunnishecl. and a year later they were married in that city. The eleven months whicli have 
expired since luive been full of happiness for them, audtlunigh the end is abrupt and sad beyond descrip- 
tion to the bereaved husband, he has the consolati<in not only of earthly friends but in the assurance 
that she has but gone before to a better world where he will surely follow. AVe had the pleasure of the 
acquaintance of Dr. Pickerill wiule he was in the city, and IVnnul him a genial and intelligent gentleman 
of broad information and nuu-h enjoyed our interview with him." 

Ill the year 1884 Dr. Pickerill became editor and publisher of (lie liulidiia Eclectic 
Medical JoiidkiI, ihon in its second year. In 1890 he changed its name to Mciliatl Free 
Press, and this he still owns and edits, putting in most of his time in this, a lalior of love. 
Because of broken health, caused by overwork and exposure in the practice of his profession, 
he C(uifines his jjractice to his office. For the same reason he has resigned his connection 
with the college. The terrible bereavement through which he has just passed has cast a 
gloom over his life, from which he will probably never emerge. The love for the estimable 
woman for whom he had labored more than three times as long as did Jacob for Rachel had 
intensified with the years, and he had counted upon a long period of wedded happiness 
so that the shock of the loss wa.s and is yet uiibeiirable. Still, with the weight of 
this sorrow that will not be comforted, and with the burden of ill health, he works 
along stoically and with a sense of duty, giving a large share of bis time to study, 
reading and reflection, these qualities and virtues having clung to him tenaciously through 
all the vicissitudes of his career. He does not care much for light literature, but religious, 
scientific and philo.sophical subjects are absorbing passions with him, and he piirsties them 
with all the ardor that characterized him in the olden days when he was passing through the 
struggle of remaining in the ministry or giving it n]i for something else. Those who know 
the Doctor well realize that his nature is profoundly synjpathetic, like as the pity of a father 
for his children, he being keenly alive to the joys and the sorrovvs of others. He is a warm 
generous friend, yet his is the faculty that can love intensely without hating; for no matter 
how much one may have injured him he does not and cannot bear malice, or seek revenge 
against the offender. He is naturally of a most lively temper; in<leed it is somewhat cyclonic, 
at times, in its intensity, and like the cyclone its force is soon spent. It is not jiossible that 
a nature as intense as his could escape such ebullitions. But to his infinite credit be it said, 
he overcomes himself, and therein is mightier than he who overcometh a city. In the 
language of the Book, he gets angry but sins not. When the storm provoked by the iniquity 
of some one has stirred the depths of his being, it rapidly dissipates without having done 
any hurt, for at such a time he keeps within the compass of his own dominion, and with the 
dissipating of the clouds an infinite calm succeeds and a humility succeeds and a full and 
free pardon of the offender is granted, whether forgiveness be asked or not. Thus his life 
has passed, chiefly solitary, exce])t in the one short year of his married life, yet it has been a 
life of usefulness, largely devoted to the healing of the afflicted and the using of his whole 
influence in making people brighter and better. In the hours of his weightiest sorrow, 
even, he must find a measure of solace at least, in the reflection that his life has been unselfish 
and that it has been privileged him to do much good to his fellow mortals in his journey 
along the road of life. Early in life or about the age of fifteen years he united with the 
Christian Church and it is now the happy thought of his life that he has lived a devoted 
adherent to his faith. 



28 MEMOIRS OF INDIAN APOLIS 

MvRON U. KiNii. Nothing is more true than the statement tiint in this country alone, 
i)f all the countries u])on the face of the eartli, a man's family connections do not assist him 
to phices of honor and trust in politics, l)ut he must win his way hy his own exertions or by 
his own honest merit. In the ohl countries the accident of birth determines the preferment 
of an individual, and if he be not born to a title or be not the near relative of one who is, 
he might as profital)ly seek a mode of travel to the moon as to try to reach up to a promi- 
nent ot^ice. This government of the people is no discriminator of persons, l)nt opens its 
doors wide for the entrance of all such as possess the requisite i|ualitications, and birth is 
bj' no means one of these. The subject of this sketch, Myron D. King, was born with the 
heritage of a good name, his father having been a distinguisheil. honorable and honored citi- 
zen of the republic, yet Mr. King owes the success that has crowned him, not to this juost 
worthy sire, but to his own exertions and to his superior attainments. It is true that he, as 
every other man whose father was a good and worthy citizen, must acknowledge a debt of 
obligation for wise counsels, watchful care and solicitude and intelligent supervision of his 
education, but in the groat arena of public life he has had, just as every other successful 
person, to wrestle alone and unaided. This is the glory of our grand and good country, that 
the lists are open to all and it is the greater honor that i)ertains to the individual that this 
is true, because he must needs put forth his best efforts if he would attain the goal of his 
desires. The life of our subject is full of interest and may serve as inspiration to others 
who are newly started out upon the way. Myron D. King was born August 9, ISM, at 
Covington, Fountain County, lud., being the son of James W. King, one of the best known 
and most popular citizens of that county. The father was elected to the important office of 
county treasurer of Fountain County, and was re-elected again and again, serving ten years 
in all, he being held in such high esteem and making such a faithful public servant that it 
was not possible to defeat him. He was also a very prominent merchant of Covington and 
Danville, 111., and was for a number of years secretary of the institution for the education of 
the blind, and whether merchant or a public officer he was always the same honorable, 
upright, just and humane man, full of sympathy for the suffering, charity for the erring and 
kindness for everybody. Our subject was the second child of a family of five, and, like the 
others, received the advantages of a liberal education. After a preparatory course he 
entered, at the age of sixteen, the Northwestern Christian University and remained in that 
excellent institution of learning from 1867 to 1870, inclusive. The after man was thus 
early manifest in the youth, and at the age of nineteen, in February, 1871, he was placed in 
charge of his father's store at Danville, 111., remaining there until August, 1875, displaying 
a ripeness of judgment and a jterception of Inisiness that is very exceptional in so young a 
man. At the date last named he went to Indianapolis and was appointed to a most respon- 
sible position of trust, tluit of cashier and chief clerk of the Indianapolis, Peoria \- Chicago 
Kailroad freight (h'parfnient, holding the same for a period of three years to the entire sat- 
isfaction of the managers of the road, who were much averse to parting with him, and he 
only gave it up that he might accept a more lucrative but similar place with the Wabash 
Railroad, holding the latter position for four years. The future of our subject was being 
worked out in a way that was clear and distinct, for, after giving uj) the office he held witli 
the railroad, the arena of ]iolitics offering a more congenial fiehV he was made Deputy Secre- 
tary of State, serving three years under Capt. W. R. Myers, Secretary of Stale Retiring 
then from public office, he engaged in the fire insurance and real estate Vmsiness and con 
tinned in it for three years, his experience of business affairs ac(piired in the store at Dan- 
ville enabling him to compete with those that were older in the liusiness. But Mr. King 
likes political life, the excitement and the magnificent opportunities for the exercise of strafe 
gic movements, with a conscientious conviction that the jiarty to which he is united by ties 
of honest and sincere faith will best carry out the ends of good government urging him to 
the exercise of his best efforts to the success of that party. Hence, after three years of 
Imsiness life, we find him again holding that very responsible position of Deputy Secretary of 
State, entering ui)on his duties in January, 1891, under the Hon. Claude Matthews, then 
Secretary of State, and serving until January 9, 1893, when, upon the inauguration of Mr. 
Matthews as governor, Mr. King was appointed by Gov. Matthews to fill out his unexjiired 
term as Secretary of State, at the expiration of which the Governor appointed him his own 



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private secretary, also subsequently ai)poiuted him military secretary on his staff, with the 
rauk of colonel. Mr. Kiug is a politician of high order of merit, being an expert organizer 
and an adroit manager of a campaign. He was one of the organizers of the Hendriclss Club, 
the leadino- Democratic organization of the State of Indiana, and served as its president m 
the year f887. He has been one of its directors for the past six years and is regarded as 
one of its most active, u-^eful and successful members. Mr. King possesses in the highest 
decree what is so necessary to success in work of this kind, namely, a supreme faith in his 
partv contideiit that it is destined to lead his country up to a higher plane of prosperity, 
where personal liberty will be paramount and the happiness of the people will be far 
greater because of an all pervading justice. He was married, in 1882, to Miss Nannie Gal- 
braith of Indianapolis, a highlv-accomplished lady, by whom he has two most interesting 
children. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of this city and a firm believer 
in the faith of that body. His career is but fairly begun and his future promises to advance 
him far up the height of preferment, his talents and great personal popularity giving every 
assurance of a life in a wider and broader sphere of prominence and distinction. 

Hon Thomas A. Hendiucks. No man in the State of Indiana ever attained the ideal citi- 
zenship the affection of his neighbors or the lasting regard of the Democracy of the State 
in a hicrher degree than Thomas A. Hendricks. The purity of his private life, his simple, 
unassuming ways, his keen, analytical mind, his brilliancy as a debater and his shrewdness 
as a political manager, forever place him among the most eminent men of the nation. John 
Hendricks, his father, was a farmer by occupation, and the family was one of the pioneers of 
Westmoreland county, Penn. He married Miss Jane Thomson, and early in the year 1820 
moved with his family to Indiana, and settled at Madison, where a brother, William Hendricks, 
who served as Congressman, Governor and United States Senator, had preceded him. John 
Hendricks was a deputy surveyor of public lands of Indiana, a position acquired under the 
administration of President Jackson. He moved to Shelby County in 1822, which was the 
family home for years. Thomas A. Hendricks was born on a farm near Zanesville, Muskin- 
gum County, Ohio, September 7, 1819. He was reared in Indiana to manhood, and attended col- 
lege at South Hanover. Early in youth he evinced a predilection to the study of law, and 
after pursuing the usual course of i"nstn;ctioii was admitted to the bar at Shelliyville. His 
success as a lawyer was not rapid, as is usually the case of prominent men, but was gradual 
and fairly remunerative. The game of politics was always fascinating to him, and is so in 
terwoveii with his political career that in his case they are well nigh inseparable. In 1848 
he was elected to the State Legislature, declining a renomination, and in 1850 was unanimously 
chosen senatorial delegate to the convention empowered to amend the State constitution. 
In 18r)l he was elected to C'ongress, was re-elected two years later, but in 1854 was defeated 
for the same position. Much to his surprise, and wholly unsolicited on his part, he was 
appointed commissioneer of the general land office by President Pierce in 1855, and for 
a period of four years he faithfully discharged the duties of this office. In 18()0, when 
national. State and local politics were in a volcanic condition, he was the candidate of the 
Democratic party for Governor, but was defeated by Col. Henry I. Lane, who resigned the 
position in favor of Oliver P. Morton, in order to accept the election of United States Senator. 
Through Mr. Hendricks' indefatigable efforts and personal popularity, the State elected a 
majority of Democratic legislators in 18()2, and they, in turn for his faithful services, rewarded 
him l)y electing him United States Senator. His career as Senator was somewhat different 
from that of luany of the prominent memi)ers of his i)arty in the North. He favored the 
earnest prosecution" of the war, voting for all measures to that end; he opposed conscription, 
and advocated all measures tending to the enlistment of troops and the payment of bounties. 
At the close of the war he maintained that, inasmuch as the States in rebellion had never been 
out of the Union, they were entitled to their full and usual representation in Congress, and 
that these States should have entire control of their respective State governments. He 
opposed the constitutional amendments on the grounds that the rebellious States were not 
represented, and liecause, in his opinion, sufficient time should elapse for passion to cool and 
prejudice almte before such action should be taken. After his term of six years as senator 
had expired he devoted his time to the exclusive practice of law, and having previously (18()0) 
moved to Indianapolis he found an extensive field for his talents. Against his protests he 



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was notiiiiiated for (iovei'iior iu 1872 aiui was ilociHi'vuly electeil, serving as cbief executive 
officer of tho State four years. He became tbe political idol of the Democrats of the State 
and their eariKwt snjtport, and his national ])opularity gained for hiiu the vice piesidential 
uoniiuatioii in tSTt), Imt was defeated witiiGov. Tilden. In ISSt he was ayain honored by a 
nomination foi' this exalted otiice. and was elected with President Cleveland. In the midst of 
his administration liis career on earth ended. 

PitoF. William M. Tiihasiieh. This gentleman, distinguished in the educational 
auualsof Marion County, is a product of Fayette County, lad., born July 20, 18:53, and is a 
descendant of an old colonial family, his ancestor being one of three brothers who emigrated 
from England about the uiidille of the last century. One of the brothers settled in Portland, 
Me., married a Cuban wife, and to him was ))orn John S. Thrasher, the well known editor, 
with an able introduction, of llumlwilt's History of Cuba. John S. resided in Havana, was 
suspe(;ted of complicity with the Lope/ invasion of (-uba in 1850, was imprisoned at ]\[;ulrid, 
but sul)se(|Ueiit ly released in 1851 by intervention of the United States Government tluongh 
its Secretary of Stat(f, Daniel Webster. John, ancestor of our subject, settled in JIaryland 
and was a soldier of the Kevolution. His son, Josiali, emigrated to Kentucky, married and 
became a noted Indian lighter in the early annals of Kentucky. He, with his eldest son, 
John, who had married Elizabeth Hush, a near relative of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Phila- 
delphia, and his grandson, Woodson W., emigrated to Rush County, Ind., in 1824. In 
1881 Woodson W. Thrasher married Barbara Daubenspeck, a native of Cynthiana, Ky., and 
to them were born Prof. W. M. ; John P., of Fayette County ; Elizabeth, deceased wife 
of Dr. James P. Orr, of Rushv ille, Ind. : Hattie, deceased wife of Dr. Samuel Bell, of Dub- 
lin; Saraii, wife of A. \V. Vamleman, of Denver.- C!olo. ; Dr. Marion, of San Francisco, Cal. ; 
Dr. Allen B. , a distinguished specialist, of Cincinnati, and OIlie, wife of jMarshall Black- 
ledge, of Rush County, Ind. The father, Woodson, served one term in the State Legisla- 
ture and several terms as County Commissioner. He was known through Indiana and Ken- 
tucky as a breeder of short horn cattle, founded an academy of collegiate grade and died in 
188('), an active member of the Christian Church. His wife followed him in 18U2. Prof. 
William M. passed his childhood and youth on a farm in his native county, and studied several 
years iu the Fairview Academy und(M' the tutelage of Prof. A. R. Benton, afterward the 
president of Butler University. He graduated in 1854 from Bethany Colege, W. Ya , after 
which he taught a classical scluuil at Rushville, Ind., from 1854 to 1S(35. In April of the 
last named year he entered Butler Universit}' as professor of inathenuitics anil astronomy, 
which chair he has tilled I'ver since with the exception of one year, 1873-4, which he spent 
pursuing higher mathematical branches at Heidelbeig University, Germany. Since leaving 
Germany he has been many years a student of advanced mathematics in the English, French 
and German languages. He has always been an extensive reader of literature in several 
languages, writes easily, but has written nothing for iuil)!ication except in iiewspa|>ers. His 
dry humor, keen sense of the ridiculous and extensive acipiaintance with liti'rature have 
aided in rendering his lectuies quite popular with the university students. The Professor 
is a memlu'r of the Indiana A(!ailemy of Science, and as a teacher is among the most suc- 
cessful in tlie State. In 1802 Prof. Thrasher married Miss Demia Thayer, daughter of 
Spencer Thayer and niece of Ovid Butler, Esij., of Indianapolis. Four children were born 
to this union: Corinne, wife of O. O. Carvin, of Indianapolis; Sallie, wife of A. J. Brown, 
of Grand Kapids, Mich.; Nettie (deceased); Dr. Allen Wade, of Indianapolis, and Kay 
mond T. 

F. M. CniiiiiiiM AX (deceased). The influence of a good man will 'be ever t>xpanding 
with the lapse of time, and his deeds of charity and acts of love will live to commemorate his 
name and ]i<rpetuate his memory. It can be truly said that a great and good man has been 
gathered to his fathers, Init iiis virtues liveafter him, and iiis rejiutal ion sustained under the 
contlict of a long career of extraordinary activity, liears no blemish; and his name is every- 
where m<>ntioned with respect and honor. F. jM. Churchman was a native of the Keystone 
Slate, born in Schuylkill County, and on April 5, 18;?3, when but an infant, he was taken by 
his father to Wilmington, Del, where he remained upon a farm near that city until 
eleven years of age. He received but a limited education and in 184() his half lirother, the 
late W. H. Churchman, founder of the Indiana Institution for the Blind, asked the father to 



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let him take our subject west witL Lim. He took young Churchman to raise ao.l the latter 
remained with his brker, W. H. Churchman, a year or two, or until about sixteen years of age^ 
He was then taken into the bank of the late S. A. Fletcher, Sr. the bank a tiiat time being a 
small institution, and filled the olHce of messenger. Two or three years later he was made 
bookkeeper. He continued to live with his brother, reading to him at night and stimulated 
by a nat'ural taste for reading, he gradually acquired by this practice ™y;'°^ <;;;j;;^°;„ 
matiou. At the time of his death he possessed a very hue library In 18bo Mr. Chuichmau 
was admitted to partnership in the institution that owes so much of its reputation for sa^ 
bility and financial prominence to his close application to business and continued he e until 
the close of his life. Mr. Churchman was a man of rare force of character, strictest integ- 
rity, and. coming from Quaker stock, was very reticent He seldom had anything to say 
was mild but tinn, and his advice when given was sound. Identifaed for f^^ty yea s mI 
the same institution his career was unusual. He took few vacations and was gifted with an 
almost unerring penetration, his opinions being often sought on hnancial questions. He 
had untold opportunities to go into almost every financial and business enterprise that has 
been started in Indiana, but always declined offering his counsel or hnancial assistance but 
keeping his business interests contined within the limits of his profession of which he was so 
thoroughly the master. Mr. Churchman's only diversion was his 240 acres of land below 
Indianapolis, where he resided for twenty years before his death. there he led a simp e 
life criving much attention to the breeding of blooded cattle and horses with vyhich his 
farm was well stocked. He was entirely devoid of ostentation, and rue to his own t.-aining, 
reared his family as he had been reared, oflering them of course all the educational facilities 
possible in business and literature. i /i • j. <• t ror,o...^l;o 

Bermf a Fohl. This gentleman is one of the most popular florists of Indianapol s. 
His father intended that he should become a minister, but he turned his attention to he 
cultivation of roses. Could any one preach more uniutermittingly or more eloquently.' 
Does not one rose tell more of the power of the Creator and the beauty of the 'm- versed- 
more of living and dying yet living again-than a thousand sermons.' And in Mr. l<ohi8 
greenhouses are thousands of roses, roses of all colors and shades, of all varieties and all 
sizes. His conservatories at Mississippi and Thirtieth Streets are the most extensive iii the 
State, comprising twenty thousand feet under glass, and they stand in the midst of fave acres 
of ground all abtoom with roses. The story of the development of an enterprise of so much 
beauty is interesting but less so than the study of the life of the man who originated and 
built it up. Mr. Fohl was born near Dublin, Ind., May 6. 18o8, a son of Rev John and 
Mary Ann (Radebaugh) Fohl, both natives of Pennsylvania. Rev. John Foh has been a 
minister of the United Brethren Church since 1817. For several years past he has been 
superanuated, but he has really worked harder for the church s^.uce than he ever did before. 
He devotes much time to the interests of the American Bible Society which necessUates his 
traveling a good deal, which is peculiarly burdensome to most men of his years. He is now 
past eighty eight but he stands fully six feet high in his stockings and the natural .shade of 
his hair has not as yet been tinged with gray. His family is noted for longevity. Only a few 
years since, his mother died aged ninety-seven and retained all her mental faculties to the 
last. She had been a member of the church for nearly or quite three quarters of a century. 
His wife is still living in her eighty-fourth year and they have been the parents of thiiieen 
children all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, and nine of whom are living at this 
time. For seventeen years prior to 1868 Rev. Mr. Fohl and his family lived m Indiana, 
but at that time they returned to Pennsylvania. Bernie A. Fohl, the youngest son of this 
worthy couple was ten years old when his parents returned to Pennsylvania. He atte.ided 
the public schools there and later was a student at Chili Seminary, near Rochester N. Y^ 
He was graduated, however, from the High School at Chambersburg, Penn nx ISlb. His 
mother was a lover of flowers and she literally had her door yard full of them 
Bernie helped her to cultivate them. Hence his own love of i^owers was partly inherited, 
and partly cultivated as it were and that he determined to g've his ife to the growth and im- 
provement of flowers is not to be wondered at. In October, 18n he came to Indianapolis 
and took charge of the grounds at Crown Hill Cemetery In 1881 he wen to Peru. Ind 
and engaged in business there as a fl6rist with much success for a time, but at the end ot 



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four years, owing to causes which form no essential part of this narrative, he found himself 
out of pocket to a considerable extent, and gathering together what remained to him he re- 
turned to Indianapolis and entered the employ of Charles Rieman, the tlorist, at the insig- 
nificant salary of eight dollars a week. I'^inally. aided by a l)iiilding and loan association, 
he was enabled to purchase an acre of ground at the corner of Tennessee and Twenty-second 
Streets which he began to improve, though remaining in Mr. Rieman's employ for two years 
thereafter. At the expiration of that time he again entered the business on his own account. 
In December, 1890, he sold this place for which, unimproved, he had paid $'250, for 15,000 
and removed to his present location where he purchased live acres of ground upon which he 
has since put imi>rovement8 worth $10,000. Since beginning business here Mr. Fold has 
met with a degree of success of which any man might lie proud. He ranks as one of the 
loading citizens and enterprising business men, and enjoys, in a remarkable degree, the re- 
spect of all who know him. He was married in March, 1880, to Sarah J. Wheatcraft of In- 
dianapolis and they have two bright and promising sons, Bernie A., Jr., and Robert R. 
Bernie, now twelve years of age, has recently graduated from the high school at Mapleton 
and has the distinction of being Marion County's youngest graduate. Mr. Fohl and his 
family are communicants of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Fohl is a liberal supporter of all 
the direct and auxiliary interests of his church and denomination. 

John Heidenhkich. The gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch is the 
manager of the firm of J. Heidenreich & Co., also one of the proprietors of what is known as 
the Soutliside Greenhouses, on Applegate and Morton Streets. He is a business man who 
never suffers his business to push him: but. on the contrary is constanfly extending his field 
of operations and is seeking new, yet always safe, paths. He makes a specialty of growing 
roses, that most beautiful flower, and has from 2,000 to 8,000 potted rose plants each year 
on sale, which, under his skillful care of growing them, bear almost innumerable fine blos- 
soms. He keeps the choicest, rarest and costliest varieties and also keeps a large and very 
tine lot of cut floweis of all kinds, the most of which he raises in his extensive and finely 
e(pup|)ed greenhouses. He owns four lots on Applegate Street, four on Morton Street and 
has r),O0lt feet under glass, in four tine gieenlu)uses. All this improvement has been made 
by him, for which he deserves great credit, for he started in the business with only two 
small lots, and now has extensive premises as above stated. This desirable state of affau's 
has been brought about V)y keen business foresight and providence. The gentlemen connected 
with the firm have always dealt fairly by their patrons and as a natural secjuence have met 
with a substantial reward and are now comfoi'tably provided with the good things of this 
world. Mr. Heidenreich owes his nativity to Germany where he was born on July C, ]Sfi(5, 
his father being Joseph Heidenreich, who is a well known and successful nurseryman in the 
vicinity of Berlin, (Jermany. He has made a s]iecialty of growing fruit trees, in which he 
has been very successful and he is now a well to do citizen. In his native land John Heiden- 
reich was reared and educated, and, while not pursuing his studies in school, his time was 
employed in assisting his father, during which time he ac(piired a taste for his present calling 
and learned njany of its details which have been of great benefit to him since starting in 
business for himself. In 1883 he came to the United States and the same year to Indian 
apolis, and here he at once, with characteristic energy, commenced working at his trade in 
the employ of other firms until 1890 when he embarked in the business for himself, in which 
short time an extensive and most profitable business has been built up, the result of intelli- 
gent grasp of the enterprise and of faithful, honest and persistent work, (^ustomers have not 
been slow to learn where their interests lie and when once their establishment is patronized 
that patron is sure to (!ome again. Mr. Heidenreich's partner in business is John Grande, 
a wide a wakf and enterprising man of business and the excellent commercial (|ualitication8 of 
these two gentlemen combined make them a strong and reliable firm. Mr. Heidenreich is a 
member of the Indiana|)olis Florist's Club and the Indiana State Society. 

Harvev a. Wuioht. This gentleman is the proprietor of Wright's Home-made Mince- 
meat Factory, which business he established on a small scale at his residence in 1883. The 
lirst year he sold his goods to private parties, and manufactured his mincemeat (m a No. 7 
cooking stove, amounting in all to 4,70l> j)ouuds. The second year he made five tons; the 
third year he employed a delivery wagon and niaile ten tons for the Indianapolis trade. The 



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business has steiulily increased in volume until it. Las now reached enormous proportions 
and is conducted in a building 33x80 feet, necessitating the employment of twelve people. 
At the present time thirty-two tons of mincemeat are made annually, thirty-one tons being 
for the Indianapolis trade. In 1892 he began the manufacture of mince pies, the sale of 
which has increased from $200 to $700 per month. Mr. Wright was born in Stowe, Mass., 
August 29, 1835, his parents being Oliver and Lydia (Austin) Wright, both natives of the 
Green Mountain State. During the father's early life he was a minister of the Universalist 
Church at Montpelier, but he afterward became a physician and jiracticed his profession in 
Brattleboro until his death March 5, 1840, his widow surviving him until March 4, 1842. 
Harvey A. Wright was an infant when his parents settled in Brattleboro and after the death 
of his parents he nuide his home with his mother's sister at Weston, Vt. , his mother's birth- 
place. Here he remained and attended the district schools until he attained his fifteenth 
year, when he went to North Orange, Mass., where he attended a select school for some 
time. At the age of sixteen he went to work on a farm about three miles from Brattleboro, 
but the following fall and winter returned to the select school. His vacations were spent in 
tilling the soil until November 8, 1852, when he entered the sash factory of Edwin Ellis at 
Athol, Mass., in which he labored two and a half years. While there he mortised and put 
together 02,000 windows. In the spring of 1855 he went to Allegany County, N. Y. , and 
became foreman in the wood department of the match factory at that place. During the 
seven years that he remained in that county he served as deputy sheriff three years, consta- 
ble three years, corporation collector one year and owned and operated a stage line of forty 
miles. He was a stirring and wide-awake citizen and was quite successful in his business 
ventures. In the spring of 1863 he Ijecame assistant foreman under John H. McLean in the 
construction of a double track on the Erie railroad and in the fall of that year acted as 
brakeman on that road fur three months. He then became foreman and conductor on a con- 
struction train on the Oil Creek railroad, but this position he resigned in December to accept 
that of conductor on a freight train from Elmira to Williamsport. March 21, 1804, he 
enlisted in Compauj' K, Fiftieth New York Engineers, in which capacity he served until 
the war closed, receiving his discharge at Elmira on June 28, 1865. He then came to 
Iijdianapolis and for some time worked at his trade but in the spring of 1867 returned to 
railroading, which he followed two years. He had patented a signal light, and a special car 
was placed at his disposal for the purpose of introducing the same. In May, 1870, he 
became a conductor on the Little Miami road but at the end of fourteen months he resigned 
and went to St. Louis where he was connected with the opening of the St. Louis bridge over 
the Mississippi River and became fireman for the St. Louis Bridge Company and later con- 
ductor. At the end of eight months he was promoted to the position of superintendent of 
trai'ns across the bridge but resigned this position one year later to become conductor on the 
Big Four road between Mattoon and St. Louis. He has since been connected with other 
roads as conductor and has followed railroading in various capacities for fourteen years, 
during which time he was never in a wreck for which he was censured or blamed and all of 
his wrecks never cost over $4,000. About 1870 he came to Indiaiui|iolis and engaged in the 
bakery business, continuing three years, but off and on since that time he has been con- 
nected with different railroads. He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary A. Donnell, a native 
of Palestine, 111. Mr. Wright is a member of the order of Equity and the G. A. R., Robert 
Anderson Post, No. 369. In politics he has always been an ardent Republican. Mr. Wrigjjt 
is what is often termed a "hustler" and he has been successful in the accumulation of a 
considerable amount of worldly goods. 

Antoine Wieoand. The extent to which tlowers are sold in a city indicates in no small 
degree the culture of its inhabitants. One taking this view must recognize the aesthetic su- 
premacy of Indianapolis, as it has more florists and a better demand for choice tlowers than 
any other city of its size in the country. Not only prominent, but foremost in point of pri- 
ority among the floriculturists of Indianapolis is the gentleman whuse name appears above. 
Antoine Wiegand was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1833, and was educated in the schools 
of his native country. He came to America in 1855 and located in In<lianapolis, which, 
though then an unimportant town, was, he felt sure, to be a city of commercial wealth and 
prominence. He established himself in business, in 1859 near the "Old Seminary," on 



34 MEMOIRS O/.' I.\I>IAXAI'<>IJS 

K(>n(iicl<y Av(inui>. luul |iro8pered tlnic mil 11 IST'.I, wlioii Ur icinovi'il (o his pinseut iDi'Utiou 
at ScviMitli jiiul llliimis S( roots. His oxtoiisivo liot liousos covi'r mii aiou of 2(K)x'200 foot, iiiul 
liis f,'l:isH covorod coiisoiviitorios !iro anioiii,' (lio most (Utniclivo ill tlio citv. Iloio ari> to lie 
fomiil plants in i^'ioutor varit^ly tlinii in any c>tli(>r ono ostalilisliinont in (he Hlato, ami Mr. 
VViofj;an(l lias in stock some singlo plants wortii $\i>0 (»aeh. Ho makes u specially of cut tlow- 
ors and decorations and La.s not only a large trade in Indianapolis, Ijut nn extensive one in 
snrronndiiif^ towns. Mr. Wiogand was the pionoer in this lino in tiie city. When he began 
business, more tlian a third of a century since, tiiere was little demand for flowers, and liis 
entorpris(> was iiocossarily small. J5ut his is a kind of trade which advertises and oxtends 
itself, if pr()[i(>rly attended to. more conspicuously, perhaps, than many others. The love of 
llowors is inlioi(>nt in llio human hoarl.and .Mr. Wiogaud spread thom before th(> people of 
Indianapolis in ever expanding hoanly, year liy year, till thoie was a constantly increasing 
demand for ihoiii and his enterprise l)ecame an cstablislii'd fact and his groen-houses one of 
the attractions of the city. Mr. W'iegand is a public s|)irite<l aiul well esteemed citizen, wlio 
has the best interests of the community at heart. Although he is a llepublican, be is not so 
partisan as to ignore tiie claims of n Democrat in a local campaign if he liH)>pens to think 
the Democrat is a better man personally than his Ui>i)ublican opponent. He is a popular 
memlxM- of the Colniiil)ia and other clubs, of the Koyal .Vrcaiiiim, and of tlio Independent 
Order of Odd P'ollows. Ili< was married in IS')r> to ftliss Katie Ivrioss, a native of Germany, 
and lias two sons and a daughter. 

Wii.MAM IIknkv Hauuison, tlio iiinlji ['resident- of the I'nited States anil first governor 
of Ihr Toriitory of Indiana, was a native of tli(> Old Dominion, his birth o(X'urring at Uerke- 
ley, ill ITT'i. His father was (tov. Henjamin Harrison, one of the signers of the Declaration 
of Independence. Ueceiving tlie linal part of his schooling at Hampden, Sidney (Jollege, be 
began for himstdf at eighteen years of ago, at which time occurred the death of his father. 
In op|)osition to tln> protests of bis friends, lie sought a position in tlie army of the United 
States, was commissioned ensign by (len. Washington and ordered to report to tlie Com- 
mamling (ieneral (St. (-lair) of the Northoni ainiy. At this ]ioriod the frontier was greatly 
harassiHJ by depreilations (>f marauding bands of savagos. siipplomeuted by covert supjiort 
and aid of tlio British (ioviMiimenl, and the duties of the frontier troops were to hold in 
check and keep within duo bounds these attacks. The elevation of Gen. Anthony Wayne 
over Gen. SI. Clair, in command of the Northwest, resulted in a more vigorous and active 
policy, and numerous battles were fougbt with varying success. Having obtained {>romotion 
to a lieutenancy, young Harrison was tlie liero in a bloody engagement August '21), 17U'2, 
and for this lie was publicly tbanked by his snjierior otHoer. In 171)5 he was made com- 
mandt>rof Fort Washington, with tbe rank of captain; the same year be wedded the youngest 
daughter of riobn Cloves Symmes, the original owner of the present site of Cincinnati, and 
three years later resigniHt his commission to engage in farming. Very shortly after tending 
bis resignation be was aiipointed Secretary of tlu> Northwest Territory liy I'res. Adams, 
and na such was c.r o///c/() lieutenant governor, and in tbe absence of (ion. St. Clair was 
Governor. In 17U1) b(> was elected a delegate to (Vmgress. and during this session the 
Northwest Territory was divideil into two Territori(<s. named Ohio and Indiana. The latter 
comprised the present States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, and of 
this Mr. Harrison received tbe appoint uiont of Governor. He immediately located at Vin- 
cennes, wbicli was then the capital, and served as Governor sixteen years, having been 
twice reappointed by .lelTor.son and once by Madison. His inHiien(M' with tbe Indians was 
greater than any other white man. He always kept strict faith with tlu<si> children of Nature, 
was prompt to reward their good deeds and as de(!isivo in punishing their treachery. Dur- 
ing bis administration be commanded at the battle of Tippecanoe, and the good results 
achieved by the success of tbe whites was made an event by the Legislatur(>s of both Indiana 
and Iveutncky extending the iioro of the day a vote of thanks. Gov. Harrison is given n 
prominent place by liistorians for bis services during the War of 1812, and was a partici- 
pant in the defense of Fort- Meigs and the Battle of the Thames, as well as being tbe com- 
niand(>r of tbe Army of the Northwest, with the rank of major general. In ISK) be was 
oliH'ted to Congress and in lS2-( to tbe United States Senate, from Ohio, and in 1S2S was 
appoinloil minister to the Itepnblic of Columbia by l'r(>sidoiit .\danis. Imt lioing almost 



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immediately recalled by General Jackson. In 1830 he was nominated for the Presidency of 
the United States, but suffered defeat. In 1840 he was re-nominated by the Whigs and 
daring one of the most remarkable campaigns this country ever experienced, was elected, 
and March -1, 1841, was inaiigurated. Having spent the most of his life in the frontier, Mr. 
Harrison lacked the polish of his opponent, and the story was circulated by the Democrats, 
with the expectation tiiat it would prove detrimental to him, that he lived in a log cabin and 
drank nothing but cider. The Whigs accepted the insinuation. The simpleness of the 
human life, divested of glamours and gildings, always appeals to the direct sensil)ilitios of 
the people. So it did in this ca.se. Log cabins were erected everywhere; kegs supposed to 
contain cider, were indispensable. Log cabin and hard cider songs were sung and are yet 
remembered by the old residenters, and the famous hero of Tippecanoe became the ninth 
President of the United States. His untimely death occurred one month after his 
triumphal inauguration. 

Georoe F. Edenharter, M. D. Fortunate ;is it is in its older physicians, Indianapolis 
is no less fortunate in the bright galaxy of younger physicians and surgeons, who during the 
past few years have made a reputation for themselves and added luster to the professional 
status of the city and State. One of the best-known of the latter class is Dr. George F. 
Edenharter, superintendent of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, who was born at 
Piqua, Ohio, June 13, 1857, a son of John and Elizabeth (Itoseberg) Edenharter. His father 
was a native of Bavaria, Germany, came to America in 1848, and located at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, removing later to Piqua, where he was for many years a cabinet maker. At this time, 
at the age of seventy-two, he is very active for a man of his years and is a resident of Indian- 
apolis. Dr. Edenharter's mother, who was a native of Saxony, died September 11, 1889. 
' Three children were born to John and Elizabeth Edenharter, and the one of them with which 
we have to do in this article was reared principally at Dayton, Ohio, where his parents 
removed when he was about nine 3reais old. After acquiring an education in the public 
schools of that city, he learned the trade of a cigar maker and worked at it for about eight 
years, and, in following it, came to Indianapolis in 1877. The difficulties under which he 
began the study of medicine are suggestive of those which beset the celebrated Elihu Bur- 
ritt, the lilacksiuith, in his determined and successful attempts in the ac(juisition of knowl- 
edge. While working at the bench in the prosecution of his trade young Edenharter had 
before him the books necessary to the course of reading demanded of medical students 
before taking lectures, and gave to their study every moment he could spare from his work; 
and in coarse of time, by making the best use of every spare hour and by saving every cent 
possible from his earnings, he was enabled to enter the Physio-Medical College, of Indian 
apolis, in 1881, and after taking two courses of lectures in that institution graduated there- 
from in 1883, with the degree of " M. D." At the city election in the fall of the same year 
he was elected a member of the common council in the city of Indianapolis, and he was 
re-elected in the fall of 1885. The time which he could spare from his official duties enabled 
him to continue his medical studies without great financial expense, and in 1884 he entered 
the medical college of Indiana, and was graduated therefrom in March, 1880. Immediately 
thereafter he was apiiointed physician and surgeon in chief of the Marion County Asylum, 
in which capacity he served two terms. In 1887 he received the Democratic nomination by 
acclamation for the office of Mayor of Indianapolis, and although defeated by a small plurality, 
his personal popularity enabled him to lead the ticket by about 1,000 votes. In December fol- 
lowing he was appointed physician and surgeon to the Marion County Workhouse, and at the 
expiration of his term of service was reappointed but declined to longer devote himself to 
the duties of the office. In 1800 he was unanimously elected superintendent of the City 
Hospital by a joint convention of the common council and board of aldermen composed of 
twenty one Democrats and fifteen Republicans. During his term of service the law regu- 
lating the election of superintendent of the City Hospital was changed, vesting in the board 
of health the power to appoint that functionary, and in 1892 (December), he was unani- 
mously re-elected to the same position by the board of health, consisting of two Democrats 
and one Republican, his salary being at the same time increased. Under the supervision of 
Dr. Edenharter the work of carrying on the hospital in all its detail was performed in a 
manner that elicited many flattering expressions of approval from lioth press and public. 



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Many of the devices contributed to the convenience of this institution are the products of 
the Doctor's originality, ingenuity and skill. The patients are given such excellent care 
and such close attention that complaints are unknown and the common prejudice against 
hospitals, based on a fear all too well grounded in many cases, of maladministration 
and malpractice, has no point to which to attach itself so far as this particular hospital 
is concerned. The high standard of excellence which has characterized the management 
of this hospital by the Doctor's predecessors in office, has not oa\y been fully sustained 
by Dr. Edenharter but has gained additional luster through his administration of the 
affairs of the institution. Dr. Edenharter, though still a young man, possesses great energy 
and the most worthy ambition, and he is recognized by the best paople of Indianapolis, 
not only as a physician of extraordinary skill, but as a man of the broadest intelligence 
and the highest order of business and executive ability. His good judgment, and discern- 
ing fore-iiglit in jiolitical affairs have won him many admirers in political circles. He is 
popular with the people because of the fact that lie is a self made man in all that the 
terra implies, having had from the outset to depend upon his own resources and to fight 
his own battles unaided until he had won a place in the hearts of his fellow citizens which 
has secure.l their hearty support and co-operation. He has attained his present high 
' standing in the community by hard work, close application to the performance of every 
duty devolving upon him. and by the excercise of the most indomitable will. He is a 
member of tlie Marion County Medical Society, and the Indiana State Medical Society. 
June fi, 1SS8, he was married to Marion D., daughter of Michael and Maria Swadener, 
of Dayton, Ohio, who has borne him one child named Ralph E.. now a bright and 
promising boy. April 7, 1893, he was appointed superintendent of the (. 'entral Indiana 
Hospital for the Insane, which position he now tills, resigning the superintendency of the 
City Hospital, May 1, 1893. Dr. Edenharter was not an applicant for this position, but 
was appointed over twenty-three applicants, refusing to accept the position until urged so 
hard by the officials and liis friends that he felt duty bound. 

Miss Eliza G. Browning is a lady of much intelligence, energy and executive ability, 
and is in every way competent to fill the responsible position of lil)rarian of the Indianapolis 
Public Library, thus illustrating what has long been known and acknowledged that women 
are in every way competent to fill with distinguished success positions requiring the most 
versatile mental powers and no ordinary degree of energy. She belongs to a family which 
for many years has bnen largely identified with both the political and literary interests of 
the city of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana. The Hon. William J. Brown, her mater- 
nal grandfather, was a man of note in the day and age in which he lived, and as a repre- 
sentative of the people in this portion of Indiana in the halls of the Congress of the United 
States, he was a power, especially in the lines of truth, justice and right. His son. Admiral 
George Brown, United States Navy, has a record too well known to need additional words of 
commendation here, suffice it to say that his reputation is world wide. Hon. Austin H. 
Brown, a brother of the Admiral, has often served in public offices of trust in national, 
city and civic capacity, and is a man of mark. Some thirteen years ago when Miss Eliza G. 
Browning found it necessary to engage in some remunerative emjiloyment, the workings of 
the public library had many attractions for her, and although a near relative offered her 
employment, her independent spirit would not allow her to accept the offer, and she shortly 
afterward entered the public library, first as a substitute, and for one year labored without 
compensation. In April, 1892, she was elected librarian, and a year later was re-elected by 
acclamation. Her election was made because of her peculiar fitness and adaptability for the 
position, combined with a thorough knowledge of books, and it has met with the hearty ap 
proval of the citizens of Indianapolis. She is ever on the alert to institute new and im- 
proved methods which have greatly improved the convenieniences for the library. She is a 
tine conversationalist, a deep reader and thinker and an accomplished musician. 

James H. Woodburn. The physician comes closer to the confidence of his patients than 
any other man is privileged to do with his fellow men. In the honr of agony which comes 
to the household when a loved one is stricken with a dread disease, the doctor is the one 
stay and hope of the family. It is especially pleasing to reflect that it is the most rare ex- 
ception that a medical man is false to his tru.st. An exalted sense of honor pervades the 



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entire profession. Prominent among the successful practitioners of the healing art in 
ludianapolis stands the name of Dr. James H. AYoodbnrn. He is a product of Jefferson 
County, Ind., born January 15, 1822, and is a son of Robert and Sally (Davis) Woodburn, 
the former a native of Washiugton County, Penn., and the latter of the Blue-Grass State. 
The parents came to Indiana in 1814, settled in Scott County, and were among the pioneers 
of that part of the State. He was a tanner by trade, but in connection with that business 
was also engaged in farming, and followed both until his death in 1825. His widow sur- 
vived him many years. Dr. Woodburn passed bis youthful days in assisting his father on 
the farm in Jefferson County, and his early scholastic training was received in the common 
schools. Later he took a course at Hanover College, and in 1841 began the study of medi- 
cine with a private tutor, and subsequently attended lectures at the medical department of 
Louisville University, graduating in 1840. He had practiced three years before entering 
that institution. Immediately after graduating Dr. Woodburn began practicing in Shelby 
County, Ind., and for seven years was engaged in the practice of his profession in that and 
Clark and Johnson Counties. In March, 1851, he came to Indianapolis, and here he has 
been engaged in active practice ever since. In INC)] he was elected superintendent of the 
Insane Asylum, and this position he held in a satisfactory and efficient manner until in 
March, 1865, when he resigned. The Doctor has been a member of the city board of health, 
and was elected to the city council about the year 1867, serving in that capacity continu- 
ously for eight years. He has also been identified with the Indiana Medical College, was 
elected vice-president of the board, and that position he holds at the present time. He is a 
member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State and Marion County 
Medical Societies, and has been president and treasurer of the last two societies. Dr. Wood- 
burn has also been a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders, although not an active 
member at present. In the year 1847 he was married to Miss Ann E. Cravens at Madison, 
Ind. She was a native of Orange County, Ind., and the daughter of Benjamin H. and Mar- 
garet (Moore) Cravens, both natives of the grand old State of Virginia. Four children were 
born to our subject and wife, but only one is now living. The Doctor and his estimable 
companion are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was formerly a Whig in 
politics, but upon the formation of the Republican party he advocated its policies, and has 
voted with that party ever since. 

Dr. Frederick C. Woodburn. The suliject of our sketch is a young man of much 
promise in his profession, being one who has had the most favorable opportunities for re- 
ceiving a thorough classical and professional education, and has availed himself of them to 
the utmost. The honors that have come to him are indeed well deserved and are but pre- 
ludes to higher and more distinguished stations that await him. Dr. Frederick C. Wood- 
burn was born at Indianapolis April 11, 1866. atid is the son of of Dr. James H. and Anna 
E. (Cravens) Woodburn. He was reared in this city, was educated in the common and high 
schools and Butler University, and afterward graduated from the classical department of 
Racine (Wis.), College, in June, 1885, when but nineteen years old. Without losing a mo- 
ment's time he began the study of medicine in the office of his father, an eminent practi- 
tioner of Indianapolis, entered the Medical College of Indiana and graduated at the age of 
twenty-one. He began the general practice and in the following year took a post graduate 
course in the New York Medical Post Graduate School. From January, 1889, to January, 
1891, he was superintendent of the Indianajiolis City Dispensary, and from 1888 to 1891 he 
was physician to the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum. At the present time he is consulting 
physician on diseases of tjie chest at the City Dispensary and assistant to the chair of ob- 
stetrics in the Indiana Medical College. For two years he has been Chairman of the com- 
mittee of arrangements of the Indiana Medical Society, and in 1892 he held the same posi 
tion in the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, of which Association he is now secretary. 
In 1888-9 he was treasurer of the Marion County Medical Society and in 1891 was assistant 
secretary of the same body. He is now secretary of this society. Dr. Woodburn is a member 
of the American Medical Association, of the Mitchell District Association, the Mississippi Val 
ley Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Marion County Medical 
Society. He was married May 29, 1889, to Miss Grace D. Gilbert, a native of Buffalo, N. Y., 
and daughter of Rev. James E. and Sarah (Thompson) Gilbert, also natives of New Y'ork. 



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Dr. and Mrs. Woodhnrn iire the parents of one child, James H. T\\^y are members of the 
(Ii^iilral Avenue Jleihodist Episcopal Church and are very popular iu that Inri^e and inlluen- 
tial liody. While the Doctor does not take a very active part in politics he lias very decided 
view,s and is hearty in iiis subscription to the i)rinciples of the Republican paitv, the candi- 
dates of wiiich he always supjiorts, Dr. Woodburti is a studious and investigating' piiysician, 
earnest in his convictions and strong in his faith in the virtue of medical association, and 
interchange of views and relation of experiences. He is a man of the most agreeable man- 
ners, jileasiint and gifted in conversation, .sympathetic and generous; in fact he combines 
(jualities that eminently lit him for a practitioner, while his earnest investigations and care- 
ful weighing of subjects tit him for the position of instructor of others. His career has 
been rapidly upward, but all the distinction he has received is deserved and he has tilled 
every position to which he has been called with distinguished al)ility. His accjuaintance is 
a large one, not only in the city, but, especially with the profession, extends throughout the 
Slate and lie has ardent friends in various parts of the country. 

Hexuv H. Beville. This well-known real estate man enjoys distinction as a soldier, 
a citizen, a business man and an inventor. He was born in Monroe County, Ky., Mav 1, 
lS-l(i. His paternal grandfather, Howell C. Beville. was a native of Guilford County, N.'c.i 
born about 1 <7(). His parents came to America from Paris, France, for that was their native 
land. He received a liberal education, and was a school teacher for several years in North (Jar- 
oliua. While yet (piite a young man, he removed to Virginia, and settled on a farm near 
Abingdon, Washington County, and there he married Sarah Fulks, of Welch descent, who was 
born near Culpeper Court House, Va. He served as ensign of a company in the United States 
army in the War of 1S12. Some years later the family removed to Kentucky and located 
on the Cuml)erland River, in Monroe County, where Hjwell C. Beville becanie a successful 
planter. He served the county as coroner and was otherwise })rominent as a citizen, and 
died in ISti'J on his old home farm. His wife survived him about three years, and she died 
at the home of her daughter, in Warren Couuty, Ky. Of the children of Howell C. and 
Sar;in (Fulks) Beville, Granville H. Beville, father of Henry H. Beville, was born at Abin^r. 
dou, Washington County, Va.. April 2'2, 1820. He removed to Kentucky with his fatherV 
family, but returned later to bis native State, where, iu 1S44, he married Susan Crowell, 
also a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Henrv and Elizabeth (Youn-'l Crc.well, the 
former a native of Germany, the latter a native of London, England. Afte7 his marriage 
he returned with his wife to Kentucky and assumed the management of his fathers iilant"!- 
tation. which he purchased a few years later. There he lived until 1S60, when the family 
moved to Indiana and settled in Hancock County. The period of the war draws near and 
il was a most important period in the life of Mr. Beville. His father. Granville H. Beville 
late in the struggle, enlisted in Company E, Eighth Indiana Volunteers, and died in hos- 
pital at SI. Louis, September 28, LSr,,-), from effects of disease contracted in the service 
.\s for himself, he had accompanied the family to Indiana and had been fairly educated in 
the put) ic schools. At the beginning of the war he was too young to enter the service, but 
111 March lSb4 (he was eighteen in May following), he enlisted in Company K. One Hun 
dre.l and 1 hirty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and served until di.-char.'ed.'Sej.tember '^S 
following. He was with his regiment in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabaina, and was most of 
(he time stationed at Decatur, Ala. . on guard duty. He particij.ated in the remarkable 
engagemen at Athens, which resulted in the capture of about 7.00(1 of Forrest's men. 
Ihrougi, all this service he passed without the slightest injury, but it is a remarkable fact 
in this connection that, four days after his return home an old musket exploded as he was 
liring It and Its tube and breech-pin were blown into his right eye and against his forehead, 
wounding him so severely that he lost the sight of that eve totally. The lirst year after the 
war Mr. Beville spent on the farm. Then going to Indianapolis", he found employment for 
a few jnonths in Smith A: t)sgood-s spoke factory. During the winter of 18(5(1-67 he trav- 
e ed through Illinois aiul Iowa, in the interest of tire insurance. In the sprint of 18(57 
at the solid ation of his widowed mother, he returned home and assumed control of the 
farin, September 2S ollowing, he married Nancy P. Mullis. a native of Fave.te County, 
lid. and daughter of Ambrose and Mary (Tullis) Mullis. the former a native of Tennessee. 
tUe latter reared near Cincinnati, Ohio. Shortly after their marriage. IMr. and Mrs Beville 




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located at Clevelantl, Ind., and Mr. Seville entered the emplo_v of the company operating 
the Panhandle Kail road. The following spring they removed to Knightstown, Ind., and 
Mr. Beville engaged in the nursery business. Later he was in the meat trade at Carthage. 
Here a misfortune overtook him. Everything he possessed was swept away by fire. He 
then removed in turn to Dublin and Milton, and at the latter place established himself in a 
transfer business, which he continued successfully until 1870. At that time he became a 
traveler for an agricuHunil implement concern at Dublin, Ind.. and was thus employed for 
ten vears. meantime, in .1878, removing to IndiaDa))olis. While on the road he invented 
the "Iron Duke'' windmill. He secured a patent on it in 1880. and since that time has sold 
the right of sale for it in ten or twelve different States, and has realized therefrom about 
?20,000. It was in 1880, too, that Mr. Beville engaged in the real estate business, opening 
an office for that purpose in Indiana])olis. He has transacted about every kind of business 
properl}' falling to a real estate agent, but has made a specialty of buying and selling real 
property on his own account. A number of valual)le additions have been made to Indianap- 
olis liy him, among which may be mentioned the Englewood Addition, on East Washing- 
ton Street: Ragan Park, College Avenue and Fifteenth Street, and University Park, at 
Ervington, and he controls the greater portion of the property in North Indianapolis. 
Through Mr. Beville's supervision and executive ability he was largely instrumental in 
securing for the city such industries as the Dugdale & Co. tin can factory, D. E. Stone furni- 
ture company, J. B. Allfree & Co. milling machinery, American Canning Company, The 
Cerealine Manufacturing Company, etc., and he has within the last five years placed 
nearly 50ll families in homes which they Ijought on monthly payments. Mr. Beville is 
justly popular in both business and social circles. He is a member of the G. A. R., is a 
Scottish Rite Mason, a Red Man. a K. P., and for a number of years was master of 
exchequer of his lodge and is a member also of the Uniformed Rank of the order. He and 
his family are members of tlie Third Christian Church of Indianapolis. His children are 
three in numlier: Burton L.. Henry M. and Erial C. Three others. Bes.sie S., Moneriel. 
and Effie are deceased, Bessie S. having been called from life at the age of seventeen, just 
on the threshold of a prosperous and happy young womanhood. Mr. Beville's mother is 
still living in Hamilton County, Ind. Brief as is this sketch, it is yet sufficient to indicate 
the sterling fjuality of Mr. Beville's character. He has always been a busy man, and though 
dark misfortune has surrounded him at times, he has been a successful man, as the world 
goes, and is regarded as a most useful andpublic-spirited citizen. 

M.V.I. J.\MES L. Mitchell. The subject of our sketch is a distinguished member of the 
Indiana|)olis bar and an ex-soldier of the late war. who made a record for himself as a 
brave and patriotic, as well as a faithful officer. Maj. Mitchell comes of a family that for 
generations has been composed of worthy and good people, true to their country and to 
themselves. He was born in Shelby County. Ky.. September 29, 1834, being the son of 
Pleasant L. D. and Mary A. (Ketcham) Mitchell, natives of Kentucky and of old Virginia 
st03k. Thomas Mitchell, the grandfather of our subject, served as chaplain to Gen. Payne's 
l)rigade in the War of 1812. The maternal grandfather, John Ketcham, was a famous 
Indian fighter and had many narrow escapes, and was a terror to the red men; his part in 
the Black Hawk W'ar l^eing an active and helpful one. He moved to Indiana at an early 
date and entered a large tract of laud. The father of our subject moved from Kentucky 
about 1840, coming in wagons, and located upon a fine tract of land in Monroe county. Ind. 
He died in 1883, while the mother is living at the age of eighty-one. James L. Mitchell 
was the eldest of a family of eight children. He received a liberal education. After a 
course iu the common schools, at the age of seventeen, he entered the University of the State 
of Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1858. Then he entered the junior class of the 
department of law in the university and, after remaining a year, entered the office of 
Ketcham & Coffin, where he read law for a year, was admitted to practice, and at once 
formed a partnershi|) with his uncle, John L. Ketcham. which continued until 18(')2, when 
he was commissioned adjutant of the Seventieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 
ex-President Harrison's regiment. Maj. Mitchell took part in all the battles of the Atlanta 
campaign, and at the battle of Peach Tree Creek had his horse shot under him. but be 
escaped injury. He was mustered out in ISO') and at once resumed the practice of law with 



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hiH former partner. In 1S73 he was electetl mayor of Indianapolis, he being ttie first Demo 
crat to be elected to that position, and the only candidate on his ticket at that time who was 
elected. This office was held by him for two years, its onerous duties being discharged to 
the I'eneral satisfaction of the public. The suffrage of the voters of the Nineteenth Judicial 
Circuit, composed of Marion and Hendricks Counties, made him prosecuting attorney of the 
circuit, a position he filled so satisfactorily that he was, after serving two years, re elected in 
1.S8S, serving out this term also, or four years in all. In 1883 he was elected by the mem- 
bers of the State Board of Education one of the trustees of the State University, which office 
he has filled ever since, ifr. Mitchell enjoys a decided popularity throughout Marion 
County, and indeed throughout the State. He is a most astute and learned lawyer, and an 
oratorand pleader of eminent and persuasive force. October 4, IStU, in New Albany, Ind., 
while on a leave of absence from the army, he was married to Miss Clara E Carter. One 
child, James L., Jr., being the fruit of this union. His son is now associated with him in 
the practice, under the firm name of Mitchell & Mitchell. Mitchell, Jr. is a graduate of the 
literary department of the State University and the law department of Michigan Uui- 
versitv. The young man is possessed of a very bright and receptive mind and gives promise 
of a career of brilliancy and great success. Maj. Mitchell is a member of the Masonic order, 
of George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, G. A. R., and of the Phi Delta Theta, a Greek fraternity, 
of which ex-President Harrison and Vice-President Stevenson are members. 

Ajios W. P.vttehson, M. D. The atmosphere of Indianapolis is conducive to a cultured, 
refined, learned and progressive body of physicians, the spirit of the people being in harmony 
with the aspirations of the constituent members of the profession after the highest possible 
attainments in the noble science of healing. There is no place here for the ignorant, the 
illiterate, or the charlatan, and if any such by chance come this way, they speedily discover 
that the sick — and they that have imaginary ills, even — have been taught to despise those 
who have not wisilom and under-itanding. In no city of the land is there such an all-per- 
vading sentiment of grasping after the highest and the best as exists among the medical men 
of this city; and no other can show so large a number, proportionately, of really learned and 
progressive practitioners. In this number of urbane and skilled physicians of Indianapolis 
is Dr. Amos W. Patterson, a native of Washington, Davies County, Ind., who was born 
October 17, 1839. His father. Rev. William J. Patterson, was a native of Washington, Pa., 
where he was reared and educated, and afterward accompanied his parents to Ohio. When 
a very young man he began to study for the ministry, attending the Northwestern Seminary 
at Hanover, and now located at Chicago. He liecame a Presbyterian clergyman, and was 
the pastor of the l^irst Presljyterian Church at Brookville, Ind., holding this pastorate until 
his death in lS-f4, he l)eing the organizer of that church and its first pastor. He married 
Jane Butler, a native of Brookville, and a daughter of Amos Butler, a pioneer of that county, 
and who laid out that town. Our subject was an only son, and was educated at Hanover 
('ollege, from which he graduated in 1863. During the war our subject was connected with 
the examining surgeon's office at Indianapolis, and was for two years in old St. John's hos- 
pitaj at Cincinnati. Dr. Patterson l)egan to cairy out a long cherished purpose in 1863, 
when he entered upon the study of medicine under Doctors Parvin and Fletcher at Indianap- 
olis, afterward entering the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, from which he graduated 
in 18(36. His entry into the practice was in Bartholomew County, Ind., where he jiracticed 
for a year, and then went to Indianapolis, which has always been the Mecca of ambitious 
and able young physicians, who rejoice to get within the circle of learning and knowledge 
that is found here. Ever since his coming he has carried on the general practice, and is 
recognized as a physician of great al)ility, having proved himself one of the most successful 
practitioners of the city. During a period of three years Dr. Patterson was on the city 
hospital staff, and at all times he has been identified with the leading thought and practice 
of the city. The doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Indiana 
State and the Marion County Medical societies, in all of which honorable bodies his merits 
are recognized and ai^preciated. He was married June 11, 1S7S, to Theodora Kiefer, a 
native of Miamisburg, Ohio, and one child, Ruth, is the fruit of this happy union. The Doctor 
while not taking a very active part in politics is in full sympathy with the Republican party, 
and supports its candidates. Possessed of gentle manners, sympathetic, generous and 



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suave, the Doctor has hosts of attached friends, who esteem him for his winning qiialities as 
a m;in, and admire him because of his attainments and skill in his profession. 

William L. Heiskell, D.D. S. The profession of dentistry has made the most marked 
progress in the past quarter of a century and a leading practicing dentist is able to pre- 
serve the teeth of persons indeiiuitely if they will place themselves in his charge and carry 
out his instructions; and his skill is such that he can rejilace those that are lost with such 
coLisuramate art that it is not possible to detect the counterfeit, while his operations in the 
matter of tilling, capping, etc., indicate the most advanced practical knowledge. In the 
iiniuber of expert and eminent dentists of Indianapolis is Dr. William L. Heiskell, who was 
bornat Jeffeisonville.ClarkCounty.Ind.. September 28,1845. His father,a uativeof Virginia, 
having been for many years a prosperous merchant of Jeffersonville, was at one time a di- 
rector of the Southern Prison and also served as city treasurer. He married Margaret Rne, 
a native of Ohio, by whom he had five children. Robert S. Heiskell, the father of our sub 
ject, died April 23, 1892. in Indianapolis, where he had lived for many years as the State 
agent for the Masonic Mutual Insurance Company, he having been a very prominent Mason, 
a thirty-second degree member, and also a member of the Grand Lodge of the State. His 
wife survives him. residing at Indianapolis. Our subject was reared at Jeffersonville, where 
he received his education in the pulilic schools and in a private academy. Coming to Indian- 
apolis in 18(33 Dr. Heiskell began the study of dentistry with Dr. P. G. 0. Hunt, in the 
rooms iiow occupied by himself. After two years he purchased an interest in the business 
and became a partner of Dr. Hunt, this connection lasting for two years, since which time 
Dr. Heiskell has been in business alone. In the last year of the war Dr. Heiskell enlisted 
in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in as a 
private and being discharged as an orderly sergeant. The Doctor returned to Indianapolis 
directly after the war, resumed the practice and has continued it ever since, having built up 
a very large practice and realizing a very handsome income from it. In the year 187'J Dr. 
Heiskell assisted in the organization of the Indiana Dental College, was elected its first 
president and continued such for a period of ten years; is now its vice-president and is 
chairman of its executive board. In the year 1883 the honorary degree of D.D. S. was 
conferred upon him by the college. The Doctor has been a member of the Indiana Dental 
Association for the past twenty-nine years and has served as president of that body. Ex- 
cept for the year that he was in the army. Dr. Heiskell has practiced continuously in the 
city ever since he located here; he enjoys a most lucrative practice and ranks among the 
leading dentists of the city. He is a member of Geo. H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., and is 
a trusted and honorable associate of that jiatriotic l)ody. The Doctor is especially known 
in Knights of Pythias circles, there probably being no man connected with that organi- 
zatiop in the United States who is more widely and favorably known than he. He has 
passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodge and the gi-and lodge of Indiana, 
served live years as grand instructor of the order for the State of Indiana, is at present 
supreme representative and grand instructor for the State, and is colonel of the First 
Regiment, Indiana Brigaile, of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias. The Doctor is an 
enthusiast in matters connected with the order, and has probably done more than any other 
man in Indiana to )iromote the interests of the organization and to give it its great distinc- 
tion in the State and its prominence with the order throughout the country. The Doctor 
has a very happy home, being blessed with a charming wife and a most interesting family 
of children. He was married December 29, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth J. Wilkins, a native 
of Indianapolis, and a daughter of John and Eleanor (Brouse)Wilkins. of Ohio. Dr. and 
Mrs. Heiskell are the parents of three children, namely; Walter W. , Arthur R. and Frank W. 
Heiskell. The Doctor and his family are members of the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and he has been leader of the choir in that body for the past twenty years. 
Despite the arduous duties of his jirofessiou, he finds time to give to political matters 
and is a warm and enthusiastic adherent to the fortunes of the Republican |)arty, the 
teachings of which he is earnestly persuaded will be.st advance the material interests of the 
country. Personally the Doctor is a very popular man, his manners being pleasant and 
agreeable and his nature being sympathetic and his disposition being lively. 

Hon. John Schley. This prominent citizen of Indianapolis has served his fellow citizens 



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89 soldier and legislator and lias long been one of the most steadfast and effective friends of 
or.'anizpd labor in the State. His careor has boen a busy and an houoral)le one. la every 
position to which he has bi-en called hi' has ac<iuittt>d himself with credit and to the extent 
of his ability has I'lihanced tlio weal of Imfianapolis, of ]\Iarioii (bounty an<l of Indiana. So 
tiniot and unassuming as scarcely to put forth a claim im his own behalf, he is yet recog- 
nized as one deserving mucli of the public because of tiie effectiveness of his services for the 
public good. The following all too brief, simple and direct statement of the essential facts 
ill his life will be found most interesting, and it is penned with the consciousness that it 
forms one of the most edifying personal histories in this large book. John Schley was l)orn 
at Frederick, Md., .Viigust 23. 1838, his father and mother having !)een natives of that State. 
His family connections are very large and embrace many prominent personages. His 
mother was a near relative of Edgar Allen Poe. His father was for many years an influen- 
tial politician and citizen of Maryland. Mr. Schley is a first cousin of Commodore W. S. 
Schley, I'nited States Navy, who was in command of the Greeley relief expedition and 
commanded the cruiser " Baltimore "" in the (Jhiliar, affair in 18U1. Mr. Schley received a 
collegiate education and then learned the printer's trade. He came to Indianapolis July 17, 
18r>6, and has resided in that city continuously since. His first employment here was as a 
compositor in the Sentiinl office and he was employed there at the outbreak of the Rebellion. 
.\t the first call for troops he enlisted as a private in (\mi|)any A (the old City Grays), Elev- 
enth Indiana, ^faj. (len. U. S. Foster being the then captain of said company. At the 
expiration of three months" service he returned to Indianapolis and soon thereafter received 
a commission as second lieutenant in the Fourth ^Maryland Volunteer Infantry, his brother, 
Col. William Louis Schley, being the superintendent of recruiting for the Fnion army in 
that State, subsequently serving as first lieutenant and adjutant and being finally promoted 
to a captaincy, with which rank he was mustered out of the service at the close of the war. 
Capt. Schley was wounded three times while in the service. His first wound, received at the 
battle of Spottsylvania, Jlay 8. 1803, was a severe longitudinal fractnre of the left thigh 
bone, caused by a six pound solid shot during a charge ujion a battery of the Confederates. 
His other wounds were of a minor nature and were received at the battle of Hatcher's Run, 
on February (), in the following year. Capt. Schley was in all the important engagements 
of Grant's l{iclunon<l campaign from the crossing of the Ra|ipaliai\nock to the surrender at 
.\ppomattox, of which historic event he was a witness. After the war he resumed work as a 
compositor on the Sriitiiicl. and at different times served in the cajiacity of night and com- 
mercial editor of that paper and as foreman of it.s mechanical department. He has always 
been a Democrat in ))olitics and as unswerving in his loyalty to that party as he was to his 
country during the Rebellion. He has always been closely identified with organized labor 
and has now been a member of Typographical Union No. 1 for thirty seven years, coutinu- 
ously. For two years he was president of the State Trades .\ssembly. and in 1881 his 
union honored him with an election as delegate to the International Ihiion. which met in 
Toronto, Canada. Hi-re he was elected as corresponding secretary of th;\t body and served 
one term. He had also, twenty years before, in 1801. been honored with a similar election 
by his craftsmen and attended the session of the National Typographical I'nion. which met 
at Nashville. Tenn., that year. In 1875 he was appointed a deputy county clerk and served 
three years in Room 1, Superior Court. In 1878 the Reimblieans carried the county and 
Capt. Schley was removed. During the campaign of 1880 he was seeret.-iry of the Demo- 
cratic County Central Committee. In 1881 he was nominated by the Democratic City Con- 
vention as its candidate for city clerk, and though, with the rest of his ticket, defeated, he 
succeeded in materially reducing the Republican majority. In 1884 lie was elected a rep- 
re.sentative from INfarion County in the State Legislature and introduced the bill which is 
now the law goveming Building and Loan Associations in this State. He was re elected a 
representative in 1886 and declined a renomination in 1888. In 1886 he was again 
appointed a deputy county clerk and is still serving as such in the Circuit Court. Capt. 
Schley has been secretary of Prospect Saving and Loan Association, one of the most success- 
ful in Indianapolis, for the past nine years. In 1867 Capt. Schley was married to Miss 
Emily Isabella Smith, a daughter of the late Hon. Isaac Smith, who also served as repre- 
sentative from Marion County in the Legislature and was one of the secretaries of the State 



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Constitutional Convention of 1.S52. One of bar brothers is Capt. Oak M. Smith, United 
States Army, now on iluty at New Orleans. Mrs. Sohley is a lineal descendant of Josiah 
Bartlett, one of tlie signers of the Declaration of Independence. There were four children 
born to this marriage — two sons and two daTighters. Tiie sons are both dead, the elder one, 
Naval Cadet O. S. Schley, was killed in 1886, while on his summer cruise with his class from 
the Naval Academy at Annapolis by falling from the mast of the practice ship, Constellation, 
liis l)()dy l)eing lost at sea. He was then a young man of eighteen years. The other son 
died when but sixteen months old. The daughters are now young ladies, at home with their 
[)arents. Capt. Schley has been more or less prominently identified with numerous impor- 
tant enterprises and movements not mentioned above, always generously and helpfully and 
to the benefit of his fellow citizens. A more unostentatious or a more valuable citizen it 
would be hard to name, or one who possesses in a higher degree the esteem of the public, 
politics not considered. His life, while successful, has not been without its struggles, bat 
he entertains bitterness toward no man; while it has been blessed above the measure 
accorded to many others, it has also been darkened by affliction, but he never looks upon the 
"bitter side," believing that which the future contains is well ordered and is therefore good. 
He bus achieved his successes through labor and by strictly honorable metliods and they are 
therefore the more estimable. 

J. H. Webster. There is nothing more imjjortant to the welfare of a city or more 
effective in the preservation of property as well as life, than a well equipped and conducted 
lire department, and the man who successfully fills the position of chief must possess keen 
foresight, unbounded energy, and must be ever alert and ready to respond to the calls upon 
his services. All these attributes are possessed in a marked degree by J. H. Webster, who 
is chief of the tire department of Indianapolis. He owes his nativity to Phelps, Ontario 
County, N. Y., being born on March 2\, 1S33, to Chester and Phoel)e (Piukham) Webster, 
natives of Litchfield, Conn. Chester Webster had the honor of serving his country in 
the War of 1S12. in which struggle he rendered effective service, and while following the 
duties of a civilian he conducted a boot and shoe business, to wiiich his attention was devoted 
for many years in Troy, N. Y. In the latter part of his life he purchased a farm in Ontario 
County, N. Y., on which his declining years were spent surrounded by all that goes to make 
life comfortable and enjoyable. To his marriage a family of nine children were given, five 
of whom survive. The life of J. H. Webster, from the time of his birth up to the age of 
twenty-one years, was spent in his native county in assisting in the usual duties of farm life 
and in attending the common schools- near his rural home, where he received the major ])art 
of his literary education. After attaining his majority he decided to sever home ties and 
anticipating the advice of Horace Greeley he decided to "go West and grow up with the 
country," and in Circleville, Ohio, he had his first experience in fighting the battle of life for 
himself. After clerking in a hotel for a brief period he became a salesman in a wholesale 
furniture e8tal)lishment where he remained for a few years after which he returned East but 
again turned his face westward in 185.") and this time made his way to Indianapolis, Ind., 
and finally to Danville, of the same State. In the latter place he found employment in the 
woolen mills belonging to Roger Foster and while thus employed wooed and won for his 
wife tlie daughter of his employer, Frances E. P'oster, in 1857. One year later he came with 
his wife to Indianapolis and for a few years was employed in the Hub and Last Factory. 
On March 31, 18t50, he became a member of the fire department of the city and had the man 
agement of the first steam fire engine that was ever brought to the place. His marked ability, 
zeal and promptness .soon brought him into prominent notice and the city government soon 
manifested its knowledge of his fitness for the position and its desire for the welfare of the 
community by making him chief of the department. To the discharge of the many duties of 
this position he lias devoted his time and energies u}) to the present time with the exception 
of two years when he conducted a livery stable. He is now the oldest employe of the fire 
department of the city and many times during this honorable career the people of Indian- 
apolis have had occasion to congratulate themselves on the efficiency, promptness and intelli- 
gence shown l)y Chief Webster in subduing confiagrations with but little loss to life and prop- 
erty. Mr. Webster has been married twice, his second marriage being celebrated in 1886, 
to Miss Mary McGilvery, by whom he has two children: Daisy C. and Rufus E. His first wife 



44 yfKMOIliS OF IXDTANAPOLIS 

Ixiio Inni a ilHiii;lil«>r. Kiimiio (J., wlio is (lu> wife of John Fnllor. Mr. Webster is a member 
of llie Masonic aiul liul(>|i(MuU>iit Or.ler of Dild Fi'llow fiiitoniitios, ami politicallv has always 
sii|>|ioi'l(<(l 111!' iiH'aMUes of (lie lu>|>iililicaii party. 

KiiKiiKuii'K \V. C'aiiv. Tiu' .Vinoi'iiMii bar olTi'is llie lini'st oppoil unit ii's for preferiuent 
of any country upon tlio face of liic earth, its nuinlicrs bciii^' pri\ il('f,'t'(l, if the tah'nt is not 
waulin;,', to attain not i>nly tiie "greatest ilistinrtion in tiie profession, but it is the easit<st way 
of approach to tlie hi;;hest olVicial phices in the huul. Wiiat is more, the Anierioan bur can 
show an array of eminent tah<ul, of profoinul erudition and of judicial ability etjual to that 
of Ku>;land, France or (leriuany. The Indianapolis bar has durinij tlio past half century 
been ijrently distin^^nisheil for tlie learning and talent of its members, who know no sneh 
wont as fail when pitted a;j;ainst lawyers from other cities. A very bri-jht and most promis- 
inj» younjj; attorney of this city is the subject of our sketch. Frederick \V. t'ady, who thus 
early in his careiM- has won victories at the bar that would have reflected credit upon its 
oldest nuMubers. He is senior nieniber of the lirm of Cady iV: I'ady. with otVici's at S.§ North 
Pennsylvania Street, and was born in Wiiulsor I'ounly, Vt., July "_':!, ISlU, beiii>; the son of 
John \V. and .Mary .V. ^Iieavens^ t'ady, natives of the tireen Mountain State, and is of 
Scotch Kn>;lish descent. The Cady fan\ily were pioneers in the State of Connecticut, after- 
ward settliiifj in Vermont. Steplien P. Cndy, the j^randfather of our subject, was a farmer 
and stockraiser of Vermont, who spent his days in that Stale. The maternal i;jrandfather, 
Hon. l)rani;t> Leavens, was a farmer of the t\iniiecticut River valley, who amassed a com- 
fortalilc fortune and was. latei' in life, a member of the lieneral Assembly and of the Senate 
of his Stati> for several sessions. distin>^uishin>; himself therein by his great force of char- 
acter, ipiick perception, and his lar>je resources of common sense. A man of <^reat promi- 
nence, he was especially identilied with the interests of the town of his home, holdinjj the 
most important positions in the tiovernment thereof for many years, and contributin>; greatly 
to its improven\ent. He died in West Windsor, the town of his birth and life-lonjj home in 
the year 1SS4, at the as»<> of ei>;hty four years. The father of onr subject is a pros]ierous 
and industrious farmer of the town of West Windsor, Yt.. and has been for a lon^ time a 
memlier of tlie board i>f that town, a position which he tills with great fairness and ability. 
Ouriiiij the late war he served in Company A. Twelfth Vermont Volunteer Infantry. Unto 
him and Mrs. Cady have been born three children, namely: Frederick W.. Daniel L. and 
Mary Iv The suliject of our sketch was reared in the county i>f Windsor, where he passed 
through the jmblic sc1uh>1s. graduating from the high si'hool at Windsor and from the famous 
Kiml>all liiion Academy, at Meriden. N. H. . immediately following which he entered the 
law ortice of flie Hon. (lilberl .\. Davis, of Windsor, as a student, remaining from Septem- 
ber. ISSo, until October 'Jo, ISSS, when be was admitted to the bar of the State of Ver- 
mont after a four days' examination as a member of a class of twenty three, being one of 
the three successful applicants for admission from the entire class, passing the most satis- 
factory e\aminatioii and receiving the highest mark of proficiency ever accorded to any law 
stud»vnt in the history of the State of Vermont up to that lime. Directly after passing this 
brilliant examination he was elected assistant secretary of the Senate of the State of Ver 
mont. session of ISSS. serving through the term, when he returned to the otiice of Mr. 
Davis, continuing with him until January 1, IS1H\ at which time he removed to Indian- 
apolis. Previous to settling here, however, he made a careful investigation into the op- 
portunities olTered for successful practice in the various States of the Union and his loca- 
tion here was the result of deliberate purpose and not a merv haphazard adventure. With 
his bn^ther, Daniel, he came to Indianapolis an entire stranger and the two formed a partner- 
ship and opened anoflice in Wright's block, on East Jlarket Street. In November. ISW, he 
was apjHiinted a deputy prosecuting attorney of Marion County, by Prosecuting Attorney 
John W. Holt/man, continuing as such officer until Noveml^er, 1S02, when he resigned said 
otiice to accept the office of deputy city attorney of Indianapolis, to which he was appointivl 
by Hon. Leon O. Bailey, city attorney. Entering upon the discharge of the duties iniposed 
by this otiice in June. IS'.fJ, he held "the same until Januarv L IS^tS. gvnng out with Mr. 
Bailey, who resigneil the otiice of city attorney at that time. Mr. Cady is one of the bright- 
est young membei-s of the Indiana^xilis bar. bringing to the profession a most intimate 
knowledge of law together with the qualities of pleader and advocate in a high degree of 



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excellonce. During liiH three years of practice in thin city lie lia-i heeu identitied with a 
number of very iraj)ortant cases, iiinorij^ which was the trial of Lillie Stevens, for the 
murder of Margaret Koss, who was defended \>y iiirn witii signal success and afijnitted 
-upon the theory of " insanity ;" and the trial of Philander Jester, in the United States 
District Court at Indianapolis, indicted for counterfeiting, whose defense was conducted by 
Mr. Cady with great tact and ability, resulting in the prompt acjuittal of Jester. Mr. 
Cady has, with his [jartner, prosecuted many important damage suits, recovering large 
verdicts therein. tJur subject was married August '20, IHOl, (o Miss Jessie Shedd, a highly 
accomplished young lady of Windsor, Vt., the daughter of Hon. Edwin K. Shedd, a lead 
ing citizen and prcjuiiiient Democrat of Vermont. lieturning to Indianafiolis, Mr. and Mrs. 
Cady have resided in Woodruff J'lace, a suburb of the city, where they have an exceedingly 
pleasant home. 'J'liis uuiou has licen Ijlessed by the birth of a son, on July 24, 1898, who 
bears the family name Leavens. While devoted to his profession, which he pursues unre- 
mittingly, Mr. Cady finds time for the cultivation of a taste for jjolitics which he has. The 
principles and teachings of Thomas Jelferson are in full harmony with his own views, and 
he gives an unqualified support to his party's candidates. 

Patkick HF.Nity Jameson. M. D., was born in Monroe Township, Jefferson County, Ind., 
April 18, 1824. As a boy he was delicate and rather jjrecocious. Early in his teens 
he had ac()uired the onlinary. so calle<l, English education. Subsetjuently, partly by the 
aid of a private instructor, but UKjstly iiy his own efforts, he learned most of wliiit was con- 
tained in the prevailing text books of algebra, plain geometry, mechanics, physics, y)0[)ular 
astronomy and mental f>hilosophy. He also acquired a very limited acquaintance with the 
Greek and Latin t.jngaes. His father was of Scotch-Irish, and his mother of English de- 
scent; both were born and reared in' Virginia and were, for the times, and for peofile in their 
circumstances, more than ordinarily intelligent. Aside from their secular employments they 
were much devoted to religion. His father was a thrifty well -to do farmer. When he was 
sixteen years old he lost his mother, and two years later his father died, leaving him for the 
future to his own guidance. .Soon after, in September, 184M, he came to Indianapolis, 
where he subsequently taught school for several years. While thus engaged he began the 
study of medicine with the late Dr. John H. Samlers. He first attended the Medical Col- 
lege of the University of Louisville, and the following year he attended Jefferson Medical 
College of Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1849, his diploma bearing the signatures of 
some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons then living. He immediately liegan |irac- 
tice in Indianapolis, in partnershi[> with his former preceptor. Dr. Sanders. Early in April 
of the following year. Dr. Sanders died, leaving his young associate to hold, if he could, the verv 
considerable business of the late firm. J'his was certairdy a very critical era in the life of so 
young a professional man; but by the aid of his friends and patrons, and his own efforts, he 
80 well succeeded that during the secon<l year of his practice he did alone more business 
than the tirni hail dorie the previous year. He thus early, possibly too early, was settled in a 
largo and somewhat lucrative business. This he has since, for more than forty years, steadily 
maintained. It may be truly said of him that no man among all his confreres, living or dead, 
ever saw more patients, or prescribed more frequently than he. He was the first, early in 
the fifties, to call the attention of the jirofession of Indianapolis to a pernicious and fatal 
form of ameinia affecting women in the latter stages of jjregnancy. An eminent rnedicral 
writer, acquainted with this fact, not long since, remarked that a publication of liis observa- 
tions at that time would have given him considerable notoriety, as it was not till some years 
after, that a first description of this disease was presented to the profession by a medical 
writer of Germany. He is one of the few surviving charter members of the Indiana State 
Medical Society, which was organized in May, 1849, and in early times he was one of its 
more active members. In 1857 he presented a report to this society on veratrum viride in 
typhoid and puerperal fevers, which was published in its proceedings, and republished, al- 
most entirely, in the ''American Journal of the .Medical Sciences." In 1840-o<) and 18.54 
he encountered Asiatic cholera which prevailed, to some extent, in Indianapolis. A wide 
spread and fatal epidemic of dysentery prevailed at this time of which a great many died. 
Among its victims were some of the most [irominent citizens of the county. In some instances 
nearly a whole family perished. Among his put^lished writings are the "Commissioners' 



40 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

Auuunl Reports for the Indiana Hospital for the Insane," from 1861 to 1879 inclusive. Like 
reports ot the '•Iiuliaua Iiistitntion for the Deaf ami Dumb," ami for the "Institute for the 
Blind,"' for the most of this time were also written by him. These reports were published 
by the State. He is the author of an address entitled, "Scientific Medicine in its relations 
with Quackery,"' which was published iu the Indiana MedicalJournal and extensively copied 
1)V other journals. Duriiifj most of his life he has been a frequent contributor to the local sec- 
ular ]>apers. generally anonymous, but occasionally over his own signature. In 1861 he was 
elected by the Legislature a Commissioner of the •"Indiana Hospital ft)r the Insane,"' for a term 
of four years; in bSC).") he was re-elected for a second term: iu 1869 was elected, i)y the same 
body, i)resident of the several boards of State "Benevolent Institutions," for the insane, the deaf 
aiul iluml) and the l)liud. He was subsequently twice re-elected to this important oflfice, each 
time for an additional term of four years. All the time from April 111, 1861, to March 1, 1866, 
he was a surgeon in the military service. He organized the first post hospital at Camp Morton ; 
assisted in starting the general hospital; was in charge of all unassigned troops in quarters in 
Indianapolis, and he established, and long had charge of, the post hospitals at Camp Car- 
ringlon and at EUin barracks. He was the ranking surgeon in charge of the Fort Donel- 
son prisoners, while they were confined in 1S6'2 at Camp Morton. No one ever complained 
of his treatment of these prisoners. From 1861 to 1869 he was physician ti) the "Indiana 
Institute for the Deaf and Dumb." From 1803 to 1869 he was a member of the Common 
Council of Indianapolis, aud took a leading part in its affairs. He was chairman of the 
"Committee on Revision of Ordinances," and as such made a complete revision of the city 
law,-*, which were then in great confusion. This revision was published, in book form, by 
the city, in 1865. From 1805 to 1S69 he was chairman of the Committee on Finances of 
the Council, a position involving much labor and responsibility. He found an empty treas- 
ury and the city badly in debt, doing its business on depreciated orders, twenty-tive per cent, 
below par. Notwithstanding that about .foOO.OOd had to be raised to relieve the city from 
draft, and to aiil the families of soldiers in the held, these orders were soon brought up to 
par. U|)on his retiring from the council. Ma)' 1, 1809, there were but ? 100, 000 of debt and 
■'?2(i0,OO0 iu the treasury: enough to pay the delit and leave a large balance for the expenses 
of the incoming year. He was also chairman of the board of police aud of the board of 
public printing. He also, in 1806, originated the plan set forth in an ordinance, which he 
presented, for the organization of the city hospital, under this plan, that institution has ever 
since been conducted. He also, in 1865, aided in preparing a law revising the city charter, 
and as affecting street improvements he procured the insertion of a clause assessing the cost 
of street crossings, against the abutting proi)erty, on the lines of the streets. This charter 
was passeil by the Legislature, but two years after, it was repealed, on other grounds, no 
objection being made on account of this provision. This excellent feature of that charter 
was lately re-enacted by the Legislature of 1893. The world moves slowly, but it moves. 
Associated by an act of the Legislature in 1873 with the late Gov. Hendricks, and certain 
other State officers, he was made ex officio a member of a provisional board for building a 
"Hospital for Insane Women" with a capacity for 900 patients which was to cost the State 
about §700,000. This board made him its treasurer and also a member of its Iniilding com- 
mittee, in which capacities he did the State much valuable service. During Dr. Jameson's 
long service as commissioner of the Hospital for the Insane, and subse<iuently as president 
of the boards, ho jjersistently urged, through his annual reports ami by personal solicitation, 
the need of better ])rovision for the insane of the State, and it was measurably owing to his 
influence and to his untiring eflorts, that the Legislature made ap])ropriations from time to 
time for the enlaigement and tinal com|)letion of this magnificent institutioti. When he be- 
came connected with the management of this asylum in 1861, its appointments were poor 
with a capacity for less than 300 patients. When he retired in 1879, there was room for 
1,400 patients, with every needed appliance. No mau in Indiana ever labored so long, or so 
effectively, as he for the help of the insane. In 1870 the expenditures and taxation of the 
city being unduly extravagant, he wrote a series of articles which appeared in the Indianap 
olis Evening News and which attracted much attention. He clearly demonstrate<l the feasi- 
bility of a large saving in the city's expenses. These communications aroused the i)nblie, 
aud led to a great reductiou of the tax levy for the incoming year. They also led to the 



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formatiou of a citizoiis" coniuiittee, of whicli \n> was cliainuau, to |)rocai'e Hiicb limitations, 
by au act of the Leifishtture, as shoukl. put it heyoml the power of councils and school 
boards, to levy taxes above a certain specified rate, nine-tenths of one per cent, for city pur- 
poses, and one-fifth of one per cent, for school purposes. This act also limited the amount 
of debt for cities to two per cent, of their taxables. This legislation was actively opposed 
by a gang of tax-eaters connected with the city Government, and with the school board, but 
notwithstanding this, the bill passed. Since that time a part of this act has been incorpor- 
ated in tlie constitution of the State. In this reform Dr. Jameson was the first to move, but 
he was suliseijuently greatly assisted by William H. English, Albert Ct. Porter and the other 
members of this committee. Neither the schools nor any of the city departments were worsted 
by this law, but they have grown l)etter. Dr. Jameson took au active part in the discussion 
of the natural gas question and his timely and stirring appeals through the press on this 
subject had much to do with the successful establishing of the Citizens' Gas Trust which 
has since furnished cheap and abundant fuel for the people of Indianapolis. He has been 
for thirty years or more a Director of Butler University; was the sole agent for the sale of 
its large real estate properties in Indianapolis and for the construction of its principal i)uild- 
ings at Irviugton. He was President of the Board of Directors of this institution from 1872 
to 1878. He is regarded as being well versed in all the branches of medicine. In bis earlier 
years, when s])ecialists were not to be had, he was coujpelled to treat all kinds of ailments, 
but more recently he has preferred the general practice, and has willingly consigned to spe- 
cialists such cases as pertain to their several branches, still he holds that the highest med- 
ical skill consists in the ability to treat a dangerous case of acute disease so as to give the 
patient the best chance for a speedy and perfect recovery. He has been most happy in his 
home life. In 1850 he was married to Miss Maria Butler, the daughter of the late Ovid 
Butler, a prominent lawyer and the founder of Butler University. This union remains un- 
l)roken. He has two living daughters, Mrs. John M. Judah, of Memphis, and Mrs. Orville 
Peckham, of Chicago, and one son, Oviil Butler Jameson, a well-known attorney of Indian- 
apolis. He continues in business more because of his active habits and temperament and the 
love of occupation, than of necessity, as he has long enjoyed a well-earned competence. He 
has never lost a day from liusiness on account of sickness. He is a man of sound mind and 
body, strong will and pronounced individuality. He is still active and for one of his years, 
very well preserved. In manner he is quiet and unobtrusive, and in bearing, kindly and 
agreeable. His standing as a physician is high, apart from which he is universally regarded 
as a useful and enterprising citizen. 

FiiANK Saak, Horist. A liking for flowers usually shows an jcsthetic and cultivated 
taste, but even the uneducated and those who live among the lowliest surroundings may 
consider a flower a "thing of beauty and a joy forever." This taste may l)e gratified both by 
the rich and poor and the washerwoman who labors at her tub for her daily bread may enjoy 
her pot of violets as much as the millionaire's wife who wanders among the costliest exotics 
in her spacious conservatory. The business of the florist is to supply the wants of all 
classes in this respect and in the establishment of Frank Saak at 124 St. Joseph Street, 
Indianapolis, may be found a stock of goods sufficient to supply the re(juireraent8 of all 
classes at the most reasonable figures. His house is the oldest of the kiiul in the city and 
was estal)lished by Henry Hilker many years ago, Imt some three years since Mr. Saak suc- 
ceeded him and has since conducted the business in a skillful and highly satisfactory man- 
ner. His estal)lishment is very advantageously located for it is the only one immediately in 
the heart of the city, and consequently has a large patronage from opera and theater goers. 
He has 8,000 feet under glass, heated by steam and hot water, and his green-house is 
adorned with some of the rarest and costliest flowers that can be had. He makes a specialty 
of cut flowers and his services are in great demand in decorating for banquets, balls and 
house parties. He has much artistic taste and excellent judgment for the "fitness of things" 
and when orders are left at his establishment n(j uneasiness is felt as to their non-fulfill- 
ment. He has been familiar with the details of the business ever since his ninth year, and 
when not attending school he was employed in various green-houses in the cities of New 
York, St. Louis and Indianapolis, in each of which places his parents resided for some time. 
He was in the emjiloy of others until 1890, when he decided to become an employer rather 



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than au employe and as above stated became the proprietor of his present establishment. 
His remarkable success has been the result of a desire to please, honest dealings with his 
patrons, and that he at all times studies their wants and wishes and endeavors to complj' 
with them. He is a young man of great push and energy and bids fair to become a wealthy 
citizen. Although a native of Germany, a country that has given to the United States many 
useful and substantial citizens, of whom Mr. Saak is not among the least, he has been a res- 
ident of this country ever since his eighth year, or since 187(). 

W. B. Flick. The American public schools are the safety of the Kepublic and notliing 
approaching them in extent, influence and cost of maintenance is to be found upon the face 
of the earth. This country is the only one wiiere the children of the poorest maj' receive a 
fair education free and where provision is made for sparsely settled sections as well as for 
those living in cities. Marion County is especially favored in having at the head of its 
schools a man of progressive ideas, of practical purpose, an organizer of great ability and a 
manager who rales efficiently yet so gently that the appearance of enforced system is with- 
held from the governed. W. B. Flick, the subject of this sketch, is pre eminently qualified 
for the position he holds, and during his administration, whatever its duration, the best pos- 
sible lesults may be sauguinely e>;|iected. He is a native of Brown County, Ohio, born June 
22, 1840, and the son of William K. , and Nancy (Ford) Flick, natives of Pennsylvania and 
of West Virginia, respectively, and af German extraction. Gen. Morgan, a distinguished 
officer of the rank named, in the Revolutionary War was a relative of our subject on his 
mother's side. The jiaternal grandfather, George W. Flick, was an early settler of Ohio, 
having settled there about the year 1830, traveling in wagons part of the way and floating 
down the Ohio Kiver in a flatboat for the remainder of the journey. He was a soldier in the 
Warof 1812. The father of our subject was a cabinet maker and followed that business in 
Brown County, where he also was postmaster, at Hamersville, for a period of thirty years; 
was also a township trustee for a nearly equal period of time. The father died in 1861 and 
the mother in 1868, having been the parents of four sons and two daughters, namely: Fer- 
nandes, Paulina, Martin Van Buren and William B., and two deceased, — Martha and John 
K. Martin and Fernandes were soldiers in the late war and proved themselves worthy and 
brave men. The subject of our sketch was reared in Brown County, in the town of Hamers- 
ville, receiving his earlier instruction there and at Georgetown, then known as Kings' 
Academy, graduating from the latter in 1859. Subsequently Mr. Flick began the study of 
medicine, after teaching school for some time, and then, in 1863, entered the service in the 
medical department. He remained at Camj) Denison several months before the regiment 
was ordered to the field; this being the Sixteenth Ohio, with which lie served until the fiill of 
1864, when it was sent home. X^pon his return Mr. Flick began teaching school in Marion 
County, his first charge being in Wayne township, in the winter of 1864. Then he moved 
to Lawrence township, wiiere he taught until 188(), when he was elected township trustee of 
that townshij), holding that office for four years. In 1885 he was elected Coiinty Superin- 
tendent of Schools and has tilled that position ever since, being reelected every time, unani- 
mously — the highest possible tribute to the worth and popularity of the man and officer. 
Mr. Flick is a member of the Masonic order, in which organization he takes much interest. 
Our 8ul)ject was married in 1805 to Miss Mary Hoover, a native of this county, and a most 
accomplished and ]>opular woman. She and her husband are consistent and active members 
of the German Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Flick is a Democrat having firm faith in 
the i)rinciples of that party; but he is a man who respects the ojiinions of those who differ 
from him. The lines of Mr. Flick have not always been cast in pleasant places. While he 
was Township Trustee the Indiana Banking Co., in which he had several thousand dollars of 
publi(! money on deposit,, failed, and although it took every dollar he possessed, in less than 
sixty days, he had reimbursed the township by restoring the amount lost. Such courage and 
fidelity to public trust liave made Mr. Flick many friends. 

Pliny Webster Bartholomew, Judge of [the Superior Court, was born August 4, 1840, 
at Cabotville, Mass. He is a son of the late Harris and Betsey Bartholomew. Soon after 
Plmy's birth his parents removed to Easthampton, Mass., where Harris Bartholomew be- 
came a leading merchant. In 1851 Harris Bartholomew was elected to the Massachusetts 
Legislature and represented the Hampshire district with signal ability. He afterward re- 



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moved to Northamptoo , Mush., hqcI carried ou a large mercantile business there. He was 
noted for his unswerving integrity throughout all his business life. In the panic of 1857 he 
failed in business and Pliny had to earn his own way. He became a clerk in a grocery 
store and meat market while yet a boy, and remained in this position for two years. In the 
meantime his father, Harris Bartholomew, had removed to Canton, N. Y., and Pliny fol- 
lowed him and clerked for him there in the dry goods business for about a year, when they 
removed to Herman, N. Y., where Pliuy attended school and finished his preparation for col- 
lege. In September, 18(51, Pliny entered Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. While in col- 
lege he supported himself by book canvassing in summer and teaching school in winter, and 
graduated in 1854 with the honors of his cla,ss, receiving the degree of A. B. Three years 
later his alma mater conferred the degree of A. M. on him. After leaving Union he read 
law with Judge I. S. L'Amoreaux at Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N. Y., and on exam- 
ination was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in May, 1865, at Schenectady. He 
practiced his profession at Ballston Spa until the fall of 1866, when he came to Indian- 
apolis. He has continuously resided in this city since that time, and up to the time of his 
elevation to the bench he enjoyed a large legal practice. January 30, 1873, he married Miss 
Sarah Belle Smith, daughter of the late George W. and Mary Smiih, of Crawfordsville, Ind. 
They have had born to them Belle Isadora, Pliny W., Jr. and Harris Shirley. Pliny W. , Jr. 
died when lour years old. Judge Bartholomew is a Past Chancellor in the Knights of 
Pythias, Past Grand Dictator in the Knights of Honor, and is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, member of the Commercial Club and other organizations. He was elected Judge 
of the Superior Court in 1890 on the Democratic ticket, receiving many Republican votes. 
He took his seat as Judge on October 28, 1892. Judge Bartholomew has long been known 
among his intimate friends and associates as a man of sterling character, his reputation for 
uprightness and integrity being of the highest. Modest in demeanor, coiirteous in manner, 
and quick to see and grasp the salient points in a case, he is a model judge. He has the 
judicial manner to a remarkable degree, and his urbanity on the bench is such that a young 
man appearing Ijefore him for the first time is made to feel perfectly at ease, and as if he 
had known the judge who is trying his case for years. In point of natural ability, sound 
judgment, and old-fashioned common sense, as well as in his knowledge of the law and the 
application of its soundest principles to a given case. Judge Bartholomew compares favor- 
ably with the ablest jurists who ever sat on the bench of the Marion Superior Court. It is to 
be hoped that he will be continued in his present position until his party thinks the time has 
come to promote him to the bench of the Appellate or Supreme Court. 

[We have received from one of the older members of the bar — a man who is himself opposed to 
the Judge iu polities —the foregoiug statement regarding Judge P. W. Bartholomew of the Jlariou Su- 
perior Court. It bears iuteraal evidence that it was prepared by one wlio Icnows Judge Bartholomew 
well, and who greatly admires him.] 

George J. Cook, M. D. One of the most prominent citizens of Indianapolis socially and 
politically is Dr. George J. Cook, who is even more eminent as a physician and surgeon, 
as a lecturer and demonstrator in medical colleges and as a special practitioner of great 
skill and reputation. This gentleman was born near Pittsburgh, Penn., February 12, 1844, a 
son of John and Mary (Kelso) Cook. His father was of Irish descent. His mother was a 
native of Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather fought gallantly for the cause of the 
colonists during the Revolutionary War. The father of Dr. Cook was a hard-working and 
successful farmer, and the younger years of the Doctor were passed on his father's farm and 
in acquiring such education as was afforded him in the public schools. At the age of nine- 
teen, having taken the prescribed course of reading, he became a student at the Kentucky 
School of Medicine at Louisville, and graduated therefrom with the degree of M. D. in 1S66. 
He entered upon the practice of his profession immediately thereafter in the Falls City, and 
remained there until 1882, during that time acquiring an enviable reputation as a skillful 
general practitioner. During the year mentioned he removed to Indianapolis, and devoted 
himself exclusively to the treatment of diseases of the rectum. While a resident of Louis- 
ville he was for seven years demonstrator of anatomy, and for three years professor of 
anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine. At the present time he is professor of gastro'- 
intestinal and rectal surgery in the Indiana Medical College. In 1889 Dr. Cook was presi- 



50 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

dent of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. He is a member of the Marion County 
Medical Association, of the Indiana State Medical Association and of the American Medical 
Association, and is consulting surgeon in cases of disease of the rectum in tlje Indianapolis 
City Hospital, and in the City Dispensary: and during the past year he has been secretary 
of the Department of Public Health and Charities of Indianapolis. He is a strong and un- 
swerving Democrat, politically, and has much influence in the city and county affairs. Jane 
29, 1892, Dr. Cook married Miss Ella Henderson, a native of Martinsville, Ind., and a 
daughter of Eb. and Ann Henderson, her father being prominent and active in State politics. 

Hon'. John K. Wilson. This popular citizen and official is a native of Cumberland 
C'ounty, Va., and a son of John E. Wilson, Sr., and Cornelia E. Wilson. On the paternal 
side he traces his ancestry through many generations of prominent Virginians, and on the 
maternal side is descended from and inherits many of the good qualities of those estimable 
French Huguenots who located in South Carolina and Virginia long before the Revolutionary 
War. His great-grandfather, Richard Wilson, was while quite young an officer in the Con- 
tinental army, and his grandfather, Daniel A. Wilson, was later senior member of the gov- 
eruor's council in Virginia, which made him eligible to succeed the governor after the manner 
of the lieutenant-governor of a later date. He was also a circuit judge for fifteen j'ears. 
His son, John U. Wilson, father of the immediate subject of this sketch, was for many years 
an active and successful lawyer of Cumberland County, Va., and one of the most respected 
citizens of that part of the State. Mr. Wilson's maternal grandfather was a lawyer of state 
reputation, a man of exalted character and profound learning. Mr. Wilson, after completing 
the course at the Hampden -Sidney Collegestudied law at the University of Virginia. After 
completing his legal and classical studies, he came to Indianapolis in the fall of 1873, and 
later entered into a partnership in the practice of the law with Hon. William E. English, 
since the representative of this district in Congress, which existed several years. Later he 
became a member of the firm of Duncan, Smith & W^ilson, and continued in that relation 
until elected clerk of the courts of Marion County. Meantime, however, in 1883 he was 
elected one of Marion County's representatives in the Legislature. Upon the organization 
of that body, in recognition uf his acknowledged talent, he was made a member of the Ways 
and Means and Judiciary Committees, the two most important legislative committees. His 
legislative experience proved of value to him, and indirectly led in 1888 to his nomination 
by the Democratic party as candidate for attorney general of Indiana. He and Judge Howk, 
candidate for the Sui)reme liench, led the State ticket, as he had led the legislative ticket in 
Marion County five years before; but the Democracy lost the State at that election. Two 
years later Indianapolis, Marion County, and indeed the entire country, were startled by the 
flight of County Clerk John E. Sullivan, in default for a large amount. The grave respon- 
sibility of selecting a successor to the office in whom the public could implicitly rely to bring 
order out of chaos in which all its affairs had been left and to restore it to the status of 
integrity, fell upon the county commissioners, who recognized in Mr. Wilson the most 
available and acceptal)le man for the place. It was conceded that he did admirable work in 
a difficult and trying position, and under his direction the affairs of the office were j)Ut in 
order and the routine of its biisiness was soon re-established on so safe and business-like a 
basis that in recognition of his services the Democracy nominated him in 1890 for clerk of 
the courts as his own .successor. The fact that he and County Auditor Taggart led their 
ticket and were elected by the largest Democratic majorities ever given in the county speaks 
more eloquently than any words of praise could of the manner in which Mr. Wilson's honest 
and business-like methods were appreciated by the electors of the county. Mr. Wilson is a 
thirty-second degree Mason. He was married in 1879 to Miss Nellis Duncan, daughter of 
R. B. Duncan, who in the early half of the century was for many years clerk uf the JIarion 
County courts. One secret of Mr. Wilson's success both as a lawyer and as an official, is his 
genial and kindly nature, which has gained him the friendship n[ all who know him. 

Fr.\nk W. Morrison. Integrity, intelligence and .system are qualities which will 
advance the interests of any man or anj' profession and will tend to the prosperity to which 
all aspire. F. W. Morrison's life in the professional arena has been characterized by intel- 
ligence, sound judgment and persevering industry. He is one of the city's most popular and 
capable attorneys, who has acquired prominence on the wings of Indianapolis' prosperity. 




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Mr. Morrison is a native of tbe Hoosier State, born at Salem, September 19, 1852, and 
moved with bis parents to Indianapolis in 1865, Lis father, John I. Morrison, having been 
elected State Treasurer in that year. The educational training of our subject was received 
in the high schools of Indianapolis, and later he entered William's College, Massachusetts, 
from which institution he graduated in 1874. Keturniug to Indianapolis immediately after- 
ward he began the study of law with McDonald & Butler, and was admitted to the bar in 
1870. After this he remained with McDonald & Butler, as managing clerk until 1883 when 
he opened an office for himself. Since then he has practiced alone. In 1884 he entered the 
service of the Pennsylvania Company as attorney on the Chicago Division. In 1885 he 
resumed the general practice of law and since 1886 he has been attorney for the Louisville, 
New Albany & Chicago Railway Company. Aside from this he acts as general counsel for 
the Phaniix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, in the West. In 1885 Mr. Morrison was 
appointed by Gov. Porter, one of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners. In his political 
views he is a Republican, and is a Knight Templar in tbe Masonic fraternity. During tbe 
years he has practiced bis profession he has shown himself to be endowed with superior 
ability and his comprehensive knowledge of the law. together with the soundness of bis 
judgment, secured him almost immediate recognition at tbe bar. 

John A. Comingor, M. D. Among tbe most prominent and successful medical prac- 
titioners of Indianapolis, and it may be said of tbe State of Indiana, is Dr. John A. Comin- 
gor, who is one of the oldest practicing physicians in the city. He is honored and esteemed 
by tbe medical profession throughout all this part of the country. As a surgeon be is one of 
the finest in the State, and during his many years practice as such, bo has performed about 
every surgical operation known to medical science and skill, having practically traversed 
the entire field of surgical practice. Ever since the establishment of tbe Indianapolis City 
Hospital twenty-six years ago, he has been surgeon of that institution, performing tbe func- 
tions of that office without remuneration or hope of remuneration, and bis weekly visits dur- 
ing this long period to the clinics and wards of tbe hospital have contributed greatly 
toward the high standard of excellence which obtains in the institution at this time. He has 
always been solicitous for the welfare of this hospital, and ever^- measure for its improve- 
ment or for its better establishment has met with hearty approval and most helpful and 
substantial support. He has acted also as physician and surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital 
and of the city dispensary. He is one of tbe promoters and organizers of tbe Medical 
College of Indiana, was one of its incorporators, and for twenty years held the chair of 
professor of surgery in that institution. At tbe present time be is professor of ortboptedic 
and clinical surgery in tbe Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member 
of tbe Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, tbe American 
Medical Association and the National Surgical Association. He has read papers of interest 
and merit before these societies from time to time, and has been a frequent contributor of 
articles on professional subjects to the medical and surgical periodicals of the day. During 
the administration of Gov. Porter be was a member of tbe Governoi's staff with tbe rank of 
surgeon-general of the State of Indiana. Dr. Comingor has always been in politics a strong 
Republican and has been such from the organization of the Republican party. Away back 
in the infancy of that party he was a delegate from Hendricks County to a convention that 
nominated Henry S. Lane for governor, and Oliver P. Morton for lieutenant-governor of the 
State of Indiana. Tbe doctor is of German extraction. His grandfather, the first of the 
family to settle in America, located in New York at an early day, but afterward removed to 
Kentucky. He had several children including, Abram, Henry, David, and Samuel Comin- 
gor and four daughters. Samuel Comingor, who was tbe father of tbe Doctor, was born in 
Kentucky in 1797, and lived there until 18'26, when he came to Johnson County, Ind. 
He married Mary Gibbs, a native of Georgia, who bore him cbiklren named in order of their 
nativity: Henry, George, David, John A., Cynthia, Rachel, Sarah and Jane. John A., now 
known as Dr. Comingor, was born in Johnson County, Ind., March 17, 18'28. His youth 
was quite uoeventful, and the common schools near his borne afforded him early educational 
advantages such as be had. Later he became a student at Greenwood Academy, at Green- 
wood, lad. He early decided upon a medical career, and on completing bis English course, 
began the study of medicine under the direction of Drs. Noble and Wishard, of Greenwood, 



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with whom he read for three years, meautime atteudiug lectures at the Ceutral Medical 
College of Indiauapolis during its sessions of 1849-50, and was graduated from the medical 
department of the Uuiversit}- of New York, in 1860. He immediately entered upon the 
practice of his profession at Danville, Hendricks County, and was beginning to meet with 
much success when, in 1861, he was appointed surgeon of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, 
and served in that capacity until May, 1865, participating in the engagements at Shiloh, 
(!hampion's Hill, the sit>ge of Vicksl)urg, the fighting at Jackson, Miss. , in other i)attle8 
of minor importance, and in the Shenandoah Valley. During this period of military activity, 
his duties wtTo chiefly in the field, and while they subjected him to the hazards of war, they 
afforded him opportunities for tlie practice and experience as a surgeon which he could 
never have oVitained anywhere else on earth, before or since. After the war he located at 
Indianapolis, at once took up the general practice of his profession, and his patronage has 
increased as his skill and success have become more and more widely known. Dr. Comingor 
was married in 1855 to Miss Lucy Williamson, of Greencastle, Ind., and three children: 
Ada. Harry and Carrie, have blessed their union. Simple in his habits, retiring in his dis- 
position, eschewing all display and shunning all ostentation. Dr. Comingor is a most com- 
panionable and entertaining gentleman who bears acquaintance so well that to know him 
for a long time is to like him better and better. His strong, practical common sense and 
solidity of character mark him as one to be trusted under any and all circumstances, 
and in every relation of life he has promptly and conscientiously met every just demand 
upon him. 

Robert F. Emmett. The office of sheriff is one that has been filled by the illustrious 
head of this Government and is a position that demands the exercise of great circumspec- 
tion, great personal courage and a general and apt intelligence. The county of Marion is 
fortunate in its choice of its present incumbent, Robert F. Emmett, the subject of our sketch, 
who adds to strict integrity tiie other qualities essential to thorough discharge of the responsi- 
bilities connected with the station. Mr. Emmett is a native of the coimty, having iieen born 
here May 4. 1859, lieing the son of Robert F. and Margaret (Horney) Emmett, natives of 
Ireland. The parents came to the United States at an early day and settled at Indianapolis 
about the year 1854, living here until their death, the father j>afsing away in 1866 and the 
mother July 4, 1878. They were the parents of eight children, only two of whom survive — 
Mary and our subject. The latter received instruction in the schools of this city and later, 
when working at a trade, attended the night sessions of a business college, from which 
he graduated. Apprenticed to the trade of an iron moulder, he served at it until he com- 
pleted his term and followed it afterward, pursuing it in all about fifteen years. In the year 
1880 he became a deputy sheriff under Isaac King and was jailer for a period of four years. 
He was deputy for one year under Sheriff Henry Langenberg and then stepped out to make 
the race for the office of sheriff, being successful and receiving the largest majority that was 
ever made by a man running on the national ticket, receiving a majority of 683. Mr. Em- 
mett is also the youngest man who has ever filled the office of sheriff in this coiuity. He has 
served two terms as president of the Moulders' Union, a very large and influential body, 
and this gave him many votes, raising up many ardent friends on his behalf. Mr. Emmett 
entered upon the discharge of his duties December 10, 1892, having had such long previous 
experience that he had to waste no time in acquiring a knowledge of the details of the office. 
Always companionable, he is connected, besides with the Moulders' Union, witb the order 
of K. of P., the A. O. H., and with the Gray Club; the last named, a strong political organ- 
ization, he assisted greatly in organizing. AVhile a young man, none of the friends of Mr. 
Emmett have the slightest fears about his ability to manage his office. On the contrary, the 
able manner in which he took hold and the thoroughness with which he attends to every duty, 
confirms their judgment that his administration will be marked by the most highly satis- 
factory results. 

Jeremiah J. Corbaley was one of the pioneers of the new purchase and one of the early 
settlers of Marion County. He was born in Delaware in 1789. His father, Richard Cor- 
baley, a native of Ireland, located some time before that at Odessa, Del., where he married 
an English lady. He later removed to Washington, D. C, sometime before the laying of 
the foundation of the first capitol building. He died there, leaving four small children. 



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His widow with ber family, removed to Cecil Connty, Md. Jeremiah remained with his 
mother and grew to manhood before her death. In 1816 he came to the territory northwest 
of the Ohio River, and there became well known as a school teacher. Near Hamilton Ohio, 
he formed the acquaintance of Jane, the eldest daughter of Robert B^'-°^^lV*R,^^°i. K 
was married in 1819. Mr. Corbalev brought with him from Maryland about >60o. which 
be intended to invest in land, but which be lost through the failure of a merchant at Hamil- 
ton to whom he intrusted it. In March. 1S20, he came to Marion County with Mr. Barnbil 
his father-in-law. and settled on the bank of Fall Creek, near where Patte_rson s o d mill 
stood iust outside the donation, where he remained two years. On August <. ^3) his son 
Richard was born, the first white child born in the new purchase, now a resident of the 
State of Washington. Owing to the great distress caused by sickness the first two years 
after thev came to Indianapolis. Mr. BarnhiU having died, the famOy removed to a piece of 
land the;- had entered on Eagle Creek, in the northwest part of the county. Being industri- 
ous it was not manr years until each member of the BarnhiU family had a good farm, the 
ricli soil vieldincr a "fair reward for their labors. One of the greatest drawbacks upon their 
success however, was the remoteness of a market for their grain, which had to be hauled in 
wagons to the Ohio River, where wheat was disposed of at about oO cents per bushel, and 
other kinds of grains in proportion. Mr. Corbaley being a good English scholar and sur- 
passing the other men of that section iu general ability, was the business man for the whole 
neighborhood. For many years he was justice of the peace for ^^ ayne township. He was 
one of the commissioners' appointed by the Legislature, who located the seats of justice of 
the counties of Clinton and Fulton at Frankfort and Rochester, respectively. Mr. Corbaley 
made several trips from his Indiana home to his old home in Maryland. It was a horseback 
iouruey entirely, and one night while traveling through a wilderness country, in which 
the houses were about twenty miles apart, he was attacked by a panther. "« ith the aid of 
a dint-lock pistol and a piece of tow he was enabled to kindle a fire, which kept the beast at 
bav durin.' the nicrht. He replenished the fire during the night and at daylight the panther 
was last seen in pursuit of a deer. Mr. and Mrs. Corbaley reared a family of ten children, 
which was but an average number of the pioneers of_Indiaiia. all of whom married before 
the death of Mrs. Corbalev. which occurred April -. IS.O, and seven of whom are yet living. 
Mr Corbaley was one of the most substantial farmers in the county, and his reputation for 
sterling integrity was such that it was common to say to him that his word was as good as 
his Ijond. His useful life ended on January 11, 1844. , ^i i i 

SwruEL B. CoKBALET. This well known and respected citizen is the foiirth son of the late 
Jeremiah J. Corbaley. and was bom at the old Corbaley homestead on Eagle Creek, in 
Marion County. February 17. 1S34. His father died while he was quite young and he was 
of crreat assistance to his mother, working on the farm during the spring, summer and fall, 
and^craininc^ a limited education during the winter months in the private schools of that day. 
which were^mostlv kept in the rudest and most primitive log houses. ^^ hen be was seven- 
teen years old. his brother. Richard Corbalev. then county clerk of Marshall Coiintj-^ 
received him as an assistant in his oflice at Plymouth. He walked over the Michigan road 
to that town, consuming three davs and a half in the journey. The jonrney was a rough 
one for the old Micbic^an road was iu those davs regarded as the very worst road in Indiana. 
He set out with ^3 in his pocket, all he bad been able to accumulate to that time, and upon 
arrivincr at bis destination, had but 35 cents left. His residence in Marshall County 
covered a period of ten years, during eight of which he was employed in the ofece of the 
clerk, recorder and sheriff. As a penman he attracted much attention, and the books and 
other records he kept will doubtless long serve as a reminder of him to all who may have 
occasion to examine them after he shall be no more. He returned to Marion County in 
1S61 and has resided in Indianapolis constantly since 1862. For three years he was book- 
keeper in Spiegel. Thoms ^ Co.'s furniture establishment, and later, he entered the grocery 
business on West Washington Street where he built up a first class credit and reputation. 
He married Amanda M. Dewson. of Plymouth. September 2. 1854. who died ten years 
later, after having borne him two daughters, both of whom are also dead. April 4, ISb.. 
he married Eliza A., eldest daughter of William Cossel, one of Marion County's most 
prominent farmers, who has Iwrne him a daughter and son, named respectively Luella and 



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George M. His daughter lias been teaching in the public schools of the city for several 
years, and his son is a clerk in the office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. On 
bi!cember \(\ 1SS4, IMr. Corbaley accepted the position of deputy sheriff under George Car- 
ter, Esq., and two years later succeeded to the position in the sheriff's office of chief deputy, 
a position he still holds, tinder his excellent management, his work having the aj)proval of 
the court and members of the bar, much good has been accomplished. He was the Demo- 
cratic nominee in 18S0 for the office of recorder, but was turned down like the rest of the 
ticket. 

Geokoe H.\sty, M. D., long a member of the faculty of the Physio Medical College of 
Indiana, one of the organizers and first president of the American Association of Physio- 
Medical Physicians and Surgeons, and editor and pulilisher of the Physio-Medical Journal, 
at Indianapolis, was born in Madison County, Ind. , September 3(t, 1835, and has been 
for many years idetititied with the medical profession of the State with mucli more than 
ordinary jiroiuinence. His parents were Thomas and Ann (Raper) Hasty, his father a 
farmer and a native of Keiituckj', his mother a Virginian by birth. His maternal grand- 
father saw service in the War of 1812-14. His paternal grandparents were pioneers in 
Preble C >unty, Ohio, where Thomas Hasty (his father) was reared, and during the earlier 
years of Dr. Hasty's life, in Indiana, the country was new and much of it timbered and 
pretty heavily populated with beasts of the forests, so that, though he was born in the wild- 
erness instead of emigrating to it, he was himself in a practical sense a pioneer. During 
those earl)' days his mother made several long and dreary horseback trips between the family 
home ill Indiana and her old home in Virginia. She was a woman of great noliility of char- 
acter much devoted to her family and has been dead for some years. Thomas Hasty is still 
living on the old homestead in Henry County, Ind., at the advanced age of eighty-tive years. 
This farm extends over the boundary line into Madison County, and on the portion so dis- 
tinguished from the balance, and on which the family home once stood, Dr Hasty was born. 
Reared on the farm and inured to its healthful and moral life, he assisted in clearing away 
the timber and in putting in, cultivating and harvesting crops during the pioneer days, as 
opi>ortunity offered attending the subscription schools taught near his home in log cabins 
with piiQclieon floors and otber characteristics of the primitive school-houses of America, and 
thus he gained most of his early education, though, later, he was privileged to attend for a 
short time a jiublic school more advanced and more effective as an educational instrumen- 
tality. His ambition from his youth was to be a physician, but he saw small op])ortnnity to 
gain the required professional education and, besides, in those days the path of the "young 
doctor" was not so easy as it has since been made. In all that country there was and 
promised to be for some time to come, plenty of work for civil engineers and surveyors, and 
having some aptitude for mathematical study, he determined to become a civil engineer. 
To accomplish this purpose he found it necessary to teach school to earn money to pay for 
instruction and to buy instruments. He taught a few terms in the log-walled and bark- 
roofed poor man"s colleges of that time and locality, l)Ut (inally aliandoned the idea of mak- 
ing a surveyor of himself and returned to the farm and began to think sericiusly of becoming 
a physician in the face of all obstacles. He got together a few books, and from the time he 
was twenty gave to a course of reading on medical subjects every spare moment that was 
his, for his means were insufficient to permit him to give his entire time to the object he so 
much desired. He planned wisely and worked diligently, and was enabled in the winter of 
1858-59 to begin attending lectures at the Physio-Medical College at Cincinnati, and in the 
winter of 185'J-60 to take a second course of lectures at the Physio-Medical Institute of the 
same city, and to graduate therefrom in the spring of 18(30 with the degree of M. D. He 
did not waste any time in entering upon the practice of his profession, but located at once 
at Mechanicsl)urg, near his old home, hung out his "shingle" and devoted himself hope- 
fully to the more or less tedious task <:)f waiting for his first call in his professional capacity 
to the bedside of some ailing fellow mortal. He had not long to wait and soon his patrons 
were so numerous that he found himself busy with a large and increasing general practice, 
and at the same time he had by his success so impressed upon his brother practitioners a 
conviction of his ability that he was made a member of the faculty of his alma mater, the 
Physio Medic-.d Institute, at Cincinnati, the sessions of which were confined to the winter 



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months, Dr. Hasty's duties being so timed that he was enabled to perform them without 
serious 'detriment to his practice. At different times, until December, 1872, when he removed 
from Mech;inicsl)iirg, to Indianapolis, he occupied the chairs of Chemistry, Anatomy and 
Surgery. Upon coming to Indianapolis he made his presence almost immediately felt in the 
med7cal profession. In 1878 he was one of the promoters, organizers and incorporators of 
the Physio-Medical College of Indiana, of the faculty of which he has been a member ever 
since, occupying the chair of Surgery until 1878 and the chair of principles and practice 
since' that time. During all the history of that institution, he has been influentially and 
helpfully identified with it and is at this time a prominent member of its board of trustees. 
He was one of the organizers and a charter member of the Indiana Physio-Medical Associa- 
tion; helped organize and is still a meml)er of the First District Physio-Medical Society; 
was one of the organizers and first president of the American Association of Physio-Medical 
Physicians and Surgeons, and assisted to form and is still a member of the Indianapolis 
Physio Medical Society. He was present at the organization of both tlie State and national 
societies and has never been absent from a meeting of either body from that time to this. 
The Physio-Medical Journal was established in 187r) by meml)ers of the faculty of the Piiy- 
sio-Medical College of Indiana, and in 1878 Dr. Hasty assumed entire control of the publi- 
cation and has since been its editor and publisher, in that dual capacity so well directing it 
that it has a large and influential circulation among members of the Physio Medical profes- 
sion, and is considered one of the ablest and most carefully edited journals of the kind in the 
country. Dr. Hasty was married April 25. 1861, to Miss Caroline M. Julian, a native of 
Henry" County, Ind., and a daughter of Peter and Adaline (Hess) Julian, the former a 
native of Indiana, the latter of Virginia. In polities the Doctor is a Kepublican. He is a 
member of the Masonic order. In every relation of life he is in all things the intelligent, 
cultured and refined gentleman, the able physician and the generous and helpful citizen. 
For thirty-three years he has been identified with the medical profession, always honoral)ly, 
always progressively, always prominently. He has been not simjily a good member of it, he 
has been more one of its promoters, one of its upbuilders, one of the factors in its advance- 
ment, perfection and enlarged adaptability to the needs of humanity. 

Samuel M. Compton. The Industries of Indianapolis are principally of an important 
character, al)]y and successfully carried on. the products being such as to have secured for 
tliis flourishing city a reputation of which any might be proud. Prominent among the suc- 
cessful business men of this city is Mr. Samuel M. Compton, who is engaged in the grocery 
business, and who is now the quarter-master general, having been appointed to that position 
and commissioned a brigadier-general by Gov. Mathews in 1893. Like many of the best 
citizens of the State he is a native of Ohio, born in Warren County, July 1, 1845. His 
father, Alexander J. Compton, was a native of that grand old mother of States, Virginia, 
and is now residing in Indiana. He is eighty-two years of age, is in the enjoyment of com- 
paratively good health, and has ever been a man honored and respected. His wife, the 
mother of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and lier maiden name was Mickle. 
This worthy couple had four sons in the army during the Rebellion: William E., wlio was 
sergeant in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry; Thomas M., lieutenant in Company K, First 
Indiana Heavy Artillery; Ridgeley C, private in the Sixth United States Tnfpntry. sud (ur 
subject, who enlisted several times Imt was refused on account of youth, until the summer 
of 1862, when he became a member of Battery K, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, as a pri- 
vate, serving until January 10, 1866, when he was mustered out as corporal. He partici- 
pated in the following battles: Port Hudson, Red River Campaign, Siege of Mobile and 
numerous minor skirmishes. He escaped witlioiit a wound and was mustered out in New 
Orleans, La. Our subject's education was received in the schools of Warren County and at 
Lebanon, Ohio, the county seat, where he remained in the schools until thirteen years of 
age. He then came with his parents to Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., and engaged as 
clerk in the general store of Moore. Griggs & Cook, with whom he remained until 1862, 
when he enlisted. He had another brother, Harlan H., who served in the Home Guards 
during the latter part of the war. After being discharged at New Orleans after the war 
our subject remained in that city for about two months and then returned to Morgan County, 
lud., where he commenced clerking for Holman Johnson, continuing with him about three 



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years. After that he opened n general store of his own in Mooresville, Ind. , and this he 
carried on about eighteen months, when he sold out and came to Inilianapolis. Here he be- 
"■an clerkinj; for W. M. Davis, continued with him two years, and then began clerking in the 
shoe business with \V. \V. Jones. Two years later he accepted a position in the wholesale 
grocery of Conduitt, McKiiiglit & Co., remained with the same two years and then for three 
vears clerked in the dry goods store of Hibben, Patterson & Co. Following this he went to 
Worcester, Mass.. with J. H. and G. M. Walker, boot and shoe manufacturers, and subse- 
quently traveled ([uite extensively for them in the South. In 1891 he engaged in the gro- 
cery business in Indianapolis, and this he has carried on since. In politics Mr. Compton is 
a Democrat, witli which party be has always artiliated, and conies of Demo(-ratic stock, his 
father also affiliating with that party. As before stated, Mr. Comjiton was appointed quar- 
termaster general in 1893, and of that position he is the present incumbent. He is a mem- 
ber of Capital City Odd Fellow Lodge, and to George H. Thomas Post, Lodge No. 17, G. 
A. R. Mr. Compton was married on May 19, 1868, to Miss Mary E. Gentry, a native of 
Marion County, Ind., and to them were given two children, neither surviving. 

August H. C.\lvelage. The manufacture of agricultural implements has grown to be 
a great industry and in reviewing the various enterprises that have made Indianapolis one 
of the [)rominent centers of business in the West, it is highly interesting to note the advance 
that has been made in each industry. August H. Calvelage is the present very efficient 
foreman of the National Malleable Castings Company, and has been connected with the same 
for many years. He was born in Putnam County, Ohio, February 10, 1845, a son of George 
Calvelage, who was born in the Province of Oldenberg, Germany, and came to Ohio with 
his parents, when a boy of twelve years, first locating in Cleveland. The family afterward 
moved to Putnam County, of which section they were among the first settlers. They pur- 
chased a tract of land comprising 600 acres for which they paid 75 cents per acre, and this 
land is still in possession of the Calvelage family. George Calvelage grew up among the 
Indians which made uj) the principal part of the population of Putnam County at that time. 
He made his honje in that region until he was about seventy-six years of age, at which time 
he was called upon to pay the last debt of nature. He was engaged in farming and trad- 
ing with the Indians, and afterward dealt in stock, in all of which, being a successful man 
of business, he was quite successful. He was highly honored throughout that region and 
held a number of positions of trust. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hackman, 
who was born in Hanover, Germany, and she still survives him and resides on the old homestead 
in Ohio. To their marriage a family of live children were born: August H., Henry and 
Bernard, who farms the old home place, being the only survivors. August H. Calvelage left 
home at the age of seventeen years and went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began learning 
the calling of a brick layer, an occupation which he followed successfully for seven years 
with one contractor. At the end of this time he began turning his attention to malleable 
iron work m Cleveland, but after a short period went to Springfield and entered the employ 
of Whitely, Fassler & Kelley, who were engaged in the manufacture of reapers and mowers, 
and during the nine years that he was with this firm he acted for some time in the capacity 
of foreman and later as superintendent of the iron department. After coming to Indian- 
apolis, he connected himself with the National Malleable Castings Comjiauy as foreman, a 
position which he still retains to the satisfaction of his employers and decidedly to his own 
credit. He is a man of brains, energy and push, and has made his own way to his present 
position of independence by his own energy and integrity. He certainly knows what pioneer 
life is, for he was l)orn in a log cabin, in which not a nail had been driven, and this continued 
to be his home for a number of years. His initiatory training was received in the common 
schools of Putnam County, which were by no means of the best at that time, but be fortu- 
nately afterward graduated from a business college of Cleveland, his tuition being paid in 
moiu)y which he earned by the sweat of his brow while laying brick. Since locating in 
Haughville he has been town trustee for eight years, four years of which time he was presi- 
dent of the l)oard, and during his ailministratiou many of the most important improvements 
in the town were made, and were largely due to his push and public spirit. Street cars were 
established, streets were laid out, a natural gas plant was put in and an excellent school-house 
was erected, l)esides numerous other improvements. In 1870 he was united in marriage to 




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Miss Emma Groaeli, a native of Staten Island, N. Y., and to their union three sons and a 
daughter have been given. He is president of the Haughville Building and Loan Associa- 
tion, a luemljer of the Commercial Club of Indianapolis, and politically has always been a 
Democrat, and has supported the principles of that party on all occasions, although he has 
never been an office seeker. He is a man among men and proven himself a decided acquisi- 
tion to the town of Haughville. 

Allison- M.^xwell, M. D. The old saying that "a prophet is not without honor save in his 
own country," which lias come to be applied not only to propliets but to men in nearly 
every profession, trade and walk of life, is most completely controverted in every commu- 
nity in the country by the manifestation of high esteem on the part of the people for able 
and honorable members of the medical profession. The physician, more generally perhaps, 
than even the pastor, endears himself to the family circle, and while he may not be 
strictly of it he is at all times very near to it and his relations are so confidential that 
his welcome is more spontaneous and hearty than that of many connected to it with 
the ties of blood. Among the most honored family physicians of Indianapolis is Dr. 
Allison Maxwell, who enjoys a large and lucrative ]iracticeand numbers among his patrons 
many prominent and influential citizens. Dr. Maxwell is a son of Dr. James D. and 
Louisa (Howe) Maxwell, both natives of Indiana, and was born at Bloomington, Ind., Sep- 
tember 24, 18-48. Dr. James D. Maxwell enjoyed the distinction of being not only the 
father of physicians but the son of a physician. His father, Dr. David H. Maxwell, was a native 
of Kentucky and was a medical pupil of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, and locating in Monroe 
County about IBIU, was one of the pioneer settlers there. He was a surgeon iu the War 
of 1812, and his standing outside of his profession is indicated by the fact that he was 
chosen a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the first constitution of 
the State, which was adopted at its organization. The degree of M. D. was conferred upon 
him by the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. In 181U he located at Bloomington, 
Ind., and was one of the surveyors and organizers of the town, in which he lived and 
practiced his profession with much success until his death, which occurred in 1854. He 
was the founder and was elected the first president of the board of trustees of the Indiana 
University at Bloomington, and was one of the trustees of that institution continuous!}' 
from its organization until his death, and has ever since been popularly referred to as "the 
father of the university."' His practice at Bloomington was continued by his son, James 
D. Maxwell, who was graduated from the Indiana University iu 1838 and who, in 1841, 
attended Transylvania, at Lexington, Ky. The following year he became a student in the 
Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated therefrom in 1844 with the degree of M. D. 
During a period of nearly forty years he was a trustee of the Indiana University, and his 
service as ouch was terminated only by his death, which occurred at Bloomington Septem- 
ber 30, 1892. He was an active and successful medical practioner. and for many years 
had a larger and more lucrative practice than any physician in the county. A few years 
prior to his death, however, he retired from the practice of his profession and devoted him- 
self entirely to the interests of the Indiana L^niversity and to his private affairs. Dr. 
Allison Maxwell was reared iu his native town, and there he obtained his primary' educa- 
tion in the public schools. In 1862 he entered the preparatory department of the Indiana 
University, and iu 1868, having completed a classical course, he was duly graduated from 
that institution, in which for a year after he was tutor of Greek and Latin, relinquishing 
his position in its faculty to go to San Francisco, Cal., where for two years he was clerk in 
the Bancroft Publishing House. Returning to Bloomington at the expiration of that time, 
he began the study of medicine with his father, and in the fall of 1872 he began the study 
of medicine with his father, and in the fall of 1872 he became a student in the Miami 
Medical College, of Cincinnati. Ohio, where he took the graded course of three years, and 
l)y competitive examination, was appointed and served for one year as interne of the City 
Hospital, graduating from the Miami Medical College with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
cine in 1876. In April of that year he came to Indianapolis and became the assistant of 
Dr. Theophilus Parviu, now of Philadel])hia, and iu this relation continued with that well- 
known physician during a period of eight years, until Dr. Parvin removed from the city. 
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He has held the chair of Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Central College of 
I'hysicians ami Surgeons, of Indfanapolis, since lS8f), and as clinical lecturer at the City 
Hospital, and a iupml)(>r of the consulting staff at the City Dispensary. Under the present 
charter of the city of Indianaiiolis. he was appointed a memlier of the first board of health 
iirganized by its provisions. He is a member of the Marion C'ouiit}' Medical Society, of the 
Indiana State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. Dr. Maxwell 
was married iMay 3, 1883, to CJynthia A. Routh, a native of Wayne County, Ind., and 
daughter of James R. and Sarah J. Routh, also natives of this State, who has borne him 
two children: Leslie H. and Ruth. 

.lames D. ^Nfaxwell, Jr.. a brother of Dr. Allison Maxwell, was born in July, ISnO, and 
was graduated from the University of Indiana in 1872. He pursued a regular three-year 
graded course at the Miami Medical (^ollege of Cincinnati, and, like his brother, became an 
interne in the City Hospital at Cincinnati, bj^ competitive examination. He graduated from 
the Miami Medical College in 1878, and, going to Cleveland, Ohio, was for two years 
assistant surgeon in the ('leveland Hos])ital for the Insane. Returning to the family home, 
at Hloomington. he became a partner of his father. Dr. James D. Maxwell, Sr. In the 
winter of 1882-83 he took a special course in surgery atBellevue Hospital Medical College, 
at New York, and received his diploma from that institution in April, 1883. Taking up his 
residence permanently at Bloomington, he soon obtained a large general practice and became 
so popular as a surgeon that he actually did the greater part of the surgical woik in the 
county down to the time of his death, which occurred in Janiiary, 1891. The esteem in 
which he was held by his fellowcitizens found expression in the oft re])eated statement 
that any citizen of Monroe County could have been better spared than Dr. James D. 
Maxwell. Jr. 

Presley Jennings. The trade of the horse shoer and blacksmith is one that comes within 
the bounds of daily opportunity to manifest a humane spirit toward man's most faithful and 
obedient friend, the horse. If the theory of John Stuart Mill is correct, there is certainh' a 
heaven for this brightest order of the dumb animal. The shoer of the horse has many an 
opj)ortunity to prove the tender side of heart, and in his calling, which has existed almost 
since the world began, one of the most humane and careful men is Presley Jennings, who 
is a master of his trade in ever}' sense of the word. He is a native of Bridgeport, Ind.. born 
January 23, 1N31, and has been a citizen of Marion County. Ind., ever since. His parents, 
Allen and FJt-anor (Thondirough) Jennings, were united in marriage in 1818. but the former 
was a native of Virginia, and two years prior to his marriage came to this State. For two 
years after the celebration of his nuptials he made his home in the State of his birth, at the 
end of which time he returned to Marion County. Ind., and here remained until his death, 
which took place in 18fi4, his wife having passed from life in this county in IS19. They be- 
came the parents of five sons and five daughters, all of whom are living with the exception 
of the two eldest daughters and the youngest son. Their children were named as follows: 
Nancy, married William H. Foreman, and died in early womanhood: Elizal)etli. married 
Planning Vohrie, aiul is also deceased: William is a resident of Clarion County; Jane is the 
wife of John Ray, and lives in Boone County, Ind. ; Lydia is the wife of John H. Rodman, 
and is a resident of Hay County, Mo. ; Polly is the wife of George Sowerwine. and resides 
in Indianapolis; Presley, the subject of this sketch: John, who resides in Indianapolis; 
Clark is a resident of California, and Allen, who died at the age of four years. In Marion 
County Presley Jennings was reared, and in the |)ublic schools of this section he received a 
common-school education. On January 1, 1855. he was married to Mi'ss Alice Head, a 
daugliter of Simeon C. and Melinda (Poage) Head, who were married in Kentucky in 1818, 
and soon after moved to Rush County, Ind., and shortly after to Marion County, where for 
a number of years they kept hotel. They then gave this up to engage in farming, but in 
I85f) moved to Zionsville. Ind , and lived a retired life until their respective deaths in 18S1 
and 1875. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jennings a family of ten children have been 
given: Frank, born October 12, 1856; Orla S., born November 28, 1858, and died March 
13, 1805; Emerson B., born December 4, ISfiO; Charles, born August 14, 1863, is now 
married to Emma Smith, and lives in this county near his parents; Orpha, born October 4, 
1865, is the wife of George W. Sheets; Otis was born August 16, 1869, and now lives in 



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Indianapolis; Bertha, bora January 31, 1874: iialph, born December 18, 1879; Aggie, born 
February 2!^, 1885. Since 1S49 Mr. Jennings lias followed tbe calling of old Tubal Cain, 
and is now the proprietor of a large shop at Nora. Ind. He is a lover of line horses, and 
owns some of tiie best bred animals in the county. Mr. Jennings lias always been a warm 
patron of education, and the public school system of Indiana lias l)een his pride. He has 
always been a Republican in his political views, and proudly asserts that his boys have fol- 
lowed in his footsteps in this respect. He has in his possession a clock which stands over 
eight feet high, and although it has been in the possession of the Jennings family for about 
100 years, keeps perfect time. This relic Mr. Jennings highly values. 

Gen. Lew \V,\ll.\ce. In a chance conversation with a well known infidel a Western 
lawyer had been listening to an abundance of sarcastic sneers at the Christian religion. He 
felt aslianied of his ignorance of the subject, and, impressed with its importance, he deter- 
mined to study into it. In thinking how to begin he recalled a story that he had staited a 
year before, founded on the wise men's search for Christ. It had been written simply as a 
story, with little interest in its central figure, and had been for some time laid aside. He 
decided to carry on his study along the lines suggested by the story, and to seek to learn of 
the Saviour and of the world as he found it. The result was that "Ben-Hur" was written 
and that its author became a believer in the Christ of whom he wrote. It may have been to 
his friends and to Gen. Wallace himself something of a surprise that his name should become 
best known liy sncli a book. "Lewis Wallace," it was said a quarter of a century ago, 
"handles the pen and the Inrush with ease and taste, but his genius is military.'' Born at 
Brookville, Ind.. April 10. 18-i7. his early scholastic training was received from the common 
schools. David Wallace, his father, was a graduate of the United States Militaiy Academy, 
was successively elected in Indiana as legislator, member of the Constitutional Convention, 
lieutenant-governor, governor, congressman and judge of the Court of Common Pleas of 
Marion County. The ambition of the subject of this biography had been of the military 
order, but his study and work had been rather too desultory to point to success in many 
directions. As a boy he was fond of shooting and of books, taking especial delight in Plu- 
tarch's Lives. He wrote a novel dealing with the tenth century and made some advance in 
art. I)ut settled down to reading law with his father, who .served a term as governor of Indi- 
ana. On the breaking out of the Mexican War Lewis entered the army and gained for him- 
self a good name as a disciplinarian. After the war, while practicing law, he found his 
recreation in training a company that he had organized. When the Civil War came he was 
called to become adjutant-general of his native State, Indiana, and then went into service 
as a colonel. receiving an appointment as major-general after the surrender of Fort Donelson. 
by reason of bis military genius. His career as an army ofiticial ended as second member of 
the court that trieil the assassins of President Lincoln, and he was president of that which 
tried Capt. Heru'y Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison. From 1878 to 1881 he 
served as goveinor of Utah and under President Hayes he was appointed governor of New 
Mexico, where he wrote the last part of "Ben-Hur." Lender President Garfield he was 
offered a mission to South .\merica, which he declined, afterward accepting the position of 
minister to Turkey. While holding this place he was in most pleasant personal relations 
with the Sultan, who twice requested him to enter the Turkish service. His experience in 
Mexico interested Gen. Wallace greatly in that country and led to his writing "The Fair 
God" in which he sought to present a picture of that remarkable land as it was centuries 
ago. Naturally, in sending him to Turkey, President Gartield. who had enjoyed " Ben Hur," 
said: "I expect another Ijook out of you Your official duties will not be too onerous fo 
allow you to write it. Locate it in Constantinople." The beauty and the history of the city 
were fiersnasive arguments, enforcing the hint, and the thought was in Gen. Wallace's mind 
from the first. The fall of Constantinople and the many events centering around that in the 
history of nations and of religions furnished a fascinating theme, and out of this has grown 
the author's latest work, which will undoubtedly add another triumph to the list that has 
already made him so great a favorite. 

D.\NiEL H. Pkdnk. There is no calling vipon earth that demands greater self-sacrifice, 
unselfishness and devotion than that of the physician, who must needs incur the risk of con- 
tracting fatal disease and who must forego comfort and endure fatigues in the discharge of 



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bis ilnties. Nor is there to be found upon the globe a nobler spectacle than that of a physi- 
cian who is true to himself, and couscientionsly proceeds with the carrying out of the obliga- 
tions resting upon him. He who is truly successful must needs live up to the full measure of 
iiis responsibilities and bear the Inirdeiis liiat rest upon him with a cheerful resignation. One 
recompense is liis, at least, and th:it is the trust, confidence and the esteem of those who reipiire 
hi.s services in the times of illness; for no one gets closer to the hearts of those with whom 
he is associated than the good and worthy physician. Such thoughts are naturally awakened 
as one contemplates the life and the work of the estimalile subject of this sketch, wlio not only 
has lived a life of great and disinterested usefulness in civil life, but who, also, in the time of 
his country's jieril went to the front and with skillful hands ministered to the wants of the 
sick and the wounded, laboring unceasingly for the relief of suffering. Daniel H. Prunk, 
M. D., of Indianapolis, was liorn near Fincastle, Botetourt County. Va., November 3, 1829; 
being the son of Daniel Prunk, born in the State of Maryland in ITUf). served his country in 
the War of 1S12 as a lirave and true soldier and died in Illinois in iN'il. The mother of our 
subject, Catharine (Edwards) Prunk, was born in old Virginia in 1 lUT and died in Minnesota 
at the age of eighty four (in 18S1 \. The father of our subject becoming impressed with the 
folly of endeavoring to compete with slave labor, left the old Dominion in the fall of 1831 
with his wife and seven children, and on his journey Northward was compelled by the 
severity of the weather to winter at Xenia, Ohio. In the following spring, however, the 
family was again in motion, pressing forward over the most execrable of roads, the horses be- 
ing frequently stalled in (iuagmires,aud again wading side-deep in and through great sloughs 
of mud. Again and again in the most difficult parts of the way, the children were trans- 
ported over the water and mud in the strong arms of their brave but wearied fatlier. The 
westward journey was by way of Crawfordsville. Ind., which finally was reached and passed, 
the hearts of tiie parents growing lighter as the distance diminished, and their relief was 
infinite when at last they reached Hennepin, Bureau County. 111., their final stopping place. 
But here their trials and hardships they soon found were but fairly begun. The travel-worn 
father proceeded at once, it being in the spring of 1832 when he reached his destination, to 
clear a farm and establish a home for his family in the then far West wilderness. The 
neighbors were few and lived far apart and the fear of the Indians was strong in the breasts 
of all, for this was the time when Black Hawk had stirred up the hearts of his savage follow- 
ers to resist banishment across the Mississippi, and Mr. Prunk only saved his loved wife and 
children from the tomahawks of the red demons by taking refuge in the old Florida fi>rt, 
situated about three miles from Hennepin. Notwithstanding the many besetments and 
perils, sturdy and brave Daniel Prunk did clear hisland and erect a home, and in time golden 
stalks of the wheat waved in his field, inviting the blade of the sickle, and later, the tall 
tassels of corn proclaimed the presence of the ripened ears beneath. But society was imper- 
fectly organized in those days and education was a precious quality, because the school houses, 
always built of logs, were so far apart, and the teachers so scarce. Subscription schools 
maintained for three months in the winter were the very best facilities enjoyed by the most 
favored, and parents rejoiced when this o|iportunity was offered their children. Those who 
were very poor were compelled to deny this limited privilege to their offspring. In truth, 
those who had settled in the wilds of Bureau, like the settlers of frontier country generally, 
had come together there imbued with the one great idea of accumulating property, the pri- 
vations endured being a fresh stimulus to exertion, and the leading thought shut off in large 
measure the duties aiul obligations of cultivated life. Under such obvious difficulties and 
besetments the boyhood and youth of Dr. Prunk passed, and his ambitious spirit chafed under 
the privations he endured. His awakened mind demanded something above and beyond the 
drudgery of farm life, and bidding adieu to the home he made his way to Lacou, III., and 
there he worked mornings, evenings and Saturdays in order to defray his expenses at school, 
continuing thus until he was qualified to teach school. Wiiile engaged in teaching he con- 
scientiously discharged his duties, earnestly seeking to impart instruction to those consigned 
to his care. At the same time he diligently reviewed his studies and prosecuted them to 
further results, and with praisworthy economy saved every possible penny, so that in 1850 
he entered the college at Mt. Palatine. 111., where he remained one year, and then in 1851, 
he entered Kock River Seminary, where among his classmates were John A. Eawlins, after- 



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ward secretary of war uatlor Presiil<nit Grant, and SLelbv M. Culloni, ox governor of Illinois 
and now United States senator from that state. His limited means compelled him to return 
home at the expiration of a vear and during the next fall and winter he again taught school. 
In the spring he began the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph Mercer, 
of Princeton. Ill, and during the winter of that tear, 1N53, he attended the Eclectic Medical 
Institute, at Cincinnati, returning the following winter, and the winter following that, finally 
graduating in ISofJ, receiving the diploma of a doctor of medicine and surgery. Having 
thus realized a dream and ambition that had fired his youth to energy and having endured 
much privation in order to accomplish his heart's great desire, he cast about for a favorable 
place for settlement, with the purpose strong within him to devote his life earnestly and con- 
scientiously to his noble profession. He hit upon Carthage, a beautiful village in the suburbs 
of Cincinnati, where the gay and happy young people were wont to frequently gather from 
the city in picnic and other innocent and invigorating gatherings. It was at one of these 
happy parties that he met a most accomplished and estimable young lady from the Blue-Grass 
countrv, towards whom he was attracted from the first, and the acquaintance ripened into 
friendship, love and marriage, the auspicious event last named occurring one year later. In 
the year following, by a sjjecial arrangement, he took charge of the practice of Dr. A. Shep- 
herd, of Springdale, Ohio, while that gentleman was absent on a foreign tour, and upon the 
return of the latter he yielded to the importunity of friends and settled at Rockford, 111. , 
which was then coming to the front. Every outlook was bright and he went there under the 
most encouraging prospects, it now seeming he had reached a point where he might begin to 
reap the reward of bis long and faithful work. But he reached Rockford in the fall of 1857, 
the year in which the country was paralyzed by the great financial crash that spared no city or 
town or country place, and uo jiower could resist its depression or rise superior to its influences. 
It was a keen and bitter disappointment to Dr. Prunk, when in the following fall he found it 
necessary to return to Princeton, but he kept it within his own breast and bravely did his 
duty. Reaching Princeton in October, 185N. he formed a partnership with his old precep- 
tor, Dr. Mercer, which lasted until April 16, 1861, when special inducements offered led him 
to settle at Indianapolis, and this at the time when the great body of the North quivered 
because of the insult to the flag at Fort Sumter. In September of this year our subject 
was liouored by Governor Morton with a commission as assistant surgeon in the Nineteenth 
Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to till a vacancy. After passing a highly creditable 
examination before the regular board he was assigned to duty at the Marshall House Hospital, 
at Alexandria, Ya., where he served several months, when the critical illness of his wife called 
him home. He was ordered June 28, 1862, by the governor to report to Col. Brown, of the 
Twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which lay at Harrison's Landing, Va., 
immediately after the Seven Days' battle. Rare indeed does it happen in the history of 
war that an army is so reduced as this was, by the ravages of disejise, the casualties of 
battle and the fury of the elements. So decimated were the rank and file that scarcely 
sufficient men could be mustered to man the breastworks and trenches. It was said that such 
soldiers as Hooker and Kearney, who were inured to the most terrible of scenes, actually 
shed tears as they witnessed the trials and the agony of the army and saw the attenuated 
forms of the disease- ravaged men. Men and horses died so fast that there were none 
to bury them and the stench that arose was frightful, as well as threatening the safety of the 
living. Dr. Prunk moved among such terrible scenes as these, his strength taxed to the 
utmost to meet the demands made upon his professional services, and finally he suc- 
cumbed (he had not been flesh and blood had he withstood it) and he was seriously attacked 
with a combination of camp diarrhcea and typhoid fever. Hence, when the army was 
ordered to evacuate the place, he was shipped to David's Island Hos]iital. sixteen miles above 
New York city, where he was confined to his tent for six weeks. During his absence the 
Second Battle of Bull Run and of Centerville had l)een fought, and the veteran regiment lay 
near Arlington Heights, verv much reduced in numbers and under marching orders, for the 
advance on Fredericksburg. Dr. Prunk was ordered by Gen. Barry to take charge of all the 
sick of the brigade and to conduct them to the Third Ai-my Corps Hospital, near Alexandria, 
where he remained in charge until about the middle of December, 1862, when he resigned 
and returned home. But he did not remain long, his heart being with the brave boys who 



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were bearing and suffering for the nation's cause, ami be was soon again read}' for active 
service. Having learned that there was a demand for competent surgeons at Nashville he 
proceeded thither, and after a two-days searching examination by the United States' army 
board, he was declfirfd to be altogether satisfactory, when he immediately concluded terms 
with Dr. A. Henry Thur.ston, assistant smgeoii general of the United States army and 
medical director at Nashville, and was ordered to dnty at the ofKcer.s" hospital. He subse- 
quently assisted Dr. Salter in organizing the Cumberland Hospital, which had a caj)acity of 
3,t1IU) patients, and he remained here in the active discharge of his duties until October 
ri, l!S(>3. During his leisure hours he had discovered a new preservative and disinfectant 
compound for embalming bodies, and he engaged in that business with a decided success 
during the remainder of the war, by permission of Gen. George H. Thomas, having his head- 
quarters at Nashville, with branches at Chattanooga, Knoxville, Dalton, Atlanta, Marri- 
etta and Huntsville. He rendered valuable service to the remains of Gen. McPberson and 
other fallen heroes during the Georgia campaign. When the war was over Dr. Prank 
returned to Indianapolis and has lived here ever since, devoting his time and energies to the 
practice of medicine, in which he has been signally successful. To smooth his professional 
journey, which had been made rough by the interposing barriers of "isms," and to divert 
the tire of enemies from without ami within the profession, he took a course and graduated, 
at the close of the winter session of 1875-76, at the college of Physicians and Surgeons 
(allopathic school), just twenty years after he had received his first degree, and during all 
these years he had practiced with most gratifying success. Dr. Prunk has been eminently 
successful in his practice and his standing as a physician and surgeon is of the highest 
order. Always studious, he has prosecuted his studies and investigations throughout his 
career with the most unremitting ardor, while he has enjoyed the advantage of instruction 
in two medical colleges and had a large and varied experience in the army, to say nothing 
of what he has garnered in the way of knowledge in his extensive private practice. He is 
eminently fitted for the profession he adorns, being of a profoundly sympathetic nature, 
unselfish, sociable and possessed of charming conversational powers and the most agreeable 
manners. As a man, a citizen, father, husband, neighbor and friend — in all the relations of 
life, be is an exemplar, worthy to be followed by all who appreciate the good and the hon- 
orable in living. As a citizen and patriot, Dr. Prunk takes an active interest in public 
affairs, and in polities is a Republican, being in hearty accord with the teachings of that 
party. In religion he was reared in the Methodist Church, the faithful itinerants of that 
bodv having found their way into the great remote fastnesses of his old Illinois home, and 
he learned to love them for their devotion to the cause they jirofessed. Hence he joined 
that bjdy and consistently followed its teachings from the time of bis connection with it at 
at Lacon, 111., in 1849, until 18<)7, when be joined the Episcopal Church, his wife being a 
devout member of that church. The marriage of the Doctor to. this most worthy 
lady, to whom reference has previously been made, occurred March 30, 1858, her 
name being Harriet Augusta Smith. The fruits of this union are: Frank Howard, born at 
Princeton, Bureau County, III., March 1-t, 18G0; Harry Clayton, born at Indianapolis, 
August 17, ISOl, and Byron Fletcher, born at Indianapolis. December 20, ISOG. The 
accomplished mother of these cbikireu merits the highest dislinction because of her true and 
wonumly qualities, which endear her to a choice circle of friends. She is possesseil of superior 
gifts and endowments of mind and heart, and whether as wife, mother or friend in the social 
circle, she reflects the virtues of highest woinanbooil. Hers are the equalities that attach 
per-^ons to her strongly, and retain them under all conditions. Mrs. Harriet Augusta Prunk 
is a native of Cincinnati, although soon after her birth her parents, William J. and Lavinia 
(Lennox) Smith, moved to Covington, Ky., where she was reared and resided until her 
marriage. Her parents were natives of old Virginia, where the maternal name of Lennox 
has figured prominently for many generations, ber grandfather Lennox having been a 
lieutenant in the war of the Kevolution. Keceiving a careful and thorough preparatory 
education, Mrs. Prunk at an early age entered the W esleyan Female College, an institution 
that bad attained great prominence because of the thoroughness of its course, and tliat was 
one of the foremost educational institutions of Cincinnati, graduating from it in ]85'.(, but a 
short time before her marriage. Very early in life she evidenced a rare talent in declamation 



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and elocution, wLicli <lpv('lii|ied into aii exceptional <iiiiility of rt-iuliug and dramatic power. 
This gift brought her into great proiuiueuce when at college, so that she was assigned duties 
at all entertainments within its walls, as well as at social gatherings, amateur entertain- 
ments, etc. It was manifest to her friends that she possessed this quality in a high degree, 
and that application, which is inseparable from attainment of foremost places in any depart- 
ment of art or knowledge, would develop it into dramatic and elocutionary genius. In 
Mrs. Prunk was the innate love, strong and abiding, for the art, and her will was all potent 
for the needed laborious study, and young as she was, she applied herself with assiduity, and 
with a continuity that wouki have reflected credit upon a much older person. Her marriage 
did not end her progress in the line of literary work, nor cause her to terminate her studies, 
for she devoted ten years after to arduous study and close application, with the result of at- 
taining to a high degree of perfection the ideal arti.st, qualification inherent and by nature 
given, only waiting to be nurtured by the warm sunlight of development into fruition and 
maturity. Her instructors were professors of eminence in the East, who were the more en- 
thusiastic and painstaking in instruction, because they were impressed by her talent and 
admired the spirit that imbued her. Ambitious yet to acquire all possible perfection, she 
entered in October, 1877, the Boston L'uiversity School of Oratory, under the control of the 
late Louis B. Monroe, and after the most diligent and persistent application for a period of 
two years, she graduated from that celebrated institution in May, 1879, which was one year 
less than the regular course. She likewise enjoyed the high privilege of special instruction 
from Profs. Steele Mackaye and R. R. Kaymond, of Boston and New York. The first ap- 
pearance of Mrs. Prunk before the public in a professional capacity was in the Grand Opera 
House, Indianapolis, in October, 1878, in response to a pressing invitation from the leading 
citizens of that city, and the city, and press and critics united in praising her graceful 
pre--ence, remarkable purity and quality of voice, and her high dramatic powers. Her sec- 
ond appearance was in Tremont Temple, Boston, May 19, 1879, before a large assembly 
composed of the elite of that cultured city. Her reception was an ovation, and the press of 
Bo.'^ton teemed with adulatory praise of the distinguished Indianapolis lady. Since then she 
has appeared in public on many occasions, but principally in Indianapolis, and her wonderful 
ability and constantly augmenting powers have combined to urge her adoption of the plat- 
form as a profession, her friends insisting that such endowments and faculties as hers should 
not be lost to the people, and in response to numerous requests from friends and leading 
citizens, Mrs. Prunk established the Indiana Boston School of Elocution and Expression, 
of Indianapolis, in the fall of 1879, of which institution she has been principal since its 
orgauizatiou. From this celebrated scbool there has been many graduates from different 
parts of the United States that are today doing good work in the various branches of the 
profession. Some are ministers, professors, teachers, elocutionists, readers and on the his- 
trionic stage. Mrs. Prunk and the public have a right to be proud of the work done in this 
school, which has been endorsed by some of the best known men in the United States. She 
loves her art, and from her soul. She is iine and noble of heart, and has educated in the 
various branches of the art many pupils without recompense, because from her heart she 
desires to lend a helping hand to those who are deserving. Mrs. Prunk is also principal of 
the dramatic department of the School of Music of Indianapolis, and her work is endorsed 
by many distinguished men and women of letters, among whom may be mentioned, William 
E. Sheldon, editor of New England Journal of Education; Right Rev. D. B. Knickerbocker, 
Bishop of Indiana; Rev. Edward Bradley, of New York City; Rev. Dr. Cleveland, of Indian- 
apolis; Rev. Dr. Haines of Indianapolis, and many others. It requires but the willingness 
on her part for her fame to become coextensive with the country. The highest and best authori- 
ties are agreed that she has no peer as a delineator of character and interpreter of dramatic 
art, and that has been acknowledged wherever she has appeared and by the numerous 
patrons of the school of which she is now principal. To the people of her own city and 
State and to the refined and cultured circles of the East she requires no introduction. Her 
friends place her alongside of Mrs. .Siddous, the resemblance between the power and pres- 
ence of both being marked. Mrs. Prunk combines in a positive manner those mental and 
physical powers which constitute excellence in her art and which in any other situation or 
profession would cause some one or more of her splendid gifts to be misplaced or to lie dor- 



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maiit. Her face and form are highly attractive aud she Las attained that degree of perfec- 
tion in her work that it has ceased to appear as art, but as nature itself. Mrs. Prunk has 
been a prufoiiud stiKJent of the forms and capaljilities of language, so that a delicacy of 
emphasis is assured bv wliich the meaning of an author is moot intelligently conveyed, and 
no critic could suggest in her delivery a shade of intonation by which the sentiment could 
be more faithful! v or fully expressed. With an unecjualed genius aud a passionate love for 
her art, and having the utmost patience in study, aud a purely sympathetic nature, there is 
not a passage she cannot delineate, and the most delicate shade and nicest moditication of 
passion she siezes with philosophical accuracy and renders with such immediate force of 
nature and truth, as well as precision, that what is the result of deep study and unwearied 
patience and practice appears like a sudden inspiration. A Boston paper says of Mrs. 
I'runk: '' There is not a height of grandeur to which she does not soar, nor a depth of 
misery to which she can not descend, nor a chord of feeling, from the sternest to the most 
delicate, which she cannot cause to vibrate at her will." One of Indiana's best-known 
writers, after attending one of Mrs. Pruuk's entertainruents, wrote the following of her 

voice : 

TO HATTIE AUGUSTA PRUNK. 



Your voice! it is sweet as a day in June, 
When buds are in bloom and tiie birds attune 
Their son<;s ti> the gladness that pushes thr(i\iirh 
The air and the llowers and the lieart of man. 
And you clothe old thoughts witli a meaning new 
When you read as an artist only can. 

Your voire! it is like an autunni wind 
Tluit quavers and moans and falters behind 
Tlie triumphant chorus of summer days, 
Hut whicli be the sweeter — Jiuie tones or sad. 
It doth matter not, for the love always 
Throbs in the mournful as well as the glad. 

Your voice! it is clear as a tinkling stream 
That lipples aud purls and glances between 
The willows that lean o'er its shining breast. 
You " liiK'U Me to Sleep " with the rhythmic flow 
( )f words that you read, aud a holy rest 
('rallies my soul when your voice falls low, low, 
Like a ilream of a olden lullaby 
That sways the tired heart with its melody. 

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" Her personal appearance and presence are stately and dignified, while her command of 
facial expression seems almost unlimited, now capable of delineating the sunniest of smiles, 
now picturing the sternest of expressions, now lighted up with the beams of hope, aud anon 
shrouded in the gloom of despair." Unlike a good many, who seem not to live outside of 
their profession, I\Irs. Prunk shines as brilliantly in the social circle as on the platform, is a 
versatile aud brilliant conversationalist, quick as lightning's flash, apt at repartee, and in the 
arena of refined sarcasm able to cut and parry with all the polish aud dash of the witty, 
retined and accomplished lady. In her domestic relations she is by nature pre-eminently 
hap|)y, a uol)le wife aud a devoted mother, having inherited the qualities of head and heart 
characteristic of her late much beloved mother, a Christian woman of broad ideas, unusual 
intelligence aud charitable in the highest sense of the word, and between mother and daugh- 
ter there existed a remarkable bond of devoted affection and companionship. Mrs. Prunk is 
now in the very prime of life and cannot have yet reached the zenith of her physical aud 
intellectual powers. Assuredly higher honors await her than she has yet achieved. 

Is.\A(' Kino. The subject of our sketch, although in the very prime of life, has tilled 
higli and responsible positions under the gifts of the people and he is a citizen who is held 
in the highest esteem by the people without regard to party. Isaac King, ex-sheriff of 
Marion tjounty, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, February ]5, 1S40, being the sou of George 
and Klizabeth (M('Kinney) King, natives of Ireland and Peimsylvania, res{)ective]y. The 
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Lis master not being a satisfactory one, lie some time after his service began, in company 
with some other boys working with him, ran away to Philadelphia, wliere he completed his 
term and then followed the same work as a journeyman for a rramber of years. Then he 
went to Baltimore, where he remained for a short time and then to Cincinnati, at which place 
he lived for thirty-tive years. A man of the deepest religious convictions, he was tiually led 
into the Society of Shakers, iu which comnmuity he spent the closing days of his long life, 
finally dying among tliem, in Hamilton County, Ohio, at the age of eighty-one. His widow 
is living in Indianapolis, aged eighty-seven. This couple had six children, four of whom 
are living, namely; Julia, wife of William M. Rubush; George King, of Tipton, Ind., super- 
intendent of the poor farm of that county; Anna M., wife of Logan Justice, and Isaac, our 
subject. Charles King, a brother of our subject, who died at Louisville, was a soldier in the 
late war and Sarah, a sister, is also dead. The subject of our sketch was brought up with 
the Shakers at Whitewater village, Ohio, until he was seventeen years old, receiving what 
meagre education it was possible for the society to get for the youth there. The life there 
was very repulsive to him and he resolved at any hazard to get his younger sister from out 
of the influence of the place. So, at the age of seventeen he took her with him and fled the 
spot, coming to Indianapolis. He was young to have so grave a responsibility and he had 
no trade upon which to fall back, while his education, as has been stated, was very limited. 
But his heart was brave and with a sublime devotion he sought work, gladly accepting any 
that was honest and that would give food and clothing to his sister, whom he loved with a 
strong devotion. For three years he did various jobs of work and then, at the age of twenty, 
began to learn tlie trade of a blacksmith. He began his apprenticeship under George Van 
Antwerp and served it out faithfully, after which he worked as a journeyman for five years, 
at the expiration of which he purchased a half interest in the business of his employer. Mr. 
King has carried on the business ever since, the firm name being King & Knight, who do a 
general business in the line named. Politics always proved a subject of great interest to 
him and his pleasant manner, good fellowship and general excellent character gave him 
great influence. Hence his party saw in him a man most available for the office of sheriff, 
a position for which he was nominated and to which he was elected in 1884 and was re-elected 
in 1880, serving two full terms. Mr. King met the full expectations of his friends and 
admirers while sheriff, proving himself a most efiicient and honorable official and administer- 
ing afl^airs with the utmost fairness. He has served very acceptably as an alderman from 
the Fourth District two terms. The political faith of Mr. King is that of a pronounced 
Democrat, a party to which he has always been loyal and for which he has worked untiringly 
ever since he attained his majority. A resident of Indianapolis for upward of thirty years, 
he is thoroughly identified with the interests of the city, for which he has labored earnestly 
always, when the services of good citizens wereneedad to effect some reform or to inaugurate 
some movement for the general good. A number of organizations know him as brother and 
fellow worker, among which are the Masonic order. Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Knights 
of Honor and the Elks. He was married iirst, in 1873, to Miss Nannie J. Knight and a 
second time to Miss Frankie Faling. He is the father of two children, Alice E. and Lloyd 
I. King. 

John T. Pressly. It is the men of broad and comprehensive views who give life to 
communities and build cities — men who have foresight and energy, pluck and push to for- 
ward their enterprises and still retain an untarnished reputation through it all. Such a man 
is John T, Pressly, ex sheriff of Marion County, Ind., who is now retired from the active 
affairs of life and is enjoying the reward of his early industry. He was born in Preljle 
County, Ohio, May 7, 1831, a son of James and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Pressly, the former of 
whom was born near Charleston, N. C, and the latter in Union County, Ind. When a 
young man James Pressly settled in Preble County, Ohio, where he carried on merchandis- 
ing for a time in the village of Morning Sim, putting up the first building in the place. In 
the spring of 1844 he becanie a resident of Marion County, and having in the meantime 
begun the study of medicine, he began practicing after locating in Marion County, and fol- 
lowed this calling for a number of years. His death occurred in 1848, his wife having pre- 
ceded him to her long home by a number of years. John T. Pressly was about thirteen 
years of age when his parents came to Marion County, and in the common schools of this 



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Hection he received his education. Shortly after tlie family came to Indianapolis young 
Prertsly entered the employ of the State as teamster at the deaf and dunih asylnm, a posi- 
tion he held nearly two years, when he was appointed steward of the asylum to till a 
vacancy. He continued in this capacity about live years, then resigned and became a clerk 
in Smith & Hanley's store. About one year and a half later he began railroading and for 
fifteen years he was a locomotive engineer on the Bee Line road. In the meantime he con- 
ceived the idea of investing in a saw-mill and for some time he furnished lumber to the rail- 
road company, and after retiring from the position of engineer he continued in the saw-mill 
business for about live years and was very successful. He dealt exclusively in walnut lum- 
ber and realized over $40,000 from the business, which he sold in 1873. In 1870 he was 
prevailed uiron by friends to accept a nomination to the city council from what was the 
eighth ward, which had a Democratic majority of 344 and inclnded all territory south of 
East Street to the city limits. The popularity of Mr. Pressly failed to overcome the Demo- 
cratic majority but his defeat was by only thirty-seven votes. The following year he was 
again persuaded to be a candidate and this time was elected by 157 votes, serving as coun- 
cilman one term. In 1876 Mr. Pressly was nominated for sheriff by the Republicans of 
Marion County, and was elected by over 1,900 majority. He was honored by a renomina 
tion in 1878 and again elected, serving as sheriff four years in all, and retiring in 1880. 
Immediately following this he engaged in farming, purchasing a fine tract of 4tlt) acres on 
Crawfordsville pike al)0Ut four miles northwest in Wayne township, which he continues to 
conduct, a considerable portion of his land being devoted to raising stock. He has been 
very prosperous and has beautiful residence property in the city. He was married June 25, 
1855, to Miss Mary A. Dunn, a native of Canada, but who was reared and educated in 
Indianapolis, and to their union two children have been given: Annie E., wife of Daniel 
Chenoweth, and Addie, wife of John ¥. Carson, of the tirm of Carson & Thompson, attor- 
neys. Mr. Pressly is a member of the Masonic order, thirty-second degree, Scottish rite. 
He is a church member in good standing and politically has always been a stanch Republi- 
can. Earnest, faithful and eminently successful in the discharge of his official duties, he 
has succeeded in winning many friends, and he has ever taken a lively interest in every 
movement having for its object the social and moral elevation of the people. He is affable 
and agreeable in manners, has that courtesy that springs from a kind disposition, and he 
has endeared himself to all with whom he has come in contact, whether professionally or as 
a member of society. He has been a widower since June 20, 1888. 

Capt. Jacob L. Bielee. This prominent business man was born in Germany in 1839 
and has been well known in Indianapolis for a good while. He is a sou of Fiedel Bieler, a 
popular and successful German architect aiad contractor, who was born in 1S04 and died in 
his native land at the age of sixty-six years. He was a man of tine educational attainments 
and was exceptionally skillful and artistic as an architect and executed many important con- 
tracts. He had four sous and two daughters, of whom Jacob L. was the second born. 
Capt. Bieler was liberally educated in Germany, having graduated from some of the best in- 
stitutions there. He possesses tine artistic taste and natural talent, and while yet a mere 
boy placed himself under competent instruction to study art as developed under the most 
magical hand of the sculptor; but failing health compelled him to forego the acquisition of 
that profession. In 1856, then sixteen, he came to America and made his home with an 
uncle in Selma, Ala., who was a saddler in good business, and assisted him until 1861. 
For political reasons he did not wish to remain in the South after the beginning of the Civil 
War. He did not sympathize with the Southern movement and he saw the undesirabijity 
of remaining in that country without l)eing able at the same time to espouse the cause of it"s 
people. Coming North, he decided to cast his fortune with those who went to do battle under 
the stars and stripes. Accordingly he lo.st no time in enlisting in the Sixth Indiana (Morton's) 
Battery, and at once went with his command to the seat of war. He participated in the 
fighting at Shiloh, Corinth and other points grown historic through having been the scenes 
of sanguinary engagement in those days. He was disabled near Corinth but served thereafter 
until discharged. Upon his return, he engaged in business as a saddler and harness maker 
and continued successfully for about fifteen years. In 1878 Capt. Bieler was elected to the 
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the time when the great work of improviug the city was begun. He was for a time con- 
nected with the city treasurer's oiSce under the administration of Col. Wiles. In 1880 he 
was elected recorder of Marion County. In all these important positions he performed 
his duties with great credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the general 
jmblic, that hardest of all task-masters. In 1891 he assumed the management of the An- 
heuser-Busch interests at Indianapolis, and under his skillful and energetic direction they 
have grown immensely in volume and popularity, his interests extending to distant parts of 
the State. Capt. Bieler is so known from the fact that he has long been Captain of the 
German Veteran organization. He is also lieutenant-colonel of the popular First Kegi 
nient of the K. of P. As a prominent member of the G. A. R. he is well anil widely known 
as a member of George H. Thomas Post. He is also identified with the K. of P. Masonic 
Fraternity and I. O. O. F., and different societies and clubs, besides being a member of 
the Board of Trade. He was married in 1863 to Miss Caroline M. Hines of Indianapolis, and 
has three children, one son and two daughters. Capt Bieler has proved himself in every re- 
lation a good and useful citizen, always taking a decided stand on the side of practical and 
useful reform or improvement. 

VoLNEY Thomas Malott. Prominent among the people of Indianapolis who have made 
for themselves honorable names, and who have acquired a competency of this world's goods 
largely through their own unaided efforts, is the gentleman whose name forms the heading 
lor this sketch. A native of the Blue Grass State, his birth occurred in Jefferson County 
September 9, 1838, being a son of William H. and Leah P. (McKown) Malott. In 1841 the 
family moved to Salem, Washington County, Ind., where the father, abandoning his life 
pursuit of farming, embarked in mercantile pursuits in partnership with his brother, Major 
Eli W. Malott. Here he died November 5, 18-15, leaving a widow and three children sur- 
viving him. Not long after this the family was further afflicted by the death of the youngest 
child. For a second helpmate Mrs. Malott wedded John F. Ramsey, a prosperous manu- 
facturer and dealer of furniture in Indianapolis, and removing to this city ujude that her 
permanent jilaee of residence. Thomas received his first schooling in Salem under the direc- 
tion of John I. Morrison, afterward State senator from Washington County, and later State 
treasurer. He came to Indianapolis in 1847, and entered a private school kept by Rev. W. 
A. Holliday. Later he took his last scholastic instruction in a half public school kept by 
Benjamin L. Lang in the "Old Seminary," an institution noted in the early days of the 
city. At intervals during his school vacations his aptitude for business and his clerkly 
attainments give him employment as clerk and messenger in the Traders' Bank of Indianap- 
olis, owned by John Woolley and Andrew Wilson. At the age of sixteen he took a perma- 
nent place in the Bank of the Capitol, of which Mr. Woolley was cashier and manager. He 
acted as teller of this bank for two or three years and resigned in 1857 before the storm that 
overtook the State free banks of Indiana organized under the legislative act of 1853, and in 
which that institution went down. Its teller was soon made teller of the Indianapolis Bank 
of the State, intended by its founders to take the place of the old State Bank, whicli has 
proved of incalculable benefit, as well as profitable to the State and other stockholders. But 
the war and its financial necessities broke up what was left of the State free banks under the 
pressure of the National banks, and the Indianapolis branch of the bank of the State passed . 
from existence with others of its kind. It might be too much to say that Mr. Malott's 
api)reuticeship with the banking business, if such it may be termed, which ended in his 
twenty- fourth year, made him a safe and sagacious financier which he has proved himself to be, 
but it is quite certain that it served as a most solid foundation for the structure of success that 
had been erected upon it. One incident of this period illustrates the versatility of his appli- 
cation to business as well as the variety and accuracy of his information of its details. When 
the free banks began to shake under the Huancial strain of 1857, the daily papers of Indian 
apolis found it necessary to follow the market changes of bank values very closely, for the 
public took and gave their bills usually at the rate indicated in the reports in the Indianap- 
olis morning papers. As there were scores of these banks of all degrees of prominence scat- 
tered over the State, ami their bills were circulating everywhere at home, it was no small 
task to keep track of the constant flactuations, but our boyish bank teller did it so carefully 
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This was an enterprise of no little importance for a boy of nineteen, and liis reports and those 
furnished the other papers by the private banking house of Fletcher & Co. really fixed the 
market rates of Indiana currency for many months. In August, 1862, Mr. Malott was 
elected secretary and treasurer of the Peru & Indianapolis Railroad Company, a position 
which he gained at the early age of twenty four years through his reputation as a careful 
and trustworthy business man. The road h:id not proved very successful theretofore, but 
improved conditions soon followed, and aided in milking for Mi'. Malott a reputation as a 
railroad manager e()ualing, if not sar[)assing, his early repute as a banker. In I !^64 he was 
made a State director in the branch bank, of which he had previously been teller, and the 
cashiersbip of which has been tendered to and declined by him in 18i>2. He was now put 
fully in the jiarallel paths of bank and railway management, in which he has moved forward 
for the last quarter of a century. It is notable in this connection that it has rarely happened 
in any country that a j'oung man of twenty-six has by the free selection of competent men, 
determined solely by his reputation for ability and trustworthiness, been placed in two posi- 
tions of such responsibility at the same time. In 1865 he was the acting and directing 
agency in organizing the Merchants' National Bank of Indianapolis, and was made cashier 
of that institution while still retaining his position as secretary and treasurer of the Peru & 
Indianapolis Railway Company. In the spring of 1870 he resigned his place in the Mer- 
chants' Bank to take charge of the construction of the Michigan City tt Indianapolis Rail- 
road, which was finished under his direction the following year, and passed with the Chicago, 
Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad under the control of the Indianapolis, Peru cV Chicago Rail- 
road Company, originally the Peru & Indianapolis Railroad Company, of which Mr. Malott 
was secretary and treasurer, and one of the directors. In 1875 he was elected general man- 
ager of the combined lines, and in 1879 was made vice president, acting as president, and 
taking the management until the wh(jle concern was leased in ISSl to the Waliash, St. Louis 
& Pacific Railroad 'Company. The advance of Mr. Malott in his banking affairs, though he 
gave less time to them than he could devote to them as cashier of the Meiehants' National 
]5ank, kejit pace with his steadily widening reputation and responsibility as a railway man- 
ager. Ill 1878 he was elected ])resident of the Merchants' National Bank, l)ut four years 
later sold liis interest in it and resigned his presidency to take a large interest in the Indiana 
National Bank, which had l)een transformed by the process of naturalization from the Indi- 
anapolis branch of the Bank of the State of Indiana, in which he had served five years as 
teller, and of which he was made president, a position which he has held to the present. 
When the affairs of the Citizens' National Bank were wound up a few years ago, Mr. Malott 
bought its fine stone front banking budding and installed the Indiana National Bank therein, 
a fact which has gone far to establish his reputation as a conservative, thoroughly relialile 
and successful bank manager, was the triumph with which the Indiana National withstood 
the local stringency in 1885, when three private banks, two of them among the oldest in the 
city, went down together. While his railway and banking duties imposed expensive demands 
upon his time and energies, Mr. Malott has at the same time been alive to the value of enter- 
prises or the development of the resources of the State. He aided in organizing the Brazil 
Coal Company, not alone with a view to enlarging the State's fuel supply, l)ut to benefit the 
lake railways which brought down great (piautities of lunil)er with no adequate return freight, 
a deficiency which was supplied by the block and bituminous coal of the great southwestern 
field, of wh'ch Brazil has always been the metropolis. With the same view of enlarging 
railway business and State resources needed in forming the earliest and most extensive ice 
dealing firms in Indiana. In 1886 he helped organize the Brazil National Bank, of which 
he is a director. In 1888 he assisted Harry Bates and others to open an oolitic stone quarr^v 
at Romona, the product of which was largely distributed in Chicago and the North, and as 
far east as New York. He assisted in organizing the company controlling this quarry, and 
is one of its directors, and still retains his interest in the other enterprises mentioned above. 
At this time, in connection with Mr. Hollidav, and others, he is en^a^ed in orffanizincr the 
Union Trust Company of Indianapolis. He has als-o l)uilt several of the largest and finest 
business houses in the city. Soon after he gave up the acting presidency of the Indianapo- 
lis, Peru & Chicago Railroad, he was elected vice president and manager of the Union Rail- 
way Company of Indianapolis, a position in which he encountered more difficulties, prob- 



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ably, than ia any other part of his railway service. He entered the Union Company in 
July, 1883, and in the following September aided in bringing about an agreement for all 
the companies concerned on a new plan of organization. The old arrangement formed by 
three companies in 1849, when the old Madison, now part of the Indianapolis & Jefferson- 
ville lines were the only lines completed to Indianapolis and the other two were barely organ- 
ized, provided for the enlargement of the company from time to time, by the admission of 
other companies, as their roads were completed and it became necessary for them to use 
the Union tracks and depot. But the organization has remained unchanged in other respects, 
and was hardly applicable to the then present condition. Through the influence of Mr. Malott 
this scheme of organization was sanctioned by an act in the Legislature in 1885, which fur- 
ther authorized the formation of Union companies in all the cities of the State having a 
population of 50,000 or more. At this time the matter of a new Union depot, or station 
building and the necessary adjuncts was broached and discussed, but without reaching any 
conclusion till after the State Legislature had legalized the change. Meanwhile, pending 
the scheme of reorganization and the legal authorization to act under it, the Belt Railway, 
then circling the greater pait of the city in connecting all the railways but one, was used for 
the transfer of freight by l)ut one or two roads, the others running through and across 
the city streets, to the general discomfort and danger of the people. One of Mr. 
Malott' s first important acts, as manager of the Union Company, was to require all the 
roads to make their transfers of freight by the Belt llailway outside of the city when 
it was possible to do so without serious inconvenience. This order was issued May 1, 
1884. To give it effect he superintended the extension of the Belt Railway so as to 
connect all railroads running into the city. After the legalization of the new organization 
of the Union Company, in the winter of 1885, the subject of a new station building came 
up in a more definite and urgent form. Plans were prepared and submitted to the City 
Council for approval in 1886, additional grounds were purchased, a loan was obtained on 
long bonds for $1,000,000, and work on the Imilding was begun. The structure was com- 
pleted in Septemljer, 1888, and is regarded as the handsomest and most commodious station 
building in the United States. This grand building, costing so princely a sum, is in some 
sort a memorial of Mr. Malott' s administration of the affairs of the Union Railway Com- 
pany, the responsibilities of which he resigned in August, 1889. Ma_v 18, 1889, at the re- 
questor all the parties concerned, he was ajjpointed by Judge Gresliam of the United States 
Circuit Court receiver of the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Company, the affairs of which 
occupied his time almost entirely until Fel)ruary, 1891, when the receivership was closed, 
the indebtedness having been paid in full, the property having been greatly imjnoved and 
Mr. Malott having discharged the trust reposed in him with the entire satisfaction of the 
court and of all interested parties. June 4, 1890, Mr. Malott was elected president of the 
Chicago & AVesteru Indiana Railroad Company and of the company owning the Belt Rail- 
road of Chicago. He declined a re-election at the annual meeting of the stockholders of 
these corporations in June, 1891, not having sufficient time to devote to the business which 
the olfice imposed upon him, whereupon the office of chairman of the board of directors 
was created and the jirincipal financial matter was placed in the hands of the chairman. 
This office Mr. Malott accepted and has since held. He is also director of the Chicago & 
Erie Riihoad Company. Mr. Malott was never a politician. He has had matters of more 
interest and importance to attend to, but mainly because, though a Republican, he was not 
a politician. He was appointed by the State officers one of the three police commissioners 
of Indianapolis, in which position he served nearly two years. 

Samuel Schuck. Of late years no form of investment has become so popular with the 
conservative public as judiciously selected real estate. Just now the market is active, and 
among those cons|)icuous in the operations that are now going on is Samuel Schuck. a mem- 
ber of the firm of Samuel Schuck & Co., Haughville, Ind., dealers in real estate, loans, 
rents, fire insurance, etc. Mr. Schuck has always enjoyed a high reputation and the esteem 
and confidence of all having dealings with him. All who come in contact with him either 
socially or in a business way, pronounce him a gentleman in every respect, and jiatrons can 
depend upon any and all representations made by him, and that their interests will always be 
protected. He was born near Dayton, Ohio, August 4, 1859, and is a son of George and 



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^rimiip (Lpii;litner) Sehiiok, natives of (Tennany. The father remained in his native country 
until 1854 and then crossed the ocean to America. He was married near Dayton, Ohio, to 
Miss Leightner, who was also born in the old country, l)ut who came to the United States 
with her parents when a little girl seven years of age. Mr. Sehuck was a potter by 
trade and worked at the same most of his life, his death occurring October In, 1889, near 
Wapakoneta, Ohio. The mother is still living and resides in Haughville. Intl. Samuel 
Si'huck attained his growth near Dayton, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools. He 
was engaged in tilling the soil until twentysix years of age. after which he came to Haugh- 
ville and learned the core making trade, at which he worked a short time when he was made 
foreman, continuing in that capacity for four years. He then resigned and engaged in the 
real estate business in April, IS'-'l, since which time he has given his entire attention to that 
and to insurance. He deals in real estate in all )^arts of the country and represents .some of 
the leading tire insurance companies. Mr. Sehuck was married May ti. ISDl. to Miss Odessa 
Hurst, a native of Illinois, and the daughter of Stephen C. and Ellen (Worrell) Hurst. Mr. 
and Mrs. Sehuck are memliers of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Sehuck is a Kegular 
Baptist and one of the stewards of the same. He is a Kepul)lican in politics. 

Fi!.\NKLiN H.ws, M. D. It has come to be a recognized fact with the medical fraternity 
and with the general public, that owing to the advance of science and the multiplication of 
facilities for ac(juiring knowledge and practice, many of the younger physicians of to day 
are better informed and more skillful practitioners than were many of the old physicians a 
couple of generations ago. In every large city in the United States, and well as in many of 
the better of the country towns, the young doctor is the more popular of the two classes 
mentioned, and has the larger practice. During recent years some of the younger physi- 
cians of Indianapolis have gained reputations for skill and eificiency in their professions 
which has made ipiite a number of them known throughout the State and a few i>f them 
throughout the United States. A fair representative of the physicians of this type and one 
who has done much to snstain the reputation they have attained as a class, is Dr. Franklin 
Hays who, though a young man, stands by virtue of real merit and well known achieve- 
ments, among the most prominent medical men of the citv. Dr. Hays was born in Eldo- 
rado. Ohio, April 2, 1S5S. On his father's side his ancestry was of the sturdy jiioneer class 
who located in the conunonwealths of Georgia and Tennessee, where the family became con- 
spicuously identitied with public interests, representing their States most ably in times of 
war and in times of peace, and in the Civil War some of them achieved distinction both 
under the stars and stripes and the stars and bars. James C. Hays, Esq., the father of Dr. 
Hays, was a merchant of jirominence who traced his lineage to this tine line of old Southern 
pioneers. The Doctor's mother. Sarah J. (Clevenger) Hays, is descende<l from what may be 
comprehensively described as Scotch Irish Presbyterian .stock, leading back to Colonial days 
in this country, and numbers among her kindred many persons who have attained distinction 
in peace and in war since the days of the Bevolntion, notable among such in late years lieing 
Shnbael Clevenger, the well known American sculptor, whose genius and labors have made 
him a name on both sides of the Atlantic. The parents of Dr. Hays removed from Ohio to 
Indiana and lived in Columbus. Bartholomew County, untfl he had advanced in life to his 
eighteenth year. In the high school at Columbus he acquired the l)asis of a sound educa- 
tion, and later, he entered the Kentucky University at Lexington, where, while giving due 
attention to the curriculum as a whole, he made a special study of literature and the natural 
sciences. Upon the completion of his collegiate course he took uj) the study of medicine 
under the direction of Dr. Grove, of Columl)ns. and pursued it later with Drs. Howard and 
>[artin. of Greentield. and later still with Drs. P. H. and Henry Jameson, of Indianapolis, 
until he compieteil the course in the Medical College of Indiana, from which he was gradu- 
ated with much distinction in 1880 with the degree of M. D. While yet an under graduate 
in this institution he was elected an assistant to the chair of chemistry and toxicology. 
After graduation he was continued as assistant in the chair of chemistry, and until 1883 was 
librarian and registrar. In the year last mentioned he was appointed lecturer on dermatol-. 
ogy and venereal diseases, and at the same time was made superintendent of Bobb's Free 
Dispensary. In the interval he had taken a post graduate course in the medical department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, and had further perfected himself for the duties and 



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responsibilities of his profession in the hospitals of Philadelphia and New York prior 
to his acceptance of the chair of dermatology, etc., above referred to. His valuable labors 
in connection with his alma mater made him a leadiucr spirit in the reorganization of the 
institution which resulted in the establishment of the Medical College of Indiana as one of 
the foremost colleges of the West, devoted to the preparation of men for the practice of the 
profession of medicine and surgery, and the general advancement of medical learning. 
Three years later Dr. Hays was elected to the professorship in the faculty of this institution, 
succeeding the late Dr. Charles E. Wright in the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, to 
which was added dermatology. He was also made secretary of the college and faculty, and 
the signal ability with which he has performed the functions of both positions to the present 
time is well known both in and out of the profession. He has been honored by the Alumni 
of the college by an election to its presidency for one term and to its secretaryship for three 
successive terms. He is an active and valuable member of the Marion County Medical 
Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is on 
the consulting staff of tbe Indianapolis City Hospital, the City Dispensary and St. Vin- 
cent's Hospital, of the last named of which he was for several years attending physician. 
While the duties devolving upon him in these relations are performed with the utmost fidel- 
ity, be does not permit them to encroach on the time which belongs legitimately to his large 
general ]iractice in the city. When it is further stated that Dr. Hays has a large consulta- 
tion practice in Indiana and adjoining States, it will be believed that he must of necessity 
be a very busy man, and all physicians and many business men will concede to him the pos- 
session of a wonderfully systematic executive capacity and a most vigorous physical consti- 
tution as the first requisite to the accomplishment of the vast amount of labor devolving 
upon him in these varied relations. Notwithstanding all the demands upon his time and 
energies which have been referred to and which he meets with a conscientious devotion to 
duty, he manages to find opporttinity for social duties, in the jierformance of which he has 
gained extensive and well founded popularity in the large circle of society and club friends. 
An active Mason of high standing and a member of many of its orders, including the 
Ancient Scottish Rite, the Doctor is identified also with the order of the Mystic Shrine and 
other fraternal organizations, as well as with the Commercial Club and the leading social 
clubs of the city. In the city of his adoption Dr. Hays is held in the highest esteem as a 
public spirited citizen, always ready to lend his aid most practically and in a most liberal 
degree to all charities and movements tending to benefit his fellow citizens or any deserving 
or unfortunate class of them. He was happily married June 25, 1884, to Miss Louella 
Graves White, daughter of the late Thomas White, Esq., of Memphis, Tenu., well known as 
a banker and as an owner of extensive plantations. Busch Hays and Thomas Whitcomb 
Hays are two interesting little sons who complete the happiness of the Doctor's home. It is 
a well recognized fact among the medical fraternity of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana 
that no endeavor is regarded by Dr Hays as too laborious, no means too expensive which 
gives any promise of aiding him to keep abreast of or in advance of his profession, and with 
this object in view, he has supplemented the knowledge he has gained in his regular medical 
course in his practice and through varied and studious reading, by observation obtained in 
several visits to the hospitals of Europe and by annual tours of the East to visit the leading 
hospitals of the United States. 

Napoleon B. T.wlor. The flippant tone of many writers and the tendency of the age 
to cast into ridicule, if not into downright contempt, so much of what was formerly regarded 
as sacred, has had its effect upon opinion as to the merits of those holding offices of honor 
and trust. In fact, the highest servant of the people, the president of the United States, 
even, is not protected from the sneers of the scorner and the witling. In this age of ridi- 
cule, much of which is thoughtless and unmeaning and unmeant, it is true, it is peculiarly 
gratifying that the judiciary has escaped the shafts of envy and the darts of the silly. This 
speaks volumes in praise of those into whose hands is given such great power, the issues of 
life and death and the determination of the rights of ]iroperty-^ the judges of the land. And 
this is true — and every good citizen should rejoice greatly that it is so— that while coriuption 
has often found its way into high places, and many officials have been recreant to their trusts, 
the ermine has remained unspotted. Nowhere under God's footstool can there be found a 



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class of men who, nndpr all circumstances and conditions, have remained so true to them 
selves and so true to the sacred and important trusts given into their hands as the judges in 
the several States in the Union. Worthy a place in the distinguished ranks where he is 
found is the subject of this sketch, the Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, judge of the Superior 
Court, No. 1, of Indianapolis. He comes of a good old English stock, having been born in 
Campbell County, Ky.. in October, 1820, being the son of Robert A. and Mary (Vyze) Tay- 
lor, natives of Mason County, Ky., and of Virginia, respectively. The family is of English 
origin and can show a worthy and honest succession for several generations. The paternal 
grandfather, Robert Taylor, was orderly sergeant in Capt. Bell's company, under Gen. 
Stevens at Yorktown, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. This patriotic man 
was also in the Indian wars in Kentucky and with Gen. Wayne in his Indian campaigns. 
A man of superior education and of great good sense, he was very popular and widely 
known. To his avocation as a farmer be added school teaching and was an educator of de- 
cided repute. As soon as peace was declared, in 1783, he removed to Mason County, Ky. , 
subsequently going to Pendleton County, in the same State, where he died in 1851. The 
father of our subject was a mechanic and a native of Mason County, Ky. ; was reared in 
Pendleton County until he was seventeen years old, when he enlisted in the army in the War 
of 1812, serving in Capt. Childress' company of mounted riflemen, in the command of Gen. 
William Henry Harrison. After peace was declared he learned the trade of a bricklayer in 
Mason Connty. Ky., and followed the same all his life. When he came to Indianapolis, as 
he did January 26, 1826, he found it a small village of 300 inhabitants. The journey was 
made from Kentucky in wagons and was a slow and somewhat inconvenient mode of locomo- 
tion. He first rented a little house at what is now the corner of Washington and Alabama 
Streets, Judge Wick, then secretary of State, occupying the opposite corner. The father of 
our subject became a prominent contractor and built a large number of houses in the then 
fast growing city. A pioneer of the county and a man of ripe intelligence, with deep con- 
victions upon every subject of general interest, he could not fail of being widely known, and 
all who knew respected him. His convictions in politics and religion were especially 
earnest, and he had the courage to express his views when the occasion seemed to require it, 
he being a Democrat of the Jackson school and a devout member of the Christian Church. 
This tine type of o])en and honoraWe manhood died February 7, 1866. his wife having pre- 
ceded him, she passing away July 3, 1863. Their married life was one of peace and happi- 
ness and they were the parents of six children, four of whom are living. The subject of our 
sketch is the eldest of the family and was in his fifth year when his parents came to Indian- 
apolis. Here he grew to manhood, leceiving his education first in private schools and then 
in Marion County Seminary, taking a full literary and scientific course and becoming a very 
good Latin and French scholar. Judge Taylor was brought up to work, being taught that 
idleness was something worse than a vice and that it might be a crime. He acquired a me- 
chanical trade, pursuing the same diligently when he was not at school and when the duties 
of the farm would permit. At the age of twenty-two he began the study of the law. to 
which he had long felt a strong drawing, under the well-known linns of Fletcher & Butler, 
and Quarles & Bradley, at the same time burning the midnight oil in the privacy of bis 
own chamber, while grappling with the knotty problems laid down in the text-books. He 
passed his examination before the Supreme Court and was licensed to practice in ]S-i3. 
After securing his license he continued to read law until 1848 without attempting to prac- 
tice before that time, being resolved to thoroughly inform himself before accepting cases 
from clients. From the date last named until he was elected judge of the Superior Court, 
he pursued the practice with conscientious and painstaking care, giving to every case the 
best energies of his nature and seeking the vindication of his clients as though the issues 
of life and death were involved in it. And to this earnest and able service is due much of 
the fame that so properly attaches to his name. He was first elected to his present high 
and honorable position in November. 1882, and has held it continuously ever since. In the 
year 1849 he formed a law partnership with John L. Ketcham, which lasted two years, and 
in 1853 Gen. John Coburn became his associate, this partnership continuing until 1856. 
From this date until 1869 he practiced alone, but in that year his son, Edwin Taylor, was 
taken into partnership with him, and this continued until 1872, when the firm name be- 



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came Taylor, Rand & Taylor, this last remaining until the elevation of the subject of our 
sketch to the hench. Judge Taylor was elected city attorney in 1S53 and held that re- 
sponsible position until 1856, discharging its duties with distinguished ability and with a 
conscientious regard for the interests of the city and of the community. While practicing 
law. Judge Taylor enjoyed a large and very lucrative practice and stood confessedly at the 
head of the bar of Indianapolis, where were, as now, a most able body of lawyers. He was 
a most able and forcible speaker, and whether addressing the court or a jury, delivered con- 
vincing arguments that rarely failed of winning his case. So carefully was every case pre- 
pared that he appeared to make no effort at all, but to reach results by a sort of spontaneous 
and extempore coups. This is the very climax of genius, to <lo great things without seem- 
ing to put forth any strength. Among the various duties he has been called upon to per- 
form was that of school tnistee, along in the fifties, and this he discharged with the same 
painstaking care that has marked him in all things. He tills the olfice of judge with great 
dignity and with an ability that stamps him the peer of the ablest in the country. His 
sense of justice is acute, he possessing in a remarkable degree what the lawyers term the 
judicial mind. Inflexibly honest and no respecter of persons, his decisions are character- 
ized by fairness that is never questioned, and with such strict regard for the facts, the evi- 
dence and the law and precedents, that it is rarely known for one of them to be overruled. 
For a period of several years he has served as president of the Marion County Library, and, 
in fact, he is frequently called upon to discharge some duty for the well-being of the com- 
munity, his kind and generous nature preventing him from declining, and his known ability 
and fairness causing the citizens to call upon him, their desire for his services causing them 
to overlook the fact that they may overtax his strength. But if they were to do so he would 
be the last one to make complaint. The community has no citizen more useful and neces- 
sary to it than Judge Taylor, and while he is a devoted member of the Democratic jiarty, 
his friends are of all shades of political conviction. The Judge occupies a beautiful home 
on North Illinois Street and his dwelling place is one of peace and happiness. He has 
reared a family of sis children, namely: Edwin, a lawyer of Evansville, Ind. ; Agnes, Mary, 
Catherine, Harold and Josephine. Happy in his home and in his most interesting family, 
the years of Judge Taylor pass along undisturbed, and, besides a conscience that is void of 
offense toward any of his fellow creatures, he is sustained by a firm and unfaltering faith in 
the religion of the Bible. He is a memljer of the Christian Church. Since the above was 
written Judge Taylor has passed from earth, his death being greatly lamented. 

WiLLiAJi H.WDEN English. This distinguished son and representative of Indiana was 
born at Lexington, Scott County, August 27, 18'2'2, a son of Elisha G. English, a pioneer 
of the State, and for forty years the incumbent of various positions of trust and official 
importance. Philip Eastin, his maternal grandfather, was a gallant officer in the war of 
the Kevolution. On the maternal side, his mother was descended from Jost Hite, that his- 
toric character who was the head and guide of the German colony which in 1732 settled the 
Virginia Valley. Major Josejih and lieutenant Isaac Bowman, both identified with Indiana 
in her pioneer days as officers under Colonel George Rogers Clark, at the time of his cam- 
paign through this part of the country, were also descendants of Jost Hite. The former, 
who was second in command of the expedition, died in the fort at Vincennes during the 
year following its capture from the British. For his military services. Lieutenant Bowman 
was granted a large tract of land on the Ohio, opposite Louisville, and he gave a part of it 
as the original town site of Jeffersonville, which he named in honor of President Jefferson, 
who was his warm personal friend and who drew the town plat. After acquiring such edu- 
cation as the common schools of his time and locality afforded, the subject of this sketch 
attended Hanover College several years, and, studying law, very early in life assumed 
important responsibilities. When the Democratic State convention of 1840 was held at 
Indianapolis, Mr. English was one of the two delegates from Scott County in that body, 
though he was but eighteen years old at the time. The other delegate from that county was 
his father, a member of the Legislature then in session, and the two cast their influence for 
the nomination of Tilghman A. Howard for governor. In going to the State capital Mr. 
English traveled on horseback, there being then no railroads in the State, and it took him 
three days to make the journey. The weather was extremely cold at the time (the conven- 



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vpiition was hfild January 8) but the young Democrat thought little of that. In 1843. 
when James Wliitcomh whh nominated for governor, Mr. English was principal secretary of 
the convention. To follow his history in this connection down to the present time would be 
to writ(> very largely the history of every Democratic State convention in Indiana during 
tiie past tifty years, for he has l)een prominent in very nearly all of theuj. Before he had 
attained bis majority he had been deputy clerk of his county and postmaster of his town, 
and was duly licensed to practice law, and within the succeeding two years he was licensed 
to practice in the Indiana Supreme Court, and that too under the old rigid system of thorough 
examinations. He was the principal clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives in 
in 1848 44, and in 1850 was principal secretary of the State convention which framed the 
constitution of Indiana, and he was a member and speaker of the first House of Representa- 
tives elected under that constitution. During the administration of President Polk he held 
a clerkship in the Treasury Department at Washington, and about 1850 lie was the incum- 
bent of a clerkship in tlie United States Senate. He was four times elected to Congress 
and served diiring the eight years of intense excitement immediately preceding ttie Civil 
War, a period of most important national legislation, with which he was closely and influen- 
tially identified. He was the author of a compromise measure relating to the admission of 
Kansas as a State which became a law and excited much acrimonious discussion, known as 
"the English bill." He was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington from 
1858 to 18^)1. During all this period of political prominence and activity in connection 
with tiie momentous events prece<ling the War of the States. Mr. English bore himself as a 
statesman and patriot and has ever borne the reputation of an uncompromising foe to dis- 
union. In ISfil he declined a nomination to Congress in order to engage in banking. In 
1880 he was unanimously nominated for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket 
with Gen. Hancock. This ticket received a greater number of votes in Indiana than the 
Democratic State ticket had received a few weeks previously, despite the fact that the 
result of that and other State elections had pretty clearly foreshadowed a Republican victory 
in the Presidential contest. More than thirty years ago Mr. English, in connection with J. 
F. D. Lanier, then a great banker of New York, but before that time a citizen of Indiana, 
and George W. Riggs, of the celebrated banking house of Corcoran & Riggs, of Washing- 
ton, D. C. , and others, established the first "'First National Bank of Indiaua))olis," and he 
was for fourteen years its president. During that long period it was one of the most ably 
conducted and prosperous banks in the country, and through his administration as its chief 
executive office Mr. English won a reputation as a financier no less brilliant than that which he 
had acquired as a statesman. Mr. English's connection with the convention which in 1850 
framed the constitution of the State and his membership of the first Legislature elected there 
after, have been mentioned. In 1885 there was a reunion at Indianapolis of the survivors of 
that convention and assembly and of all previous Legislatuies. If was an event of the utmost 
pul)lic interest and was participated in by such men as Thomas A. Hendricks. Richard W. 
Tliompson, William S. Holman, William E. Niblack, Alvin P. Hovey and other political 
celebrities of the earlier days, and during the session it was determined that some action 
should be taken to insure the perpetuation of the early history of the State and its public 
men, and in view of his well known literary ability and his intimate knowledge of and 
enthusiasm for the subject, Mr. English was selected to perform this patriotic but onerous 
task, and he has since devoted much of his time to gathering the materials for and writing 
this work, the progress of which is of so much interest to all intelligent citizens of the 
State and the appearance of which is most anxiously awaited. His interest in everything 
pertaining to the history of the State of his nativity and life long residence is very great, 
and for several years he has been president of the Indiana Historical Society. Mr. Eng- 
lish for ten years held the controlling interest in all the street railway lines in Indianapolis 
and for a long period was largely identified with the business of that jirosperous city. He 
was one of the originators of the Indianapolis Clearing House, and its president as long as 
he remained in the banking business. He was also the author of the first resolutions 
adopted in favor of building the great Indiana State soldiers monument, now far advanced 
towards completion, and of which he is one of the commissioners. Mr. English was married 
in 1847 to Miss Emma M. Jackson, of Virginia, who died in 1877, leaving two children, 



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Will E. English, a popular and inriiiential citizen of Indianapolis, and Rose English, now 
the wife of Doctor Willoughby Walling, of Chicago. 

Fbed J. Mack. One of those business men whose probity is well known and whose 
career has been distinguished for enterprise is Fred J. Mack, house and fresco painting con- 
tractor, who has followed this line of work from the time he was seventeen years of age. 
His birth occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, on January a. IS54. Fred J. Mack, Sr., his father, 
was born in the German Empire and came to this country when a young man of twenty-six 
years, and u|) to 1807 was a resident of the city of Cleveland, then moved to New Haven, 
Ind. , and for many years was quite extensively engaged in the boot and shoe business, but 
for some time past he has been retired from active life. Before coming to this country he 
served for some time in the German army, according to the laws of that country, and several 
years after his arrival in Cleveland was married in that city. The subject of this sketch re- 
ceived his early training in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, which were exceptionally 
good, but it only continued until his thirteenth year at which time he began working in a 
factory in Cleveland and later in New Haven. At the age of eighteen years he came to In- 
dianapolis, and here served an apprenticeship with Henry Range, the fresco painter, and to 
this occupation his attention has been given ever since, but much of his attention 
is given to house and sign painting, in which he is an expert. In 1877 Mr. Mack 
began business for himself and has continued ever since in his present business. He has a 
great deal of extensive and difficult work, but has ever vindicated his reputation as a skillful 
sign [)aiuter, and now has all the contracts that he can possibly fill. His capital on starting 
out for himself was almost nothing, but through honest, business like methods he has worked 
up an extensive trade, and although it was at first very hard to gain a foothold on the ladder 
of success, he iinally accomplished this and has accumulated a competency. Mr. Mack has 
been a memlier of the city council twice, from 1882 to 1886, and served on the first commit- 
tee on public light and the committee on public property, Vieing chairman of the latter. In 
18111 he was choseu a member of the State Legislature from Marion County, and while a 
memlier of that body was on the public building committee, in fact was a wide-awake in- 
telligent and active legislator whose reputation was incorruptable and unassailable. He 
has always taken a deep and active interest in the political affairs of the daj' and the success 
of the Democrat party, of which he is a member, has always been near to his heart. He is a 
member of the Hendricks Club and has held the position of marshall, and is chairman of 
the American Democratic Club. Socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the K. of P., 
the Elks, the Druids and the Commercial Club. He also belongs to the Builders' Exchange, 
the Master Painters' Association, and was chosen juesident at the time of the organization of 
the latter society. In addition to these orders he belongs to the Castle Hall Association, is 
a member of the German Orphan Society, the Maennerchor Singing Society, the Independent 
Turners' Society, and the Manual Training Society, and also assisted in the organization of 
other societies of note. In 1876 he was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Beck, a native 
of Germany who was brought to this conntry by her parents, and their union has been 
blessed in the birth of four sons and two daughters. Mr. Mack is universally respected in 
business and social, as well as in political circles, and has become noted as a generous pro- 
moter of humane objects and a careful adherence to those details that aid in building up a 
man's name in connection with good citizenship. His standing in business circles is of the 
highest and he is held in great esteem as a man of equital)le and conservative principles. 

John H.\rtje. Were it possible to get at the antecedeuts of the men who have suc- 
ceeded and who have failed in this coimtry, it would be clearly demonstrated that the 
unsuccessful are they, mainly, who embarked in a business of which they knew nothing 
believing themselves that they could prosper because somebody else had. John Hartje, 
florist, with place of business on Illinois Street, between Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth 
Streets, Indianapolis, was brought up to the business which he now follows, and therefore 
could hardly fail to succeed. He has had thirteen years of practical experience, for at that 
period he started in the business as an employe of Henry Hilker, on St. Joseph Street. 
Born in Covington, Ky. , January 3. 1865, the son of Frederick Hartje, who was born in 
Germany, in 1823, he came to the United States after reaching manhood. He resided in 
Covington, Ky., for a number of years, where he worked at his trade of cabinet making, in 



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which l)ii8iness he was remarkably successful. He was a Union sympathizer dining the great 
Civil War, but in after life never took any active part in politics. He was for many years 
an active worker and member of the German Methodist Ejii.scopal Church and frequently 
served as superintendent of the Sunday school. His widow still lives in Covino.ton Ky 
John Hartje is the youngest of four children and obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Covington. When about thirteen years of age he entered the establish- 
ment of Henry Hilker. as above stated. Although he has on Iv been established in busi- 
ness on his own account for the past two years, he has made many valuable improve 
ments in bis conservatories, and being enterprising and ambitious to try all new methods 
in his line of work, although he at all times uses discretion in this, he "will without doubt 
go on making many more notable improvements. He has 5,000 square feet under crlass 
and makes a specialty of raising carnations and has some magnificent new varieties which 
be produced by careful crossing. He is a member of the Indianapolis Florist's Club and 
of this organization was secretary for three years. He is also a member of the So'cietv 
of Indiana Florists, was assistant secretary five years: is a member of the American Car 
nation Society of the Society of American Flori.sts and of the American Chrysanthemum 
Society. In addition to growing carnations, he devotes some of his time to the raisino' 
of violets and tine chrysanthemums, all of which are sold at wholesale to the florists who 
have stores in the city. He has always been an active worker in the interests of floriculture 
and has rendered valuable services during the chrysanthemum shows held in Indianapolis' 
c. ; V,'"';!"', ?■ .^^■'*«-^«''- ^I- D. Only four of the charter members of the Indiana 
State Medical Society are living, and one of them is Dr. William H. Wishard, who delivered 
the ad.lress at the fnrti^^h anniversary of that bo.ly. Dr. Wishard was born in Nicholas 
County. Ky.. January 1 ., 1810, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather William 
\\ ishard was a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, who there married Susan Lvttle and 
who, in Ino emigrated to America, being six months making the voyage on an old-time 
sailing vessel. This emigrant settled in Delaware and served the cause of the colonies in 
the war of the Revolution, participating in numerous important euga<rements After Amer 
ican indeijendence was assured he removed with his family to Red Stone Fort in western 
Pemisylvania, and there John Wishard. father of Dr. William H. Wishard. a grandfather 
of Dr Wilbam N. \A ishard, was born in 171)2, the seventh son and eleventh child of his 
paren s in order of nativity. Late in the year J7U3 Mr. Wishard. the emigrant i.ioneer and 
patriot, improvised a rude Hatboat. which he launched up<m the Monougahela River and 
with his family and portable effects floated down to Kentucky and located on Licking River 
III Nicholas Cuuiity. m the midst of a dense wilderness, thus becoming one of the very 
earliest pioneers of that section of the country. Here the paternal grandj.arents of our sub"- 
.lect passed the remainder of their lives, bis maternal grandparents, John and Martha 
Oliver, who were natives of Virginia, being also pioneers of Kentucky. They located at 
Lexington about 1 <80, and John Oliver assisted in the erection of the old fort at that place 
Ihey afterward lived and their remains lie buried in Nicholas County. Ky. . where John Wish' 
aid was reared and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits nutif hi.s" removal to Indiana 
He married Agnes H^ Oliver and reared a family of eleven chihlren. six of whom are living 
Upon emigrating to Indiana he located on the BlulT roa.l in Johnson County, nine miles and 
a halt soutlj ot Inilianapolis. where he encamped on the evening of October 26 ]8'>5 hav 
ing purchased land there the year before. On the night after their arrival, and o"n many 
"ights thereafter during succeeding years the family heard the wolves howlin<r in the 
wilderness all about them. During the Blackhawk and Indian Wars John Wishard com- 
manded a company of mounted riflemen and was later colonel of a regiment organized in 
John.son Coiinty. He died at Greenwood, Ind.. September 8. 1878, his wife bavins died i 
August, 1849. Dr. William H. W^ishard was in his tenth year when the family came lo 
Indiana. Be.ng the eldest of the family he was obliged to busy himself constantly in assist- 
ing us parents in various ways, and many were the exciting semes in which he T.articipated 

^wT, H i T' ^ '^'JT''- f ^^' °°'' °'»^^ '" "'^ ^=''' «f ^826, when returning from mill 
alone in the darkness of dense forest, and considerably more than a mile from the cabin of 
any settler, he unexpectedly came upon a pack of wolves disputing the possession of a 
wounded deer they had captured. It was an unpleasant situation.^to say\he least for a 




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bovof twelve years to find hi. only patliway home blocked by titteen or twenty hungry 
wolves, but summoning all his courage and retaining his presence of mind in a wonderful 
de-ree for one so young, he made a detour through the brush wood at one side of the road 
and as silently and as expeditiously as possible passed out of the vicinity of this maddened 
P'lck of the most dreaded denizens of the forest and in due time reached his father s house 
in safety In those pioneer days opportunities for obtaining an education on the frontier 
were very meager and were contine.l entirely to those afforded by the 8ul)scr,ption schools 
durinc- the winter months, the balance of the year being devoted to clearing the land and 
puttin'cr in, harvesting and storing the crops. Under these conditions Dr. Wishard grew to 
manhood, but he took the best possible advantage of every opportunity afforded ban, and at 
the acre of twenty two began the stndv of medicine under the direction of Dr. Benjamin J< . 
Noble of Greenwood, Johnson County. He took his first course of lectures at the Ohio 
Medical Oolloge at Cincinnati, and began practice as a partner of his preceptor at Green- 
wood in the spring of 1.S40. This partnership was terminated three years later Mean- 
time ill the winter of 1S4S 4*.l, Dr. Wishard was graduated from the Indiana Medical Col- 
leae'at La Forte During the Civil War he served two years as a volunteer surgeon, a part 
of^the time in Held service and a part of the time in charge of hospital boats on the Missis- 
sippi River In 1864 he located at South port, Marion County, where he soon acquired a 
larcre and successful practice. In October, 1876, he was elected coroner of Marion County, 
and removed to Indianapolis, and in 1878 he was re-elected, serving two terms, aggregating 
four vears Since Locating in this city he has had an extensive and most lucrative practice, 
and althoucrh now well advanced in years, he continued to do much active and exacting 
work The'' younger physicians of the city regard him as one of the fathers of the profes^ 
sion in the State, for he had had an unl)roken practice extending through a long period of 
fifty three years. He was one of the charter members of the Indiana State Medical Society, 
and as has been stated, he is one of only four of its charter members who are now living 
He was president of the society in 1887, and as such delivered a most interesting historical 
address at the fortieth anniversary of its organization. He is a member also of the Marion 
County Medical Society and of the National Medical Association. Dr. Wishard was marrie.l 
December 17, 1840, to Harriet N. Moreland, daughter of Rev. John R. Moreland, the sec- 
ond pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, and celebrated his golden wed- 
dincr February 17, 18U0. Nine children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Wishard, four of whom 
died in infancy or childhood. Those living at the present time are Dr. William N. Wishard 
and his brothers, Albert W. and George W. Wishard, and their sisters, Harriet J and 
Elizabeth. In his early life Dr. Wishard was in politics an old line Whig. In 1 'Sab he 
voted for Gen. Fremont, the first nominee of the Republican party for the presidency ot tlie 
United States, and he has voted for every nominee of that party for the same distinguished 
office from that day to this. He is a member of the G. A. R., and in everything pertaiiiiug 
to it takes the deepest interest. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and the Doctor has represented the Indianapolis Presbytery in general assembly at Phila- 
delphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Portland, Ore. 

T B Linn. The suliject of this sketch is a gentlemen of ripe intelligence and a man 
of larcre benevolence and broad sympathies. He is a citizen of Indianapolis and the su- 
preme recorder of the order of Chosen Friends, which owes its name to his suggestion, while 
throacrh his agency this organization has taken a strong and permanent hold upon public 
contid°ence. Mr. Linn was born in Millersburg, Ohio, January 23, 1842, being the son ot 
Cicero and Margaret B. (Tidball) Linn; the father having been born in Je^flerson County, 
May 12 1812, and the mother near Wheeling, W. Va., December 31, 181*. I he parents 
emigrated to Ohio at an early day, the father settling at Millersburg when about eighteen 
years old, following the occu'pation of a merchanttailor until 1850. Then he began farming, 
an avocation he has since followed, he now residing upon a farm eight miles west of Millers- 
burg The paternal great grandfather of our subject was a patriot soldier of the Revolu- 
tionary Warand also fought in the War of 1812. He came to this country from Germany 
his native home, and blazed out a home for himself in W^estmoreland County, lenn., and 
founded the town of Bnrgettstown, which was named after himself. He was killed by ac- 
cident in this coiintv (Westmoreland), when over eighty years of age. The ancestors of the 



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raolber of our subject descended from Dr. Brownliill, court physician of William. Prince of 
Orange (William III, of England), who was taken prisoner in one of the Scottish wars and 
kept for a number of years, when he etTected his escajie and came to America with his wife 
and only daiigiitcr. The latter met and fell in love with Mr. Tidbali when on the journey 
and afterward married him; from this marriage sprang the Tidbali family in the United 
States. Grandfather Tidbali was a prominent physician of Millersburg." where lie died, 
after a life of great nspfulaess; and his family consisted of two sons, who became Presbv' 
terian ministers, and tive daughters, the mother of our subject being second. The parents 
of our subject had thirteen children, namely: John B., a farmer oi Sterling, Colo. ; Zech- 
ariah S., deceaseil; Thomas B., our subject; Cicero B., a jeweler of Houston, Tex. : Elizabeth 
A., deceased; Ezekiel C, a physician of Monmouth, 111.. Maria J. McClellan, of Canton, 
Ohio; William J., a physician of lola, Kan. ; Casper M., deceased; Julia M. Appelman. de' 
deased; Sarah A. Hull, deceased; .\lbert, deceased, and Alberta, deceased. The subject of 
our sketch, the third member of this large family, was reared in Holmes County, Ohio, on a 
farm, where he worked, assisting his father in the fields and his mother in the house, enjoy- 
ing only such educational advantages as were afforded in a country school. At the a^e of 
sixteen, with gripsack in hand, he left home to attend the academy in the town of his birth 




and serving with his regiment through Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Mississippi' 
Louisiana and Texas, taking part in the many engagements in which his re<^iment partici- 
pated, among which were the siege of Vicksburg and many minor battles." He was dis- 
charged October 31, 1864, at Camp Chase. Upon his return home our subject was married 
to Miss Lizzie Shafer, of Brookville, Iiid., aud entered upon the profession of teaching 
which he followed until the spring of 18/0, having had charge of the schools at College 
Corner, Ohio; Fair Haven, Ohio, aud others, the two named for a term of years. Entering 
the service of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad Company in 1870 be was 
stationed at College Corner, Ohio; then at Liberty, Ind., and then, in August, 1872. removed 
to Indianapolis to take charge of the supplies and books in the machinery department of 
that road, remaining with it until the order of Cho.sen Friends demanded his entire at- 
tention. Mr. Linn made his tirst appearance among society men in September, 1807 by 
uniting with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Border Lodge. No. '2-24, and sooii 
became widely known as an earnest worker in the cause. In the following February he took 
the sublime degrees of the Encampment l>ranch of Odd Fellows, in Bethel Encampment No 
id. serving as scribe and chief patriarch. He represented his encampment in 1870 in the 
grand encampment of the State of Indiana. Mr. Linn is also a member of Canton No. 2, of 
the Patriarchs Militant, of Indiana, being a charter member, and was twice elected to pro- 
gressive chairs of his subordinate lodge, and was each time compelled to resicm on account 
of distance aud inability to attend. He was a third time unanimously elected vice aud 
afterward noble grand of his lodge, making a record such as is very seldom e.iualed 
namely: Travele.l L.8 miles each week to attend his lodge and missing" but two meetings 
while hlling the chairs. Mr. Linn served in the grand lodge as representative in 1876 and 
proved himself a most useful member, being recognized as an Odd Fellow of wide rano.e of 
knowledge and an enthusiastic ami useful member. Our subject united in January ^877 
with ^\ashmgton Lodge, No. 114. Knights of Honor, and a few months later became a 
charter member of Hope Lodge. No 6. Knights and Ladies of Honor, in both of which he 
was elected to the highest honors, being sent twice as representative to the grand lod<^e of 
the Knights of Honor aud was sent as representative to and became a charter member of the 
grand lodge of Knights and Ladies of Honor. Our subject became, in December 1 880 a 
member of Indianapolis Council, No. '238, of the Royal Arcanum, and in ti,e followin'cr Decern, 
berwas unanimously chosen regent. In March, 1883, he represented his council in The ^rand 
TOUucil of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Linn was made a master mason in Capital City LmVe 
iNo. .512 in January. 1886, and in December of the same year received his thirty-second de- 
gree of freemasonry. He has served as senior warden of the subordinate lodcre, 
and 18 now holding the office of captain of the guard in Indianapolis consistory and master 



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of entrances in Saraiah Council. He is a member of George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., 
No. 17, and became a charter member of Encampment No. SO, Union Veteran Legion, 
in NovemV)er, 1890, in which he is now tilling the office of lieutenant-colonel. Mr. 
Linn has been connected with most of the secret societies of the country, in all of 
which he has taken an active part and thoroughly familiarized himself with the work 
and history of them, his interest being very great and his intelligence enabling him to 
grasp the beauties of the symbols and mysteries pertaining to them. He is a lifelong 
Republican but has never sought or held political office, with the exception of council- 
man from the First ward of the city, a position he did not seek but was pushed forward 
by his friends and elected by a majority of sixty nine, in a Democratic ward, and being the 
only Republican elected from a Democratic ward. Since the year 1879 Mr. Linn has 
devoted his entire time to tlie Order of Chosen Friends, being one of the organizers of 
that thriving and popular body. The first conversation between Albert Alcon and Mr. Linn 
in relation to the order took place in February, 1878, more than a year prior to the foun- 
dation of the order. Day after day Mr. Linn was found soliciting his friends to assist him 
in the formation of the order, or rather, an order like this of the Chosen Friends. Within 
the first six mouths he had secured, as was supposed, a .sufficient membership to form the 
Supreme Council, and when stated meetings would arrive he was generally the first one at 
tlie appointed place. The Order of Chosen Friends is indebted to him for the name it Ijears 
and when enough names had been secured to form the head of the order, Mr. Linn and 
Mr. Alcon were appointed a committee to draft the con.stitution and laws, and those they 
framed are the fundamental principles of the order to-day. These two decided by a grab 
into a handful of beans that Mr. Linn should do the work of drawing up the said constitu- 
tion and laws. Mr. Linn also furnished a portion of the ritual, the beautiful charges of 
the marshal and of the vice counsellor being the products of his pen. Much more could be 
said of Mr. Linn's connection with this order and his arduous and protracted labors in con- 
nection therewith; this should be said and emphasized, that Mr. Linn practically gave birth 
to this order and contributed the lion's share of the work at the time of its organization. 
He was at work in season and out of season, encouraging the disheartened, strengthening 
the weak, lifting the fallen and advising, counselling and originating, with an invincible 
courage and a ripe intelligence that convinced and persuaded. Mr. Linn served as secretary 
at the preliminary meetings, and at the organization of the Supreme Council was elected its 
first supreme recorder, was re elected in October, 1879, in October, 1881, in September, 
1883, September, 1885, September, 1887, Septeml)er, 1889, and in September, 1891, thus, 
continuously filling that most arduous position from the inception to the present time. He 
organized the first two councils, to wit; Alpha Council, No. 1, at Indianapolis and Ohio, 
No. 1, at Wooster, Ohio; both of them, through his untiring personal efforts. As an extem- 
poraneous speaker he ranks among the very first in the entire field of secret societies in the 
United States. Endowed by nature with a vigorous con.stitution, he is capable of the great- 
est conceivable amount of sustained labor and he has worked far into the night for a pro- 
tracted period for the order, for which he has so strong an attachment, this being necessary 
in order that the organization might be established upon a firm basis. The growing popu- 
larity and the rapid building up of the Chosen Friends attest the powerful efforts put forth 
by Mr. Linn, who certainly has been instant in season and out of season ever since the 
order was started. He has worked up the membership to 40,000, an astonishing number 
when it is considered that it is less than fourteen years since it was first put forward for the 
favor of the people. What an admirable showing is this: the total amount paid in death 
cases has been $7, 186,653.24; in disabilities, S-t04, 330; making a total of $7,590,983.24. 
Surely this is a record of which any man may be proud. How many widows have been 
saved from want through its agency, how many children provided with bread and how manj' 
have been cared for in time of disability. By their fruits shall ye know them and thus 
judged Mr. Linn merits the |ilaudits of "well done, thou good and faithful servant.'' Our 
subject is a member of Clifford Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, as also is his wife, 
and he takes an active interest in this as in other organizations with which he is connected. 
Mr. and Mrs. Linn are the parents of six children, all living, namely: Mrs. Love Mitten, 
Lillie A. , Cicero H., Maude E., Frederick E. and Margaret F. Mr. Linn is deservedly 



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most popular among bis wide extended acquaintance, being a man of most pleasant manners 
and kind disposition, agreeable in conversation and abounding in a sympathy that keeps 
bim in toncb with his fellow creatures. 

Dr. Robert Heksler. Long before the good Samaritan dressed the wounds of the 
poor ffUow he found on the Jericho road the healer of diseases was distinguished 
for his huuianity and liis kindness. Whatever the skill of the physician and surgeon, 
be can never be truly great unless he is truly touched with the spirit of man's infirmities, 
and moved of a heartfelt purpose to relieve suffering for the sake of the race. In the list of 
the successful young physicians of Indianapolis stands the name of Dr. Eobert Hessler, who 
owes his nativity to the Buckeye State, born in Cincinnati, June 7, 18(31. His father, Robert 
Hessler, Sr. . was a native of Saxony and came to America when a young man. After resid- 
ing in different parts of the United States he located at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was there 
married to Miss Mary Godar. a native of Bavaria, who came to America with her parents 
when small. Robert Hessler, Sr. was a skilled artisan and at the close of the war located at 
Batesville. Ind. , where he resided several years. His death occurred in 1877. His wife 
survives him and resides at Connersville, Ind. Of the seven children born to his parents 
our subject is the eldest in order of birth, and his early scholastic training was received in 
the public schools at Batesville and Connersville. Later he learned the cabinet maker's 
trade and for several years assisted his father in that work. After the death of the latter all 
the responsibility of caring for the family fell upon the shoulders of young Hessler, and 
while at work at the bench he prepared himself for college, reciting to a high school teacher 
once a week. On the organization of the Indiana weather service, in 1882, he was appointed 
observer for Fayette County. During the past few years the observations have been kept 
up by other members of the family. In 1885 he entered the Indiana State University, and 
two years later was appointed assistant in chemistry in that institution, holding that position 
two years. During the winter of 1889-90 he attended the Medical College of Ohio at 
Cincinnati. He received the degree of A. B. from the State University and recently thf 
degree of Master of Arts. In the fall of 1890 he came to Indianapolis where he entered the 
Medical College of Indiana to complete his medical education, attending school during the 
day and instrncting fellow-students in pathologj' evenings. In the spring of 1891 he grad- 
uated and entered competitive examination, receiving an appointment as house physician to 
the city hospital. That position he held until May, 1892, since which time he has been 
engaged in private practice. On leaving the hospital he was appointed demonstrator of 
minute pathological anatomy in the Medical College of Indiana, a position he still holds. 
In the spring of 1893 he was appointed pathologist to the city hospital and to the city 
dispensarj'. These positions offer unusual opportunities for the scientific study of diseases. 
As one result Dr. Hessler has accumulated a very extensive series of slides illustrating nearly 
the entire range of the human body in health and in disease. Dr. Hessler is an accom- 
plished naturalist aud botanist, with an extensive acquaintance throughout the State in this 
line. He has been a frequent contributor t > scientific aud medical journals, aud is a 
member of the Indiana Academy of Science and the Indiana State and Marion County 
Medical Societies. 

William J. Shixx. One of the substantial and progressive business men of Indianapo- 
lis, Ind., is William J. Shinn, who is the present very efficient secretary of the Ca])ital City 
Fence Company. He was born in Grundy County, Mo., February 5, 184l\ a son of John 
and Elizabeth (Leachman) Shinn, both of whom were born on Blue-Grass soil, but when 
unmarried and quite young they located with their parents in Putnam County, Ind., where 
they became acquainted and were eventually married in 1836. In 1839 they moved to the 
wilds of northern Missouri and located among the Indians in Grundy County where they 
tilled the soil until the father's death, in 1852, when a comparatively young man. In 1850 
he crossed the plains to California in search of gold Ijut after remaining in the West for 
about a year he returned to his home in Missouri via the Isthmus of Panama and the Gulf. 
After the death of the husban<l and father, the mother came to Indiana and thereafter was a 
resident of Putnam County until her death in 1873. having l)een for many years a worthy 
and consistent member of the Baptist Church. She bore her husband seven children, of 
whom the subject of this sketch was the second, only four of whom are now living, the otb- 



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ers dying when quite young. TLe school days of Hon. William J. Shinn were spent in 
Grundy County, Mo., and Putnam County. Ind., during which time he attended the old-time 
loc school-house and acquired apractical English education, sufficient to lit him for the prac- 
tical duties of life. Upon leaving school he, in 1S57, entered a mercantile establishment in 
Filmore. Ind.. and followed this occupation oflF and on for about sixteen years, a part of the 
time in the town of Lizton. Hendricks Co. : the greater portion of the time was in business 
bv himself. From that time until alx)ut fifteen years ago he tilled the soU successfully in 
Putnam County, but at the end of that time he came to Indianapolis and located on the west 
side, his family continuing to reside in Putnam County until six years ago. Immediately- 
after arriving in Indianapolis he turned his attention to dealing iu stock, as a commission 
merchant, and up to within three years followed that occupation with satisfactory results. 
For one year following this he was an assistant in the county auditor's office, then became 
an employe of the Cleveland Fence Company and for alxiut twelve months was one of their 
most expert salesmen. Upon severing his connection with this company he aided in the 
organization of the Capital City Fence Company, of which he has since been secretary. In 
1S7'? he located at the stock yards and soon after was elected a member of the Iward of 
trustees of that place, on the Democrat ticket, overcoming a large Republican majority. In 
18SS he was chosen president of the board and served ven" successfully and ably as such for 
two consecutive years. May 7, 1890, he was elected a member of the school board, of which 
he was for one year secretary and two years president. Mr. Shinn was married iu IS'il to 
Miss Charity Woods of Filmore. Ind., who died the following year, and in 1865 Miss Sarah 
F. Wilson became his second wife, and to them thi^e sons and one daughter have been given. 
Socially Mr. Shinn is a member of the K. of P., West Indianapolis Lodge. Xo. 244. and iu 
his political views is a stanch Democrat. 

Feed. A. Mctller. From the very earliest ages the art of preparing the compounds 
that arrest and remove pain and heal the sick has been regarded as among the highest of 
human functions, and thus it is that so much interest and importance attach to the calling of 
the druggist in our own day. Among the leading and most reliable members of the phar- 
maceutical profession, in Indianapolis, may be mentioned Ferd. A. Mueller, who has had an 
experience of twenty years in the drug trade. The business was established early in the 
sixties and passed into the hands of L. H. Mueller in 1S65. In 1SS7 it passed into the 
hands of J. G. Mueller, and in 1891 into the hands of its present proprietor, who is one of 
the practical and accomplished chemists and pharmacists in the city, being peculiarly rjuali- 
tied for the suecessftil professional career he is pursuing. He is a Hoosier by birth, his 
parents, Charles G. and Margaret (Heumanni Mueller, being natives of Saxony. Germany, 
and immigrating to America in 1852. The father was engaged in business in Indianapolis 
for many years. Ferd. A. Mueller grew to manhood in Indianapolis, was educated in the 
public schools and at Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, where he remained for four years. 
Besides he had private instruction in chemistry with Wayne A: Dickory, noted chemists. After 
graduating from the above mentioned college, March IS. 1886, with high honors. Mr. 
Mueller spent sDme time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the drug business. From there he came to 
Indianapolis and engaged in business with his brother, but in January, 1S91, he took posses- 
sion of the store purchased from his brother, and has been actively engaged in business 
since. He is a member of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association, Marion County Druggist 
Association and also a number of other home institutions and societies. Mr. Mueller has the 
confidence of the public and his extensive business is not confined to this city alone but 
extends throughout the whole country' in specialties, mixtures, medicines, etc., which he 
manufactures an<l puts up. A special feature is made of the prescription department, 
physician';^ formula and family recipes being dispense*! at any hour of the day or night with 
that accuracy and precision which have ever characterized Mr. Mueller's operations in this 
important department of his profession. 

Edward Da>tei.s. Although still in the dawn of a successfid career, Mr. Daniels is one 
of ihe prominent attorneys of Indianapolis, a city well represented by some of the country's 
most talented legal lights. His present position has been acquired by arduous study and a 
strict adherence to an honorable course, and as a citizen he is well and favorably known to his 
fellow townsmen. His father. Joseph J. Daniels, now residing in Rockville. Ind. . is a native 

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of the Buckeye State, and a descendant of English ancestors who settled in the Empire State 
after reaching this country. Edward Daniels was also a native of Ohio, born in Greene 
County, in November, lSr)4, and came with his parents to southern Indiana when a child. 
In addition to a common school education he attended Wabash College, Indiana, and gradu- 
ated from that institution in 1875. Later lie went to New York city, attended Columbia 
College Law School one year, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. From there he came to 
Indianapolis and entered the law oflice of Baker, Hord & Hendricks, where he remained until 
1882 before becoming a member of the firm. He and his present partner, Albert Baker, son 
of ex-Governor C. Baker (deceased), are the oiih' surviving members of the firm now, Mr. 
Baker, Jr. having become a member of thei'firm at the same time with our subject. Mr. 
Daniels has always adhered to the principles of the Republican party but has never been 
active in politics. In the year 1892 he was a candidate for the State Senate but was defeated 
by a small majority. lu religion he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and is 
active in his support of all worthy enterprises. He married Miss Johnston, daughter of 
Wylie W. Johnston, now of Wichita, Kan., in 1^87. 

Ernest A. Wehrmax, M. D. W' hatever may be said of the laws of heredity it is an un- 
denial)]e fact that sons do frequently follow in the footsteps of their fathers and display re- 
markable talent in the same line that gave eminence to their sires. A case in point is that 
of the subject of this sketch. Dr. Ernest A. Wehrman, who was born in Monroe County, 
Ohio, April 1 1, 1S4S, being the sou of Frederick Wehrman, a native of Germany, who was 
reared and educated in that country, graduating as a physician and becoming eminent in his 
profession. He studied at the famous university of Gottingeu and was head physician and 
surgeon of the hospital at Gottingen for seven years. On coming to America in 1836 he 
located at W'lieeling, then in Virginia, where he carried on a general practice for a period of 
eleven years. At the ex^)iration of this time he settled with his family in Monroe County, 
Ohio, where he died of consumption in 1851. This worthy and distinguished man was mar- 
ried at Wheeling to Mary Zink, a native of Switzerland, who came to this country at the age 
of seven with her jiarents. She survived her husband for many years, her death finally 
occurring in Ohio in 188(1 Our subject was reared in his native county and received 
instruction in the public schools until he was sixteen, when he began to teach in winter 
months and attend select schools of Ohio and Virgfinia in the summer, continuinj; until he 
had received an excellent education. In the fall of 18/0 he entered the St. Louis Homeo- 
pathic College, l)ut in the following summer attended the St. Louis Medical College and in 
the fall of 1871 entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he 
graduated in the spring of 1872. Returning to his Ohio home he entered upon the general 
practice, devoting his summers for the next three years to that work and giving the winters 
to clinics in the medical colleges of St. Louis and Philadelphia. He has also attended the 
post graduate school of New York for two sessions, and, in fact, has availed himself of every 
possible means for adding to his knowledge, being an earnest and honest student and inves- 
tigator. He has always been in full touch with the times, being an eager reader of the maga 
zines and periodicals of the profession. In 1878, eager for more light and knowledge, the 
Doctor went abroad and for the next three years spent nearly his entire time in the general 
hospital of Vienna, where he was brought face to face with the various forms of disease and 
enjoyed the advantage of association with some of the brightest minds of the profession. Re- 
turning to America in 1881 he practiced in Ohio until 1882, when he came to Indianapolis, 
where he has since acquired a very large and lucrative practice which has been remarkable 
for its success. Dr. Wehrman ranks among the leading physicians of the city and is recog- 
nized as a learned and most skilled practitioner. Since locating in this city he has twice 
visited the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin and London and has attended two postgraduate 
courses in New York. The Doctor c infines his work exclusively to general practice in the 
office, and he has gained a wide reputation for his successful treatment of diseases. He is a 
firm believer in the principle that the physician in order to l)e successful must avail himself 
of every po.ssible agency for gaining added knowledge and that new forms of disease present 
themselves and that new modes of treatment are being revealed from time to time that may 
be highly efficient. He is one who would never cease to study, to investigate and to learn, 
but would always be in fullest possession of the latest and the best knowledge concerning 




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diseases and their cure. He is a man who is highly esteemed in the social circles of the 
city, and is admired by the educated for his erudition. Dr. Wehrman was married in 1882, 
in Illinois, to Elizabeth Eisenmeier, a native of Trenton, 111., who has borne him three 
children. 

Rev. Geoiwe E. Swan. Experience has convinced the careful observer that there is a 
thousand times more goodness, wisdom and love in this world than men imagine. Goodness 
is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind and sweetness of temper — balsam in the 
blood and justice sublimated to a richer spirit. The greatest man is he who chooses right 
with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from wiihin and with- 
out; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfiilly; who is calmest in .storms and most fearless 
under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue and on God is most unfalter- 
ing. Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their 
own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct 
tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. In the life of Eev. George E. Swan we 
find tiiat which should inspire the youths of this and coming generations to lives of useful- 
ness and greatness, and it is witli pleasure that we note a few of the most important events 
of his career. He was born in Essex County, England, October 12, 1854, and he is one 
of the heirs in the celebrated case of Jennings vs. Jennings, described in Dickens' Bleak 
House as Jarndynce vs. Jarndynce. Our subject was educated in the schools of London, 
England, ami came to America alone when he was but nineteen years of age. First he lo- 
cated in Duluth, where he worked in the custom house, and then went to Fairbault, Minn., 
where he studied five years, part of the time at Shattucks School, and at Seabury Divinity 
School, graduating from the latter in 1880 with the degree of B. D. From there he went to 
Fergus Falls, Minn., as missionary for one year, and then took charge of St. John's Church 
at Moorhead, Minn., where he remained until 1887. He then came to Indianapolis and 
took charge of Grace Cathedral, then located on the corner of Pennsylvania and St. Joseph 
Streets. At that time there was a very small congregation but under his ministry this largely 
increased and a newdhurch built at Seventh and Central Avenue. Then in February, 1891 he 
took charge of the Mary's Hall, a select day and boarding school for young ladies, under the 
auspices of the Episcopal Church and now holds that position. He is a man of scholarly 
attainments and wide learning, and an able and forcible speaker. He impresses all with 
whom he comes in contact as being an earnest, efficient and faithful laljorer in his Master's 
service. In November, 1888, our subject was married to Miss Marion C. Hawley, daughter 
of Rev. Dr. F. J. Hawley, dean of Minnesota, and later rector of St. John's Parish, West 
Indies. Mr. Swan has one son, John Fletcher, and a daughter, Marion Hart. 

N. S. DiuGos, who has been identified with the drug business of Indianapolis for many 
years, is now located at 850 Esfst Washington Street where he has a neatly fitted up phar- 
macy. He carries a full and well assorted stock of everything usually found in a well regu- 
lateil store of this character and is doing a fairly prosperous business. 

John R. Pearson. If continuous elections to positions of trust and honor are a criterion 
by which a man's popularity is gauged, then John R. Pearson enjoys, to an unusual degree, 
the high esteem of his fellow man. A native of the Birmingham of America, Pittsburgh, 
Penn., his birth occurred IMarch 27, 1849, his father being Richard Pearson, an English- 
man by birth. The elder Pearson was a man of more than usual force of character and dis- 
cernment, a shrewd financier, was one of the progenitors of the Allegheny Valley Railway 
with which he was identified for over a quarter of a century, and for a period of thirty-five 
years was connected with the old Pittsburgh Bank. The family is yet prominently con- 
nected with the political, financial and social conditions of Pittsburgh. To a large extent 
John R. Pearson has inherited his superior business qualifications from his father. Born at a 
time when Pittsburgh was just beginning to demonstrate to the world her admirable location 
as a manufacturing center, he grew to manhood with her development, imbibing the same 
spirit of enthusiasm and enterprise that permeated her veins. After following wholesale 
merchandising in his native city for a time he decided that somewhere in the great West his 
opportunities for bettering his condition would not be as much restricted as at Pittsliurgli, 
and accordingly, in 187U, came to Indianapolis and became the head of the well known house 
of Pearson & Dickson. This firm became a benefactor of the city, in a manner, by insti- 



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tutiiiij maay improvements among which was the erection of the Grand Opera House in sixty 
days' time. Mr. I'oarson holped to organize the Citizen's Gas Company and was selected to 
superintend same until it was tiuaiicially consolidated witii the old i^as company. After this 
event he continued as superintendent until the purchase of the plant, and of that of the 
Natural Gas plant by a New York corporation and since then has been general manager and 
assistant to the president. Not long after his location in Indianapolis Mr. Pearson was 
selected by his neighbors for political preferment and has served numerous terms in the City 
Council, has been president of the Police Board and chairman of the Committee on finance. 
Preferring active business pursuits to the uncertain game of politics, he has firmly declined 
to enter the political arena. Mr. Pearson has made life an undisputed success so far, and 
being Init in the prime of life his views of the future can have only a roseate hue. What he 
might have lacked in a social degree has l)pen more than remedied by his marriage with 
Miss Hattie, the daughter of the late James Dickson. The poet has said, and truly, that: 

■' Into each life some rain nnist fall. 
Some days must be ilark aud drean ." 

This is true of Mr. and Mrs. Pearson. One son was born to them who lived long enough 
U> give much promise of the future. Death dashed fond hopes and bright dreams to the 
earth when the youth was sixteen years old. 

IiiA HoLLiNiiswoRTH. From the biography of every man may be gleaned some lessons 
of genuine worth, for it is here that we discover the secret of his success or failure. If he has 
"passed to that boujne whence no traveler returns," it is all the more necessary that his 
name should be perpetuated for the benetit of his descendants and for future generations. 
Ira HoHiugsworth's life was marked by all that goes to make up useful aud noble manhood, 
and in him was the stuff of which noble citizens are made. He was born near Dayton, 
Ohio, April 22, 1808, a son of Joseph and Sarah J. (Cox) Hollings worth, both of whom 
were born in South Carolina. Ira HoUingsworth resided in his native county until he was 
about eleven years of age, at which time the family removed to Randolph County, Ind., 
and settled on a farm, where the rest of his boyhood and early manhood were spent. He 
was educated in the old-time sulisci iption schools which were in vogue in his day and which 
were belli in rude log cal)iu.s. Upon reaching manhood he engaged in farming, as his 
father had done l>efore hini^ and during the long winter months when he could do nothing 
else, he devoted his time to making shoes for his neighbors. He resided in Randolph 
County until 1837, then sold his farm, which he had improved, and came to Marion County, 
arriving in Pike Township April 111. 1837, where he bought a farm of 150 acres for 
§1,200 cash, now valued at $15,000. This land was but little improved at that time, and 
the work of clearing and again establishinjr a home was gone over acrain. He continued 
to reside on this place until his death, which occurred May '24, 18(4, and during this time 
he made a wide acquaintance and won universal esteem. He never interested himself in 
politics to any great extent, but served his township in official capacities, being one of the trus- 
tees for a number of years. He was very successful as a farmer, and a more charitable or 
benevolent man could not be found in all the country round. Mr. HoUingsworth was 
married in 1827 to Miss Deborah Bennett, a native of Guilford County, N. C. , born May • 
It), 1808, a daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Mills) Bennett, who were also natives of the 
Old North State. The Bennett family were English, and all were adherents of the Quaker 
faith. .Joseph Bennett died in North Carolina aljout the year 1814, and a few years after 
his death his widow and children removed to Indiana, coming the entire distance in a one- 
horse wagon. They settled in Randolph County in 1821 or 1822, where the mother made 
her home until 1S4S, when she removed to Hamilton County, and there was called from life 
in May, 1S()3, at the advanced age of about ninety years. Ira Hollingswt>rth and his wife 
became the parents of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls, thirteen of whom 
grew to manhood aud womanhood: Joseph B.; Ruth A., married James JI. Hume, aud died 
May 25, 1865; Sarah J.; Eliza, married Charles Haues, and died November 2, 1886; Eliz- 
abeth, died July 29,1884; Job, died at the age of six months: Francis M., Martin L., 
resides near Arkansas City, Kan., and was married in 1858 to Martha E. Eudailey; William 
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Lipurania; John S. : Oliver H. P., and Victoria. The mother of these children died on 
ilay 1-t, 1892, she and her husband having been charter members of the North Liljerty 
Christian Church in May, 1841, and were closely connected and identified with the same for 
manr vears. their home being commonly known as tbe preacher's home on all occasions. 
Mr. Holliugsworth was officially connecte<l with the church as elder for many years. Polit- 
icallv he was a Whig and Abolitiunist, in fact he was always in sympathy with downtrod- 
den humanity. He and his brother Dan cast the first Abolitionist votes in Pike Towusbip, 
and were designated at the time as fools, but Mr. HoUingsworth said at the time that he 
hoped to live to see the seed bear fruit, and afterward thanked God that his hopes wer« 
realized. He was a most kind and affectionate father, very generous toward his children, 
and in addition to giving each and every one of them good educational advantages, materi- 
ally assisted them in getting settled iu homes of their own. and always provided them with 
comforts and conveniences so far as lay within his power. He was a strong temperance man, 
one of the original organizers and active workers in that cause in his township. He was a 
man whom to know was to honor, and his many kindly deeds will live through many years 
to come. 

Dasiel Hollesgswobth. This gentleman is one of the oldest representatives of that 
pioneer family now living in Marion County, Ind., and may be said to be one of its most 
worthy representatives, for his walk through life has been characterized by the most unde- 
viating euergv'. by a desire to do as he would be done by. and by the utmost public spirit. 
Mr. HoUingsworth was born in Kandolph County. Ind., December 1, 1821, a son of Joseph 
HoUingsworth. who was bom in South Carolina, in 1777, where he was reared to manhood 
and married Miss Sarah J. Cos, a native of the same State as him'^elf. At an early period 
in the history of the State they removed to Ohio, but later settled in Randolph County, Ind.. 
where Joseph HoUingsworth entered 2-10 acres of land, nearly all of which was heavily covered 
with timber. On this land he erected a cabin of poles and began to clear the land prepara- 
tory to the establishment of a home, and there after passing through the usual hardships 
and privations incident to the life of the pioneer, their efforts began to be rewarded and in 
due course of time they became possessed of an abundance of this world's goods. Mr. HoU- 
ingsworth was an adherent of the Quaker faith and was a devout member of that church the 
greater portion of his life. In 1S37 the family first came to Marion County, and took up 
their residence in Pike Township, where Mr. HoUingsworth died about one year later, his 
wife following him to the grave about two weeks later. To this worthy couple a family of 
ten children were given, all of whom were residents of Pike County at one time, but only 
three of whom are now living: Eliza. Kuhn and Daniel. Those deceased are: Mary, 
George, Lydia, Jonathan, Ira, Asa and Jeremiah. The subject of this sketch. Daniel HoU- 
ingsworth. is the youngest of his father's family, and like the majority of the farmers' boys 
of his day. his time was spent in wielding the hoe on the home place, and in attending such 
district schools as were held in the vicinity of his rural home. In this manner his early life 
was spent and during this time he developed into a fine specimen of physical manhood. He 
never attended a free school, but in his day the three R"s were taught in the typical log 
cabin of pioneer days, and all the schools were conducted on the subscription f>lan. Not- 
withstanding these adverse circumstances he made reasonable progress in his studies, and 
while laboring on the home farm he became well versed in all kinds of agrictiltural labor 
and was especially skillful as a rail splitter. He has followed the occupation of farming in 
Pike Township, Marion County, ever since his sixteenth year, and in this occupation has 
been prosperous, being also extensively and successfully engaged in buying and selling hogs. 
He has teen retired from the active duties of life for some years, and is in the enjoyment of 
liberal means, the result of his own energy and forethought. He now resides at New 
Augusta. He was married in November, 1840, to Miss Emily Pollard, a native of Kentucky, 
born December 10. 1823, a daughter of Allison and Mary ("Ashley I Pollard, also natives of 
that State, and to them three children have been given: Elizabeth A.. Marv- C, who married 
B. F. Abrams. and is now deceased, and John who resides in Hendricks County, Ind. Mr. 
and Mrs. HoUingsworth have been active meml>ers of the Christian Church for ov^r half a 
century, and they and four other persons are the only charter members of that church now 
living. This church is known as the North Liberty Christian Church and was organized by 



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Rev. Thomas Lockliart in 1841. Mr. Hollingsworth was for many years an elder in this 
church. Politically he was originally a Whig, but since its organization he has voted the 
Kcpublican tickft. altiiongh he is a prohibitionist in principle. He went in debt for his tirst 
forty five acres of land but by thrift and industry prospered and eventually liecame the 
owner of a fine tract of land coiuiirising 150 acres. During his early years of farming he 
cut many an acre of wheat with a reap-hook for 50 cents per day, but closed his active career 
in easy circumstances. He is still the owner of forty acres of valuable land in Pike Town- 
ship, besides his fine residence property in New Augusta, and also owns 100 acres in Hen- 
dricks County, Ind. June 30, 1893, a wheat reaping contest with reap-hooks was partici 
|iated in by ten old citizens of the county, witnessed by several hundred citizens and Mr. 
Hollingsworth secured the first premium of $5 for reaping the greatest amount in a given 
time. He was past seventy-one years of age when this occurred, which clearly demonstrates 
that father Time has touched him lightly and that many more years of usefulness are with- 
out doubt before him. 

Francis M.\rion" Hollin«sworth. A successful farmer of Marion County, Ind., is 
Francis M. Hollingsworth, who is a son of Ira and Deborah (Bennett) Hollingsworth, and 
was born in Pike Township, this county, January 30, 1837, being the first of a family born 
in Marion County. He was reared on a farm in his native township, and was an attendant of 
the district schools for about three months out of the year during his youthful days. He 
remained at home until he attained the age of about twenty years, then went to Kansas and 
cast his tirst vote against the Lecompton Constitution. He removed to that State for the 
purpose of locating a claim, and after an experience of nearly two years of frontier life, he 
gladly returned to Marion County and began farming in his native township, where he has 
continued to reside ever since, his attention being devoted to tilling the soil and to 
the raising of and dealing in stock, especially during the war, up to 1875, since which 
tnne the most of his attention has Ijeen given to farming and dairying. He became 
interested in politics about the organization of the Republican party, of which he has since 
been a stanch supporter, and he has always taken an active interest in the political affairs of 
the times, and wields considerable influence in political circles. In October. 1S7"J, he was 
elected to the position of justice of the peace of Pike Township, in which capacity he servbd 
nearl}' eight years. At the present time he is serving his fourth term as notary public, 
making a period of sixteen years that he has continuously held this oflice. Mr. Hollings- 
worth was married on Fel)ruary '27, 1862, to Miss Cynthia M. Hightshue, who was born 
August 14, 1839, a daughter of Nicholas and Jane (Runnells) Hightshue. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hollingsworth have three children: Albert, Fred and Frank. Mr. Hollingsworth has been 
a member of the Masonic fraternity for the past twenty-three years, and in this order has 
filled most of the chairs. He and his wife have been active members of the Ebeneezer 
Chri.stian Church, at Traders' Point, for the past fifteen years; he has served as one of 
the elders for ten years, and at the present time is senior acting elder. Of fifteen years 
of active membership, he is serving his thirteenth year as superintendent of the Sunday- 
school. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Kixsley. This intelligent and wide-awake lady is a product of the 
Buckeye State, where she was born June 22, 1818. At the age of thirteen years she was 
brought by her parents, John and Elsie (Oliphant) Parish, to Indiana, and here has made 
her^ome up to the present time. Her father and mother were married in Albion, Ohio, in 
1807, but the former "was a Kentuckian by birth and removed to Albion, Ohio, when a young 
man, and there met and married Miss Oliphant. He died when Elizabeth was a small girl, 
leaving his widow with four girls and three lioys to care for, the names of the latter being 
Mary. Ueuben, Sarah. William, Elizabeth, John and Sophia. John is now a resident of 
Marion County. Elizal)eth grew to womanhood in the "Hoosier State" and received fair 
eilucational advr.ntages in her girlhood, attending the common schools in the vicinity of her 
home and assisting her mother in the duties of the home. She was first married to Isaac 
^\ liitinger. by whom she became the mother of eight children, only one, Jane, now living; 
her home is in Hamilton County, Ind.. and she is the wife of Frank Creig. The second 
marriage of the subject of this sketch was to Isaac Jackson, by whom she had one son, 
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Alexander Kiusley, to whom she was married in 1855. This marriage also resulted in the 
birth of one child. Mary, who was born June 29. 1857, who now with her husband. Perry 
31. Deford, lives on the old home farm with her mother She was married to Mr. Deford 
in 1875. and their union has resulted in the birth of two children: Frederick B.. born in 
June. 18S4. and Clara, who was born in March. 1891. Perry M Deford is a young man of 
high principles, intelligent, pushing and entei^rising. and is doing well in a financial way. 
His parents. George W. and Ella ( Williams) Deford. were married in Franklin County, Ind., 
in 1831. and their union resulted in the birth of ten children, who were named as follows: 
Sidrick C, John W.. Martha J.. Mary H. . Williiim H.. Malinda, Margaret C, Francis A., 
Perry M. and Charles W. Of the Deford family John W. and William Henry were soldiers 
in the Union army during the Civil War. with which they served until the close of hostili- 
ties, being loyal and faithful to the cause they esf>onsed. Alexander Kinsley was one of 
the pioneer settlers of Marion County, Ind.. and at the time of his settlement here Indian- 
apolis consisted of only a few log huts. Mr. Kinsley was a man of genial and kindly dis- 
position, was a thrifty agriculturist, and was strictly honorable in every sense of the word. 

Hos. D.4.>rEL W. TooBHEES. whom Indiana Democrats s" delight to honor, is a native 
of Ohio, his birth occurring in Butler County, September 26. 1827. and is a son of Stephen 
Voorhees, a native of Kentucky, and a grandson of Peter Voorhees. of Xew Jersey nativity. 
When only two months old his parents moved to Fountain County. Ind.. and this State has 
ever since been his home. Asbury ITniversity graduated him in 1S49, and here he obtained 
a wide reputation as an orator of superior ability, and the high regard of the faculty. He 
studied law and in 1852 was solicited by Hon. E. A. Hatinegan. formerly Fnited States 
Senator, to become his partner, which he accepted. In 1853 he was appointed State at- 
torney of his circuit by the governor, and thus obtained the foundation of his justly earned 
reputation as a superior criminal lawyer. In 1856 he was the Democratic nominee for 
Congress, and although defeated, reduced the opposing majority nearly l.S'Xt votes. In 
1857 he moved to Terre Haute, and the year following was appointed United States district 
attorney by President Buchanan. In 1860 and in 1862 he was elected to Congress, and in 
1864. although declared elected, his election was successfully contested. In 1868 he was 
again elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1870. In November. 1877. he was appointed 
Unit ?1 States senator to succeed Governor Morton, and has ever since occupied this po- 
sition by election. During the special session of Congress called by Pres. Cleveland 
he was the leader of his party, and the advocate of the President in bringing about the re- 
I>e&l of the so called Sherman act. Unquestionably Mr .Voorhees is one of the most brilliant 
men that has ever held office within the State's jurisdiction. Not only has he an established 
reputation as a great statesman, but his fame as a criminal lawyer is equally as brilliant. He 
has always l)een an unswerving, uncompromising Democrat. His great ability as a states- 
man and lawyer is respected and acknowledged by ail. regardless of politics. Mr. Voorhees 
married Miss Jane Hardesty in 1850. and four children have blessed their union. "The 
Tall Scycamore of the Wabash," as he is known, occupies a prominent page in the volTime 
devoted to America's greatest sons. 

Demarchts C. Bbowk. Wliile the life of an educator is generally barren of incidents 
for popular biography, it is still true that the work of a protracted life in this sphere must 
have many points of interest to practical thinkers, to philosophical speculators on education, 
and to the great work of educational progress. Years industriously employed in any de- 
partment of human labor cannot be without its fruits and its lessons. Demarchus C. Brown 
was born in Indianapolis. Ind., June 24. 1857. and was educated in the public schools there 
and at Butler University, graduating from the latter institution in 1879. with the degree of 
A. B. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course and was given the degree of M. A. 
Following this he taught in the university as tutor for two years and then spent a year at 
the University of Tfibingen, Germany. He was for some time in the British Museum also. 
In 1^83 he returned home and acted as assistant professor of Greek for one year, when he 
was appointed to fill the Greek chair. That position he filled until -June. 1892, and in Augnst 
of that year he went to Paris. France, where he studied French until November. 1892. He 
then became a member of the American .School of Archjeology. at Athens, Greece, whither 
he had gone, and remained in that city until the spring of 1893, when he returned to Indian- 



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afiolis, lud. , aiul rpsiinit'il the Greek chair in Butler Uaiversity. Mr. Brown is a memher of 
the Phi Delta Thcta Fraternit}', and of the Christian Church. He was married in 1881 to 
Miss Anna Iviidy, daughter of P. O. Rudy, of Paris, 111 , who died in 18U1 without issue. 
Philip Brown, father of subject, was a native of Ohio and a merchant, princii)ally. His 
death occurred in 1804. The mother of our subject was originally Julia Troester and her 
death occurred in 1873. 

Dr. Henry S. Ciinmngh.\m. The value to any community of a professional man is not 
marked merely by bis learning and skill, his proficiency in medical and surgical practice, but 
also by his character, both private and professional, his honorable adherence to medical 
ethics and his ])(>rsonai integrity and benevolence of purpose. When a physician combines 
these cliaracteristics it is with great jileasure that we record his life work, and such a man do 
we find in Dr. Henry S. Cunningham. This physician of Indiana))olis had his birth iu Arm- 
strong County, Penn.. Se]itember 1, 183U, and remained in his native county until eighteen 
years of age. Being left an orphan at a tender age he educated himself and is a self-made 
man in every particular. He has known the demands of poverty, but his honesty, goodness, 
energy and stick to-it iveness have brought their rewards, which he and his family are now 
enjoying. He attended the public school and when thirteen years of age entered the acad- 
emy at Worthington, Penn., to study higher branches. There he remained until eighteen 
years of age, working his way, after which he entered grammar school at New Haven, Conn., 
for a year. After this for a number of years he taught school and worked at mechanics. In 
18fi2 he began the study of medicine with Starling Loving at Columbus, Ohio, and graduated 
from Starling College there June'3(\ 1SP)5. He then came to Indiana, Hancock County, and 
located at Warrington, bnt owing to ill health did not enter upon his practice until April, 
181)6. He remained at Warrington until the spring of 1869 when he located at Winchester, 
Randolph County, where he continued until the spring of 1871. From there he went to Mon- 
treal, Canada, and entered the medical department of Bishop College where he graduated 
April 4, 1872, with the Canadian C. M. , M. D. degree. In April of the following year he 
came to Indianapolis and from the first had a successful practice. For two years he was on 
the staff of Bobb"s Free Dispensary in the early seventies. Professor William B. Fletcher, super- 
intendent. He is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of 
Quebec. He was one of the charter members of Marion County Medical Society, Init is not 
an active memlier now. He was a member, of the original Academy of Medicine during its 
existence. Dr. Cunningham is the author of "Lectures on Physiological Laws of Life and 
Hygiene," published in 1882, which was kindly received by the profession and has had an 
extensive sale. He was physician to the German Protestant Orphan Home at Indianapolis, 
from October, 1887, up to October, 1891, when he resigned and was regularly appointed as 
consulting physician, a position he yet occupies. The Doctor is a nieml)er of the Western 
Association of Writers and at the annual meeting in June, 18U3, at Spring Park, Warsaw, 
Ind., he read a paper before that body on "Man's Individuality and Responsibility.'" He is 
a man of education, a ready writer, and is well known in the city as one of the leading 
practitioners. He is also a member of tiie present executive board of Western Association 
of Writers. Socially he is a member of the Masonic Order, the I. O. O. F., A. O. of D. and 
Chosen Friends. He has served as president of the board of health of Indianapolis. In 
the year 1864 he was married to Miss Emma Mills, a native of Pennsylvania, and three chil- 
dren have been born to their union. Mrs. Cunningham died of consumption but the children 
are living. The Doctor's second marriage occurred in 1876, to Miss Carrie Fairfield, a na- 
tiveof Syracuse, N. Y., and a daughter of John D. and Charlotte (Knapp) Fairfield. She 
died on December 18. 1887. The Doctor adheres to the platform of the Democratic party. 

Hon. Cyrus F. Mosier. The facility with whicli the American soldier laid down the 
implements of warfare, at the close of the great conflict lietween the northern and south- 
ern States, and adapted himself to the ]nir8uits of civil life, has been the wonder of all 
natious. and scarcely less surprising than gratifying to the American people themselves. 
While not a few very profound citii'.ens of the Republic were speculating as to what was to 
become of ths thousands of men mustered out of the armies of the United States, the ques- 
tion was solved liy the ex soldiers themselves, who ([uietly stepped into the ordinary walks 
of life, to become the very flower of American citizenship, and the chief promoters of a 



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national progress which is without a parallel in history. In ability, industry, integrity and 
morality, in respect for the rights of others, and everything that goes to make up a good 
citizen, the manhood of the nation suifered nothing as a result of the war, but on the con- 
trary it has been demonstrated that the beardless Iwys who left the farm, the workshoj), the 
storeroom and the college, to tight the battles which were to preserve the life of the nation, 
came out of the conflict, as a rule, better fitted for that kind of systematic, tireless and per- 
sistent effort whicli wins success, than the young Americans of any generation since the 
revolutionary period. This fact cannot fail to impress itself upon either the writer of 
American history proper, or of that branch of history which consists of the biographies of 
those who have achieved sufficient distinction to make the record of their lives of interest to 
the public. Whenever we attempt to write the history of a great enterprise, we iind among 
its chief promoters, men who were at Vieksljurg. Donelson, Gettysburg, or Appomattox: we 
tind the same class of men on the bench, at the bar. in the pulpit, in high otficial positions, 
and in the field of medicine, and wherever we find them, with rare exceptions, they reflect 
the highest credit upon their respective callings. The subject of this sketch was one who 
donned the blue uniform and fought bravely for the old flag, serving with distinction 
through the Rebellion. He comes of good old lighting stock, his paternal grandfather hav- 
ing fought and died for independence. Mr. Mosier was born on June 21, 1840, and is a 
descendant of English ancestors, inheriting their thrift and enterprise. He is the sou of 
Cyrus and Rebecca (Weeks) Mosier, natives of the Empire State, where the father, in con- 
nection with the millwright trade, carried on a carriage manufactory. The Weeks family 
was related to the Mosier family on the mothers side, and several members of this family 
were killed in the noted Wyoming massacre. The parents of our subject had born to their 
union three children, as follows: Horace (deceased). Cyrus F., and Charles who was drowned 
in a spring. Cyras F. was but two months old when his father died, and his mother after- 
ward removed to Corning, N. Y. , where she resided for six years. From there she moved 
toward the setting sua and settled in New Haven, Ind., where she married Rufus McDonald, 
one of the prominent men of that section. By this union two children were born, only one. 
Rnfiis. now living. The original of this notice has known the demands of poverty, and 
consorted with them if any man has, but his honesty, goodness, energy and perseverance 
have brought their rewards of which he and family are now enjoying. When but a boy he 
started out to tight his own way in life, and tirst stopped at Newville, Ind., where he secured 
employment and schooling during the winter months, for sis years, working during the 
summer seasons for his schooling the following winter. At the end of this time he was 
offered the principalship of this school and after serving in that capacity for some time, he 
accepted other positions. Mr. Mosier is not an educated man in the technical sense of the 
word, but he harmonizes cause and effect so logically, that he is recognized as one whose 
opinion is of much weight. In 1S(31. on the flrst call for troops in the State, he was the 
lirst man to enlist in the call from De Kail) County. He joined Company F. First Twelfth 
Regiment as private and later was made sergeant of Company E, Fifty fifth Regiment. 
Still later he was made tirst lieutenant of Company D, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regi- 
ment, and served in that capacity for two years and one month, or until about the 
close of hostilities. He was captured with about 7. ('00 men. but made good his 
escape before seeing the inside of prison walls. He was in many hotly contested battles 
during service, and no braver soldier trod the red sod of a liattle field. Returning home 
after the war. he engaged in the manufacture of brick, continued this two years, and 
then located in New Haven. Ind., where he was employed as a teacher in the vicinity. For 
seventeen years he was one of the prominent educators of that section, and in that capacity 
his peculiar capabilities shone forth in their brightest splendor. He served two terms as 
city attorney of New Haven, and being a Republican and the town being strongly Demo- 
cratic, demonstrated very clearly the hold Mr. Mosier had upon the affections of the people. 
From there he movei to Mavsville. Ind. .and started a newspaper, but in the spring of 
1877 he removed to Bristol, Elkhart County, and started the Bristol Banner, a publication 
which has much to do with molding public sentiment inside its circulation, and which influ- 
ens3 sjut Mi-. Moiier two terms ti the Indiana Legislature fro:n this county in 1882, a 
pDsiliou he fillel with credit to himself and his party. Had he not declined peremptorily, 



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lie might liavc been retiirneil in 1888, hut like the true gentleman, bf* felt be had been 
bonoied enough, iind stood aside, eheerfiillv, only, however, to work the harder for bis suc- 
cessor. He still owns and controls the Bristol Banner and its crisp and trenchant editorials 
coniniand an ever widening area of circulation, while they carry with them that weight and 
authority whicb a clear, calm and intelligent judgment must always secure. Mr. Mosier is 
the president of the People's Mutual Benefit Society, a position he has held for years, and 
though suljject to dejiosition l)y the stoekbolders at their annual, be is nevertheless period- 
ically made bis own successor, whicb compliments his integrity, evidences bis popularity, 
and in so many words says: "Leave well enough alone." He has erected a good substan- 
tial business block in Bristol, with bis other business. He is deeply interested in anything 
that |>oints to tne elevation of the city of his adoption, is popular with the masses, urbane 
toward all, and if there be anything wanting in his makeup to make bim a Christian gentle- 
man, no one has discovered it. He enjoys bis well-earned reward with dignity, while his 
home is a green spot after day's duty is over, Mrs. Mosier being a true couuterjiart of her 
excellent husband, and as cbeerful and generous a dispenser, and what may be said of bim 
can be said of few, that he is never spoken ill of, and while there may be better people in 
the city, it will take the umpire of ceremonies to discover tbem. He is a man of stalwart 
simplicity and line descrimination between rigbt and wrong, and baving the courage of bis 
convictions, be is a tighter no matter what the odds. He has a plain but forcible manner in 
ap])ealing to public sentiment, wbicb makes bim one of the ]ieo])le as an integer, and whicb 
would elevate bim politically, if be possessed tbe assurance of the average office seeker, but 
being built on a more modest |)lane, it works to bis disadvantage, though jirobably more to 
his taste. One of the strongest traits of his cbaracter is prudence, never acting until all 
doubt is removed, and tbe outcome logically weighed, and wbeu decided, be rides down 
obstacles against all bias; bonorable in expense, liberal in contributions to what promises 
utility, but unworthy calls on bis charity get tbe cold shoulder, and it may truly be said that 
nature and fortune find in bim a combine seldom met, wbicb is why be and Elkhart get on to- 
gether well, and wby each is proud to own tbe otber. and may he and bis live long in the friend- 
ship of tbe city of tbeii' adoption. Mr. Mosier was elected a meml)erof tbe school board and 
f.v offifii) member county board of education for tbree terms in succession and was secretary 
of the board at tbe same time. He is treasurer of the Fidelity Building & Savings Union 
of Indianapolis, wbeie he spends much of his time, and socially he is a member of the 
I. O. O. F. and tbe G. A. R. He was married on May 24, 18G3, to Miss Drusilla L. Roe, 
and they have one child living, Horace. Urtis V. and Inez B. are deceased. Horace occu- 
pies tbe chair of manager of tbe loan department of Fidelity Building & Loan Company, 
at a good salary, although only twenty years of age. 

U . A. Sullivan. Among tbe prominent railroad men of Indianapolis. Ind., stands the 
name of W. A. Sullivan, wbo is a native of that city, born June 27. ISofl, and who was 
educated in the public schools there. In 1872 be left school and began working for the 
.feU'ersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, as messenger boy at Indiana|iolis, and 
after a few months returned to tbe employ of tbe Big Four Railroad for wbicb be bad 
worked six weeks prior to being employed liy t'ne Jetfersonville, Madison & Indianapolis 
Railroad. March 1873 be began bis duties as messenger boy for this company and 
in the spring of 1874 be was promoted to a clerkship wbicb place be filled until 1880 wben 
be was made chief clerk, filling that position in a very satisfactory manner for fourteen 
months. He was then made secretary, to Superintendent J. W. Sherwood and continued in 
that capacity for sixteen months. On January 1, 1883, be was made agent of tbe Big Four, 
and tbis [losition be now holds. Ho is one of tbe most efficient and capable railroad men and 
sustains tbe rejiutation of tbe Big Four as tbe most admirably managed of tbe great trans- 
portation lines entering Indianapolis. In Marcb, 1891, be was elected a member of tbe 
Board of Public Safety, Socially be is a memljer of the Masonic order, also tbe Elks, and 
the National Association of the Local Freight Agents' Association. On May 21, 1884, Mr. 
Sullivan was married to Miss Addie K. Buchanan, daughter of Capt, James M. Buchanan, 
of Indianapolis. Two children bave been born to this union, Mabel Marie and William 
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Albert E. Sterne, M. D. The aim of tho modern pliysician is high and it is no longer 
possible for a person to pick up a smattering of medicine here and there, nail np his shingle 
and strike out, hit or miss, when called upon to prescribe in cases of illness. The demand 
of the age is for gentlemen of culture, refinement and scholastic finish, yiho shall add to 
literary education a thorough course of professional education in some established institution 
of recognized authority. Dr. Albert E. Sterne, of Indianapolis, has met these requirements 
most fully and beyond even what is expected or fulfilled in most cases. This most accom- 
plished young man has prepared most fully for the nol)le profession, having, in fact, used 
every possible agency for the equipment of himself for the successful practice of medicine. 
Thus fortified, he has started out with the confidence and the esteem of his brethren and is 
rapidly building up a desirable practice as the result of his superior attainments. His future 
is already assured and success is before him. Albert E. Sterne was born in Cincin- 
nati. April 28, 180(), the son of Charles F. Sterne, a native of Germany, who came to 
America when a boy and settled at Peru, Ind., and in after years established the Peru 
Woolen Mills, in connection with a brother. He was a most successful manufacturer and 
business man and owned a great deal of real estate in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other 
places. He married Eugenia Fries, a native of Bavaria, who came to America with her 
parents when very small. Her father was a professor in a gymnasium in Germany. The 
father of our subject died in 1880 and his mother in the following year. Our subject was 
reared in Peru, where he attended the pul)lic schools until he was eleven years old, 
when he left for Prof. Kinney's celebrated schoul at Ithaca, N. Y., where he remained 
a year, anei then entered the Mt. Pleasant Military Academy at Sjng Sing, N. Y., attending 
a course of four years, after which he entered the classical department of Harvard Uni- 
versity, at the age of seventeen, and graduated in the class of 1887. In the fall of that 
year he went to Germany, studying medicine in Strasburg for two and one-half years. He 
went thence to Berlin, where he remained three years, graduating from the University of 
Berlin August I'i, 1891. In the meantime, during his vacations, he studied in the hospitals 
of Paris, London, and other European cities, visiting all the hospitals of Europe, and being 
an interne of the Berlin Charite and Dublin Rotunda hospitals. The doctor then returned 
to the United States in December. 1892, locating at Indianapolis, where he at once 
began the general practice, liut it his purpose to make a specialty of nervous diseases, 
having made an extended and special study of this mo.st important subject. Dr. Sterne is 
a member of the American Medical Association, of the Indiana State and the Marion County 
Medical Associations, of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, and is also a member of the 
American Association of Physicians at Berlin, being a charter member and one of the 
founders of the latter association. To a scholarly mind and a most intimate knowledge of 
his profession Dr. Sterne adds a genial, pleasant, agreeable manner, a nature that is in full 
sympathy with his fellows and a spirit of broad and liberal charity. In him is a combi- 
nation of all that is necessary to the complete modern physician and he is fast making 
friends in this city. 

Prof. Allen R. Benton. One of the pioneer educators of the State of Indiana, Prof. 
Allen Richardson Benton is a native of the Empire State, born in Cayuga Coimty, Octolier 1, 
1822. He received his primary education in the common schools of his native county and 
later entered Elbridge Academy, in Onondaga County, N. Y. After leaving that institution 
he farmed and taught in the public schools until he entered Fulton Acailemy, Oswego County, 
N. Y., in 1843, and graduated at Bethany College, West Virginia, in 1847. From Bethany 
he came to Rush County, Ind.. and located at Fairview, where he was principal of Fairview 
Academy for six years. Prof. Benton organized that school and made it a very prosperous 
one, beginning with about twenty-five pupils the first year, i)ut on account of its popularity 
the board of control limited the number to seventy. After the first year the quota was 
always full and vacancies eagerly waited for. Leaving the Academy in 1854, Prof. Benton 
spent the fall, winter and spring in the University at Rochester, N. Y''. , taking a post- 
graduate course. la the spring of 1855 he came to Indianapolis, where he had been 
elected professor of ancient languages in the Northwestern Christian University (now 
Butler University). Previous to opening the University in the fall, our subject opened a 
select school in the college building and continued this until taking his chair as professor of 



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ancient languages. Ho held tlio chair above mentioned until LS61, wLcii be was elected 
president of tbe collej^c, tilling tbut position nntil 1868, and in thi- lueantiiup teaching 
ancient languages. In tiii- last naincMl year tins well known educator moved to Alliance, 
Ohio, where be accepted the chair of Latin in Alliance ("ollege. In 186U be was elected 
president of tbe college and served in that (;ai)acity during ISO'J-Ttl, and until tbe spring 
of 1871. He then was called to organize tbe I'niversity of Nebraska, at Lincoln, and was 
elected its first chancellor, which j)Ositiou be held for live years. This university baa now 
I.tH)l) students. In 187(5 Prof. Benton returned to Indianapolis and was elected to tbe cbair 
of philosophy and biblical literature in Butler University, which cbair be now holds. In 
18S() be was elected presi<lent of Butler University and held that position in addition to bis 
duties as |)rofess(ir of )ibiloso])by and l)il)lical literature up to 1891, when be resigned as 
president but still iuilds his professorshi]). Prof. Benton has delivered many addresses that 
have been published liut has never written anything especially for jinblication. He does not 
belong to any of the secret organizations. The early life of our suliject was passed on a 
farm and be was actively engaged with tbe duties of the same until twenty one years of 
age. He entered Elbridge Academy when twelve years old and was regarded as very profi- 
cient in languages and mathematics. At Bethany College be was given first honors in lan- 
guages and mathematics and was ofTered tbe chair of mathematics in that institution, but 
refused. Ho is a man of profound learning, an 8l)le linguist and forcible speaker. He im- 
presses all with whom be comes in contact as being an earnest, efficient and faithful laborer 
in the cause of education. He is a man of popular address, line social (pialities and marked 
originality of tbimght an<l expression. Prof. Benton was married in Oswego County. N. Y., 
in IS")!, to Miss Silence Howaid, daughter of Dr. Ransom Howard, who was a cousin of 
\\ illiam Cnllen Bryant's grandmother. Silence Howard. Three children have been born to 
this union: Grace, wife of James S. Dales, comjitroller of the University of Nebraska; 
Howard Allen, married Miss Frances Stephenson, daughter of Dr. A. C. Stephenson, and 
resides in Indiaiui])olis; and Mattie, wife of Willard E. Stewart, ex-county judge, at Lin- 
coln, Neb. Allen Benton, father of the Professor, was Ijoru in New York State, near Albany, 
but his father, Isaac Benton, was a native of Litchfield, Conn. For forty years Allen Ben- 
ton practiced medicine in Cayuga County, N. Y"^. , and was an honor to his profession. 
Deborah Willey, the maiden name of our subject's mother, was a native of East Haddani, 
Conn. By her marriage to Dr. Benton she became the mother of these children: Heman, 
a farmer now residing in ('ayuga County, N. Y. ; Prof. Allen B. (subject of this sketch); 
Matilda, wife of John M. Shepard, a minister of Cayuga County, N. Y^ ; Charles Darwin, a 
farmer of Cayuga County, and Dr. James D. The latter was surgeon, first of the One 
Hundred aiul Eleventh New Y'ork Regiment, but was afterward transferred to another regi- 
ment and served through the war. He died in 1891 as a result of exposure during that 
trying period. Tbe father of these children passed away in 1879, fcjllowing his wife, who 
had briMtbed her last in I8()7. Tbe father was of English and the mother of Scotch origin. 
Both were honorable, upright citizens and their family holds an honored and influential 
place at the bonmstead in western New York. 

Daniki. B.^tks HosiiuooK .'tlfords in his life and its success another evidence that indus- 
try, economy and integrity constitute the keynote to bonoral)le competency. After a long 
and honorable career he has retired fiom the active duties of life and now enjoys a pleasant 
and comfortable home in the southeastern part of tbe city of Indianapolis. He was born 
in Hamilton County,' Ohio, December 9, IS'2'2, and received his early education and training 
in the common schools of that county- His father, Daniel Hosbrook, was county surveyor 
of this county for several years, and young Daniel assisted his father in surveying and upon 
the fnrai from his fifteenth to his twenty first year, and in tbe meantinu< l)y diligent study 
and ap])lication be thoroughly (pialitied himself as a surveyor and civil engineer aiul removed 
to the (uty of Indianapolis in tbe year 181(i. Here he soon found emjiloyment in his j)rofes- 
sion and was elected to the office of county surveycu- of Marion County, which office be held 
for several terms and afterward was elected to the office of civil engineer of the city of In- 
dianapolis. He has been for a number of years consulting engineer for the county commis- 
sioners of Marion County, and as such made the plans for and superintended the construction 
of a large number of bridges built by the countv commissioners. He has been a member of 



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fcbe Methodist Episcopal LUiiinrh for tifty years and an official member for forty years. In 
the year 1851 Mr. Hosbrook was tuarried to Miss Mary A. Hightshoe. His said wife having 
died he was married a second time in 1865 to Miss Louisa Hightshoe, a half sister of his 
first wife. He has two children living, namely: Frank Hosbrook iuid Clara Denny, wife of 
Elmer Denny. The subject of our sketch had four brothers and live sisteis. four of whom 
are still living, to-wit: Hervey Hosbrook, of Indianapolis, Ind. ; John L. Hosbrook. Mabloii 
Hosbrook, both of Hamilton County, Ohio, and Ehzabeth Trost, wife of John Trost, of 
Marion County, Ind. Mr. Hosbrook is well known and highly respected by all on account 
of his sterling honesty, unswerving integrity and honorable and upright dealing through a 
long and useful life. 

Charles Kieman. The occu]i!ition of the florist has of late years been followed as a 
profession, and the growing <lesire to ornament lawns and gardens, and to grow flowers for 
ornamental decoration, makes the calling a highly important one. Not even in winter does 
the goddess Flora restrict her gifts, for in the conservatories and green-houses a constant 
supply of the most beautifnl e.xotics is everywhere available. Indianapolis has ac(juired 
quite a reputation as a center of floriculture, and one of the most prominent names known 
in this connection is that of llieman. Charles Rieman, one of the pioneer and long one of 
the most prominent florists of this city, was born in Germany, January 12, 1832, and first 
came to America before he was twenty years old, later becoming a legally naturalized citi- 
zen. He was educated in his native land, and before leaving there became familiar with 
floriculture. At the age of nineteen he became a steward on an ocean vessel, and in that 
capacity crossed the ocean seven times, gaining a valuable experience and finally remaining 
in the country which he conceived to offer better advantages to young and enterprising men 
than those afforded in Germany. Locating in Hamilton, Ohio, he naturally engaged in 
floriculture, and becoming well known as a florist, built up quite an extensive trade. In 
1872 he came to Indianapolis, and before opening business on his own account, was for a 
time in the employ of the old-time florist, A. Wiegand. In partnership with Lewis Stone 
he began business in the Exposition building. They were driven out by Are, and Mr. Rie- 
man located on Tennessee Street, where he erected five very large green-houses. Tlience he 
removed in 1887 to Mississij)pi and Twenty-second Streets, and his estalilishment fronting 
200 feet on Mississippi Street and extending back 180 feet on Twenty-second Streets, has 
become one of the landmarks of that part of the city. When the fact that Mr. Rieman 
started out in life a penniless boy, is considered in connection with the success he won, it 
must be admitted that he demonstrated unusual business capacity. Work was his watch- 
word, and he knew no leisure during all the years necessary to assure the permanency of his 
enterprise. He was in all things an admirable business man and a public spirited citizen, 
always doing his part nobly in any work having for its object the beneflt of his fellow men. In 
polities he was a Republican, though he was not in the active sense a politician. He was a 
liberal and helpful meml)er of Zion's Church, was a patron of the German Orphan Asyluu], 
and was identified with the Knights of Honor, both as a member and an officer. Mr. Rie 
man married Marv Agnes Deering, who died in lSt33, leaving him two sons, John and 
Henry. In 1S04 he married Barl)ara A. Wagner, who was born in Germany in 1847, a 
daughter of Andrew Wagner, a carriage- maker, who came to the United States in 18ij2, 
bringing his family and locating in Baltimore, where he died, and in 1857 the family 
removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where Miss Wagner met and married Mr. Rieman. Mrs. Wag- 
ner is still living at the advanced age of eighty six years, a member of Mrs. Rieman's 
household. Mr. Rieman died January 24, 18110. By his second marriage lie had two sons, 
Edward E. and Otto J. Rieman, and a daughter, Lydia. now the wife of George J. Gerzen 
denner, of Indianajiolis. IMrs. Rieman is a devout communicant of Zion's Church. The 
business estalilished and conducted so long and so successfully bj' Mr. Rieman is now man- 
aged with equal success Isy his family. A distinct specialty is made of cut flowers and 
ranch' attention is given to the bedding trade. This is one of the important industries 
of the kind in Indianapolis, and through the long years of its existence it has become firmly 
established and most popular. 

Henry William Rieman. The culture of flowers is one that adds much to the happiness 
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placed it withia the power of nearly every oue to cultivate this taste Tor the beautiful, for if 
they lack suitable couvenieuces in their own homes for their culture, the numerous tloral 
establishments in all large cities will readily supply their wants. Henry AV. Eieman is at 
the head of a well stocked establisement at tUUI S. East Street, Indianapolis. He deals in 
all kinds of plants, tlowers and designs, and his trade not only embraces all parts of the 
citv, but also the surrouudingcoiiutry. Designs of all kinds suitable for weddings, funerals, 
parties, etc., are arranged on short notice and in the most satisfactory manner. Mr. Rieuian 
is a native of the Province of Hanover, (.lermimy. where he was l)orn in ISoT, a son of 
Henry Kieman, who was a tiorist for a nobleman in the Province of Hanover, and under his 
father's able instruction young Henry obtained his first knowledge of the liusiness. The 
father came to the United States on a visit though he did not remain here but a short time, and 
upon his return to the Fatherland once more entered the service of his former em|>loyer. 
Henry W. Rieman was educated in his native land, aiul at the age of twenty years came to 
the United States, and for some time made his home in Cincinnati, after which he spent two 
years in Connersville, and then became a resident of Indianapolis, which place has since been 
his home. He entered the employ of J. S. Hillbrandt, who is the owner of a small conserv- 
atory, for three years, and then became- associated in the business with Charles Rieman, an 
uncle. This connection was severed soon after, and Mr. Rieman then entered the employ 
of Mr. A. Wiegand. with whom he lemainetl f(Uir years. He then embarked in liusiness for 
himself, and in the short interval of his business career, six years, he has built four green- 
houses. It was his intention, if he has not already done so, to build two more during the 
summer of 1S93. His houses are stocked with most rare and beautiful flowers, and in the 
various flower shows that have been held he has carried off many premiums. At the flower 
show in Cincinnati in ISU'2 he took the silver medal and §50 premium for the second best 
seedling chrysanthemum when over 500 entries from different sections of the country 
had been made. He has also taken many premiums in lutlianapolis. He belongs to the 
society of Indiana florists, being president of the local club, and he is also a member of the 
National Society of American Florists. In 1883 he was married to Miss Mary Richter. of 
Indianapolis, by whom he has two sons and two daughters. He and his wife are members 
of the Ziou Church. 

Arthi'r V. Brows. Popular, eflScient and faithful, such would be the verdict passed 
upon the character and the otiicial standing of our subject by any good citizen of Indianapolis, 
of whom the ipiestion might be asked. Arthur V. Brown, the county attorney of Marion 
County, was born at New Bethel. Marion County. Ind.. March IT. 1^03. being the son of 
Dr. Samuel M. and Mahala (Brady ) Brown, natives of South Carolina and of Marion County, 
Ind. , respectively. The father came to Marion County about the year ]N4S, locating at 
New Bethel, is a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College and practices at New Bethel. 
The maternal grandfather. Henry Brady, came to Marion County in 1^^1U, settling about five 
miles east of what is now Indianapolis. He was a well known, intelligent and very popular 
gentleman. By profession he was a surveyor and civil engineer and was elected several times 
to the house and the Senate of the Legislature of Indiana; was a member of the house when 
the new constitiition was adopted. This accomplished gentleman was a soldier of the War 
of 1812. He died in the city of Indianapolis in the year 18S5. One daughter of his is 
living, Mrs. Margaret Lingenfelter, of this city. Our suliject is the fourth child of a family 
of nine and was brought up in New Bethel, where he attended the public schools and gradu- 
ated from the Butler I'uiversity in ISS'i. At once he began the study of law with Harrison. 
Miller iV: Ehim and was admitted to the bar in 1886. Beginning the practice alone he has 
built lip a large business and a lucrativeoue. In September, ]8',ll. he was ajipointed county 
attorney and was principal deputy prosecuting attorney under John W. Holtzman for two 
years. In 1SS6 he was appointed by the county commissioners as attorney for poor prisoners, 
a position he held for two years. For a period of two years he was secretary of the Hendricks 
Club and during the past two years has been its treasurer. Mr. Brown is a very bright 
Mason, a thirty-second degree member and a mendier of the ^lystic Shrine: also a member 
of the Sigma Chi society. Mr. Brown is a very bright and most promising young man. 
whose future is gilded with the sure promise of good things. He is a very ardent Democrat 
and most loyally stands by and works for the nominees of his party. 



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Hon. ]Mi<:hael A. Downing is a uativeof Scott County. Ind., and wag born in 1S35, a son 
of John Donning and grandson of Michael Downing, a man of warlike spirit wb(j fought 
under Mad Anthony Wayne in the War for independence, helped conquer the Indians in the 
Northwest Territory and later took part in the Pigeon Roost battle in this State and in due 
order served his country in the War of isr2. The Downing family came to the western 
corintry from Virginia, by flatl)oat via the Kanawha and the Ohio Kivers, settling at the falls 
of the Ohio on the Indiana side. Mr. Downiug's father located near New Frankfort, and 
when the immediate subject of this sketch was four years old removed to Bnrgess Ferry, 
Jackson County. There the boy was given every possible educational a<lvantage. After 
leaving the common school, he entered that excellent old institution. Blue River Seminary 
in Washington County. Later he was a student at Greencastle and finished his education 
at Franklin College. During the few years preceding his college days and for a time after- 
ward Mr. Downing assisted his father in farming and store-keeping ojjerations at Tampico, 
Jackson County. In 1856 he became the commercial representative of the A. Downing & 
Co., smelting works in Greene County. The following year found him a wholesale and 
retail grocer at Louisville, where he lived for twenty years and became known as an aljle and 
successful l)usiness man and a safe and reliable leader in public affairs. He was chosen to rep- 
resent his ward in the Louisville Board of Aldermen in 1860, and from that time until 1877, 
when he removed to Indianapolis, he was constantly in oflSce as alderman, member of the 
Legislature or in some other prominent position. During his service in the Kentucky Leg- 
islature Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was one of 
his colleagues and during his first session his room mate, and during his second .session Mr. 
Downing occupiel a room in connection with Dr. E. D. Standiford. president of the Lonis- 
ville and Nashville Railroad. In 1876, after fourteen years successful management of the 
Louisville stockyards, Mr. Downing was induced to interest himself in the Belt Railway and 
stock yards projected in Indianapolis, an enterprise which a number of influential men had 
tried without avail to bring to a successful issue, and which, under his guidance, was soon 
made an assured success, though only after many difScnlties had been overcome. Mr. Down- 
ing had its general management during the entire period of construction and retained it 
until in 1882, the line was leased to the Union Railway Company, and is now one of the prom- 
inent directors and stockholders in this institution .so important to the leading interests of 
the city. la 1884, in connection with other Indianapolis capitalists, Mr. Downing lx)ught 
the St. Louis and Florisant Narrow Gauge Railway, now after several changes of name, 
known as the St. Louis Cattle and Western Railway, of which he was president through all 
of its vicissitudes, and in that capacity he secured the franchise for the first cable system 
constructed in St. Louis, though strenuously opposed in some influential quarters. By this 
achievement he secured to St. Louis a splendiil system of rapid transit which ha»had much 
to do with the wonderful growth and development of that city since that time. The piop- 
erty with all its franchises was sold to a Boston syndicate most profitably by Mr. Downing 
and his as.=ociates. Nest, in connection with Ex-Governor Evans of Colorado, W. N. Byers, 
formerly proprietor of the Rocky Mountain News and others, he built the first .system of 
cable roads in successful operation in Denver, in which he had a large amount of stock and of 
which he was the general manager during its construction and until 1889 when he resigned 
and returned to his old home at Indianapolis. Upon his retirement the directors of the com- 
pany recorded in the archives of the corporation a set of resolutions thanking him sincerely 
for his efficient work as the builder and first general manager of these lines. Early in the 
administration of Governor Gray. Mr. Downing was appointed by that official one of the 
police commissioners of Indianapolis, but his private business was so pressing in its demands 
upon him that he resigned after two years' service. He was also president of the State 
Board of Education appointed under the present law. He is a past master Mason and is a 
member of the Commercial Club and other popular and prominent organizations. He was 
married in 1854 to Susan L. Duncan, daughter of Johnson Duncan, of Hardin County, Ky., 
and has two sons and two daughters all of whom are well-known and honored residents of 
Indianapolis. 

John H. C.\rsos. M. D. The profession of the physician is perhaps one of the most 
trj'ing on brain and body of any in the field of science, for it absorbs the attention of him who 



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practices it conscientiously, liotli day and uigbt and brings into play ;ill the latent powers of bis 
being. At an early age Dr. Carson manifested a decided taste and talent for the medical pro- 
fession- his kindly nature instinctively turniTig to that broad field of human suffering for 
his life work — a profession whose noiseless, yet ofttimes marvelous triumphs, are unknown to 
the multitude. He was born in Ontario, Canada, February 9, 1862, and is a son of James 
and Phobe (^Wright) Carson, the former a native of the green isle of Erin and the latter of 
Canada but of Irish descent. Dr. Carson's early educational advantages were received in 
the common school and when but twelve years of age he started out to make his own wav in 
life. For four years he clerked in a store after which he liegaii teaching school and followed 
this profession for a number of years. In ISSC) he entered the Northwestern Universitv of 
Illinois, attended two years, and then entered De Fauw University at Greencastle where he 
continued one year. While sec-uring an education he was obliged" to work durincr vacation 
to get the necessary means for his schooling, and thus made the mi«t of his time. "Hc becran 
the study of medicine with Kagan\- Allen of Plainfield.and subsequently entered The Medfcal 
College of Indiana from which he graduated in 1892. Following this he began the general prac- 
tice of his profession in West Indianapolis and has been unusually successful, having acquired 
a large practice for a young physician. He has been registrar of the Medical College of 
Indiana for two years and is a member of Indiana State and Marion County Medical Societies. 
Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and I. O. R. M.. and also the A* O. U. W. In the 
month of June, 188,"), he was married to Jliss Gertrude Dietz, a native of Canada, and two 
children have blessed this union— IngrilTe D., and Gertrude Irene. Dr. and Mrs. Carson 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is steward, and both are hiwhlv 
esteemed for their many estimable ciualities. ° 

John J. C.\RRniEK. The constant change in the ownership of property in the o-rowinf 
city of Indianapolis, and on account of the loans being always made and released on it neces- 
sitates those who make the deals and standing between buyer and seller, loaner and lessee, the 
real estate agent, to be possessed. of the best judgment and knowledge. Among the repre- 
sentative men who have embarked in this line of business perhaps the most capable are Jolm 
J. Carriger & Co. John J. Carriger has had a wide and successful experience in real estate 
and is active in every measure advanced for the general good of the city. He is also deeply 
interested in the insurance business and has been unusually successful in this. Mr. CarrigeV 
is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Boone County, near Jamestown, May 5. 1848, and his 
parents, George M. and Sarah D. (George) Carriger," were natives of Tennessee, the former 
born in Carter and the latter in Sullivan County. The parents celebrated their nuptials in 
their native State and in 183S moved to Boone County. Ind., where they entered land. The 
father was the eldest of nine childran, all now dead," and he passed to the silent majoritv 
March 10. J891, when eighty-sis years and nineteen days old. His wife still survives, 
and although over eighty years of age is in comparatively "good health. He was one of the 
pioneers of Boone County and passed most of his life onthe farm he bad carved out of the 
wdderness. He was a prosperous tiller of the soil and became the owner of 700 acres of 
land that was divided among his children. During the early days of Boone County Mr. 
Carriger farmed during the summer, but in the winter months ta"ught school. The youth, 
fnl days of our subject were passed on his father's farm and in attending the log cabin" school 
where his father wielded the birch. On October 7. 18('.1. in company with his 
brother, Godfrey M.. he enlisted in Comjaany F. Fortieth Indiana Kegiment as corporal, and 
while m camp at Lafayette was taken with measles. He returned home and as soon as well 
joined his regiment at Bardstown. Kv.. and served continuonslv for three years and two 
months. He was in the battles of siuloh, Corinth. Perryville. "ivy., Stanford. Ky., Silver 
Springs. Stone Kiver and numerous other engagements. His regiment was foremost at the 
battle of Chattanooga and out of 12.') days, ninety-seven days were passed under lire, in- 
cluding, besides the engagements already mentioned, Devil's Back Bone. Kesaea. New 
Hope Church. Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta. Peach Tree Creek. Atlanta. Jonesboro. etc.. 
and serving through the Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee campaigns. He was present at 
the battle of Franklin but did not take part, being released. He was never wounded l)ut had 
several narrow escapes. His brother, Godfrey M.. was taken sick at Corinth but was sent 
from there to Evansville, Ind., and there died. Arriving home on December 9, 1864, 





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John J. wag engaged in farming with his father for one year aud on Saturdays traded 
horses. Daring that year he relates he made §200 farming and S216 trading horses. On 
December 3. 1S65, he went to Cincinnati, bought a stock of general merchandise and 
shipped the same to Jamestown where he engaged in business. He also carried on general 
trading in stock, graiti aud lumber, and until January 1, 1878, he shipped annually 600 or 
700 cars. About that time he came to Indianapolis aud continued in the same line of busi- 
ness until 1883 when he engaged in the real estate business which he has continued 
successfully since. Mr. Carriger was one of the charter members of the Board of Trade, and 
at present he is one of the members of the real estate committee. The annual business of 
Mr. Carriger amounts to aciuarter of a million per year, in trades, real estateand exchange. 
He is a member of the A. O. U. W. aud has held all the offices of the subordinate lodge 
Prospect, Xo. 45. He is also a member of the Unioc Veteran League. Mr. Carriger 
selected his companion in life in the person of Miss Sarah F. Neff, a native of Hendricks County 
and daughter of Jacob and Augusta ( Skinnerj Xeff. and their nuptials were celebrated Novem- 
ber 30, 1865. Sis children have blessed this union: Theodore M. ; Myrtle and Gertrude, 
twins, the former deceased; Harry, deceased; Grace and Charles E. In his political views 
Mr. Carriger is a stanch supporter of Republican principles. 

J. E. Bell. Youth is not a Ijar to promotion, for the American people have learned 
that ability is not measured by the length of time a man has spent upon earth. Some men 
might live a thousand years and never know anything and others are bright and able to take 
their places among men long before they have arrived at mature manhood. The subject of 
our sketch belougs to the latter class, for he was bright at school, brilliant as a student of 
law and now that he is a member of the bar has a good practice, which i-apidly increases 
from year to year. J. E. Bell, the deputy city attorney of Indianapolis, was born in Union 
County, Ind., November 28, 1865, being the son of John M. aud Mary J. (Luse) Bell, 
natives, respectively, of Juuiata County, Penn., and of Butler County, Ohio. The father came 
to Indiana when about fifteen years old and settled at Billingsville, Union County, where he 
learned the trade of a carpenter; but soon relinquished that aud took uj> with farming, which 
he still follows. Still a resident of Union County, he is a vei'v prominent man of that section, 
having rejaresented the counties of Union. Franklin and Ripley in the State Legislature. The 
great-grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and was with 
AVashingtou one winter at VaUey Forge. Our subject is one of six children and was reared 
in Union County, attending the common schools of that county aud the high school of Liberty; 
after which he attended the normal school, at Lebanon, Ohio, aud finally, graduated from 
the law department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1S88. Brought up on the 
farm, he attended school during the winter aud worked duriug the summer; at the age of 
seventeen, iustead of being a pupil in the winter he taught school, and to the satisfaction of 
pupils and patrons. This he repeated for the nest three winters. After graduating in 1888 
he went home and harvested his wheat crop and in the following fall he came to Indian- 
apolis, where he was a perfect stranger, not knowing a single soul in the whole city. Judge 
Swift, then judge of the circuit court of Union County, accompanied him and intro- 
duced him to John R. Wilson, the present county clerk into whose office he went for a few 
months, iu order to get acquainted. Subsequently Mr. Bell opened an office and began the 
practice alone, and continued alone at No. 8i North Pennsylvania Street (except during the 
session of the General Assembly of 1889 when he was reading clerk of the House of Repre- 
sentativesj until January. 1893, when he moved to the office of Avres &, Jones, being 
appointed by Mr. Jones as deputy city attorney. He was formerly under Leon O. Bailey, in 
the same position, but resigned it. Mr. Bell is very popular, having the happy faculty of 
making and holding friends. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows, 
in both of which organizations he is greatly esteemed. Our subject was married in 1888 to 
Miss Anna L. Miller, who. as is her husband, is a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian 
Church, he being a member of the Board of Deacons. Mr. Bell worked his own way through 
school and is in every sense of the word a self-made man. Every dollar he made while pur- 
suing his studies went to the defraying of his expeuses and his sturdy self reliance and calm 
purpose, united with his signal ability, stamp him a man who cannot fail to make his way 
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Randali, J. Abrams. The subject of our sketch has won bis way alone ami unaided to 
the position of honor and trust he recently held as city clerk of Indianapolis. He was horn 
in l?altinioro, Md., September 'I'l, 1857, and is the son of John anil Ann (Condon) Ahrams, 
natives of Yorkshire, Enijland, and of Duliliu, Ireland, rps]iectively. The parents came to 
this country before their marriage, their union taking place in Baltimore. The father of 
our subject was a farmer and gardener while residing at Baltimore. The father came to 
Indianapolis in 189t) and now resides here. The maternal grandfather. Edward Condon, 
came to America, and settled at Baltimore at an early day, where he died at the age of 
ninety-three. The grandmother Condon (Elizabeth) died at the age of eighty one. The 
subject of our sketch is one of eleven children, five of whom are living, namely: .\nn, Ran- 
dall J., Belle, Charles and Wallace. Randall d. was reared at Baltimore, where he was 
educated in the public schools. Learning the sawmaker's trade, he served his full time 
and followed it until ISSS, when he was appointed custodian of the State capitol, holding 
that position until his election as city clerk, in October, IS'.ll. which ot>ice he acceptably tilled. 
Mr. Abrams came to this city an entire stranger, but now his friends are legion, for every 
one likes him. tie is a popular member of the Knights of I'ythias and a stanch and active 
supporter of the Democratic party in every contest. Our subject was married in February, 
1889, to Miss Ella M. Leeds, of this city, who, with her husband, is a member of the 
Baptist Church. 

Hon. Richard W. Thompson was a native of Culpeper Counly. Va., born in June, 181^9, 
and was descended from one of "thetirst families of Virginia.'" When twenty two years 
old he emigrated to Indiana, taught a private school at Bedford, and later oj>ened the Law- 
rence County Seminary. Subseijuently he read law, was admitted to the bar in 18i54. and 
the same year was elected to the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1S3S. In 18HU he was 
elected to the State Senate, and during his career as a State legislator not only displayed 
great ability and foresight, but was instrumental in effecting very important legislation. 
Upon the resignation of Lieut. -Gov. Wallace, Mr. Thompson was president of the Senate 
pro tempore, and held the oflice of acting governor during the administration of Hon. Noah 
Noble. As a Whig be was nominated and elected to Congress in 1S41 from the Second 
district, and declining a renomiuation moved to Terre Haute in 1848, where for nearly a 
half a century he was engaged in the ]>ractice of the law. In 1S4T he was again nominated 
for Congress by the Whig party, and. accei)ting the nomination, was re-elected and became 
a national character because of his jironiinence in legislative matters. Although tendered 
the Austrian mission by Pres. Taylor in 1849, he declined the appointment, preferring 
to remain in his native country. During the war of the Rel)ellion be rendered the Union 
active and valuable services, was commandant of Camp Dick Thompson, near Terre Haute, 
and also served as provost marshal of the district. In 1S(>T he was elected judge of the 
Eighteenth Judicial District, but declined the candidature of a second term. For a number 
of years he lived in retirement, steadily refusing political preferment, and turning his attention 
to literary and educational pursuits, his large and valuable libiary affording him an ample Held 
for study. In March, 1S77, President Hayes appointed him to his cabinet as Secretary of 
the Navy, and so ably did he till the duties of that position that he brought order out of 
chaos, simplified the duties of his sul)ordituites. dismissed unnecessary employes, established 
his department on a sound basis and saveil several million dollars to the Government that 
had previously been frittered away. Mr. Thompson is one of the men whose name bears 
an imperishable imprint on the page of Indiana history. He is now in his eighty-tifth year, 
hale and hearty; he has been a participant in sixteen presidential campaigns, and on Sep- 
tember 3, 1893. made one of the ablest political speeches of his life, comprising six columns 
of newspaper print. 

Gov. James D. Wii,i,iams. or more popularly known as '" Blue Jeans"' Williams, re]>re- 
sentedthe old type of the true gentleman. He was not gifted with the polish that comes 
of a finished education, or that is usual in the case of public men. A Democrat of the 
Jeffersonian school in all that the term im)>lies, a man of remarkable force of character, 
simple and unostentatious in his intercotirse with his fellowmen, honest as the day was long, 
it is no wonder that ''Blue Jeans" Williams obtained a stronghold upon the hearts of the 
masses. He was born January 16, ISltS, in Pickaway County, Ohio, moved with bis par- 



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ents to Knox County, Ind., when ten years old, was reared to hard work on the Lome farm, 
and was taught to believe that it was far better to be able to boast of his skill in plowing, 
clearing, splitting rails, swinging the cradle and the like, than it was to boast of his ednea 
tion. As a consequence his schooling was of a very meager character; but what he lacked 
in this respect was modified to a considerable extent by desultorj' readings, and in his in- 
tercourse with men of learning. When twenty years old his father died, ;uid the care of 
the family devolved upon him, and throe years later occurred his marriage with Nancy 
Huffman. When thirty one years of age he began his public career by becoming a justice 
of the peace, but in 1S43 resigned and was elected to the State Legislature. From 1843 to 
1874 llr. Williams was almost continually in the Legislature of the State, either as Repre- 
sentative or Senator. In the year last mentioned he was elected to represent his district in 
Congress, was made chairman of the committee ou accounts of the House, and while not 
making a brilliant record in his one term as Congressman, Le gave a thoroughly able and 
honest representation. In 1870, much to his surprise, he became the nominee of the 
Democracy of the State for the Governorship of Indiana. It was in this campaign that his 
opponents made sport of his homespun clothes and plain appearance, and obtained for him 
the sobriquet of "Blue-Jeans."' It was one of the most remarkable campaigns of this 
most remarkable country, and is comparable to the " Tippecanoe and Tyler too," and the 
Lincoln-Douglas elections. Mr. Williams was elected by over 5,000 votes over Gen. 
Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of the United States, and served four years. 

A. A. Young. The business of the merchant is not only one that may be the road to 
success, but, what is better, in this country, certainly, it is one of the most honorable of 
avocations and those engaged in it are, as a clas.s, composed of the very al)le8t and brightest 
of the land. It is the way to social distinction, to wealth and to fame, if one wishes the 
latter. In the list of worthy and honorable business men of Indianapolis, that of our sub- 
ject appears as one in every way entitled to the confidence and the esteem of his fellow citi- 
zens. He is a member of the city council from the third ward and was born in Johnson 
County, Ind., April 5, 1852. Mr. Young is the son of Jesse and Sarah (Demaree) Young, 
who came to Indiana at an early day and settled in Johnson County, where the father car- 
ried on a farm. He now lives at Des lloines, Iowa, retired from active [nirsuits. He has 
been a member of the Legislature of Iowa and held other oflBcial positions. He is the father 
of four sons, all living, and a daughter dead. The names of the sous are: William S., of 
Franklin, Ind.; Joseph B., of Blackhawk, Colo.; Noble W., a farmer of Monona County, 
Iowa, and Archibald A., our subject. William S. was a .soldier in Company F, Seventh 
Indiana, and lost a leg at Cedar Mountain. The subject of our sketch was taken by his 
parents to Fairfield, Iowa, when but an infant. He remained here until he was fifteen, but 
was dejarived of an education, because of constant, chronic illness. At the age of fifteen he 
left Iowa and returned to Franklin, Ind., with his brother, William S., and went to school 
during the winter, working on the farm during the summer. Afterward he attended two 
terms of Franklin College. This is all the schooling that he received and it will be seen tliat 
he is a self-taught, as he is a self-made man. What schooling he received he had to pay for 
and at the age of seventeen he entered the dry goods store of R. V. Ditmers, of Franklin, 
with whom he remained until the fall of 1S72, when he came to Indianapolis and was em 
ployed in what was then known as the People's Store, conducted by W. M. Davis. Here he 
remained until the fal! of 1876, when the firm went out of business. He then took service 
with L. S. Ayres & Co., in May, 1877, with whom he remained until February, bS'-i^^, when 
he organized the firm of Young, Dildim &. McMurray, merchant tailors, at Nos. 12 and 14 
North Meridian Street. This firm carries a very large and fine stock of goods and are first- 
class tailors. Mr. Young was elected a member of the city council in October, 1801, and has 
served his constituents most acceptably, at the same time working faithfully for the interests 
of the city. Prior to his election he made the race for alderman from the second district, 
but was unsuccessful. Mr. Young believes in social organizations and is a member of the 
K. of P. and of the R. A. Our subject was married in 1877 to Miss Georgia A. Sloan, and 
this union has been blessed with three sons: Howard S., Ralph A. and Byron C, all prom- 
ising and interesting lads. Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of Tabernacle Presbyterian 
Church, of which he is a deacon. He is a stanch Republican and treasurer of the Reijublicau 

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Comity comiuittee. llr. Young bus a luimher of interests in tlie city, being secretary of the 
Illinois anil Sev«ntli Streets Savings anil Loan Association, irciisnrer of State Loan and Sav- 
ings Association League anil a member of tlie Commercial (31iil). He enjoys tbe fullest con- 
fidence of all wbo know him and is a reliable business man in eveiy sense of the term. 

Fktek Sixdi.ixoer. As a wholesale and retail dealer in meats in Indianapolis there is 
not one who has a more enviable reputation for promptness, enterprise and honesty than 
Peter Sindlinger, whose establishment is located at 207 West Michigan street, and has been 
in -SHccessfnl operation since 1878. His trade Las already grown to immense proportions and 
he does a well-known annual business of over $10(),()0(). His ice house, packing house and 
other buildings occupy ground 200x800 feet, all of which improvements were made by Mr. 
Sindlinger at a cost of •'?25,O00, in addition to which he has a slaughter house at the Union 
Stock Yards, a plant which cost $7,000. He has two retail stalls for meats at the city 
market, and two large wholesale wagons are kept constantly busy disposing of his goods 
throughout the city. Mr. Siuillinger is a j)roduct of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he 
was born on CInistnias day, 1852, a son of Gotleib and Eva (Spitzfaden) Sindlinger, who 
came from (Jermany, which country has given to America some of its best citizens. The 
father was brought to this country liy his parents at about the age of one year, and in the 
"City of Brotherly Love" he was reared and educated. Upon embarking in business for 
himself it was as n meat merchant, a calling he followed successfully for several years. This 
business he continued to follow for some time after locating in Cincinnati, from which place 
he later enlisted in the Mexican War. He was wounded in one of the leading battles and 
while in the service contracted rheumatism which resulted in his death November lU, 1881. 
He came to Indianapolis in 1S()2 and at one time was a menibrr of the city council from the 
old fifteenth ward. He was one of the enterprising business men of the place and success- 
fully conducted a meat market until his death. Peter Sindlinger was a hul when his parents 
came to Indianapolis, and although he attended school until he was twelve years of age, he 
was theu obliged to go to work and commenced learning the butcher's trade in his father's 
establishment, and so thorough was his training and so intelligent was he in acquiring an 
insight into the business that he decided to make it his chief occupation through life and 
time has shown the wisdom of his choice. His success has been assured from tlie start for 
he has exercised the utmost good jndgmeni at all times and has ever been at the helm to 
guide his liark of business into smooth and profitable waters. He is of a genial and social 
disposition and belongs to the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities and to the 
Butchers' Association. He was married January S, 1878, to .Miss Emma F. Kuhn, a native 
of Indianapolis and a daughter of Charles J. and Fredericka S. (Reinert) Kuhn, and to their 
union three children have been given: Mamie, Frieda and William. Mr. Sindlinger and his 
family are members of the German Lutheran Church and in political matters he has always 
atHliated with the Democrat party. 

M.vRTiN J. MuRPnv. The subject of our sketch is a young man under forty, who has 
trusteil to his own strong arm and his healthy brain and has not lieen disajipointed. Martin 
J. Murphy began life without capital and his privileges were somewhat limited, but a 
steady purpose to do with his might what was in sight has brought him forward until he is 
now a councilman at large and president of the city council of Indianajiolis. Mr. Murphy 
was born at ]\Iadison, Ind., Octolier 25, 1853, and is the son of Mai tin and Catharine (Cos- 
grove) Murphy, natives of Ireland, who came to America before their marriage, about the 
year 1851, and were married at Madison. The father died at Indianapolis in 1873, and the 
mother in Kentucky about the year 1868. They were the parents of five children, four of 
whom aie living, our subject being the eldest. He was reared at Madison and attended the 
school of the Catholic Sisters until he was thirteen, after which he went to the public semi- 
nary two terms and (hen, when less than fourteen, started out to make his own living. 
Without a single doubt as to the result he l>egan at day labor, being employed on the grad- 
ing of the Louisville, Cincinnatti & Lexington Short Line and on the Shawneetowu & 
Edgewood Railroad, his work being the driving of horses, for which he received very 
small wages, but he contrived to get enough to eat. About the year 1870 he came to 
Indianapolis and worked for a season in the wheel factory. Subsequently he ran on the 
Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad, being a fireman for about four vcars and 



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worked as an engineer, and went out with tbe strike of 1877. Following this he went 
to work in the rolling-mill and thence to Lafayette, Ind.. where he was an engineer in 
the hominy mills for some time, and then returned to Indianapolis and went to work in 
the car works. Later he was in the service of the Electric Light Company, and then, in 
1888, he entered the office of the Connty Auditor and was a deputy for nearly live years. 
In April, 1892. he entered into the undertaking business with Mr. Callier, under the fimi 
name of Callier & Murphy, located at No. 59 West Maryland Street. Our subject was 
elected to the City Council as a member at-large in October. 1891, having served for the 
two years previous as a councilman from tbe thirteenth ward, being first elected in 
October, 1SS9. He was nominated by the Democratic caucus for president of the council 
during his first term, but was defeated by a combination of Republicans, and of Demo- 
crats who did not attend the caucus of the party. He was elected president of the couu- 
cil-at-large at the first meeting of the council, and has served as sach since January, 1892. 
Mr. Murphy is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and is a man of social 
impulses and personally very popular. He was married in 1875, and bis wife died in 1890, 
leaving two children: Mami^ and Dolly, who are at St. John's Academy. Mr. Murphy is 
one of the solid and representative men of tbe city, who owes his prominence to his own 
abil^y and to tbe help of no one but himself. 

Chables H. Adam. The name of Charles H. Adam is a familiar one in the railroad as 
well as of the political circles of Indianapolis, he being a trusted employe in the former and 
a faithful follower in the latter. He is treasurer of the School Board of the city, and the city 
passenger and ticket agent of tbe Cincinnati. Hamilton <fc Dayton Railroad, and was born at 
Bueckeburg, Germany, Novemljer 7, 1860. Our subject is the son of William C. andDoretta 
(Tiestei Adam, who came to this country in 1866. landing at New York City and coming 
direct to Indianapolis, where they now reside. They are the parents of eight children, seven 
of whom are living, our subject being tbe eldest of the family. He was but sis years old 
when he came here, and he received his education in the public and the German schools of 
this city, finishing with a full course in a Ijusiness college, graduating from it at tbe age of 
seventeen. Starting out to learn the trade of a baker he grew tired of it in less than a year 
and gave it up. After trying a number of things be secured a position with the Burdsal 
wholesale paint and glass house as shipping clerk, and held it for three years. He was then 
employed at the TTnion Station ticket office, and in 1889 was made ticket agent of tbe Cin- 
cinnati. Hamilton <fc Dayton Railroad at the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Illinois Street, 
where he is stiU stationed. In June. 1892. be was elected a member of tbe School Board, 
and was elected (reasurer of that body in the following month. Beside this position he is 
secretary of tbe Southeastern Building & Loan Association. Mr. Adam is a member of the 
tbp K. of P., and is highly esteemed in that order. He was married in 1S84 to Miss 
Josephine Jose, of this city, who has borne him one son, Carl. Mr. Adam is a member of 
the German Lutheran Church, and since his eighteenth birthday has been a member of the 
Indianapolis Maennerchor, the pioneer singing society of this city; he has served on the 
executive board»in this society for the past ten years. In politics he is an uncompro- 
mising Democrat, and his voice and vote are always cheerfully used for tbe advancement of 
the interests of the party. Mr. Adam at one time sold papers on tbe street, and paid his 
tuition in the German school by serving as janitor of the building. From these beginnings 
he has risen to his present influential and dignified position. 

Hexbt J. Bkowx. Age has not laid its dignifying band upon our subject, but the weight 
and responsibility of many of tbe local positions of Franklin Township have been assigned to 
him because of his peculiar fitness as a man of ability and rare judgment. He is an intelli- 
gent and enterprising youngbusiness man, and a native of this county, his birth having oc- 
curred in New Bethel. April 3. lSo.3. His educational advantages were received inthecom- 
mon schools there and in the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Leaving school at the age 
of nineteen years he returned to New Bethel. Ind.. and assisted his father to till tbe soil for 
alx)ut a year.- From there he went to Denver, Colo., remained there for about four months 
nad then returned to New Bethel wheie he began clerking for James D. Brnmley in a gen- 
eral store. Ayear or so later he bought a half interest, and abbut one year later he and Al- 
bert Helms bought out Mr. Brumley, after which time the firm was conducted under the title 



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of Blown & Holms for about two years. In l^tSO Mr. Brown l)ought out liis partner and has 
carried on the business alone ever since.' He now owns a large two-story frame Iniildiugand 
this is tilled with his stock. lu his political views Mr. Brown atHliates with the Democratic 
party and is active in bis support of its platform and principles. In 1890 he was elected 
trustee of Franklin township for four years, but owing to a change of law be will hold that posi- 
tion until August, 1895. Mr. Brown is a member of the I. O. O. F., Acton Lodge, and a 
charter member of the Acton Lodge, K. of F. He served as vice chancellor of the 
latter organization, but resigned the position on account of business. For some time he has 
held membership ii\ the Baptist Church. In the year 1S77 he was married to Miss Flora 
Schooley, daughter of Thomas Schooley. of Indianapolis, and two children have been given 
them, Ernest T., born in IS^O and Raymond A., born in ISS."). The father of our subject is 
Dr. S. M. Brown. 

Henry F. B.\bxes. il. D. The [)rofession of medicine, while a very inviting field for 
the student and the humanitarian, is one that demands much self denial and the exercise 
of repression and the sacrifice of the ordinary methods of advancing one's interests. It 
has been urged, and with great show of reason, that these causes explain the exalted char- 
acter and the superior virtues tliat so strongly ehiiracterize the profession the country over. 
In other words, the self-abnegation demanded for the truly successful man in this pr(jfes- 
sion is such that good men only are willing to assume the duties and responsibilities of such 
a life. The city of Indianapolis is peculiarly fortunate in the /)e)-so((ne/ of its practioners, 
the ethical code being maintained at the highest possible standard, and the individual 
members being gentlemen of culture and refinement, and physicians of repute and emi 
nence. In the number the name of Dr. Henry F. Barnes appears most prominent, bis 
attainments in his profession, his courteous treatment of bis brethren, the success be has 
attained in the practice, and his broad and considerate and devoted care of those who require 
bis professional services, all combining to give him an enviable distinction among physi- 
cians and a deserved popularity with the public. Especially does he have the confidence of 
those who have had his presence in the sick chamVier and have observed how devoted his 
care of those who suffer. Dr. Barnes has passed his sixtieth year, yet his natural vigor 
has not abated, and be practices with all the zeal, enthusiasm and sympathy for suffering 
that stamped him thirty years ago. Henry F. Barnes, M. D., of Indianapolis, was born 
at Orleans, Ind., August 11, 1829, being the son of Dean Barnes, who was born near Lex- 
ington, Ky., and was a pioneer trader, merchant and hotel keeper of Springville. Lawrence 
County. Ind., shipping produce for forty miles around that place, in fiatboats, to New 
Orleans. The fatber of our suliject was a justice of the peace for thirty years and served 
two terms as treasurer of Lawrence County. He married Mabala Athon, a native of 
Rockbridge County, Va.. and a daughter of Judge Joseph .\thon. a teacher of the higher 
branches of mathematics at Washington City, in the latter part of the eighteenth cent- 
ury. Dean Barnes and bis wife are dead, the former passing away at Mitchell, Ind. . 
in 1873, from the effects of being removed from a burning hotel, in which he was confined 
to bis bed from an attack of pneumonia at the time the fire broke out. H^ was a success- 
ful business man and acquired a large amount of property, most of which he lost by going 
security. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Barnes, Henry Barnes, was a pioneer settler 
of Xenia. Ohio, and was captain of light horse cavalry at Fort Meigs during the War of 
1812. He was afterward a successful business man at Xenia. having acquired a snug fort- 
une, and be died at the age of eighty-seven. The ancestors of the maternal grandfather 
of Dr. Barnes. Jose{)h .A.thon. came from Scotland about the middle of the seventeenth 
century and were relatives of Lord Fairfax, and the late Dr. James S. Athon, at one time 
Secretary of State of Indiana, was a descendant of the same. Our subject was about two 
years old when his parents settled in Springville. Lawrence County, where he remained 
and was reared, receiving a common-school education. He was for a number of years 
engaged with bis father buying stock and selling the same at Green Bay, Wis., which was 
on the frontier at that time, and the youth was frequently brought into contact in the way 
of trade with the Indians, whom, however, be always found peaceful. At the age of seven-, 
teen be entered the Urn'on School, of Xenia, Ohio, taking an eight months' course, and was 
chosen valedictorian of bis class. Following this, he remained at home for a few weeks. 





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then went to Greeocastle and took an irregnlar scientific coarse and langnages in what was 
known as Asburv tTniTer&ity. At tLe age of uineieen he began the study of medicine in 
the office of Dr James S. Athon. at Charleston. Ind. . matrienlaiing afterward a: Jefferaon 
Medical _ -rhere he took two courses of lectures atd graduated in the class of 1SJ4, 

haring : ... in 1S53, graduated from the Edward Parish College of Pharn-acy. 

During the second course he practiced medicine in Philadelphia, and at Xew W ashiiigton, 
Ind.. between the first and second eonrses. making sufficient lEoney to carry him through 
the medical college. He is a self-made mari. finding it necessarj^ to earn the money which 
procured him his literary and professional education. After graduating he settled at Bed- 
ford, Ind.. and entered upon the practice with Dr. Winthrop Foc-te. a leading practitioner 
of southern Indiana. In the fall of 1S54 ^^nces called Dr. Barnes to Paoli, Ind., 

where he practiced untD the fallof 1S5-J. - laber. 1S55. he was chosen senior phy- 

sician at the Indiana Hospital for the Insat- l _r Central Lavijig special charge of the 
female department, and was elected for -ii -- : t^ years. At the end of that time he 
entered upoo a large and lucrative j I:l ; :.z.&po]is. When the great battle of 

Pittsburgh Landing was in progress, L'; .^l.._ = wai eomiiiissioned by Gov. Morion as one 
of the additional surgeons to the Eleventh Indiana Tolutiteer Infantry, commanded by 
Gen. Lew Wallace, and was detailed to .Shiloh Hospital after that battle, in addition to 
serving the Eleventh, and rendered most efficient aid while down there. Upon his return to In- 
dianapolis he at once resumed the practice, and enjoyed a large and very lucrative income. 
In 1870. at the solicitation of a number of friends, he removed to Louisville and at once 
oit^ed upon a very gratifying practice, which continued iinnl 1S7T. when, his old preceptor 
and partner. Dr. -James S. Athoo, dying, he was induced to return to Indianapolis, where 
he foiond a most satisfactory practice, which has continued to the present time. In 1S65 
Dr. Barnes was appointed by the eommissioner of pensions at Washington, D. C. . a pension 
surgeon, a position he hdd tmtil 1S69. In the years that have passed since leaving the 
insane hospital service he has beat diosen by the courts of this and other States to give 
expert testinKmy where the plea of insanity has been set up and has received the largest 
possible fees for that service. Prior to the Djctor's removal to Lotiisville. he was one of 
the founders of the Indianapolis Academy of M-»^feine. and one of a committee of three to 
establish a fee biD for the government of t". :ans of Indianapolis and vicinity. He 

was also an active member of the Indiana ~ t Medical Society. After his location at 
Louisville, in 1870, he became an active member of the Medico Chirtirgical Society of 
Louisville, was a member of the Kentucky State Medical .Society aW an honorary member 
of the Ohio State Medical Society. He was the author of "A Discussion of Insanity from 
a Medioj-Legal Standpoint," for the Kent -^ - Medical Society, and an article enti- 

tled "Cerebral CVtigestioo." for the M<>dio: _ ;al Society of LcfuisviUe. both of whidi 

were ptiblished in the iii ^idira. -nlc^Lzed by 

the prof e^OQ generally. . „- 1 . - red man : importance 

during his professioiiai eareer. About ten years ago Dr. E - eiecied president of 

the Life and Endowment Association of ladiana, one of tl^ . _• -: and best instiranoe 
oompanies of its kind in the State, and ha5 held that position, with the exception of one 
year, ever since- In the year IS^S he was at the head of the Democratic ticket for the 
office of State senator from the Indianapolis district, and came near being elected, in the 
face of nearly 2,000 maj : ' le opposing party, in this eoonty alone, one of his asso- 

ciates <m the DemoCTatic : --z 1.900 votes behind. In the same year he was made a 

member of the State Ceniiaj CH.>mmittee. for the central district of Indiana.- seiving two 
rears efficiently. Dr. Barnes makes b specialty of diseases of the mind and nervous system. 
including the liquor and opium habit, etc. , and is an expert and leading physician and sutr- 
geon, being universally recognized as such by the professicai and by the people of Indianap- 
<iis. He eombines with a rare knowledge of his profession pleasant and agreeable manners 
and a broad and conscientious charity. Dr. Barnes was married in 1S»>j to Mrs. Fannie B. 
Seabolt. and again in ISSO. to Margaret V. Merl. who died of consumption December 18, 
1S1«\ leaving three cL ' * irl A.. Beatrice M. and Hsttie F.. all of them bright, 

intelligent and most - - _ -. who wotild attract attention anywhere on account 

of their sweet and winung vavs. Kecentlv the Doctor was indticed oa aeeoant of their 



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health to take them 0:1 an extended tour of 15,000 miles, through the Southern States, Cal- 
ifornia, Mexico, Utah, Colorado and other Western States and Territories, and on his return 
visiting the Worhl's Fair at Chicago. Dr. Barnes has all the zeal and energy and studious 
and investigating spirit that inspired him a quarter of a century ago. While conservative 
and prudent, he is at the same time progressive and active in promoting measures calculated 
to keep the profession in full touch with the spirit and genius of the age. Blessed with 
<*ood health, and in po.ssession of an active and vigorous mind, and enjoying a very lucrative 
practice, Dr. Barnes may be truly said to have made a most decided success of his life, as 
well as having good reason to look forward to many years of further usefulness in his profes- 
sion. The Doctor"8 only living sister, Mrs. Virginia A. Williams, is residing at Indianaji- 
olis. She is a lady of much dignity and personal beauty, and possessed of many accom 
l)lishments. He has two lirothers, >T. D. and William A. Barnes, worthy gentlemen respect- 
ively of Abilene and Olcott, Kan. 

Hon. D.wid Turpie, one of the present senators from Indiana in the United States Con- 
gress, is justly recognized as a man of superior ability and one of the foremost lawyers of 
the State. After 'receiving a good practical education he studied law, was admitted to the 
l)ar at Ijogansport, Ind., in 1S49, was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1854 
and in ISSfj was elected to the bench of the Circuit Court. In 1853, and again in 1858, he 
was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature. In 1863 he was elected United 
States senator to succeed Gov. Joseph A. Wright, and after the expiration of his term was 
engaged in the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. He also .served Marion County 
in the State Legislature several teims, and the session of 1874-75 was elected speaker. In 
1S7S he was appointed one of the three- commissioners selected to revise the laws of Indiana, 
and as such served three years. In 1886 he received the appointment from President Cleve 
land of United States district attorney for the State of Indiana, serving as such until March, 
3, 1887. He was elected to his present seat of United States senator February 2, 1887, 
and the day following his retirement from the United States marshalship witnessed his induc- 
tion to a membership in the highest legislative body of our land. Judge Turpie is not only 
a Democrat in the highest political sense of the word, l)ut is a Democrat in the widest 
acceptation of the term. Of unquestioned abijit}', a ready debater, .a Huent orator, he stands 
to-day among the foremost men of the State. 

Milton H. D.\niels. One of the most positive truths taught by modern science is that 
mental and physical qualities are hereditary in man and this statement of fact is as old as 
INIoses, who declared thsu the generations to come should feel the induence of the father's 
actions. The subject of our sketch is descended from a worthy ancestry and owes hie vigor 
of body and his strong mentality to his parents and his parents' parents. He was born in 
Grove, now called Groveland, Allegany County, N. Y. , August 3, 1837; being the son of 
Dr. William and Betsy (Baldwin) Daniels, of Germantown, N. Y., and of Woodbridge, 
Conn, respectively; the father Ijeing of Welsh and the mother of English descent. The 
great-grandmother of our subject on the fathers side was the sister of that sturdy philoso- 
pher and august statesmen, Benjamin Franklin. This family settled in Massachusetts at an 
early da}', some of them also going to Vermont. Tlie great-grandfather on the father's 
side was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was killed near Worcester, Mass., toward 
the close of that protracted struggle. The maternal grandmother was a cousin of Gen. 
Wooster. The paternal grandfather, George Daniels, was a farmer, who lived at German- 
town Flats, where he also died. The maternal grandfather, Maj. Baldwin, was a soldier of 
the War of 1812, and died at the age of forty. He was a carpenter by trade and a very 
skillful user of tools as well as a very good manager. The father of our subject was a phy- 
sician and graduated at the Fairfield Medical College of New York; was married in 1836, 
located at Grove, N. Y. , and two years after moved to Warehouse Point, Conn., where he 
died January 11, 1842. The mother of our sidiject died at the age of fifty three while the 
Civil War was in progress. She and her husband were the parents of four children, two of 
whom are living, namely : Milton H.. our subject, and William L., of Minneapolis. Milton H. 
Daniels was reared in Warehouse Point and Danbury, Conn., until he was twenty-one yeai-s 
of age, receiving his education at the Academy. He was brought up in the mercantile busi- 
ness and proved hinjself a very level headed young man, with decidedly eiderprising meth- 



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ods. The soand of war stirred him to the very sonl and his whole being was exercised on 
behalf of the Union. At the very outbreak, in April, 1861. he enlisted in Company I, 
Third Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, serving three months. He 
took part in the disastrous battle of Bull Kud, and in August, 1861, at the expiration of his 
term of enlistment he re enlisted, entering Company E. of the Seventh New York Northern 
Black Horse Cavalry, under Col. A. J. Morrison, of Troy. N. Y. . and served until the following 
March, when the company was mustered out. lu July, 1862. he and Capt. James E. Moore 
raised a company known as Company C, of the Seventeenth Connecticut Infantry, and our sul)- 
ject went out as a tirst lieutenant. At the battle of Gettysburg Capt. Moore was killed and 
Lieut. Danielr^ was commissioned captain of the company, serving as such until March, 
1S64. when he resigned on account of suffering from the effects of a wound received at the 
siege of Charleston by the explosion of a shell. Going to Florida he remained until July, 
1874, being employed as-a bookkeeper there for M. W. Drew, of Jacksonville. Previous to 
this, however, he had served as clerk of the court at Enterprise. Volusia County, Fla. Dur- 
ing the latter part of his stay in Florida he was engaged in the boot and shoe business, but 
he tiually became dissatisfied with the South, and July '2{>, 1874, he came to Indianapolis 
and for two years was agent for the Protective Life Insurance Company of Chicago. At 
the expiration of this time he engaged in the real estate Imsiness at No. I'iJ East Washing- 
ton Street for a period of two years, after which for feur years he was with the Sun and 
Globe and was secretary of the State Central Greenliack Committee. During the next eight 
years he was in the pension business, or pension attorney. In April. 1892, he was elected a 
justice of the peace, and is serving in that capacity at the present time. Capt. Daniels is a 
lover of social life and the companionship of his fellows, being a member of a number of 
organizations, among which are the Masonic order, the order of Chosen Friends, the Grand 
Army of the Republic and the Golden Chain. He was married in 1858 to Amanda M. Hos- 
kins. of Clarksville. Otsego County, N. T.. who died at Port Orange, Fla., February 2, 1869, 
leaving one child. William Hoskins Daniels, who lives near Cooperstown. N. Y. Capt. Dan- 
iels was married again June 13, 1S77, to Charlotte .S. Warren, of Marlboro, Mass.. who is a 
member of the Protestant Episcoj>al Church and a most popular member of the large circle 
of estimable people among whom she moves. Capt. Daniels is a man of strong convictions 
upon all the leading social and political issues of the day and has the courage to voice his 
sentiments when the occasion demands it. At the same time he has great respect for those 
who differ with him. and^mong the number of his hosts of particular friends are men of all 
religious and political views. 

BEX-j.iMiN C. Shaw. The subject of this sketch is a worthy and highly esteemed citizen 
and an es-soldier, who made for himself a most enviable record during the war between the 
States of the Federal union. Benjamin C. .Shaw, adjutant general of that noble ori-anization, 
the Union Veteran Legion, is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born at Oxford. 
Ohio. February 3. 1S31. He comes of a mo.st worthy stock, being the son of Joseph and 
Sarah (.Serring) Shaw, the father being a native of North Carolina and the mother of Cin- 
cinnati, being the tirst female child born in that place. The grandfathers of our subject 
were patriots and soldiers of the Revolutionaiy War. the paternal grandfather being a 
native of Ireland, who settled in the Old North State and married a Graham, a ruember of 
the family which has supplied so many illustrious public men of that name in North 
Ciirolina. The Serring family came from England and settled in New Jersey, locating at 
Cincinnati in 179'), where they lived in peace and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of 
their neighbors and friends. The father of our subject was a hatter by trade, having 
learned it in the celebrated '-Beard's" factory in his native State. At the outbreak of the 
War of 1812 he enlisted in the Light Horse Cavalry and was one of the heroes of that 
devoted band. When the war was over he, with five others, rode on horseback from 
his mountain home in Carolina to the then struggling village of Cincinnati, where be 
followed his trade for a short time and then became a contractor on the Miama Canal; 
afterward building a part of the Codrein pike, from Oxford to Cincinnati. Finally he gave 
up the business of a contractor and his last years were spent upon a farm near Oxford, 
Ohio, where he died in 1845: his wife sdrviving until Novemljer. 1884. He was the father 
of ten children, only two of whom are livfng, namely: Mrs. Mary A. Woodard and Benja- 



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luin C, our subject; the sister living in Jasper County, Ind. Our subject was reared upon 
a farm until be was eigbteen years old, attending the public schools of the district, where he 
received such instruction as they were al)le to afford, which was somewhat primitive. He 
now felt the necessity of doing something on his own account and, in February, 1S48, went 
to Greensburg, Decatur County, Ind., wliere he began the trade of wagon making, which 
he learned and followed until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, tired with prtriotic zeal, 
he was in the ranks with the first of the volunteers, enlisting April IS, IStil, in Company F, 
Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. This was the first regiment that made an assault upon 
the Confederates, and our subject made the detail which carried the first wounded olticer of 
the command, Col. B. F. Kelley, off the tielil, the colonel being in command of the First 
^'irginia Regiment. He ;itid his men captured the Confederate Gen. Portertield's baggage 
wagon, including his personal effects, and also his official papers. Immediately after this 
engagement our subject was apiiointed provost marshal and with his company was detailed 
to take charge of Philippi, the tirst town captured during the war, and being in Barbour 
County, \V. Va. Col. Shaw, our brave subject, captured all of theljaggage and other wagons 
of the enemy at the battle of Carrick's Ford, with a force of but thirty men, in July, 1S61, 
the colonel being at this time a lieutenant. The first company that tendered its services to 
Jefferson Davis was composed of cadets, students at a college at .\ugusta, Ga., and of these 
our subject captured thirteen, and for his services in this battle he received the warm thanks 
and praise of Col. E. Dermout, of the Seventh Indiana. These events transpired in the 
three months' service, the enlistment being for that period, and our subject being a lieuten- 
ant at that time. At the expiration of liis term he promptly re-enlisted in the Seventh 
Indiana, and went out for three years as captain of (Company G, and was j)ronioted to the 
rank of major, after the battle of Greenbrier, in November, 1S61, in which he bore a very 
brave part. Daring the first battle of Winchester, March 3, 1862, at a crisis in this hot and 
tierce contest he was re<juested to command the Third Brigade of Shields' Division. Acting 
with the |)romptness that the occasion demanded. Col. Shaw ordered the First Virginia 
Infantry to move by right tlank and forward to a stone fence; then ordered the Seventh Ohio 
and the Seventh Indiana to deploy column and assault the Confederate battery immediately in 
front. During the giving of these orders his horse was shot five times, and being a powerful 
animal it struggled violently and dashed Maj. Shaw against a tree, lacerating his left lung, 
wliich formed a cicatrice and from which he has not fully recovered. Falling upon some 
" nigger head " stones at the base of the tree his spinal column was wrenched, causing a 
total paralysis and he was supposed to be dead for more than an hour. At dusk, however, 
two soldiers passing among the heaps of dead and woirnded discovered him, when one said 
to the other: "This is Maj. Shaw, of the Seventh Indiana; let's get him out of these stones," 
at the same time seizing him by the shoulder and drawing him into shape. Our subject 
aroused l)y this friendly action, declared he was not liurt much and directed that his horse 
l)e caught and he be placed u]ion it, for that if the Seventh Ohio and the Seventh Indiana 
did not capture the Confederate battery the day was lost. Poor fellow, while he lay there 
unconscious the two regiments had done the very thing he spoke of; i)ut he was delirious 
and for twenty-four hours did nothing but rave, giving orders rapidly and in his fever light- 
ing the enemy over and over again. His illness was near unto death and in June, 1862, he 
resigned and came home, when he organized the Sixty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 
composed of more than 1,000 men and went out with this splendid command as lieutenant 
colonel: having been tendered a colonel's commission, but decline'l it on account of his 
physical condition. In fact, he was a very great sufferer ami nothing but the most sublime 
patriotism could have nerved him up to the endurance of the fatigues and hardshijis of 
service. As it was he was compelled to resign in 186H, June 1, (he injuries received at the 
battle of Winchester rendering him incapable of further active work of any kind. Col. Shaw 
was a prisoner in the body of Bragg" s army for three days, when he was paroled and 
exchanged. In this brief time he got well acquainted with a number of the enemy and was 
known to them as the "protesting officer," who always would have his own way and would 
say what he pleased in the interests of his men. It was evident that his manner pleased 
them, for he was placed by Gen. Bragg in charge of the 4,200 paroled Union prisoners. 
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to convoy thirty seven boat-loads of provisions from Louisville to Nashville, up the Cumljer- 
land River, Col. Shaw having charge of the left wing, rear guard, on the steamer. Fort 
Wayne. At Harpeth Shoals the rear boats were attacked by Gen. Forrest, and two of these 
signaled they were disabled, when Col. Shaw ordered them to prepare to lash themselves to 
the Fort Wayne, at the same time ordingthe remaining boats to proceed to Nashville, where 
they arrived at 10 p. m., he arriving fourteen hours later with the cripjiled ones and finding 
Gov. Andrew Johnson and Gen. Mitchell anxiously awaiting him with other officers, their 
fears being that he was captured. Col. Shaw made a brief verbal report that he had taken 
tlie disabled Itoats from E'orrest and ran away with them safely; but his arrival was hailed 
with great delight by the officials. On leaving the service our subject did so with a heavy 
heart, because his whole soul was wrapped up in the Union cause, and he burned to be at the 
front. By a special order Gen. Kosecrans detailed a chaplain to take care of him and loear 
bim to his home. He went to Greensburg. his home, and sold out his business interests, 
lieing warned by his physicians that he could not possibly live. With deliiieration ana the 
courage that comes of dut_v honestly and faithfully discharged, he made all his jjreparations 
for the great change that must come to all. He arrived at Greenslnirg on the day of the 
ciinnty convention and was tendered the unanimous nomination for county auditor, but he 
declined it, although deeply impressed with the testimonial of the kind feeling of his neigh- 
bors and friends. In the fall of ]Nt)3 after he had, to the surprise of himself and friends, 
gained some strength he came to Indianapolis and engaged in the manufacture of carriages, 
a business he conducted for some time, but which he was finally compelled to retire from on 
account of the great depreciations from the 1873 panic. Col. Shaw was chairman of the 
Republican county committee of Decatur in 1860, and in 18ti7 was the nominee of the 
Workihgmen's party for mayor of Indianapolis, but was defeated. Again, in 1870, he was 
a candidate of his party, this time for State senator, but was again defeated, the opposing 
party being too strongly in the majority. In the year 187-1 he was nominated on the Demo- 
cratic ticket for State treasurer and was elected by over 17,000 majority, and was re-elected 
in 1870, serving two terms. He was made chairman of the Democratic State Central Com- 
mittee in 1878 and served one term, since which time he has not taken any active part in 
)iolitics. Daring the past few years he has spent his time very quietly, endeavoring to recover 
from a very ssrious attack of the grip. Col. Shaw takes a most lively interest, as all good 
citizens should, in all public affairs, and is a man of great public spirit and loyalty — to city, 
county. State and country. His time is now given chiefly to the management of the Union 
Veteran League. Beside being connected with this organization Col. Shaw is a Knight 
Templar, a member of the G. A. R. and of other bodies, in all of which he is recognized as a 
man of decided al)ility and a gentleman of refined and courteous manner, being just toward 
all and charitable in all things. He was married happily in 1850 to Elizabeth A. Co}', who 
bore him ten children, but three of whom are living. nameU: Fannie, Ida and Edna. The 
life of Col. Shaw has been a very busy and useful one, notwithstanding his most serious 
bodily afflictions, which would have killed outright any man of less vital energy. He was a 
trustee of the Purdue University from 1873 to 1875. and served on the building committee 
of the same; was a director for two j'ears on the City Belt Railway, and was a member of 
the Citizens' Executive Committee to arrange for the Twenty-seventh National Encampment 
of the G. A. R. . and selected one of the seven citizens to expend the 875,000 donated for 
encampment purposes. In 1876 he was selected and appointed one of three expert judges 
on carriages, but the board expecting him to remain in Philadelphia through the six months 
of the Centennial Ex[)Osition be resigned the honor. Whatever Col. Shaw has been called 
upon to do he has always done it well and has received the approval of all for the fidelity with 
which he discharged the trusts and honors. Widely known throughout Indiana and else- 
where, he is held in the highest esteem and is regarded as a man of unimpeachable 
integrit\", honest in all his convictions and true to himself and his neighbors and everybody. 
He has been called upon to endure great bodily suffering, but he has borne his yoke uncom- 
plainingly and has gone ahead meeting the duties of life with a stout heart, unfalteringly 
doing whatsoever his hands found to ilo. in a sublime faith that all things woi'k together for 
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John R. Hayxes, JI. D. The subject of this sketch is one of the brightest, mos^t 
advanced aud popuhir represeutatives of the school of homeopathy in Indianapolis, and is 
in the enjovuieut (>f a most lucrative practice as the result of his skill and success in the 
practice of medicine. Dr. Ha_vne.s has enjoyed the advantages of superior education, is a 
close observer of men and things, and has especially applied himself to a broad and com- 
prehensive knowledge of all things pertaining to his )irofession. He was born in Otsego 
County, N. Y.. March 13, 1828. of most worthy and patriotic ancestry. His paternal 
grandparents, George N. and Lydia Haynes, were of German and English descent, respect- 
ively, and came to this country prior to the Revolutionary War, settling in New York. 
George X. Haynes served in the Continental army throughout the memorable struggle under 
George Washington and was major of a New York regiment. Returning home after the 
war. he devoted himself unremittingly to farming until his death, which occurred about the 
year 1S22, his wife preceding him a few months. Of the six children, Samuel Haynes 
lived upon a farm in his native county in Xew York until his death, in 1845. He was the 
father of nine children (his wife being Olive Danleyl, our subject being one of these, and 
another. James, served in the late war, jiarticipating in many of the leading battles, and 
aftei- the liattles were over and the war ended, he died from the effects of exposure, etc. . 
incident to that war. Our subject was reared in his native county, remaining upon the 
farm and attending school, until he was seventeen years old, at Otsego, when he entered the 
New iork City Ur.iversity, from which he graduated in the classical and scientific course in 
the year 1844. Tliree years later he began the study of medicine at New York City and 
took two courses of lectures at the Vniversity of New York and finally graduated from the 
Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati in 184U. He then located at Newport. Ky.. where 
lie carried on a general practice for aliout twelve years. In the year 1869 he came to 
Indianajiolis and has followed the practice of his profession ever since. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Homeopathy and is one of the originators of the Indiana Institute 
of Homeopathy, having been treasurer of the latter for fifteen years. The Doctor was one 
of the most active promoters of the Hahnemannian (International) Association. Dr. Haynes 
was married in 1847 to Miss Mary E. Ladd. a native of Pennsylvania, who had removed 
four years previously to Kentucky with her parents. The Doctor and his estimable wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, in which body they are held in the highest esteem. 
Tlie Doctor and his wife have a wide circle of friends, and both of them display in the 
social circle those charms for which thev are distinguished in the highest degree. The 
Doctor never takes a very active part in politics, but he is a sincere believer in the principles 
of the Republican party and always supports its <'audidates. He was one of the originators 
of the International Hahneniamiian Association, where they admit nobody Imt pure and 
nndetiled homeopaths. 

Hos. C.*LEB S. Dksxv. The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Monroe County, 
Iiid.. May 13. ISoll. His father. James H. Denny, was a native of Mercer County. Ky., and 
his mother, Harriet R. Littrell. was born in Boutetort County. Ya. . in sight of the Natural 
IJridge. The parents of Mr. Denny lived for a number of years in Kentucky. l>ut finally set- 
tled permanently in Indiana, being strongly opposed to slavery. When Caleb was three 
years old his father removed to Warrick County. Iiid.. where the family lived on a farm near 
the town of Boonville until the time of his father's death, in 18(31. Mr. Denny received 
such education as the winter-term conntry schools of that locality provided up to the time of 
liis fatfiers death, when he was left alone with his mother on the farm, all of his brothers 
having gone to the war. When he was thirteen years of age the farm was rented and he 
was apprenticed to the tinners trade, where he worked for one year. A select school having 
at that time been organized in Boonville by a teacher from the East, he got the consent of 
his mother and his bos.s to cpiit the trade and start to school. He succeeded in two years in 
preparing himself to enter the freshman class at Aslniry (now DePauw'l University, which he 
did in the fall of 180(3. Here he remained for two years, completing his sophomore year, 
at which time he was compelled to .piit for lack of funds to proceed further. He taught 
school for one year, hoping to return and complete his college coui-se at the end of that time, 
but receiving a proposition to come to Indianapolis as assistant State lil)rariaii. he accepted, 
and at the end of tti.- term found himself twentv one vears of age. which he considered too 



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old to re enter college. He therefore took ni) the study of law in ludianapoliK, which he had 
to some extent prosecuted while teaching and wiiile in the State library. He was admitted 
to the courts of Marion County the following year, and in 1873 to the Sujireme Court of the 
State and the Federal Courts, being then twenty-three years of age. After practicing one 
year he was appointed deputy attorney-general of Indiana, where he remained until the fall 
of 1S74, the election of that year having changed the political complexion of the State offices. 
He re entered the practice in Indianapolis and continued therein uninterruptedly until Janu- 
ary, 1882, at which time he entered upon the duties of city attorney, having been elected to 
tli'at office by the joint convention of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen for the 
term of three years. He received the caucus nomination of the Republican members over 
the incumbent, John A. Henry, Esq., and several other prominent attorneys of the city, and 
at the election received twenty six votes, being all the Republican votes in said bodies, the 
Democratic members, being eight in all, casting their votes for Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, now 
judge of the Superior Court of Marion County. At the end of this three years Mr. Denny was 
re-elected city attorney for another term, but at the end of one year was nominated formayor of 
Indianapolis "by the Republican convention held in the summer of 1885. The campaign of 
that year was the most remarkable in the history of the city. The Democrats nominated 
Thomas Cottrell, an old and well known citizen, for mayor, on a "liberal " platform, which 
meant a lax enforcement of the saloon an<l gambling laws. The Republicans adopted a 
platform which declared in the strongest terms for a rigid enforcement of those laws and 
denounced the domination of the Liquor League. A campaign was made strictly upon that 
issue. Many of Dr. Denny's friends who were "liberally" inclined insisted that he must 
not stand upon the platform as made,citing to him a long line of party defeats on that issue. 
But in all his public utterances he declared that he did stand upon the platform squarely 
and preferred defeat rather than to swerve one inch upon that subject. He was elected arid 
at the end of two years was unanimously renominated by his party and again elected by a 
largely increased majority over a very popular young Democrat, Dr. George F. Edenharter. 
The issue was largely the same as the one two years before. Mr. Denny declined another 
nomination at the end of that term and engaged in the practice of his profession. The pecu- 
liar condition of city affairs in 1893 again induced him to become his party's choice for 
mayor in opposition to Mayor Sullivan. After a remarkable campaign he became mayor of 
Indianapolis again, the result of the election being a change of about 6,000 votes over the 
previous election. In 1874 he married Miss Carrie Lowe, the daughter of an old citizen of 
Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Denny have three children. 

C. T. Bedford, M. D. There is no man more highly esteemed in the community than 
the family medical practitioner; and there is not among all the j)hysicians of Indianapolis a 
physician" w'ao is held higher in the public favor than Dr. C. T. Bedford. This gentleman 
was boin in Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, October 7, 1S40, a son of Jose})h A. and Amy 
(Collins) Bedford, of English descent but natives of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bedford received his 
early education in his native State. At the age of fifteen he came to Indianapolis and be- 
came a student in the pulilic schools of the city. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, 
Eighth Indiana Infantry as a private, and served continuously until discharged September 
12, 1864, meantime being promoted to second sergeant. He participated in the battle of 
Pea Ridge, was at the siege of Vicksburg, took part in the Warfare at Jackson, Miss., in the 
service from Vicksburg to Texas, in the Red River Campaign, in the fighting in Shenandoah 
Valley under Gen. Sheridan and in much incidental service. In 1872 Dr. Bedford began 
the study of medicine and in the spring of 1875 was graduated from the Physio-Medical Col- 
lege of Indiana. Immediately after he was elected professor of chemistry and toxicology 
and tilled that chair about five years, when he was elected to the chair of obstetrics and 
diseases of women and children which he still occupies. He has been secretary of the fac 
ulty of this in.stitution for tiie past twelve years, and is a member of the American Medical 
Society of Pliysio-Medical Physicians and Surgeons and the Indiana State Physio Medical 
Association in which he has filled all important positions. He has bpen for three successive 
terms a member of the city council and was appointed chairman of the committee on health 
and president of the city hospital board. He has had a large and increasing general prac- 
tice since 1875 and is regarded as one of the most successful and reliable physicians and sur- 



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geoDs iu the city. In 1885 he establisbed tbe jiopnlar ■•Pbysio-Medical Drug Store'" at the 
corner of Indiana Avenue and Ohio Street. This is tbe only concern of tbe kind in tbe 
United States, and besides its extensive retail trade does a wbolesale l)usiiiess which reaches 
uU parts of the Union. Dr. Bedford was married in 1865 to Miss X. P. Fink, a native of 
Ohio who was reared iu Indiana. Her parents were William and Margaret (Toops) Fink, of 
Cxernian descent but natives of Pennsylvania. Dr. and Mrs. Bedford'iiave had born to them 
four children, of whom only one — Bertie — is living. Dr. Bedford is an enthusiastic '' Old 
Soldier," as the veterans of tbe late war are called, and is a member of the Grand Army of 
tbe Kepublic and of the Union Veteran Legion of that grand organization. He is also iden 
tilled with tbe Eoyal Arcanun, the Chosen Friends and other similar organizations, and, as 
is also bis wife, is a member of Robert's Park Church. While not in any sense of the term, 
as it is usually applied, a politician, Dr. Bedforti takes that interest in the public affairs of 
his city. State and country which may be expected in one who has risked his life for tbe 
maintenance of our national integrity. He affiliates with the Kepublieau party, and is influ- 
ential in its local councils. As a citizen he is public spirited and helpful toward all public 
interests, for no man has the i)rosperity and well being of tbe great mass of his fellow citi- 
zens more nearly at heart than he. 

Hos. RoBEKT W. McBride. Tbe family of which Judge McBride is a distinguished 
member is of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to the United States soon after tbe Revolution- 
arv War, and previous to tbe War of 1812. Augustus, father of Robert W., was born in 
Ohio, and was there reared and married to Martha A. Barnes, also a native of Ohio, and of 
English descent. Some of tbe.se ancestors served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War. In 
the war with Mexico in 184(3-47 Augustus McBride enlisted in the Seventh United States 
Infantry, and was iu tbe army of Gen. Scott in its campaign against the City of Mexico, 
participating in all tbe assaults on tbe various citadels guarding tbe national roads which lejl 
to tbe capital. After the triumphal occupation of tbe city by the army of Gen. Scott, and in 
February, 1S4S. Augustus McBride unfortunately died, and now lies buried in the land of 
tbe Moutezumas. He left a widow and family to mourn his untimely death, and also left 
them a heritage of honor and patriotism. At the time of bis father's death Robert W. McBride 
was about sis years old, bis birth having occurred in Richland County, Ohio. January 25, 
1842. He was therefore too young to realize his great loss or to be able to forecast the trials, 
struggles and self denials of the future without a father's guidance and care. But life was 
real and before him, and he was compelled to rely mainly on his own resources of l)ody and 
mind. He attended the district school in Ohio and in Iowa, and an academy once main 
taiued at Kirkville, Iowa. In lS5il. when in his eighteenth year, having passed the local 
examination for teachers, be applied for and was given the task of teaching district school in 
Mahaska County, Iowa, and was so successful that he continued to follow this occupation for 
three years. It was now 1862, and a bloody war was upon tbe land, and all was confusion 
and uncertainty. In the autumn of this year Mr.. McBride went to Manslield, Ohio, where 
be accepted a position as clerk in the store of B. S. Runyan, and remained there about a 
year. On November 27. IS63, he enlisted in the "Union Light Guards," an independent 
squadron of cavalry of picked men organized by Gov. David Tod. and was duly mustered in 
at Columbus. Tbe men composing this tine squadron bad been selected by the county 
military committees throughout tbe State, and Mr. McBride bad been chosen to represent 
Richland County. Mr. McBride remained with the ■"Guards"' for about six moi.tbs. when 
be met with a severe accident, and was permanently disabled for active service, and has 
remained lame to this day. Upon bis recovery from the accident he served on detached duty 
as clerk of a military commission, and later at the central guard house at Washington. In 
January, 1S(55, be was transferred to the war department and served as clerk under Lieut. - 
Col. Breck in the adjutant general's otBce until his company was mustered out of service, and 
honorably discharged Saptember 14, 1S65. L'pon his discbarge from tbe army be was 
promptly appointed to tbe clerkship in the office of tbe quartermaster general, Imt be had a 
higher ambition than a subordinate position under the Government, and after a service as 
such for two months be resigned and returned to Manslield. While yet a boy, aged sixteen, 
be bad taken a fancy to the study of law and bad, as opportunity would permit, studied 
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while in the service, so that wheu the war closed he had mastered the elements of law. 
The winter succeeding his return from the war he taught school in Richland County, but the 
next spring went to Waterloo, Ind., and engaged as clerk for R. M. & W. C. Lockhart. 
The next winter he again began teaching in Ohio, but before the term was over he received 
the appointment of enrolling clerk for the State Senate of Indiana, and served with credit 
until the Legislature adjourned. In April. 1867, he was admitted to the bar at Auburn, 
DeKalb County, and the following September formed a partnership for the practice with 
Hon. J. I. Best, witli whom he was associated until July, 1869. He became associated with 
Joseph L. Morlan in the jiractice December 15, 1870, and so continued until the death of 
the lattt-r in 1878, William H. Leas having been associated with them two years. Since 
1878 Mr. McBride has carried on the practice alone. As a lawyer he has become distin- 
gnished throughout the State. Absolutely self made, he has left no stone unturned to 
become a master of his profession Soon after he began the practice he acquired a high 
reputation as a practitioner of unusual al)ility, persistence, force and adroitness, and as a 
result rose ra])idly to the top of his profession and enjoyed a large practice and the unboiinded 
confidence of his fellow lawyers and the people. As an all-round lawyer he has probably no 
superior among the bar of northern Indiana. He is calm, dispassionate, eloquent, and all 
his arguments are firmly grounded upon legal and equitable principles, and hence, he always 
has great weight with the court. In 1882, so prominent had he become and so great was 
the confidence of his professional lirethren in his sound sense, legal knowledge and personal 
honor, that he was elected judge of the thirty-tifth judicial circuit, comprising the counties 
of DeKalb, Steuben and Noble. When he entered upon the discharge of his judicial duties 
the business of the district, owing to the ill health of his predecessor, was two years behind 
and in a chaotic condition: but in a little more than a year, so bard did he work, the docket 
was cleared, and so remained until the end of his term. His decisions were noted for their 
fidelity to just principles and law, and few were ever reversed by the Supreme Court — never 
a criminal case. No other circuit judge of the State was more prompt in the discharge of 
his duties than Judge McBride. In 1890 he removed to Elkhart and the same fall was a 
candidate on the Republican State ticket for judge of the Supreme Court, but went down 
with the entire Republican ticket in defeat. On December 17, 1890. he was appointed 
judge of the Supreme Court by Gov. Hovey, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of 
Judge Mitchell. He is a member of the board of trustees of DePauw University, and 
a.ssisted in organizing the National Guard of the State, and was the first lieutenant-colonel 
of the Third Regiment of Infantry and is second colonel. He is a thirty-second degree 
Mason, past eminent commander of Apollo Commandery, No. 19, at Kendallville, a member 
of the committee on grievances and appeals in the grand lodge, a member of the State 
Encampment of the G. A. R., and a member of the grand lodge of I. O. O. F. of K. of P , 
and the A. O. U. W. He is an enthusiastic student of the natural sciences, abd is one of the 
best, if not the best, ornithologist and botanist in northern Indiana, having pursued these 
studies as a recreation. He is also, and has been for more than twenty years, an active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 27, 1868, he was united in 
marriage to Miss Ida S. . daughter of Doctor Chamberlain, of Waterloo, Ind., a lady of rare 
personal accomplishments, by whom he has four children: Daisy I, born September 25, 1869; 
Charles H.. born November 'lO, 1871: Herbert W., bom October 5, 187^, and Martha C, 
born February 13, 1876. No family in the State stands higher, socially or neighborly, and 
no citizen is held in deeper respect than Judge McBride. Mrs. McBride is at this time 
(1892) Department President of the Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the G. A. R. 

James Joksstos. The subject of this sketch is a well known citizen of Indianapolis who 
has improved every opportunity for gaining knowledge and availed himself of every chance 
for the betterment of his condition and more than this cannot be said of the most successful 
man who has ever lived. James Johnston has lived a life of peace with his neighlwrs and 
has done unto others as he would have had them do unto him under similar circumstances 
and he enjoys the confidence and the esteem of all who know him. He was born in Dear- 
bom County, Ind., June 10, 1831. and is the son of George and Catharine (Kearney) Johns- 
ton, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. The paternal grandfather of onr sub- 
ject was a soldier of the Revolutionary War an4 his son, the father of our subject, was a 



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civil engineer, but be devoted the greater portion of his time to farming and the milling 
business. He came to Indiana in ISU and settled near Viucennes, and in 1812 removed to 
Hamilton, Ohio, three years later going to Dearborn County, Ind., when it was a howling wil- 
derness. The Indians \ised to visit him, remaining about the grounds until his mother could 
bake them a loaf of bread, being very friendly, but usually quite hungry. He entered a 
tract of land and with his brothers, David and Joseph, built a lug cabin in which the family 
lived until they were able to put up a substantial one of hewn logs, which in those primitive 
and simple days was considered somew'hat of a sumptuous atTair. The father of our subject 
erected, with his brothers, the tii-st grist mill that was established in that section of country 
and had to cover the hopper to keep off the rain. The mill was a great accommodation to 
people and many of the settlers came long distances to get their grain ground. They ran 
the mill and the farm until the fall of 1861 and he died soon after, December 2'J, 18<il ; the 
mother of our subject living eighteen years longer [lassing away in 1879. They had 
live sons and four daughters, four of tlie nine now living, namely: Joseph. James, Nora and 
George W. The father was a well-educated and a well-informed man of sound views and 
practical good sense and his neighbors wouhl have gladly iiad him till offices of honor and 
trust, liut lie would not under any circumstances accept a pul)lie position of any kind, 
although he was solicited again and again. The subject of our sketch was reared in Dear- 
born County and was educated in the common and the liigh schools of that county. He was 
reared upon the favm. where he did all manner of work which came to hand and, besides, 
served a full time at the mill work. The latter was followed by him until the outbreak of 
the war, when he tried to become a soldier but he was rejected. He then turned his atten- 
tion to school teaching and taught for seven winters, working on the .farm and in the mill 
during the summer se:ison. In tl)e winter that he was nineteen years old he started in a tlat 
boat well loaded down the Ohio Hivei', selling to what purchasers could be found and j>ro- 
ceediug as far as N'ew^ Orleans. The trip was so satisfactory that it was repeated for several 
winters. Mr. Johnston came to Indiana|>olis on November 18, 1S6U, and subsequently en- 
gaged in the real estate birsiness, which he carried on until he was elected a justice of the 
peace, in Ai)ril. 1890, an otiice he will hold for four years. He served one term as member 
of the city council of Indianapolis from the Twenty-fourth Ward, to the entire satisfaction 
of his con.stituents and to the good of the community. "Sir. Johnston is a director of the 
Washington Central Building A: Loan Association, a position he tills with an eye single to 
the gOt>d of those who elected him to that [K)sition. Our subject was married to Mary J. 
Russell, by whom he has had four children, namely: Norman W.. David, Elizabeth and 
Allen. He was married a second time to Elizabeth 1\. Riley, who is an active member of the 
Sixth Presbyterian Church. Politically Mr, Johnston is a Democrat and a sincere believer in 
those principles which were so ably advocated by Hendricks and other great men of the 
party. Our subject is held in great esteem and confidence by his fellow citizens, who regard 
him as a man of strict integrity and honorable in all his dealings. 

William Fortune was born in Booneville, Ind. on' May 27, 1S()3. He is of Eng- 
lish-German extraction on his father's side and French on his mother's side. His child 
hood, between his third and tenth years was passed in Tennessee, eastern Illinois and southern 
Indiana. The family returned to Booneville in 1878. In 1874 he becaijie a printer's 
apprentice in the office of the Bi>o)iefillf Sttniiliird. The editor of the paper. M. B. Craw- 
ford, was a man of scholarly attaiinuents, who interested himself in giving the boy a careful 
training for newspaper work. He was encouraged to write for the paper while serving as an 
apprentice.' His (irst independent venture was in his fourteenth year — the publication of a 
small daily paper during the week of the county fair, the most important event of the year in 
the town. The limitations of the business made it necessary for him to do all the writing, 
type-setting, and press work, allowing himself but two hours of sleep each night. At sixteen 
he was intrusted with both mechanical and editorial charge of the Standard. The duties 
required much work at night as well as during the day. but he also took upon himself the task of 
writing the history of Ids nativecounty, devotingto it two hours, fmm ItUo 12, each night. Hav 
ingcompleteil this work, which had been carried on without even the members of his own family 
knowing what he was about, he severed his connection with the Standard, and then devoted 
himself exclusively to interesting the pet)j>le of the county in his work. He was then not 



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quite (^i<(liteen years old and was at, tljti dit-advantage of beiug known as a mere l)oy, but the 
difficulties besetting the venture were overcome to sucli an extent that he made it tinancially 
Huccessful. He then started out to find employment which would give him a more thorough 
training for newspaper work. He was given a position as a reporter on the Indiaiiapolifi 
JournaJ. He afterward became city editor of the Journal, but after holding the position a 
few years, retired on account of failing health, due to night work. In 1888 he started the 
Siindtn/ I'veM, a paper which took high rank, and attracted mucli attention, l)iit was discon- 
tiiuied at the end of three months. During the next year his time was fully occupied with 
sjiecial political correspondence for the Neiv York Trihurie, Philadt'ljtliia I'resH, Chicago 
Tritmne, and other newspapers. In the same year he became editorially connected with the 
Indianapolis News. He was offered the position of Washington correspondent of the CIticuyo 
Tribune but declined it. In January, 1890, he wrote a series of editorial articles for the 
News, suggesting puljiic spirited work that should be undertaken by citizens of Indianapolis 
for the promotion of the prosperity and welfare of the city, and urging organization for this 
purpose. The articles were so timely and so well received that they at once resulted in the 
organization of the (Commercial Clul), which, within one month, grew from a nucleus of 
twenty-seven to a membership of 800. He was elected secretary of the clul). His (editorial 
coiinecti(jn with the Neii:s terminated some months afterward, when it became ap[)arent that 
the Commercial Cluli work would absorb his entire time. In the same year he started a 
magazine devoted to municipal engineering, the first in the United States devoted exclu.sively 
to the improvement of cities, which has l)eeome one of the foremost technical publications of 
the country'. It is published by the Municipal Engineering Company, of which he is presi- 
dent. He was the moving spirit in the organization of the Indianapolis Press Clul), in 1891, 
and was elected the first president of it. He was the president of the Century Club in 1892. 
He was a friend of Ben D. House, one of the most meritorious of Indiana's poets, and, 
together with Col. Kli Lilly, Daniel L. Paine and Meredith Nicholson, published a meniorial 
edition of House's poems in 1892, the circulation of which was limited to the. friends 
of the poets. He started the movement to induce the (i. A. E. to hold its twenty- 
seventh national encampment in Indianapolis, and managed the camiiaign which 
brought it to this city. He was elected executive director of the citizens organization in 
charge of the arrangements for the encampment, a position involving the most trying re- 
sponsiljilities, and he is the first man, not a veteran, upon whom they have l)een placed. 
Although born in the third year of bhe war, he is an honorary member of the "Old Guard.'' 
He proposed the Indiana road congress, and as chairman of the committee in charge, con 
ducted the arrangements for it. He has done some magazine writing, notable for the 
Centnrij. In 1884 he was married to Miss May Knubbe, of Michigan City, Ind. They have 
three children, a son and two daughters. 

Dk. Wii.lakd W. Gates. Perhaps no public servant deserves more grateful recognition 
than a dentist. Dr. Willard W. Gates, a native of Dublin, Ind., was born August 6, 1804, 
son of Oliver Gates, also a native of the Hoosier State, as was also the mother, Mary (Al- 
bright) Gates. Both parents are living and are now residing in Indianafiolis. Dr. Willai'd 
W. Gates was about live years of age when he came with his parents to Indianapolis, and in 
this city he was reared and educated. When eighteen years of age he began the study of 
dentistry with Dr. A. J. Morris, continued with him for two years and the following two 
years was with Dr. L. \\ . Comstock. In 1887 Dr. Gates entered Indiana Dental College 
and graduated from that mstitution in 1889. He then established himself in a business of 
his own and has been very successful. He is thorough master of his art, both in its mechan- 
ical and scientific features, and he has every new and improved appliance for making the 
extraction of teeth as easy and painless an operation as possible. He is a member of the 
Indiana State Dental Association, and is also a member of the K. of P. He was 
married on December 28, 1887, to Miss Lillie Bryan, a native of Indianapolis and the 
daughter of John T. and Margaret (Smock) Bryan. Two children have been born to this 
union: Bryan and Earl. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in politics he is a stanch Republican. 

Edward Thomas Bowser. Marion County, Ind., is an Eden of fine farms and agricult- 
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liis neighbor in the cultivatii)ii and imi)roveiuent of his land. Of the many tine attractive 
places none are more conspiciions than that l)elonging to our subject. Mr. Bowser is a 
native liorn resident of this county, his birth occurring April 27, 1841, to the union of Henry 
and Mary A. (Moore) Bowser. The father was boru in the Keystone State in 1810, and 
when five years of age was taken by his parents to Miami County, Ohio, thirty-sis miles from 
Cincinnati, where he remained until twentyoue years of age, never receiving but about two 
months" schooling. His mother taught him to read and write. He came with his parents to 
Marion Comity, Ind., in 1831, and located on Lick Creek, three miles southeast of Indian- 
apolis. The following year lie married Miss Moore, daughter of Thomas Jloore, and his 
father then gave him ItiO acres of land, part of it lying in W arren and part in Center town- 
ships. There Mr. Bowser passed tiie remainder of his days, his death occuriingiu 1SS2. He 
was a man well respected bv all and served as su[>ervisor of Warren township several terms. 
He was a Whig until that party ceased to be an organization and then affiliated with the Re- 
publican party. To his marriage were born ten children, as follows: Thomas died at the 
age of three months: (Catherine, died at the age of twenty two years; John W. died at the 
age of twenty years; James died at the age of eight years; Edward Thomas (subject); Fannie 
A., deceased, was the wife of John E. Miles (she left six children, Ira, Ida, Mary, Annie, Ar- 
thur and \N illiam); Sarah E. . deceased, was the wife of William Rowney (she left one child, 
Harry): Williiun Bowser, of Marion County, mariied Miss Florence L. Sliimer and they have 
four children (Harry, Maggie, Asa and Mary); Mary ]5owser became the wife of Edgar Head 
of Marion County, and (MjarlesCi. died in infancy. The father of these childien died in 1S82 
and t he mother in April, ten years later. The father was a member of the Methodist Epi.scojial 
Church. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Henry Bowser, was born in Pennsylvania and died 
in Indana in the year 1843. The great-great-grandfather emigrated from Germany to America 
early in 17(H), and our subject's great grandfather was born on the ocean while his parents 
were making the voyage. Our subject was educated in the common schools of Center town- 
ship and attended from two to three months each winter. On account of ill health he was 
obliged to ijuit school when twenty years of age and he remained under the parental roof 
until thirty-live years of age. In December, 187C), he married Miss Martha J. Kitley, 
ilaughter of Richard Killey, a member of one of the old pioneer families of Marion County. 
After marriage our subject lived on his father's farm in a separate house one year, and then 
moved to Clark Township, Johnson Connty, Ind., where he bought eighty acres of land, 
sixty five acres of which were cleared. He paid S3,3l'0 for this. On this farm he made his 
home for eight years, and in 1884 he bought eighty-two acres of the old Richard Kitley 
farm. On this farm was a tine brick house of slate roof. Mrs. Bowser's share of the estate 
was ninety- nine acres, which is in her name. Mr. Bowser traded his eighty acres in John- 
son Connty and in addition paid §l,t>50 for forty-tive acres and the house in which he now 
lives. This is situated on an elevation, and it is said to be one of the handsomest locations 
for a residence in -Marion County. Mr. Bowser is a member of the Baptist Church, and, like 
his fatliei-, is a Repul>!ican in politics. Richard Kitley, father of Mrs. Bowser, was born in 
Ohio, November 19, 1825, and came to Indiana with his parents when a child. He settled 
in Marion County, Ind., and there his death occurred September 5, 1879. He was married 
three times, his first wife being Miss Martha Davis, whom he married May 4, 1848. Three 
children were born to them: Lucy A., wife of William Moore of Marion County; John, who 
died in infancy, and Martha J., wife of Edward T. Rowser, our subject. Mrs. Kitley died 
September 15, 1854, and Mr. Kitley on September 13, 1855, marrii'd Jliss Elizabeth 
Smithers, who bore him four children, Willis J., Hester M. , Sarah Elizabeth and 
Stephen A. D. Mr. Kitley selected his third wife in the person of Mrs. Susan Willard. nee 
Wilson, who died January 0, 1881, without issue. Mr. Kitlev' bought eighty acres of laud 
in Johnson County, and added to the original tract until he became the owner of 
about 500 acres. He was a Douglas Democrat but subsequently became a Republican. 
Socially he was a member of the Masonic fraternity but was never a member of any church. 
His father, Mrs. Bowser's grandfather, was John Kitley, and he was the father of these 
children: John, Rebecca, Alex. Hoag, Ibbie, Francis, Richard and Jane. 

(TKOR(iE R. CoLTKR. Auiong the successful and thoroughgoing business men of Indi- 
anapolis stands the name of George R. Colter who is a self made man in every sense of the 



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term. Thrown on his own resources at an earjy age he began an independent career with 
uo capital save a goodly supply of i)luck, energy and muscle, and has met with a reasonable 
amount of good luck in all bis enterprises. He is at jiresent coimcilman of the tenth ward, 
having been elected to that position in November, 1S91, and discharges the duties incum- 
bent vipon this position in a manner reflecting credit upon himself and upon his constituents. 
He is said to have been the first white child born on the site of North Yernon, Jennings County, 
Ind., his birth occurring on August 81, 1S53, and he remained at his Ijirthplace until 1862 
when he went to Franklin, Ind. In 1804 he made his appearance in Indianapolis and dur- 
ing the remainder of the war was a newsboy in that city. In 1867 he learned cigar making, 
became very proficient in this, and continued in the business until 1881 when the strike 
occurred. He was chairman of the striking board. Following this he engaged in the liquor 
business and this he has continued up to the present time. He has one of the leading houses 
in the city and this standing has been acquired only by close attention to every detail of the 
business, and especially to the selection and assortment so as to keep it all times up to the 
highest standard of excellence. Mr. Colter is a self educated man, all his schooling having 
been received during the night sessions, and every dollar he possesses has been made by 
hard work. He owns a fine building at his place of business and a good home. He was the 
third in order of birth of eight children, three of whom are living. In his political views he 
is a Democrat, the only one of his name advocating the views of that party. Socially he is 
a member of the Ked Men. uniform rank, and also K. of P., uniform rank. He is a member 
of the Elks order. Cigar Maker's Union and Cleveland and Hendrick's club. He was mar- 
ried in 1880 to Miss Mary Driuket and the fruits of this union have been one child. Archie. 
Hos. Charles Kahlo. This free coimtry of America affords numberless instances of 
men. who have made their way alone in life, having nothing upon which to depend but their 
own strong arms and a determination to do and to succeed. Such men are always self- 
reliant, their necessities having taught them that what is done must be done through them- 
selves alone. They are worthy and well qualified to perform what duties they are called 
upon to discharge and are almost without exception leaders of thought in their communi- 
ties and lead lives of great usefulness. In considering the gentlemen of this class in 
Indianapolis, the name of Hon. Charles Kahlo suggests itself forcibly, for the reason that 
he has attained his distinguished position without the backing of family or friends, but has 
made his way onward and upward in the world Ijy the force of his own talents. Charles Kahlo 
was born of worthy parents at Magdeljurg. Prussia, July 4, 184n, being the son of Henry 
and Dorathy Kahlo. The father of our subject was active in politics in his native country 
and left there after the great disturbance of 1849, and settled at Defiance, Ohio, where he 
embarked in the mercantile business, having a large establishment and was doing a most 
prosperous business, when, in 1853, death came and took him from his family. Thus at the 
early age of thirteen, our subject was left fatherless and was thrown upon his own resources. 
That pluck which has always been so strong a characteristic of the man and to which he is 
so greatly indebted for his marked success in life, was present in him then, and he engaged 
with a dry goods merchant to work for his board and clothes, finding such opportunities as 
he could for getting an education. He remained with his employer, working earnestly and 
applying himself to do his full duty, and from time to time he was promoted from one station 
to another, his salary being increased with each promotion and being equal to that paid to em- 
ployes of much more advanced years. When the war broke out he was strongly moved by 
love for the country of his adoption, and felt it to be his imperative duty to goto the front and 
help to defend the imperilled nation. He did go and just as he did his full dut^' in the store of 
his employer, so he was every inch a soldier and made a noble record for himself in the army, 
proving himself a true and courageous soldier and a loyal and patriotic citizen. In April. 
1861, at the first call for troops he enlisted in the three month's service in the Fourteenth 
Ohio VoluQteer Infantry, and was elected second lieutenant. In September following 
he again enlisted, this time for tiiree years, in Company G, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, and did not lay down his sword until the war was over and he was honorably dis- 
charged, with a record as good as that of any man who enlisted, because he did his fiill 
duty, never shirked a responsibilitj' or failed to come up to what was expected of him. He 
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on the staff of Gen. Miller. During his service he was with both the western and eastern 
armies. Returning home he lost no time, but went to work at once, going into the manufact- 
ure of wagon and carriage wood stock, at Defiance, Ohio, and was president of this com- 
pany for a period of fourteen years. In the year 1870 he removed to Logansport. Ind., 
and there engaged in the manufacture of wagon material, employing from 120 to ir)(l men.. 
Busy as had been his life as :i manufacturer, and be never under any circumstances neg- 
lected any duty connected with it, still lie has always manifested a lively interest in politics, 
believing it to l>e the duty of every citizen to take part in the affairs of government, this 
being a government of the people. His sympathies and affiliations were always with the 
Republican party and the entire weight of his influence, and this has always been consider- 
able, has l)een cast in favor of that party. In June, 1878, his party recognizing his popu- 
larity and deeming it an honor due him, and an office that he would fill with distinguished 
ability, nominated him unanimously for the State Senate, from the district composed of 
Cass and Carroll Counties, which was Democratic, with a majority ranging from <)00 to 800. 
He made a vigorous and skillful campaign and was elected by a majority of 230, he being 
tbe first and ouly Republican who was ever elected to the State Senate from that Democratic 
stronghold. He served a term of foiir years, and as his friends predicted, he made a faith- 
ful and most useful member of the higher house of the Legislature, bringing into his work 
the experience, the judgment and the strong business sense that pertain to him. Mr. Kahlo 
served as a member of the State central committee in 1880 and was a delegate to the 
Republican national convention in Chicago in 188t) which nominated James A. Garfield 
for President. After Garfield was inaugurated his friends were anxious that the dis- 
tinguished services of Mr. Kahlo should be recognized, and he was immediately appointed 
by GarHeld as consul general to Beilin. but he accepted the mission to Australia instead. 
This position Mr. Kablo tilled with al)ility during that administration and subsequently 
engaged in mining on an extensive scale in that country, and was the means of opening 
up the great mines of that region, which are now operated upon a most extensive scale, 
and Mr. Kahlo had the first smelting furnace that was in operation in Australia. He 
introduced the American process there witii quite a staff of mining experts from this 
country, some of whom Mr. Kahlo imported direct from the United States, for the carrying 
out of his enterprise successfullj'. This business he conducted most profital)ly for three 
years and could, at the expiration of that time, have left Australia with a handsome fortune, 
but he was persuaded to develop more mines, which necessitated the making of further large 
investments in some enterprises which ])roved very unfruitful, so that his accumulations 
were swept away (juickly. Even then he could have gotten out with a handsome sum of 
money, but being a man of honor be stood Ijy his friends, although he knew the outcome — 
remained as the captain of a ship by his sinking vessel — and he went down with all lost 
but his honor, and the confidence the respect and the esteem of those friends, which after 
all is more than money. This calamity completely discouraged him and he returned to the 
United States, locating at Indianapolis, maiidy with the object of giving his sons a profes- 
sional education, which he has accomplished. Dr. George Kablo l)eitig a graduate of Bellevue, 
and afterward had charge of Holland hospital with honors. Dr. Harry Kahlo graduated as 
a dentist in New York city, and also graduated from the Indianapolis Medical College. 
Both sons are now practicing in tbis city under most encouraging aus]iices, are worthy 
sons of a worthy sire and reflect credit upon their rearing. Mr. Kahlo organized the Indi- 
ana Mutual Building & Loan Association in ISild and it has grown into the largest organiza- 
tion of its kind in the State, thanks to the excellent management, the energy and the execu- 
tive ability of Mr. Kahlo, who is its general manager and secretarj*. It now has loaned out 
vipward of .1800,000 to its shareholders and the security is more than double the amount 
loaned. In the management of this important institution Mr. Kahlo displays a signal 
knowledge of financial matters, as well as an energy that has surprised his friends, even, 
who supposed they understood the measure of his strength. Its success is truly wonderful 
and is a |)rond monument to the labors and efforts of Mr. Kahlo. Mr. Kahlo is a very 
popular man and was always able to retain his friends even in the midst of a heated cam- 
paign, when the}' were on the opposite side. This is because he always fought fair, was 
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made a ineiuljer of Lis staflF, and was honored in the same manner by Gov. Matthews, 
who renamed him for the position, Mr. Kahlo being the only Republican on the staff. 
He also serves with the same rank, thiit of colonel, on the staff of Gen. Carnalian, in 
the Uniform Rank, K. of P. Our suliject was married in 18(54 to Miss Cornelia Colby, 
whose father was a very prominent physician of Ohio, and whose family is an old and 
honored one. She has borne him six children, three of whom are living. The members of 
the family are united with the Tabernacle church. Besides the various organizations named 
with which Mr. Kahlo is connected he is also a member of the L. L. and of the Columbia 
Club, and, whatever his connection, he is held in highest esteem in those bodies and is use- 
ful and influential in them. 

Hon. Isa.\c P. Gray, prominent in State and national politics, was born October 18, 
1828, in Chester County, Penn., and is a sun of John and Hannah (Worthington) Gray. 
His ancestors were members of the Society of Friends, or more commonly known as Quakers, 
his great grandfather coming with William Penn from England. Receiving l)ut a common- 
school education in youth, he embarked in mercantile pursuits at New Madison, Ohio, re- 
moved to Union City, lud., in 1855, where he continued merchandising, but later began the 
practice of law, having previously qualified himself for that profession. During the war of 
secession, he commanded the Fourth Indiana Cavalry for a time, but ill health necessitated 
his withdrawal from an active military career, and returning home he helped recruit the One 
Hundred and Forty seventh Indiana Infantry. Until the organization of the Republican 
party Col. Gray was a Whig. As a Republican he was defeated for Congress in 1806, but 
two years later was elected to the State Senate, where he served four years. In 1870 he was 
appointed minister to the Island of St. Thomas, West Indies, but declined the honor. In 
1871 his political views underwent a change, and since that time he has been an active Demo- 
crat. He was nominated by acclamation and elected lieutenant governor in 1876, and upon 
the death of James D. Williams, became governor of the State. As the candidate of the 
Democratic party in 1884, he was nominated for governor of the State by acclamation on 
the first ballot, and upon election gave it an excellent administration. For the j)ast two 
presidential terms be has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for either the first or 
second place on the Democratic presidential ticket, but the uncertain game of politics has 
decided in each instance in favor of others. By appointment of Pres. Cleveland, in 
1893, he became minister to Mexico. Gov. Gray is a man of unquestioned ability and of 
unbounded ambition. He married Miss Eliza Jaquain 1850, and to this union there are two 
living children. . 

Dr. Robert N.^thaniel Todd (deceased), son of Levi L. Todd, was liorn Janu- 
uary 4, 1827, near Lexington, Ky., which place had been the home of his father's 
family for two generations. Robert was the seventh born in a family of nine children, 
two of whom died in infancy; the remainder having reached maturity, though only 
two survive him. His family removed to Indiana in 1834 and from that time until the time 
of his death, which occurred June 13, 1883, he made his home in this vicinity. His early 
advantages weie indifferent, a common-school education, such as the country at that time 
afforded, with such a knowledge of Latin as he himself could pick up, was all. He made 
rapid progress in his studies at school, showing more than ordinary aptness for figures, and 
although physically delicate, he gained in health and strength as he grew older. During 
his youth he performed a great deal of hard labor upon the farm, but when nineteen years 
of age he began the study of law at South Bend with Judge Liston, his brother-in-law. At 
the expiration of a year and a half he returned to the farm and there remained until broken 
down by hard labor and ill health, he was compelled, at the end of two years, to al)andon 
farm work entirely. After having remained at home a number of months an invalid, and 
after having almost despaired of regaining bis health, he visited Dr. David Todd, of Dan- 
ville, by whom he was induced, after some hesitation, to commence the study of medicine, 
which he did more as a diversion from low spirits, not expecting ever to be well enough to 
turn it to practical account. His health, howevei', soon began to improve, and the next 
year he attended lectures at the old "Indiana Central Medical College." which was organ- 
ized aliout that time under the rule of Drs. Bobb, Mears, Deming, Dunlap, and others (the 
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followiiit; spiing settled at Soiitlij)oi-t. wLere he reu)ain(>(i until the breaking out of the 
llehcllioii. Previous to this, in the spring of lSr)4, he was married to Miss Margaret White, 
of that neighhoiiiood. Shortly after the breaking out of the war he was appointed surgeon 
of the Twenty-sixth Indiana A'olunteers and went soon after with liis regiment to Missouri, 
where he remained on duty in cam]) and liospital for about twenty months, when he was 
called home by the illness of his wife, whom he found rapidly sinking with consumption. 
She died in a short time, leaving him a family of five children, the two youngest i>eing but 
a few months old. Having resigned his j)osition upon his return home, be soon after removed 
to the city and again entered the Government service as surgeon at Camp Morton, where, 
associated with Dr. Kipp. of the regular army, and under the medical directorship of Dr. 
Bobbs. he continuiHl until the close of the war. In the year following his removal to 
Indianapolis he was married to Mrs. Martha J. Edgar, who, with three children of his 
first and four of his second marriage, now survive him. In the year 1S69 the organiza- 
tion of the Indiana Medical College was effected, in which he was chosen as teacher of 
tiieory and practice. There he remained until the spring of 1874, when he resigned his 
chair and shortly afterward, upon the organization of the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons (himself having been the originator), he was assigned the same department, holding 
it until the union of the two medical schools, in 1878, under the style of The Medical 
College of Indiana, when he was elected to the same chair he had occupied in the two 
other organizations, viz. : principles and practice of medicine. That position he continued 
to till until tiie time of his death. He was the tirst representative from his State upon 
the judicial council of the American Medical Association, which jiosition he held for sev- 
eral successive terms and to which he was again elected, in his absence, at the last meeting. 
He was president of the State Society in 1S71, was an active worker for seven years upon 
the provisional board, erected by the Legislature, and whose work was the erection and fitting 
up of the large building occupied by the female department of the Hospital for the Insane, 
and was one of the physicians to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum for nearly eight years. He 
served a single term in the Legislature as representative in 1856-57, but aside from this he 
held no position disconnected with his profession, to which most of his life's effort was faith- 
fully given, never abating his interest in State or local society matters, but being a regular 
attendant of his county society' as long as his health would allow. As a practitioner of medi- 
cine he was eminently successful: as a teacher he was clear and explicit, easij}' understood 
and well remembered; as a lecturer his manner was easy, dignified and not ungraceful. His 
words were well chosen, his, language was plain but forcil)le, sometimes elocjuent, and he 
always commanded the attention of his auditors. As is commonly the case with men of his 
cast he was not financially successful. Though commanding a large and lucrative business 
for many years, he failed to improve the opportunities offered, which were ample for the 
accumulation of a fortune. But he esteemed money only for its uses and with a lilwral hand 
lie gave it to meet the wants of others; frequently, indeed, to his own injury. No matter 
how often imposed upon in the matter of benevolence, he rarely failed to respond to the 
("ill of want or di.stress, and only those who were intimate with him knew how much of his 
time and of his best efforts in private practice were devoted to impecunious sufferers. If it 
be esteemed a great end in life to be remembered when gone from this world, how much 
better to live in the warm light of love and sympathy, if it be but for a single generation, 
within a circle that personal recognition can compass, than to have a name in marljle, read 
through curiosity rather than affection, and a heritage under the cold sky of fame, even 
though it be woihlwide. Grudge him not, reader, this line of memorial, whoso fidelity is 
worthy of some better monument. 

Lkvi L. Tonn, M. D. There are men, and the number is by no means small, who 
diift into what we are accustomed to look u])on as the learned profession in the same way 
that thousands of other men in the lower walks of life drift into the ordinary l>read-winning 
occupations. Having no special preference for any calling, and without feeling that they 
have any particular fitness for a certain profession, they find themselves drifting in that 
direction as a result of associations or environment, and in the course of time they find 
themselves shouldering responsibilities for which they have scant liking, carrying burdens 
which rest heavily upon them, and laboring in a field which has fur them no attraction other 



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than what it yields in the way of annual income. The successful physician whose name heads 
this sketch impresses even those who meet him in a casual way as a man who has drifted 
easily and naturally into the medical profession, who realizes that he has made no mistake 
in the choice of his vocation, and feels thoroughly at home in the position which he occu 
cupies. This tirst impression deepens with a more intimate acquaintance, and familiarity 
with his life leads to the unbiased and impartial view that the unusual success he has 
achieved is the logical sequence of talent rightly used, together with energy and industry 
never misapplied. Dr. Levi L. Todd is a product of the Blue-Grass State, Ijorn near Lex- 
ington in the latter part of the year 1S30, in the region where his ancestors had resided since 
Kevolutionary times. His grandfather. Gen. Robert Todd, was an associate of Boone, 
Harod, Bryan and others in the early settlement of the State. The maternal grandfather, 
Capt. Nathaniel Ashl)y, came from the Old Dominion soon after the close of the seven 
years' war through which he served, and settled in the same locality. The father of our 
subject, Judge Levi L. Todd, removed to Indiana in 1834, settled in Marion County, and 
there his death occurred in 1867. Dr. L. L. Todd, the original of this notice, was the 
youngest of a family of nine children, all but two of whom attained adult years. His early 
life was one of unusual toil and labor, and marked by vicissitudes and trials. Even more 
than the ordinary occurrences which so [)aiufully emphasize life fell to his lot. Still he 
seems to have regarded his life as an uneventful one in incidents of interest to others. He 
worked hard during his boyhood, and up to the age of twenty-two years, when he left the 
farm for the last time. He availed himself of the ordinary winter time opportunities of 
country schools, and when seventeen j'ears of age took two terms in the Danville County 
Seminary, and later a year and a half in Wabash College. He was a student of medicine 
the first year with Dr. David Todd, of Danville, and the remainder of the time with his 
brother, the late Dr. R. N. Todd. His first course of medical lectures was at the Univer- 
sity of Louisville, during the time that Gross, Flint and Silliman were connected with that 
institution, and graduated from the same in March of the year 18")^. The Doctor was 
married in the following winter to Miss Susan G. Todd, of Paris, Ky., and in the spring 
of 1858, moved to Paris, 111., where he resided and practiced his profession for sixteen 
years. After the second year he was employed almost constantly, and much of the time in 
service jjressing and hard to endure. With bad roads, and in a climate abounding in the 
worst changes that western weather could supply, he suffered a great deal from nervous 
disorders incident to exposure and overwork, but was seldom confined to his bed. He was 
appointed medical inspector of the drafted men, was a member of the Edgar County 
Society and also the Society of the Wabash Valley, being president and secretary of the 
latter. He has been a member and an occasional attendant upon the meetings of the 
American Medical Association since about the year 1871. He is also a member of the 
Marion County Medical Society, being president of the same, and contributed a number of 
papers to that society, some of which have been i)ublished in the transaction of the State 
Society. The Doctor came to this city from Paris, 111., in January, 1874, and during the 
whole time up to the present, has been constantly practicing his profession. His family 
consists of a wife and four daughters. In the professional career of Dr. Todd it will be 
observed that every energy was called into play in his chosen calling. With that earnest- 
ness of endeavor anil will power which are the salient and strong points that determine an 
individuality and inspire confidence in one as a safe an<l conservative practitioner, any ful- 
some praise or extended eulogy of the professional or social life of the subject of this sketch 
would be superfluous here or in any community where he is known. The steady, persist- 
ent fondness for his ])rofession is a marked characteristic of his every day contact with the 
infirmities and suffering that come within range, of his counsel and medical skill. In the 
varied vicissitudes of his life, filled wiih a multiplicity of cares, he has found time, like his 
distinguished brother, the late Dr. R. N. Todd, to cultivate his taste in literary puisnits as 
evidenced by the fact of his active and retentive memory in calling up fjuotations from many 
distinguished authors both of prose and poetry. M'hittier. Holmes and Burns are seemingly 
his favorite authors. The Doctor is in full fruition of his professional life and perfect 
manhood. The frost of accumulated years have settled gently upon him, but have not 
ruffled the facial line of a wliolesome, honored career. He is still in the front rank among 



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liis coatemporaries, and capable of accomplishing a large amount.of labor in the j)racticpof 
his life work. 

W. H. Hawkins. The younger Pitt, had his lot been cast in the United States in this 
day and generation would not have found it necessary to defend himself against the "atro- 
cious crime of being a young man," as charged against iiim l)ecause of his i)recocious njen- 
tid development. In this Republic there is n<3 prejudice against a man merely because he 
chances to develop in a<lvance of the conventio'nal idea as to time of maturity, but on the 
contrary it is more likely that the fact will be used as a cause for rewarding his ability by 
promoting him to places of honor and trust. The subject of our sketch, W. H. Hawkins, of 
Indianapolis, is a young man who has demonstrated over and over again that the wisdom of 
age rests upon his shoulders and the judgment of tried experience guides his actions, yet f-o 
far from this being a bar to his advancement, his friends point to the fact with pride and as 
convincing proof that man ought to be weighed liy his capacity aiid not by the duration of 
his days upon the earth. Mr. Hawkins was Ijorn in Sullivan County, Ind., December 31. 
1858, and is the son of Jesse and Fannie P. (Piukston) Hawkins, natives of the same county. 
Tiie paternal grandfather, John W. Hawkins, was a native of South Carolina and a pioneer 
of Sullivan County, who served his country in the War of 1812, holding the rank of major. 
He was a farmer and pursued that avocation until his death, and his sou, the father of our 
subject, was also a tiller of the soil. The latter, imbued with the same spirit that moved 
his sire in the War of 1812, enlisted in the Civil War in the Forty-first Indiana Volunteers, 
afterward known as the First Cavalry Regiment; was taken prisoner and died in Libby 
Prison, leaving two children, Mattie, who died in 1882, and our subject. The latter was 
reared upon the farm in Sullivan County, attending the country schools until he was eight- 
een years old, and two years later he entered the normal school at Valparaiso. After remain- 
ing there for some time he entered a country store at Shelburn and continued in it until 
November 18, 1884, when he was appointed a deputy sheriff of Sullivan County and served 
four years. He was then elected sheriff of the same county and tilled that position with the 
greatest credit, as he had previously discharged the duties of deputy and for an eijual 
period of time. March 22, 1893, he was appointed by President Cleveland United States 
marshal for the district of Indiana, being one of the youngest men ever named for this office. 
Young as he is he wields a most powerful iiiHuence in politics, being personally remarkably 
popular and possessing exceptional ability as an organizer and leader of men. He can plan 
a cam])aign with a shrewdness that surprises the oldest of cam])aigners and executes with 
brilliant success. Failure is a word that has never appeared in the book of his life and suc- 
cess has tended but to brighten his wits and to stimulate his brain to greater energy. Dur- 
ing his term of olKce he will make Indianapolis his place of residence, much to the regret of 
his thousands of friends and admirers in old Sullivan, who while proud of the distinguished 
recognition of his services and ability, deeply regret to lose the pleasure of his presence and 
the strength of his party counsels even for a season. Mr. Hawkins is a man of strong social 
feeling, taking keen enjoyment in the society of his friends, and is connected with the order 
of Odd Fellows and of the K. of P., in both of which organizations he is regarded with the 
highest esteem. He was married May 6. 1880, to Miss Etta E. Collier, by whom he has one 
child living, Burchard (i. Brief as has been Mr. Hawkins" stay in Indianapolis he has 
already made hosts of friends and has demonstrated to them and to the people of the State 
generally that the selection made by President Cleveland for the office of marshal for the 
State of Indiana was a most wise one and that he will discharge its duties with distinguished 
ability and witii conscientious regard to the interests of the Government. He was in 
1802 uiuuiimously selected chairman of the Democratic central committee of Sullivan 
County, Ind., and yet retains that position. The remarkable executive talent of Mr. Haw- 
kins and his masterly grasp of important measures, with his unbroken success and his wide 
popularity, clearly show that he is but fairly started upon his career, and that much better 
and greater things await him. 

Miss M.\kt Eilekn Ahf.rx. As mediums for the diffusion of knowledge among the 
masses, public collections of books take rank second only to the common-school system. The 
State library at Indianapolis, Ind., has been steadily prosperous, the number of volumes 
being increased year by year, and the careful selection and completeness of the collection 



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gives it a value second to very few. The State librarian, Miss Mary Eileen Aheru, is a lady 
thoroughly equipped hy intimate knowledge of books for the care of the library. To the 
requisites of ability she adds those of temperament, and all patrous of the library will agree 
in acknowledging her painstaking and uniform consideration and courtesy in rendering assist- 
ance to those pursuing any particular branch of inquiry. This lady removed with her 
parents to Spencer, Ind.. in 1870 and there she attended the public schools, graduating from 
the High School in May. 1S7S. In October, 1878, when but seventeen years of age, she 
began teaching school at Bloomtield, Ind.. and was thus engaged for two years, meeting with 
unusual success in that capacity. Returning to Spencer she taught in the high schools of 
that city for four years, and in the fall of 1884 she removed to Peru, Ind., where she made her 
home until the spring of 188VI. On the 1st of April of that year she became assistant libra- 
rian and on January 23, 1893, she was elected by the Legislature as State librarian which 
position she nows tills in a very able manner. Possessed of rare culture and attainments 
Miss Ahern discharges her duties with highly commendable zeal and ability. Of (he three 
children born to her patents Miss .\hern is second in order of birth. Her parents were 
natives of Ireland, a country that our people have heard or read more or less of, land that 
seems to be the breeding place for the production of the brain, the energy and muscle that 
move the rest of the world. Her mother was an O'Neill of County Clare, a very noted family 
of that county, and she was a lady possessed of great force of character and remarkable 
financial ability. She died when Miss Ahern was but twelve years of age. The father. 
William Ahern, was a native of County Cork and like many of his native countrymen, his 
day dream was for liberty and the right to cope with his fellow men. As a consequence he 
emigrated to the I'nited States in 1852 and two years later came to Indianapolis where he 
was married. He is at present a resident of Spencer, lud., and is a man possessed of many 
excellent qualities of mind and heart. The children born to this estimable couple are named 
as follows: Johanna, a resident of .Spencer and wife of W. S. Johnson who is county clerk 
of Owen County, Ind., Mary E., and James. Our subject was a delegate to the National 
Library Association held at San Francisco, Cal., in 1891 <ind is now secretary of the 
State library section of the National Library .•Association. She is the founder of the Library 
Association of Indiana of which she has been secretary since its organization, and was secre- 
tary of high school section of the State Teachers' Association for two years. 

S.iwrEL Pfesdler. This worthy agriculturist was born in Canton Glarus. among the 
Alps of Switzerland, May 6, 1833. to the union of Xicholas and Anna (Streef) Pfendler. 
His great-grandfather Friedland Pfender, was governor of Canton Glarus, in Switzerland, 
The father of our subject came to America with his family in 1S47, leaving Havre de Grace, 
France, March 1, 1847, and landing in New Orleans on April 26 and came up the Missis- 
sippi and Ohio Rivers to Madison. The family then took the stage to Indianapolis, where 
they arrived on May 4. The father had a brother who had come to America in ]832 and 
who was at that time living in Marion County, Warren Township, Ind., engaged in farming. 
Nicholas Pfendler bought 1()0 acres in Moral Township, Shelby County, just across the line from 
Marion County, and paid for the same SI, 200. About thirty five acres of this tract was 
partially cleared and the first year he put in ten or twelve acres of corn, the same amount of 
wheat and al)out four acres in potatoes. This was put in with one horse. He carried his 
produce to Indianapolis and received for potatoes a shilling a bushel, 3 cents a dozen for 
eggs, in trade, and about S cents a pound for butter. Samuel Pfendler, the original of this 
notice, remained on the farm with his father until 1855 and then started for Faribault County, 
Minn., with Warren Judd, who had a vt-agon and two yoke of cattle. Our subject purchased 
a yoke of cattle and drove the team for his board. He left home September 9, 1855, and 
shortly afterward went to Winneshiek County, Iowa, and located at Frankville, where, dur- 
^ ing the winter, he drove a team for a storekeeper, continuing this until May, 1856. He then 
went to Steele County, Minn., where he pre-empted 160 acres of land and made his home on 
the same until August, 1856. breaking ten a<;res in the meantime. On August 4, 1856. he 
returned to Iowa and becran workintr for P. K. Beard, continuincr with him for two months. 
About that time he traded his claim of 160 acres for two yoke of oxen, making him then the 
owner of three yoke, and trading the oxen for horses he engaged in teaming from Iowa to 
Minnesota, the route covering from forty to 150 miles. After- about six months he began to 



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drive stage from McGregor's Laiuliiig. in Clayton Connty, Iowa, to Decorab, Iowa, a dis- 
tance of forty-five miles. making a trip every day. He drove stage two years, receiving from 
$2(1 to S30 a month. In 1858 he married Miss Ahua Burton, daughter of George W. Bur- 
ton, of Winneshiek County, Iowa, and for about a year and a hwU afterward kept a store in 
Fraukville. In January, IStiO. he and his hride came to Marion County, Ind. , lirought with 
them about §2(1(1, and made tiieir liome with ^[r. Pfendler's father until the death of the lat- 
ter, two years later. Our sul)ject and his brother. David, were the only (wo of the cluldreu 
who remained at home, and when the father died his will provided that David and Samuel 
shiuild divide the land he owned. 1(1(1 acres in Shelby and ItiO acres in Clarion County, and 
pay to the other children $,">. 2(1('. The interest of ?2, 0(^(1 was to lie paid to the mother and 
she was to have a home with them during her life. Samuel aud his brother accepted the 
provisions of the will and faithfully carried them out. The mother passed away in 18(54 
and her last days were rendered happy and comfortable by the devotion of her two sons. 
For two years the brothers worked their farms together, but iu 1864 Samuel bought of his 
brother thirty of the KU) acres in Marion C!ounty, i)aying for the same $1.00(1. On the tract 
our subject had received from his father he resided from 18()0 until the jiresent. His first 
residence was a log structure. 18x22 feet, and iu this they kept house for about eleven years, 
often cooking for forty or fifty men who came to log-rollings. Those were happy days for 
all were contented with their lot. About 1871 Mr. Pfendler erected a two-story frame house, 
thirty feet square, and in this he resides at the present time. In ]S(?4 he purchased forty 
acres of laad: iu 1873 seventy-five acres- in 1879 eighty acres, and in 1885 eighty acres, iu 
Shelby County, and in 18511 be bought fifteen aud one half acres, thus making 305 acres in 
Marion aud ninety-five acres in Shelby County. Mr. Pfendler aud family cleared over half 
of the 355 acres in Marion County. To his marriage were born the following children : Anna, 
born in 185U and died February 14. 1S8(5. She had attended the college at Franklin. Ind.. 
five years and would have giadiiated in 1886: Emma, born in 1861. died at the age of twelve 
months from burns received by falling in a fireplace: Samuel, born in 18()3. February 12. 
resides near his father (he married Miss Louisa Eistler, daughter of David Eistler, of Win- 
neshiek County. Iow«, and has three children: Delia. Roy and Anna), and Levi, born 
November 29, 1867. resiiies in Pleasant View, Shelby County, Ind., where be is engaged in 
merchandising. He married Miss Annie E. Gould, daughter of James Gould, and tliey have 
two children. Byron and Celia, the latter dying in 1893. aged two and one-half years. 

Thomas S.^mh-sky Eatox. This successful agriculturist and descendant of sturdy British 
ancestors, was born in Owen County. Ky.. August 26. 1828. to tlie union of William and 
Sarah (Phipps) Eaton, the former a native of the Blue Grass State and the latter i>f Virginia. 
The parents were married in Owen County. Ky.,but left there aud came to Indiana in 1832. 
Fifleen children were born to this worthy couple, one of whou), a daughter, died in infancy. 
The remainder were named as follows: James A.,- of Harrison County, SIo. ; Polly Ann. 
died at the age of twenty years; William, who resides at Irvington: Thomas S., our subject; 
Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Louis Nossaman; Lydia, wife of Madison Davis, 
resides in Franklin Township, this county; Leland, of Boone County, Ind.; Sarah, wife 
of Hoyt Ransdell; Charles, of Boone County, was in the Federal service during the 
war; Mary E., wife of Rufns Leonard; Henry, was also in the Federal service about 
four years: Wesley served in the Union army about four years: Mary E. (Xo 21. 
deceased, was the wife of ' George Harris, and Kobert. of Boone County. Ind. The 
mother of these children died in 1873 at the age of seventy-two. and the father followed her 
to the grave in 1881. when eighty-two years of age. The paternal grandfather. William 
Eaton, was a native of Maryland and died in Kentucky. The parents of our subject came 
to Indiana in the winter of 1832 and remained until the spring in Indiana|Kilis. a city then 
of about 1.00(1 inhabitants. The father was sick during the winter, but in the spring be 
moved out to New Betliel. in Franklin Township, where he entered eighty acres of land one 
mile northeast of the little village. He ])aid 81.25 per acre for this tract and it was right in 
the green timlier. First be rented a little piece of ground near l>y which had a house on it, 
and about sis acres cleared. On this be made his home for two years, V\v which time he 
hail erected a log house on his eighty acres and bad commenced the arduous task of clearing 
the groiuul. For four or five yeajs this was the task of all in the family, aside from raising 



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small crops. The smaller children were armed with wooden paddles which they slapped 
together to scare the squirrels wliich came in almost countless numbers to the corn patch, 
threatening to eat np the little crop. Soon brighter days began to appear, but still the 
hard!-hips and privations would have Ijeen unenduraljle at the present day. In four or 
live years they could market some of their produce and soon began to accumulate some 
weans. Wolves were very thick and a few (Iry sticks were kept ready to light ^nd throw 
out the cabin door into the pack whose howl.s rendered sleep imixjssible. Amid these 
rude .surroundings our subject remained until his twenty-first birthday, receiving but 
little schooling, and working early and late to subdue the forest and render it inhabit- 
able. Whenever his father could spare hiui away from home for a few days our sub- 
ject would hire out to some of the neighbors and received for his services from 12 J to 
'lb cents per day. Half of this he gave his father and the remainder to his mother to 
keep for him. telling her that he was going to save up money enough to buy a farm. 
When a little over twenty one years of age young Eaton bought forty acres of !and in 
Fraiiklin Township, paying for the same •*21S, -S'ltK) down and working two summers in 
Turner's brickyard to make up the balance. The first year he received ?13 a month and 
by that time he had learned how to mold brick. The following year he received §1.25 
a day and worked in the brickyard aliout five months each summer. The second sum- 
mer's work paid him out on the farm and he moved on his forty acres, fifteen of which 
had been cleared and a little cabin erected. For five years he continued on this farm. 
In November. 1849, he was married to iliss Almira Springer, a daughter of Jacob 
Springer, a native of the Buckeye State, and Mr. Eaton and his bride moved on the 
forty acres together. During the five years he remained on the same, our subject dead- 
ened and partially cleared fifteen acres more, but in 1S54 sold the forty acres to Charles 
Piel for $7tK). Then, leaving his wife at home, he and four or five others went We.st 
prospecting. Mr. Eaton went through Illinois and Iowa, and after a trip of about eight 
weeks, returned to Marion Countv. where he bought eiofhtv acres in Section 27. About 
thirty acres were cleared and a hewn double log house was on the tract. He rented 
twenty acres, put in a few acres himself and began clearing a place for a brickyard. 
After harvest he commenced making brick and lO'LOtK) were turned out that fall, all being 
-old by Christmas time, for from $4 to $■> per thousand. This enabled him to meet the first 
payment on his land. After this he commenced farming, and engaging in any other 
honorable employment he could find. In three years time he had his farm paid for and 
settled down to tilling the soil. This was in 1857, and he continued farming until I860, 
when he again engaged in brick making, turning out 50,0<K> bricks, for which he received 
?5 per thousand. In 1S61 he erected a story and a half house of six rooms, and in 1889 
he erected another handsome house of seven rooms, where he now re.sides. Between 
ISGl and 1883 he added 281 acres to the eighty acres he first purchased, and has one 
of the be t farms in his section. By his first wife he became the father of eleven chil- 
dren, three of whom died in infancy, and one. Amanda, in 1872. when about twenty years of 
age. The names of the seven living children are as follows: Artme-'ia. who married James 
Greer, of Marion County. lud. : Franklin P.. of Marion County, Ind.. married Miss Louisa 
Cnnningliam: William J., also in Marion County, married Miss Jnlia Smither: Eudolpho 
of Indiaiiaf>olis. married Miss Priscilla Finner: Tyler and Violet, twins. The former mar- 
ried Miss Addie A. Huntington and resides in Marion County, and the latter married Abra- 
ham Murphy, of Marioa County, and Luella, wife of Charles Doren. of Indianapolis. Our 
subject IE the grandfather of twenty-two children resulting from the alx)ve mentioned mar- 
riages. His wife died in December. 188<I. and in 1882 he married Miss Mahala, daughter of 
Henry and Mary Camjjer. of Marion County. Five children have been born to this union: 
Carrie Elliel. Ijorn Septemlier 28. 18^3: Clialmer C. l)orn July 29. 1885: Mabel G.. Ijorn 
February 21, 1888: Ben Harrison. lx)rn September 21. 1890. and Meada M., born May 6, 
1892. Mr. Eatun has never aspired to political positions and has never held office, except 
that of supervisor. His first vote was cast for a Democrat, but since that time he has been 
a stalwart Republican. He has been a memljer of the Baptist Church ever since his first 
marriage. In IS8'3 oar subject divided among his seven children, by his first wife. 281 acres, 
thus giving them all good homes. 



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Col. I. N. Walkeh. Oiif of the best known mkmi iu the State and one cf the most |h)|)- 
ular connected witli theCJ. A. R. is Col. I. N. Walker, |)ast ilepartuaent commander and at 
this time the senior vice coinuiauder-in-chief of tlie order, and State Tax Commissioner, who 
is now direi'tiiii;j Lis best enerf.;ies to the securing of an ei|nitalile enforcement of the tax 
laws of the Stale. Col. Walker is a most worthy son of Indiana, who, after receiving an 
ixlucatioii in his native State and growing to maidiood, responded to his country's call, and 
entered the army as junior captain in the Seventy-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 
For gallant services rendered at th(> l)atfleof Stone River he was made major; was [)rornoted 
to the rank of lieutenant colonel in March, 1S()3, and on the deathof Col. Hathaway, in May 
ISfiS, was made commander of the regiment. For more than a year he endured all the 
ligors of Lilihy Trison, escajied wifii (ieneial Streight through the historic tunnel, in Feb- 
ruary. 1S()4, returned to his regiment in May, ISfil, and rendered most important service in 
the army of the Cuml)erland. protecting the line of supplies lietween Decatur and Steven.son 
along tlie Tennessee River, during the advance on Atlanta. After the war he resided for a 
time at Xashville and then returned to Indianapolis, where he has since resided. He is be- 
yond doubt tiie best known Grand Army man in the State, having served for four years as 
assistant adjutant-general and then as department commander, and taking the most lively 
interest in its affairs, having the social quality strongly developed and having an aliiding 
reg;ird for those who serveil their country during its time of peril. The privations endured 
by Col. Walker in Libby Prison sap])ed his health: after enduiing its hardshi|)s for nine 
months, he escaped, as stated, l)nt only to be recaptured auvl returned, and tlie three months 
which followed until his exchange in JFay (the tunnel escape was in February) were very 
severe upon him. The seeds of diseaseso freely and deeply sown in Libby broke out again and 
again at Nashville after the war, and finally caiijfeihim, after some years of patient and un- 
complaining sntl'eriug to come to Indianapolis. |Si)r nearly ten years after his returi\ here he 
was first deputy in the oHfice of the county auditor^ of Marion County, where he won the 
esteem of every one by his etHcient discharge of^duties and his uniformly courteous and 
obliging sjjirit. He received the nomination of t^' Republicans of Indiana for the olSce of 
State .\uditor in 1S92, but weiit down with the rest of the ti(;ket in November last. Col. 
Wilker while assistant adjutant general rendered prodigious servici> to the order, more than 
ten thousand nnMubers being added to it while he held office, largely through his tireless 
efforts. The meagre salary he received he divided with a disableii soldier, and much more 
of the remainder went to the help of moneyless soldiers of the war. Large-hearted, honest, 
earnest, loyal, sincere, true in his friendships, his friends are legion everywhere, and if 
wishes -were dollars the Colonel would rival the Rothschilds in wealth. At Stone River he 
was a hero in battle, biavely encouraging his comrades throughout a fnghtful carnage, in 
which the brave boys were in a literal slaughter pen; iu all hours of peril he was the same 
brave, true soldier; and since the war the same invincil)le courage has ^.tamped his life, espe 
cially in his devoted service on l)ehalf of the soldiers, making him in<lifferent to the gibes and 
sneers of those who did not tight and who hate those who insist the Government shall l>e 
grateful and generous toward those who saved the Union. Whatever the future of Col. 
Walker, he can rest secure in the reflection that he has the al)iding affection of his comrades 
of the army of the late war. Rut a life like that of Col. Walker, so full of generous and un- 
selfish impulses and deeds, and replete with courageous actions, has much more before it to 
be doneandhe is sure to be always in the forefront with those who dare the right for the 
rigiit's sake. 

John L. ^[i-M.\sTKH. The bar of Indianapolis has won an enviable name all over the 
country for the erudition, success and courtesy of its memliers, many of whom have achieved 
a luUional reputation fortheir ability and a correct apprehension of what pertains to the profes- 
sion. .Vniong those who stand deservedly high as members of this bar with his l)rother law- 
yers and with the courts, is John L. McMaster, whose office is in the Boston Block in that 
city. He has always been a close student in his profession and has won the confidence and 
esteem of the community a id the profession as a careful and efficient lawyer. He was born 
in Meigs County, Ohio, February 9, 1843, being the son of \\'illiam and Susan (Brown) Mc- 
Master. His fatiier was a native of Scotland; his mother of Virginia. His father came to 
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he learned the trade of miller, and afterward in Meigs Oouuty, Ohio, where he owned aud 
operated a mill for more than forty years and until within a few years of the time of his 
death, which occurred at that place in 1887. His mother died in 1859. The subject of our 
sketch was the second of seven children, three of whom ar<' still living. He was reared in 
Meigs County, spending the days of his boyhood in the country schools and at work in his 
father's mil! until the outbreak of the war, when, in 1801, at the age of eighteen he entered 
the Union army as a member of Company A, Second Virginia Cavalry in which Company 
and in Company E of the same regiment he served a little more than three years. A younger 
and only brother, Thomas, who later became a member of the same regiment, was killed at 
the battle of Five Forks. After being mustered out, our subject entered the Ohio University 
at Athens, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1869. Before leaving the University he com- 
menced the study of law which he continued under private instructors until the fall of 1869, 
when he entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating therefrom in 1870. In the fall of 
the year last named he settled in Indianapolis, an entire stranger, in the practice of his pro 
fession. He l)egan the practice in partnershi}) with A. Boice, the firm being McMaster & 
Boice, and so continuing until 1891, since which time Mr. McMaster has been alone. In 
1882 he was nominated by acclamation for the office of Superior Court Judge by the Repub- 
lican party, but failed of election. In the following year he was nominated for mayor, witii- 
out seeking on his part, and after a close contest was elected. His administration of that 
office was characterized by integrity and a conscientious devotion to the best interests of 
the city and served to still more firmly estajjlish him in the confidence and esteem of the 
community. In 1890, in anticipation of legislative measures of vital interest to the citv of 
Indianapolis which were to be brought forward in the general asseml)ly, his party nominated 
him as as one of its candidates for the State Legislature, but he was defeated along with hi.s 
party. Mr. McMaster is connected with a number of fraternal organizations, in all of which 
he is an honored and useful member. Among the number is George H. Thomas Post, No. 
17, Department of Indiana, G. A. K., of which he is a past commander. He is also a past 
member of the council of administration of the department and has long been a member of 
the monument committee of the department and is its present chairman. He is also a thirty 
second degree Mason and is active in the various branches of Masonry leading up to this ex- 
alted degree, being an officer in several of the Scottish Rite bodies and having been twice 
the Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, one of the blue lodges of the city which has established 
more than a local reputation for its efficient work. Mr. McMaster is identified with a num- 
ber of interests of the city, among which are the Indianapolis Building and Loan, and the 
Franklin Building Associations, in both of which ho is a director aud the attorney. He is 
also the attorney for the Mutual Home aud Savings Association and a director in the Ohio 
Machine Company of Middleport, Ohio. Mr. McMaster's domestic life is a happy one, his 
wife being Alpha (Steenrod) McMaster, whom he married at Lancaster. Ohio, in 1872, and 
by whom he has three children. 

Austin B. Pkather. Real estate, in the form of city or suburban lots, is a bank of 
interest. The demand for inside and suljurban lots and acres, together with the steady 
increase in the value of such holdings, afford the best possible evidence of Indianapolis' 
steady growth in wealth and prosperity. Ex])erience tells us that to the economical artisan, 
salaried clerk and business man, these suburban offerings are of inestimable value in per- 
mitting men to acquire, at reasonable cost and on easy terms, a pleasant home in a healthy 
location, which becomes more valuable as the owner grows in years. One of the most popu- 
lar real estate men of the city of Indianapolis is Austin B. Prather, who is also an extensive 
tire insurance agent and is doing a business highly satisfactory to himself and his large num- 
ber of patrons. He is an ideal business man and has a remarkable capacity for work. He 
is a native of Oldham County, Ky., his birth having occurred January 29, 1848, of which 
State his father, John Prather, was also a native, where he followed the occupation of farm- 
ing with fairly satisfactory results. He was a man of great public spirit and was an ensign 
in the military affairs of Tippecanoe times and in various other ways showed his interest 
in the welfare of his native land, being at all times public spirited and progressive. He 
was married to Miss Elizabeth Jones, a native of North Caiolina, a daughter of Benjamin 
Jones, who belonged to a well-known family of the Old North State. In 1820 Mr. Prather 



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came with his family to Intliaua and became one of the j)ioneer families of Clark County. 
The father died at Columbas, Irid. , in 1876, the mother having been called from life ia 
1865. The paternal grandfather, Basil Prather, was of Scotch descent and was born and 
reared in the laud of '• thistles and oatmeal." He came to America in his early manhood, 
first settled in Kentucky but afterward became a pioneer Methodist preacher of Indiana, 
l)eing one of the first of that denomination to hold services within its borders. Austin B. 
Prather was al)0ut ten years of age when his parents settled in Bartholomew Conuty, Ind., 
and there he received the usual common school advantages and early learned the details of 
agricultural life on his father' h farm. Later he spent two years at White River Academy 
at Brownstown, Ind., where he completed a practical education. In October, 1869 he came 
to Indianapolis and became a clerk in the old pioneer grocery house of Horn & Anderson, 
in which capacity he served about four years, or, until that firm retired from business. He 
continued to follow clerical pursuits until September, 1881, when he entered the employ of 
W. E. Mich & Co., the oldest real estate firm of the city, and remained connected with them 
for six years. In 1887 he became a member of the firm of Prather & Hankel.but at the end of 
three years retired from the firm and soon after formed a partnership with Col. Walker, < 
in the real estate, loans and fire insurance business, which connection continued until April 
11, 1893, when he purchased Col. Walker's interest and later formed a partnership with 
George W. Powell, the present name of the firm being Powell & Prather. Mr. Prather was 
married in October, 1872, to Miss Mary L. Horn, a native of Indianapolis, and a daughter 
of Henry L. and Minerva A. (Palmer) Horn. He is a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-sec- 
ond degree and is a charter member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398. He is a member of the 
board of governors, of the board of trade and has served on important committees of the 
former organization. He has always been a Republican in his political views. 

L. H. DrNNiNt4, M. D. Among the many able and well known physicians of Indianapolis 
who are a credit to the city is the subject of this notice, who isa descendant of good and worthy 
English stock. He is a native of Michigan, having been born at Edwardsburg. in that 
State, April 12, IS")!), the English head and founder of the family having settled in New 
York State. Dr. Isaac D. Dunning, thegrandfather of our subject, was a leading practitioner 
of Aurora, Erie County, N. Y. , for about thirty years, and then, in 1836 emigrated to Michi- 
gan. The father of our subject, Oscar M. Dunning, was a substantial farmer, and his wife, 
Mary (May) Dunning, was also a native of New York, being a member of the old May and 
Stanton families, who were very prominent in the public affairs of the Empire State. Dr. 
Ij. H. Dunning was eilucated at the Edwardsburg High School, studied medicine for two 
years in the medical department of the University of Buffalo, where special mention was 
made of the thoroughness of his work, he displaying a remarkable aptitude in all his studies, 
and thus early affording earnest of the signal ability of the coming man and physician. His 
examination demonstrated that he had grasi)ed the subjects gone through with subtle force 
and energy. Later, he spent one year at Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he 
graduated in January, 1872. After graduating Dr. Dunning went to Troy, Berrien County, 
Michigan, where he engaged in the practice, and was for some time district superintendent 
ofPidjlic instruction. He was a|)])ointed correspondent of the Michigan State Board of 
Health and while perfoimiiig the duties of that office acquired his first experience as a 
writer on medical subjects, in which he has since become distinguished. In the year 1878, 
feeling himself competent for a wider field, Dr. Dunning moved to South Bend, Ind.. where 
he was soon called into a large and lucrative practice. His contributions to medical litera- 
ture, which had attracted much attention v»hile he was reading at Troy, were continued at 
South Bend and soon gave him a national reputation. A number of these, which appeared 
in leading medical journals, especially such as treated upon surgical diseases of the kidneys, and 
also upon subjects relating to diseases of women, are of especial value, and stamped the Doctor 
not only an original and courageous thinker and investigator, but also a writer of a high order 
of ability, his language being elegant in diction and smooth in its flow — more like that 
of a professional author and editor than of one who makes the science of-medicine his great 
life work. Busy as was his life at South Bend, his writings and his practice making exacting 
demands u])OM his time, he still investigated, studied and availed himself of every opportunity 
for adding to his knowledge and skill. He took several special courses in New York and in 



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18SII made ;ui extensive trip abroail, during which time he pursued his studies in the hospi- 
tals of Vienna, London and Paris. In the same year, at the request of the members of the 
faculty of the Indiana Medical College, Dr. Dunning moved to Indianapolis in order to accept 
the position of adjunct professor of diseases of women in that institution and also to practice 
his ])rofession as with reference to the diseases of women and of abdominal surgery. On the 
death of Dr. T. B Harvey, who had held the chair of diseases of women in the college for 
twenty years, Dr. Dunning was elected his successor, a position he still fills, with great 
credit to himself and to the fame of the institution. He has taken very iiigh rank in the 
State as a lecturer and teacher, and also as a safe and successful operator, a great many cases 
having attracted wide attention because of the difiScult character of the operations and their 
successful issue. The Doctor is also consulting gynecologist to the city hospital and the 
city dispensary. The Doctor has strong faith in the benefits arising from the association of 
medical men in organizations for mutual iuiprovement, by the interchange of views and by 
other means diffusing knowledge, lieing a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the 
Indianapolis Surgical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the American Medical 
Association and of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has 
been honored with invitations to read paj)ers before most of these organizations and has for 
the most part complied with these requests, his contributions in all cases lieing received with 
great favor l)y the distinguished gentlemen composing the several bodies. At the ninth ses- 
sion of the International Medical Congress, held at Washington, 1887, he read a paper liefore 
that body, which was most favorably received, a higher compliment than this it being scarcely 
possible to pay, the International Congress being composed of the ablest and most profound 
and progressive physicians of the countries represented. During the administration of 
President Arthur he was a member of the Board of Pension Examine^i's at South Bend. In 
1892 Dr. Dunning established a private hospital for the treatment of diseases of women and 
abdominal surgery and his efforts in this direction have met with marked success. Outside of his 
regular jirofessional work the Doctor has contributed considerable time and valuable services to 
the cause of humanity and to the good of the community, having for many years been closely 
identified with and greatly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. 
He was chairman of the executive committee of the State Association for three years, and at 
present is serving a second term as president of the Indiana Association. He takes a very 
active and useful part in literary matters and socially is a member of the Commercial Club 
and of the order of Odd Fellows and Indianapolis Literary Club. Dr. Dunning was married 
December 9, 1875, to Miss Harriet Beauchamp, of Edwardsburg, and to them have been born 
three children. The Doctor and his wife are honored and consistent, as well as most useful 
members of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. Thus Dr. Dunning, who is 
yet young has along career before him, and is destined to attain a still higher place in the 
ranks of his profession and to extend the spheie of his influence for good. 

Edward E. Schroer. The subject of our sketch, Edward E. Schroer, is a model 
tyjte of the unpretentious citizen, content to persue the even tenor of his way, without osten- 
tation, tilling his position in life acceptable to the world. His parents, Herman H. and 
Elizabeth C. Schroer (nee Schopponhorst), came to America in 1840, from the Province of West- 
phalia, Germany, where they were born July 9, 1815, and November 11, 1819, respectively. 
They were married in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 10, 1841, where Herman H. Schroer was 
engaged ill mercantile business. They removed to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1848, where on 
October 31, 185:3, the subject of our sketch, Edward E. Schroer, was born, he being 
the sixth of nine children. After receiving a very ordinary education, such as was afforded 
by the country district schools, he was thrown upon his own resources at the early 
age of fourteen years. He learned the trade of piano finisher, at which he worked steadily 
during the day. At night he applied himself assiduously to study for the purpose of ex- 
tending his meagre education. Having a natural aptitude for books and accounts, he de- 
termined to make himself an exjiert bookkeeper and accountant, and has succeeded as thor- 
oughly as he could have wished. At an early age he was attracted toward secret societies 
and fraternal organizations, and on Deeeml)er 17, 1874, he became a charter memljer of 
Indianapolis Lodge, No. 56. K. of P. He served several years as assistant grand keeper of 
records and seal in the grand lodge, K. of P. of Indiana. He then became identified with 



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varit)ns otbtM- ortjiinizatioiis, among them the Royal Arcanum, which he joined October 29, 
1879, becoming a member of Indianapolis ('ouncil. No. 32.S. His thorough knowledge of 
fraternal orders, and his wide awake appreciation of their demands, soon led to his election 
to official positions in his council, and on March 1, 1882, he was choi^en as its representa- 
ive to the grand council of Indiana, where he was a prominent member of the committee 
on appeals and grievances. At the session of the grand council held March 7, 1883. lie 
was unanimously elected grand secretary', which positioti he has effectively filled without 
oi)position ever since. He has seen the order grow in power and imml)ers under his ad- 
ministration, and not a little to his own earnest efforts does it owe its success. Mr. Schorer 
is also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, O. of E., K. of H. and I. O E. M. 
He enjoys a wide acquaintance, aside from his secret society connections, and has filled 
many positions of trust and importance. He was one of the organizers, and is now an 
active member of the Commercial Club, which has done so much to improve the city of 
Indianapolis. In his political opinion Mr, Schroer is a Republican, and is actively 
identified with the interests of that party, l)eing a member of the Marion Club, and taking 
part in the political councils. He is interested in various charities in a quiet way, and while 
not strictly a church man, he is uniformly correct in morals and deportment. Edward E. 
Schroer was happily married April 17, 1878, to Miss Bettie M. Marley, who now, together 
with two children, Clifford Edward, aged fourteen, and Irene Agnes, aged seven, gi aces his 
home. Mr. Schroer has for a year past devoted himself almost wholly to the interests of 
the R. A., in the conscientious discharge of his duties as grand secretary. He is still a 
young man, and if his future achievements are to be judged by his past, he has many j'ears 
of usefulness yet before him. 

Thomas TA(iGART. There is not a more popular citizen and official in Marion County than 
Thomas Taggart who has been twice elected county auditor and whose conduct of the affairs 
of that office has been such as to commend him to the good opinion of the general public 
irrespective of i>arty affiliation. Mr. Taggart is an Irishman by parentage and nativity. Hav- 
ing been born in County Monahan, Ireland, in 18r)(>; a son of Thomas and Martha (Kings 
berg) Taggart, both of whom were descended from worthy families long prominent there. 
The family removed to the United States when young Thomas was a child and located at 
Xeuia, Ohio, where the elder Taggart found employment with a railway company and where 
he resides at this time, in the enjoyment of a moderate competency gained by his years of 
honest and prudent industry. Young Thomas Taggart was educated in the public schools 
of Xeuia and began his active business career while yet a boy in the hotel and ralway restau 
rant of E. Cory, who was succeeded by N. & G. Ohmer of that city. In a way, his employ 
ment gave direction to his after career. Coming to Indianapolis in 1877, he engaged in the 
same business at the Union Station, and through his subsequent political career he has 
retained the pioprietorship of the Union Station hotel and restaurant which is ])opular witli 
the entire traveling fraternity. In 1886 Mr. Taggart. who had for some time been a leader 
among the young and progressive element of the Democracy was nominated by his party for 
county auditor and was elected by a majority of 1,700 votes, a most flattering test of his 
popularity. He was made chairman of the Marion County Democratic committee during the 
presidential campaign of 1888. In Indianapolis, the home of the Republican nominee for 
the presidency, the Ropul)lican managers confidently counted on a majority for Mr. Harrison 
in Marion County of not less than 1,500 and the Democratic leaders scarcely hoped for any- 
thing better tiian a reduction of the Repul)lican majority. The brilliant management of Mr. 
Taggart, as chairman of the Democratic Count)' committee, was a surprise to both Repub- 
licans and Democrats and, for the first time in her history, Marion County gave a Democratic 
majority in a presidential year. As county auditor Mr. Taggart gave such complete 
satisfaction that his renomination and re election were assured long before the time for 
noininHtiou came, and his majority at his second election, in 1890. advanced to 3,580 votes, 
more than double that by which he was first elected. Mr. Taggart probably achieved his 
greatest distinction when he was chosen in January, 1892. to act as chairman of tlie Democratic 
State committee. Never in the history of the Hoosier State has a party been so thoroughly 
organized as under his generalship during the campaign that followed in the Fall of that 
year. In the face of the fact that the home of the presidential candidate of the opposing 



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party was in Indiana, and that the whole force of Federal oflSce holders in the State was 
arrayed against him, he succeeded in winning a decided victorj- for his party. Mr. Taggart 
was married in 1877 to Miss Eva D. Bryant, daughter of C. B. Bryant, of Kock Island, 111. 
He is a member of the Hendricks. Cleveland and Gray clubs: Knights Templar, Scottish 
Kite and Mystic Shrine of Masonry, and is identified with other important organizations and 
interests. Being a young man. full of vigor, and popular, it is generally conceded by his 
friends that a bright future is before him. 

James W.\lter Hervey, M. D. There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the 
spectacle of a life that has reached its autumn with a harvest of good and unselfish deeds 
on behalf of humanity. It is like the forest in October days, when the leaves have borrowed 
the richest colors of the light and glow in the mellowed sheen of the Indian summer, reflect- 
ing in their closing days all the radiance of their brief existence. The man who has lived 
for others and has brought into potential exercise the best energies of his mind that he 
might make the world the brighter and better from his being a part of it cannot fail to enjoy 
a serenity of soul that reveals itself in his walk and conversation. When such a life is 
preserved in its strength and energj' so that even in age its work continues unabated, it 
challenges the added admiration of those whose good fortune it is to be brought into con- 
tact with it. Such a life has been and is that of Dr. James Walter Hervey, of Indianapolis, 
a man, who, after preparing himself fully for the noble profession of medicine, entered upon 
his career with a noble purpose of helping his fellows journeying along the road, and this 
consecration of himself has been life long and demonstrated in the most valuable service to 
individuals, the city, the State and the Government. Such a life merits a record of its 
deeds, that the debt due it may be acknowledged and that it may serve as stimulus to others 
to endeavor to emulate it. The subject of our sketch was born of Scotch Irish parentage, 
near Brookville, Ind., April 5, 1819, and had the misfortune to lose his father when he was 
but five years old, his mother Ijeing left a widow with five children, in a new and wild 
country, where there were no schools nor educational facilities of any kind. The devoted 
woman was so solicitous that her offspring should not grow up in ignorance that she moved 
to Hamilton, Ohio, where she had the pleasure of seeing her loved ones enjoy the privileges 
so necessary to their after success in life. Our subject passed through the common schools 
of that place and then spent two years at a select school at Cincinnati, kept by Prof. 
Kemper. This completed his primary education and before his twentieth year he was a 
student of medicine in the office of Dr. John C. Fall, of Preble County, Ohio, with whom 
he remained four years. The mind of the young student was a ver}' receptive one, and at 
the same time, was most investigating and inexorable in its demands for more knowledge. 
Hence, while the library of his preceptjr was a very good one, it was too limited for Dr. 
Hervey, who was resolved to acquire everything possible to he known that would better 
qualify him for the noble profession. So he sought and readily obtained access to the 
valuable liljraries of Dr. Christian Sayler and Prof. Baker, of Cincinnati, and the very 
superior one of Dr. Cr(x»kshank, of Fairfield, these worthy and eminent gentlemen l^eing 
greatly impressed with the studious and ambitious young man and were glad of an oppor- 
tunity to contribute to his sources of gaining knowledge. But the investigating spirit of 
the medical student was not satisfied with these many opportunities and privileges, but 
invested every cent of his spare money in the best lx)oks that were procurable. Like so 
many worthy and ambitious youths of America, the young man lacked the means to defray 
his expenses through medical college, so that after this faithful preparation he went to 
Chicago, in the expectation of finding employment with some of the physicians there until 
he could complete his course and gain his diploma. This was before the days of railroads 
in that section of country, and with a brave heart and 850 in his pocket, which a friend had 
loaned him, he mounted a pony, the gift of a friend, and turned the head of the animal 
toward the goal of his desires. This money was all he had to purchase a complete outfit, 
and it was so nearly gone that when he reached Indianapolis, he found it necessary to stop 
for the purpose of recouping his depleted purse. Friends rose up to heljj him with counsel 
and more material aid, and he accepted an offer of free board, horse feed and a log caVjin in 
Hancock County, where the little village of Mount Comfort now stands. Entering upon 
the practice, which he designed should be but for- a season or two at most, things so 



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turned out that Le remained tbere seven years. Thus the life work of this worthy man 
and eminent physician and publicist began in a rural district among a plain and simple but 
honest and good people. But it was the best possible school for him. Here as in the 
crowded city the varied forms of disease presented themselves, and to an ardent student like 
him it may 1)6 sure that he spent every hour profitably, and with conscientious care he studied 
each separate case, knowing that he must rely upon his own resources. Here he acquired 
self reliance and confidence, so essential in the physician. Dr. Hervey lias had a most varied 
experience in his memorable career. He has had patients in the rude log cabin, in village, 
city and hospital; in the homes of the wealthy, in cellars and garrets, where poverty and 
crime dwell. He has fought and con(juered disease in the camp and on the march, and has 
defeated death on the battle-field and in the hospital by his superior knowledge of surgery. 
His advantages have been infinite. He has seen disease treated and surgical operations 
jierformed at the most famed centers of the old world, and has availed himself of every pos- 
sible means of gaining knowledge in his profession. His life in Hancock was most successful, 
and every day of it was a means of ])reparation for the larger and more influential fields in 
which he was destined afterward to glean. Many strange and notable events have chanced 
to the Doctor, some of tliem highly romantic, others that weie near to having a tragical 
termination. On one occasion he had a night ride with a maniac, a happening that caused 
much excitement and interest on account of it being published in the newspapers at the time. 
Wherever he has been, whatever the duties he has had to perform, he has always discharged 
them faithfully, and has never failed to win the confidence and the esteem of those to 
whom his services were rendered. Dr. Hervey began the practice of medicine at a time 
when the leading memljers of the profession were learning tliat phleliotomy and other means 
of reducing the vital forces to control sthenic condition of the system were inimical to success 
at tlie bedside. The studious young Doctor become thoroughly persuaded that the practice 
was dangerous, and should he obsolete, and hence, when a severe form of malarial fever, 
designated as "Congestive Fever'" bioke out in his neighborhood, and the old practitioners 
treated it after the then orthodox methods laid down by Bell and Stokes, Mcintosh and 
others, Dr. Hervey l)orrowed money and bouglit quinine at $5.00 an ounce and administered 
it in full doses. The result was that he scarcely lost a case, while the older physicians lost 
many of theirs in the cold stage. The Doctor, as may readily be supposed, encountered 
much op})osifion in his course, for it is always the fortune of independent and courageous 
thinkers and doers to be f)ersecuted. He was sued for malpractice because he used nitrate 
of silver and tincture of iodine in small-pox, to prevent j)itting; but he was vindicated com- 
pletely in his course and was afterward highly complimented for this course of treatment. 
The case was reported to the Indiana Medical Jouriiul and other professional periodicals and 
commented on very freely. This case demonstrated fully to the profession that ignorance 
is the very worst enemy tliat it has to encounter. In 1S50, after seven years of most success- 
ful practice. Dr. Hervey started for Philadelphia, with the object of attending medical lect- 
ures there, but on reaching Indianapolis was ])ersuaded by his old friend. Dr. John S. 
Bobbs, to attend the medical department of Asbury University. After graduating it was his 
purpose to go to Chicago, an intention that had clung to him in the seven years of his resi- 
dence and practice in Hancock, and his old patrons, grateful for the services he had rendered 
them and in admiration of his high character as a neighbor and citizen, made up for him a 
purse of IfSOO, to be used by him whether he rendered service for it or not. This testimo- 
nial so affected him that he decided to protract his stay among the a{)preciative people, and, 
as a result, he remained in that region nine years longer. Returning from the University, 
he transferred his office to the little village of Oakland, in the northeast corner of Marion 
County, near the junction of Hancock, Marion and Hamilton Counties, and he entered 
at once upon the practice in the three counties. During his residence at Oakland he 
was a most ardent temperance worker, and wrote a temperance story, entitled "The 
Scroll and the Locket, or the Maniac of the Mound." Busy as was his professional 
life, for his practice was constantly extending, he found time, as all good citizens should, to 
bestow upon political affairs, and his friends, in ajipreciation of his services and prompted 
by a desire to have him wliere he could be of the greatest possible good to his constituency, 
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entitled to but two representatives. Once introduced into public life, he took a very active 
part in politics until the outbreak of the Civil war. He is a very fluent and persuasive 
speaker and rendered most efficient service to the Republican party in tiie exciting cam- 
paigns of 1858 and 1860, by the speeches he made at various points in Marion County. 
When Lincoln called for troops the patriotic heart of the Doctor was stirred within him 
and he promptly offered his services to the Governor of Indiana, who accepted them by 
appointing him first assistant surgeon of the Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He 
remained loyally with the regiment, participating in its battles and marches, until February, 
1863, when he was disabled at the battle of Parker's Cross Roads, which necessitated bis return 
home. But a nature like his could not brook idleness, when his friends and good men every- 
where were at work for the great cause, and his disability preventing him from active duty 
in the field, be was appointed surgeon in charge of Burnside Barraclcs, and acting assistant 
snrgeou in the United States army, which position he retained until the close of the war. 
Nowhere did the wounded and the sick receive more sympathetic and skilled treatment than 
at Burnside Barracks. The war ending, Dr. Hervey settled in Indianapolis, where he has 
remained ever since, engaged in the practice of his i^rofession, which speedily became very 
lucrative, and from the outset he was regarded as one of the leading and progressive physi- 
cians of the city. No one has manifested greater interest in the sanitary aud other conditions 
of the city, and no one has labored harder to forward the material interests of the place than 
he. His labors have been especially arduous and successful in the matter of promoting the 
sanitary and hygienic condition of Indianapolis and of the State. The Doctor is a member 
of the Commercial Club, of the Marion County Medical Society, and of the Indiana State 
Medical Society, having actively participated in the organization of the latter, and has con- 
tributed a number of most valuable papers to its literature, among which are the following: 
(1873) "Utility of the Forces in Diagnosing and Treating Disease;" (1875) " How to Pro- 
cure Medical Legislation;" (1876) "The Necessity of a State Board of Health and How to 
Obtain it;" (1878) " Public Hygiene, its importance in Maintaining Health;" (1880) "Mental 
Hygiene, the Influence of the Body upon the Mind, How to Elevate Manhood." The Doctor 
is a member of that body of distinguished physicians composing the American Medical 
Association. He labored indefatigably to have a State board of health established, and 
to him more than to any other person is due the fact that there is such a body in existence. 
He spent a great deal of time aud ardent labor in creating public sentiment in favor of such 
an organization, by pointing out the great good it would accomplish, and wrote a number 
of most able papers for the secular press upon the subject. The State Medical Society 
appointed him a member of the State health commission, which was created for the pur- 
pose of discharging the duties of a State board of health, until such time as the Legislature 
should provide for such a body, and a part of its duties consisted in lal)oring to ett'ect the 
much desired end. Dr. Hervey remained on this board, laboring tirelessly until its object 
was accomplished, in 1878, and it expired by limitation. While upon this board he wrote 
a number of State papers, which were published in the report of the Bureau of Statistics 
and Geology. Dr. Hervey is a member of the American Public Health Association and also 
of the International Congress, and has two medals, one from the Washington meeting in 
1887 and the other from the last meeting, held at Berlin, Germany. While in Europe the 
Doctor visited the principal hospitals, medical centers, etc., and it may be safely assumed 
that his bright, vigorous, receptive and thoroughly disciplined mind took in everything of value 
that he was brought into contact with. Dr. Hervey has in process of construction a sphyg- 
mometer, by which he obtains the motion power of the pulse, and he is coiilident that this 
instrument will be of the greatest value to the profession in determining, in diagnosing and 
treating heart troubles of all kinds. The Doctor has a very facile pen and has written a 
history of the medical profession of Hancock County, published in the history of that county 
by King &Buiford. He organized the first old settlers' reunion, of Marion, Madison, Han- 
cock aud Hamilton Counties, and was president of the association for twenty years. He 
has been a valued contributing member of the Masonic order for nearly fifty years, and is a 
greatly cherished member of that ancient body. Dr. Hervey is likewise a member of 
George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., at Indianapolis. He took a very active part in promot- 
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cbairrmin of a committee to investigate into the health condition of tiie city schools. Carry 
ing out the design of the committee, he visited all the schools, reported their condition and 
recommended many improvements, which he has had the pleasure of seeing made. The 
same authoiity named him memljer of a committee to investigate into the character of the 
water sup])ly of the city and he spent some time analysing the supply in different portions 
of the city, with the result that some was foinid polluted and unlit for consumption. The 
pen of the Doctor has been used freely in considering the great pul)lic questions that have 
concerneil the country, and he is most favorably known as a contril)Utor to the newspapers 
n{)on the great vital questions of State that have come up for consideiation during the pa.st 
forty years, there l)eing scarcely one that he has failed to write upon in his felicitous and 
convincing style. Two biographies of Dr. Hervey have already been publisiied, one in the 
History of Hancock County, by King & Buiford, of Greenfield, Ind., and the other in the 
Boys in Blue, by Samuel Hardin, of Anderson, Madison County, Ind. There are also two 
biographical sketdies of him in press, one in the History of the Indiana Legislature, by the 
Hon. William H. English, of Indiariaj)olis, and the other in a hie-tory of Eminent Physi- 
cians, l)y K. French Stone, M. D., of Indiana|)olis. Thus the life of this eminent ])hysician 
and loyal citizen has been spent, his pen and his voice devoted to the diffusion of knowl- 
edge and the best efforts of his skill being employed in alleviating the distress of humanity. 
The influe[ice of such a life will long survive its stay on earth and those yet unliorn will be 
blessed l)y the works, labor and the patience of James Walter Hervey, who has never lo.st an 
opportunity for doing good. Such a man is an honor to the city in which he lives and to 
the age in which his works have been done. 

Prof. C. E. Emmerich has devoted all the years of his early manhood to a good purpose. 
Public education in Indiana has no more earnest advocate and co-operator than he. No one 
more thoroughly understands and appreciates its needs and interests, and perhaps no one is 
better qualified, through long experience and loving labor in its liehalf, to bring it to that 
high state of perfection which its present rapid advancement assures. Personally he is a 
polished and cultured gentleman, and his agreeable manners and genial qualities have won 
for him hosts of friends among the prominent people in this part of the State. To his pupils 
he stands a shining example of what a foreigner may accomplish by energy, industry and 
brains. This gentleman was born in Coblenz, Prussia, on the banks of the River Rhine, 
August 25, 1845, and is a son of Phillip and Barbara (Arenz) Emmerich, both of whom 
died in Germany. The father was in Government service in that country and was a man 
possessed of more than ordinary ability. He was tlio father of a large family of children 
and our suliject was the eldest child by his second marriage. The latter was reared amid 
the beautiful scenes of the River Rhine and received a thorough education, graduating from 
the Gymnasium Classical School. At the age of eighteen he entered the Prussian army 
with the intention of serving but circumstances made him change his mind after one year's 
service. In 1865 ho sailed for America and in due course of time reached the city of New 
York. He had been quite ill during the voyage and after reaching the " land of the free " 
he thought it would imjirove his health very materially to go west. He reached Kansas and 
for some time attended a private English school for the purpose of perfecting himself in the 
English language. In l.S(i8 lie began teaching the countr\' schools in the central jiart of 
Kansas and this continued until 1S71 when he was aj)poiuted to a position in the high soliool 
at Madison, Ind. There he remaineil until 1873 when he came to Indianapolis where lie has 
since been a teacher in the high schools of this city. In 1S1)2 he was elected to his present 
position as principal of High School No. 2. He is considered one of the best educators in the 
city and enjoys to the fullest extent the respect of his fellow men as well as of his pupils. 
For many years he was president of the "Maennerchor '' society of which he is now an hon- 
orary member, and he is also a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club. Politically lie 
atHliates with the Democratic party. In the year 1878 he married Miss Gertrude Kerwcr of 
Wiesbaden, Germany, and they have four interesting children: Max, Else, Emily and 
Gertrude. 

John Mavnard Butler is by many regarded as Indiana's leading lawyer. He is 
one of the notable great lawyers who have all through their lives devoted themselves 
exclusively to the law, eschewing politics as in any sense an occupation or profes- 



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sioa aud decliQing coastantl}' all offers of politicnl preferment. Mr. Butler was boru in 
Evausville, Ind., September 17, 1S34, a sou of Calvin and Malvina (Frencli) Butler, both 
natives of Vermont. His father was a shoemaker in early life, but later obtained a classical 
education at Midtllebury College and took a thorough course at Andover, Mass. Coming 
vyest to preach, he settled at Evansville, Ind. Later he removed to northern Illinois and 
there died in 1854. The family was large and at times means were limited and John had 
early to learn the lesson of self dependence at least partially. At the age of twelve he 
became a clerk in a store and later was otherwise employed. The strength of his character and 
his longing for excellence manifested themselves in tbose years, and by the exercise of self- 
denial he succeeded in entering Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, in 1851, and through his 
own efforts, with partial help, was enabled to graduate from that institution in 185fi. Upon 
the day of his graduation he was elected ])resident of the Female Seminary at Crawfordsville, 
which position he held three years, later becoming principal of the High School. Meantime 
he studied law. After a tour in the Northwest in quest of a suitable location for the practice 
of his profession, he returned to Crawfordsville in Noveml)er, 1801, and at once entered upon 
a large and lucrative practice, residing there until 1871, when be removed to Indianapolis 
and succeeded Judge A. L. Roache as partner with the late Senator Joseph E. McDonald. 
The two men had many experiences in common. Each was the architect of his own fortune. 
The same county seat and college town was the scene of their first triumphs and each after- 
ward left that town for the State Capital where they won success and reputation even beyond 
their most sanguine hopes. Differing from his distinguished partner, politically, he has 
always been an ardent and consistent member of the Republican party and has taken no 
inconsiderable part in advancing its interests. Aspiring to no office and, as has been stated, 
declining nominations, he has yet been an active worker in political campaigns, but has. 
through all, retained, in a remarkable degree, the respect of those whom he has opposed. His 
political speeches have been extensively published, and he is a popular orator as well as a 
learned and successful lawyer. As a jurist he stands in the first rank in a bar which embraces 
in its list many of the ablest lawyers in the country. During recent years he has spent much 
time at the National Capital in response to the demands of his extensive practice in the 
Supreme Court of the United States and in other triliunals there. Mr. Butler was married 
in April, 1857, to Miss Susan W. Jenuisou, of Crawfordsville, who has borne him a son and 
a daughter. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Indiana))olis and is one 
of its ruling elders. 

Giles A. Bradley. In Indianapolis and vicinity operations in real estate during the 
past few years have been particularly active, and among those prominently identified with 
transactions in this direction is Giles S. Bradley who is an active member of the firm of 
Bradley & Denny, whose offices are well and conveniently located in the business districts 
of the city. These gentlemen are experienced and practical in all that pertains to 
the sale and handling of realty, and are ever ready to offer the best inducements to all seek- 
ing homes or looking for good-paying, first-class investments in houses and lands. The 
operations of the firm are conducted on a large scale and a brisk business is being carried on. 
Mr. Bradley owes his nativity to Oswego County, N. Y. . June 10, 1840. and came of New 
England parentage for his father, Eli Bradley, was born in Litchfield Coimty, Conn. When 
a young man he removed to New York where he followed the occupation of farming and 
served for a short time in the Warof 1812. He was married to Miss Sally Lamb, also a native 
of Connecticut, and to their union six children were born. Eli Bradley died in December, 
18G2, his widow surviving him until 1871. Giles A. Bradley was reared on a farm in his 
native State and his early education was obtained in the common schools. At the opening 
of the Civil War he walked twelve miles with some companions to enlist in Company A. One 
Hundred and Forty-seventh New York Infantry, but in December, 1803, was transferred to 
the Twenty -fourth New York Cavalry. He served until the close of the war, being dis- 
charged in June, 18{i5. He was in the most notable battles of Virginia, and some of the most 
important of the engagements in which he took part during his term of service were Gettys- 
burg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and the Welding Railroad raid. 
His health was much impaired by hardships he met with during the war and he now draws 
a pension of $8 per month. Shortly after the war terminated he went to Toledo, Ohio, 



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from which place he came, in 1869, to Indianapolis and about a year later began dealing in 
real estate, at which he has since been remarkably successful. In following this line of Ixisi 
ness he has been associated with Mr. Denny for the past seven years, andowns nearly all the 
real estate which they sell. In 1869 Mr. Bradley united his fortunes with those of Miss 
Celestia Bailey, a native of Fulton County, Ohio. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the G. 
A. R. (in which lie has held various official positions), and politically is a Republican and at 
all times faithful to the interests of that iiarty. 

Nathan D. Woodakd, M. D. The subject of our sketch is descended from a member 
of the body of Friends, or Quakers, as they are commonly called, his father having been 
born in that society in North Carolina, where the name of Friend, or Quaker, is synonymous 
with honesty and uprightness. That father, Silas H. Woodard, was in every way worthy to 
be enrolled in the membership of that pious band of Christian people. Nathan D. Wood- 
ard, M. D., of Indianapolis, was born in Parke County, Ind. , September 30. 1849, his father 
having emigrated to this State when a young man, and was one of the pioneers of Parke 
County, settling in the wild forest and with his own hands wielding the as that felled the 
giant trees and guiding the jilow afterward that made fruitful fields of the ground. He was 
a very successful farmer and accumulated a competency. The father married Emily Allen, 
a native of Parke County and daughter of Solomon Allen, a native of Virginia and one of 
the pioneers of that county, he also being of Quaker stock, and dying at the age of ninety- 
five. Silas H. Woodard and wife were the parents of eleven children, nine boys and two 
girls, the two latter being dead, while all the boys are living. Silas Woodard died in 1861, but 
his wife is living. Our subject was the seventh in the order of birth, and, like the other 
children, was reared upon the farm, receiving his education first in the pal)lic schools and 
afterward in Bloomingdale Academy. At the age of twentj' he liegan teaching school and 
followed this successfnlly for five years. In the year 1877 he liegan the study of medicine, 
a work he had long Ijeen revolving in mind and upon which he had decided with the whole 
strength of his being. His preceptor was Dr. Daniel Carey, of Carmel, Ind.. who had at 
that time been engaged in active practice for forty one years and had been most successful 
in his treatment of disease. In the following year Dr. Woodard entered the Physio-Medical 
College of Indiana, took two full courses and graduated in 1879. He then located at Coloma, 
Ind., and practiced two years, after which he moved to Richmond, Ind., and a year later 
was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Physio-Medical College of Indiana and 
removed to Indianapolis, where he has since resided. Two years subsequent to coming here 
he was appointed to the chair of general and descriptive anatomy in the college, which he 
held until the fall of 1^92, when he was elected to the chair of materia medica and thera- 
peutics, which he still holds. Dr. Woodard is also president of the faculty of the college. 
He is a member of the Physio-Medical (National) Association of Physicians and Surgeons, 
of the Indiana State Physio-Medical Association and the Indianapolis Physio-Medical So- 
ciety, and has been president of the State Association. The Doctor is a member of the 
K. of P. He was married in 1S77 to Ellen Carey, who died a year later. His 
second marriage occurred March 20, 1879, to Mary C. Newsom, a native of Bartholomew 
Cjunty, and the daughter of Luke and Elizabeth Newsom. Dr. and Mrs. Woodard are the 
parents of two children: Mary E. and Grace M. They are members of the Society of 
Friends, being consistent followers of the organization founded by George Fox, and whose 
principles were so ably defended Ijy the illustrious William Penn. In politics the Doctor is 
a firm Ijeliever in the teachings of the Republican party, giving to its candidates a hearty 
support. 

William Arnold Anderson. Among the valuable men who came to this country from 
England, bringing with them the sturdy characteristics of the British yeomanry, none are 
more esteemed in Marion County, Ind., than the gentleman whose name we have now given, 
and who is one of the substantial and worthy farmers of his section. His l)irth occurred at 
Norwicii, December 16, 1820, and he there grew to manhood and received his education. His 
father wasa baker and confectioner and oiirsnbjectremained luider the (larental roof until 1847, 
wiien he came to this country. He had learned his father's trade and was married in his 
native country on Ostober 6, 1845, to Miss Sarah P. Barber, daughter of Robert Barber, of 
London, where she was born. In April, 1847, our subject and his wife took jiassage from 




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LoiKlon in a bark for America and landed in Boston after a seven weeks' voyage. His des- 
tination was Milton, lad., where an acquaintance, Edward Nudd, of Norwich, had preceded 
him by nine years. After remaining there a few weeks Mr. Anderson moved to Hamilton 
county, Ind., in September, 1S47. and went to work on 160 acres of laud belonging to Ben- 
jamin Whisler, who had come over with him. Here he worked for some time and then, in 
the summer of 1849, he took a contract to clear six miles of the right of way for the old 
Peru Eailroad, which had been laid with flat bar from Indianapolis to Noblesville, and was 
being extended from Noblesville to Peru. Mr. Anderson employed a number of men and 
went to work to clear the right of way, which he completed and afterward took a contract to 
grade some, which he partially finished and for which he never received any pay, the com- 
pany breaking up. He lost considerable time and money. After this our subject engaged 
as foreman fo^i- Prawl & Bradley, contractors for the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, which 
took him to Tuscumbia, Ala., where he made his headquarters from June, 1852. till Febru- 
ary. 1853. Then the contractors l)roke up and onr subject lost a portion of his wages. 
Following this Mr. Anderson returned to Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained a short time 
and then^went to Noblesville, where he remained until October, 1854. Keturnmg to Ma- 
rion County, Ind., he accepted a position as foreman of an eight mile section on the Law- 
renceville & Upper Mississippi Railroad, now the Big Four, making his home in Acton. This 
he did for four years and then became fuel and claim agent for the company, continuing as 
such until 1872! when he left this and engaged in agncultural pursuits on a tract of 215 
acres he had purchased in Franklin Township. In 18(3 he added forty acres to that tract, 
and since 1872 he has farmed e.xclusively. Of the 255 acres that he owns 220 acres are 
cleared and well cultivated. His best yield of wheat to the acre was twenty-four bushels, 
but he averao-es fifty bushels of corn to the acre every year. He also raises oats. Mr. An- 
derson remained on that farm until 1882 and then spent that year and 1883 in Nor- 
wich, England, his old home, visiting the scenes of his childhood and youth. His father 
was then^alive, aged ninety-two, but has since died, aged ninety-four. In politics Mr. 
Anderson is a Democrat as a general rale, though he voted for Grant and Lincoln. He 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is one of the first men of his section. 
To his marriage were born six children, two of whom died young. The others were named 
as follows: Oeorge A., born September 7. 1846, lives in Galveston, Tex. He married, first, 
Miss Adelia Drummond, by whom he had one child, Maud, who married Charles L. Clark 
and became the mother of one child, Mary Lucile. George A. Anderson's second mar- 
riage was to Miss Carrie, sister of his first wife, and they have two children, George and 
Carrie. The next child born to our subject was Katherine. John James was born Decem- 
ber 7, 1855, and resides in Indianapolis. He married Miss Myra Peck, of Ohio, and they 
have two sons, Walter and Harold. Emma married Uriah Peck and they iiave four chil- 
dren; William A., Grace E.. Frank and Rachel. Our subject's children now deceased 
were: Mary Ellen, who died when three years of age; the other, Frances W., died at the 
age of nine mouths. William A. Anderson, father of our subject, was a native of Dun- 
fermtine. Scotland, in 1792, and went to England when about twenty-one years of age, 
locating at Norwich. There he was employed as a pattern drawer for shawls, which were 
made there then. A few years later, business becoming dull in his line, he learned the 
baker and confectioner's trade, which he carried on until 1855, when he retired from busi- 
ness. He married Miss Mary Owen, a native of Wales. 

E. A. P. Haynes. The Mtnn Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., began 
business in Indiana in 1850 and does an extensive and rapidly-growing business throughout 
the State. The company stands in the front rank of the old line companies doing business 
in Indiana. The business of this company, particularly in the southern half of the State, 
has been principally developed during the last five years, since Mr. E. A. P. Haynes has been 
placed at its head as superintendent of agencies. Mr. Haynes is a hard worker and has, 
throui'h his good judgment and perseverance, accomplished a great deal for his company in 
Indiana. H^e was born in Boone County, Ind., May 18, 1866, to Eldridge and Maria (El 
<lridge) Haynes, both of whom were born in the Empire State. His parents came to Indiana 
in 185S, settling first in Dearljoru County and suljsequently in Boone County. His father 
was a contractor. He died August 24, 1882. His widow still survives him and makes her 



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home iu Indianapolis with her son, the subject of this sketch. At the age of six vears E A 
P. Haynes, with his parents. moved to Clinton County, an.1 at the age of eleven years entered 
the public schools, which he attended for about three vears, from eleven to fourteen At the 
age of fourteen he began teaching school in Clinton County. Ind., and continued in this pro- 
fession for nearly eight years. During this time, by good use of his liesure hours he acquired 
a thorough and practical education. In 1S.S2 he entered the life insurance business to 
which he has since cl«"voted his time and energies. He is a member in good standing of the 
i. Ac A M. and L O. O. F. fraternities. He is a member of the Indiana State executive 
coiumittee of the loung Men s Christian Association and al.«o one of the directors of the 
Indianapolis Association. He was married on November 2o. 1886, to Cora I Sehwinn of 
Madison County, Ind.. a daughter of Jacob and Emilv F. (Ellis) Sehwinn, the former of 
whom was born in Germany an.l the latter in North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Havnes have 
one child Hazel E^ who was born November 2. 1S87. They are both members of the Sec- 
ond Pre.sbyterian Church. 

Hoii.vcE F. Wood. A livery stable is a most essential institution, both for pleasure and 
convenience. To l>e able to command at any moment a horse and rig for a drive in the 
country or for busine.ss or other purposes, is a privilege the value of which cannot be too 
highly Gstimated Foremost among the liveries of Indianapolis, is the well known resort of 
Horace F. \\ood. This stable, from the large business it does, not only exemplifies the 
importance of the city, but reflects credit upon its management. Mr. Wood encra^d iu the 
business in 88 on the Circle, the busine.ss having been originally established on "the same 
ground 11, 1834 by -John Wood, the grandfather of the present proprietor. He was one of 
tlie early settlers of the place, having come to this section from Maysville Ky in 1834 He 
was the hrst person in the region to take horses and mules south to New Orleans overland 
for sale before there were boat or railroad connections with that city. He was extensively 
engaged in this business and usually had from 300 to 500 head of animals on hand Later 
he shipped by boat and as the country settled up and improved, by rail. He was a shrewd 
and successful man of business but his kind heart and loyalty to hi"s friends often overcame 
his discretion and he at one time lost over .?100,000 through "endorsing another's note How- 
ever, he retTieved his losses in a great measure and left a large estate to his heirs. His son, 
John M. Wood, the father of the subject of this sketch, often made trips south with his 
father when a boy. and may be said to have been reared to the livery business and to handlin<r 
stocky He was born. n Maysville. Ky., May 28. 1815, to which "region his parents, John 
and .Alary (Uest) ^\ ood came at an early day. John Wood was a native of New York and 
lis wite ot Ohio, and their union was consummated in Kentucky in 1811. soon after which 
they came to Indianapoli.s. Ind.. where the father at once engaged in the livery business 
1 he male members of the Wood family have always been great lovers of the horse and two 
brothers of John ^^ ood dealt extensively in those animals. John M. Wood was nineteen 
years old at the time of his parents' removal to Indiana and had conducted his father's liv- 
ery business for five years prior to the latter's death, after which he succeeded him in the 
business, ,11 1840. Later, in 1N4U. the firm became Wood & Foudray, and this partnership 
continued harmoniously until the death of Mr. Foudray in 1878. Durin<. this time their rep- 
utation as farst-class liverymen became widespread and while the war was in procuress they 
i7 m,VP' "f ^"■?;° tll^ purchase of horses and succeeded in supplying the Government over 
1 l,t)Ul) he^d. Mr. Wood continued in the business until 1881. when he was succeeded by 
bis son Horace F.. who is the present proprietor. At the present time this establishment 
IS one of the largest and most successful, as well as the oldest in the city, if not in the State 
L,ike his father before him he was reared in the business and thoroughlV understands every- 
hiug connected with it and has shown himself to be a "chip of the old block" in that he 
has ever been thorough going and enterprising. He keeps constantly on hand forty-seven 
head of horses for livery purposes, a large number of vehicles of alfkinds, and which are 
always in good repair and ready for use and he does an extensive and paying boardincr Inisi- 
ness, having abuit eighty head under his care. He has a sale department also and birys and 
sells about twenty-hve he;id per month, having competent men in charc^e of the latter " The 
basinets averages about §6,000 or ?7.000 per uionti,. from which it can be seen that it is a 
verypiying one. Diring 1888, when Willoughby Walling was Uniled States Consul to 



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Glasgow, Scotland, a partiieisbip was foriiied for the importation of Sbt-tlaud ponies ami 
about 300 were broagbt over and sold at tbe Wood stables. Prior to 1840, Jobn M. Wood, 
tbe father of the subject of this sketch, was a meml>er of the Marion (bounty (iuards for a 
nmuberof years. Originally a Whig he has supported the Eepublicans since the organiza- 
tion of that party, and although often solicited by his numerous friends to run for oflfice he 
has invariably declined, much preferring to devote his entire attention to his business. • 
August 20, 18-tO, he was married to Margaret A. Gresham, who was born near Frankfort, 
Ky. , a daughter of Joseph Gresham. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are the parents of eight children, 
six of whom are living: Sarah B. , Fannie. Charles H., Horace F. , Frank G. and Harry N. 
Tiiose deceased are Mary and John. Mr. Wood deserves great credit for the success which 
has attended his efforts for he started in business without help from anyone and has accumu- 
lated a great deal of valuable property. In 1864, in connection with a partner, he purchased 
400 acres of land in Washington and Franklin townships, on which they, for many years, 
raised blooded horses. At the present time he still owns a large portion of this farm and 
carries on the same business with his usual success. Horace F. Wood first saw the light of 
day in Indianapolis, August 30, IS-")?, and in the public schools of that city he was educated 
and graduated from the high school. November 8, 1882, he was married to Miss Kose 
Graham, a native of Spencer, Ind.. and daughter of Benjamin M. and Margaret A. (Beach) 
Graham, natives of Ohio. ]\Ir. and Mrs. Wood have one child, John G., who was born 
August 6, 1883. Mr. Wood is a member of the K. of P. and the F. & A. M., in which he 
has attained to the Scottish Rite degree, and he al^o belongs to the Oriental League, the 
Columbia Club and the Country SocialClub. He is a wide awake and enterprising young 
man and politically supports the men and measures of the Republican party. 

Dk. Conr.\din (Jacob) Homburg was born at Wachenheim in the Palatinate of Bavaria, 
November 16, 1798, as the elder son of an apothecary in that little town. He received the 
preparatory education for entering the university and in 18111 he went to INIarburg to study 
medicine. As was cn.stomary in those days among students of means and ability, his study 
also com|)reliended different ])hilosophieal. even theological branches. He was a young man 
of liberal views and as a matter of course liecame a member of the "'Tugendltuud" which was 
a patriotic union of students and young jirofessors who, inspired by the victories over Na- 
poleon, maintained the claim of the people to participate at the Legislature and at public 
affairs. Such an endeavor appeared unjustified and dangerous to the autocratic rulers of that 
time although nothing more was asked but what was promised at the time of need and (lis 
tress. He was a student, at Wurzburg when he liecame a fugitive on account of his political 
convictions and tied to Switzerland. In 1 826 he emigrated to Holland and thence to America. 
In the latter country he met with his old friend and classmate, Wesselhoeft, who was editing 
the WeUbole. Dr. Homburg began editing the paper in the eastern part of Pennsylvania 
but he never had much to say about this [leriod of his career. As he had always been an 
outspoken character and not practical in financial affairs, it is safe to conclude that as an 
editor he was a failure. He had studied surgery under Textor and pathology and thera- 
peutics under Schoenlein with fairly good results, and he now began the study of medicine 
again mider the infiuence of Dr. Herring of Philadelphia. In tbe middle of the thirties he 
settled in Shelbyville, Ind., to practice honiteopalhy. However he was never a true disciple 
of homieopathy but his excellent medical education and his good common sense kept him 
from the jieculiarities and extravagances of the original teaching. He was rather a follower 
of Hempel with some inclination to Rademacher. In later years he studied Nienieyer, at 
least the practical parts and adopted the principles of the school of Vienna although it can- 
not be said with any certainty that he ever had based his diagnosis on pathological anatomy. 
Although he did not localize sickness with much perfectness. he had a sound judgment of 
the character of the disease and had that great gift of influencing the minds of his patients. 
Dr. Homburg )iracticed medicine in Shelbyville for seven years and all his fellow citizens 
had to share with him or to oppose him, but he was recognized by all to be sincere, honest 
and dutiful. Wood chopping was his pastime and peach-eating his recreation. He never 
drank a drop of whisky. While a resident of Shelbyville a (piack by the name of Jacob 
Townseud made his appearance and people made the joke — "who is the true Jacob?'' Dr. 
Homburg's given name was Jacob also. He applied to the Legislature to have his name changed 



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to Conrailiii and was successful. lu 1843 Judge ^rorrison. of Iiidianajiolis, cainelo Shcllnville 
to hold a trial on a poison case. A physician, with whom Dr. Homburg had had some 
trouble, was gravely involved and Dr. Homburg had to testify as an expert. He made such 
a clear and seientitic exposition of the ditferent actions of opium, belladonna and other nar- 
cotics and made such a deep impression on both the judge and the jury that his enemy was 
aciiuitted at once. The judge then apjiroached Dr. Homburg and shaking hands with him 
said: '"Doctor, come to us in Indianapolis, we need such a man.'' This he did in 1844 and 
liecanie the physician and friend of the Morrison family for lifetime. His practice was 
limited at tirst to families of the English tongue, but on account of his many peculiarities 
mostlv due to his German sentiment, his clientele changed slowly to Cierman nearly exclu- 
sively. He never as-ociated with his English colleagues l)ut treated them always as gentle- 
men. At the time the Eepublican ]>arty was formed he took a gieat interest in politics and 
came in nearest contact with all German families residing here. He gained a great indiienco 
before and during the war. Dr. Homlmrg was a (piick thinker and a good judge of men and 
political affairs l)ut in his actions he usually fell short. His sentiments were also pronounced 
but he was never able during his life to counterbalance reason and sentiments harmoniously. 
He was an enthusiast and thus he presided in lSr>"2 at the German meeting in Wheeling, W. 
Va . where the motion was adopted that Anieiica siionld annex Europe. Then he started a 
lodge with a view of pronnilgating friendship. German liteiature and German social life. 
Originally there was no trace of selfishness in him, but his kindness was often misplaced or 
misunderstood or a\)nsed. All that caused hisoceasional harshness, his inexplicable aversion 
and his irregularity in later life. During the last ten years of his life he was interested only 
iu political gossip and German literature. He had a deep religious sentiment, allliongh he 
never was a church nien)l)er. He was never married. Friends cared for him during a long 
illness of bronchial and heart troubles and drojisy. In the fall of ]8Tlilii8 friends celebrated 
his fiftieth anniversary of American life and donated him >^1, 1^(1(1 in cash. From this time 
ou he was mostly confined to his home but received many distinguished travelers, for instance, 
Jordan, Bodenstedt and others. It can be said that for two decades Dr. Homlmrg was the 
social and spiritual center of the German. population in Indianapolis. He died February 11, 
1881. and was cremated at Washington. Penn. 

Grino Bell, M. D. The noble profession of medicine affords to the student in that 
science a never ending source of investigation and experiment. New remedies are constantly 
being discovered, steady progress is being made in surgery and new diseases are )iresenting 
themselves under varying forms of civilization. Whatever may be said of the discoveries in 
other fields of knowledge, and certainly they are astonishing, it can be truthfully said of this 
science that not one can eipial it in the great strides it is making toward a comprehensive grasp 
of the whole subject of man. in relation to health and disease and the prevention and cure of 
ills that flesh is heir to. In the noble army of workers in this great tield may be found the 
name of Dr. (-ruido Bell who is classed among the prominent physicians of Indianapolis. He 
was born near Strasburg. Germany. September 4. 183U, and is a son of Leonard and Anna 
(Lengenberger) Bell, also natives of the old country. The father has devoted his life to the 
profession of veterinary surgery and is still a resident of Germany. For many years he was 
in the service of the (Tovernment in his professional ca|)acity. but a few years ago lie retired 
from the active dutiesof life on account of old age. The youth of our subject was passed in his 
native country and he attended a regular course in the -schools of his native town. In the 
fall of ISo'.t he entered the University Freilnirg and in ISttl passed the tirst examination on 
general scientific topics. After this he became assistant of Prof. Spiegelljurg"s clinic in the 
university, in which capacity he served over a year, during a terrible siege of fever. He was 
taken sick with the same which interrupted his medical studies and for a longtime his health 
was poor. Subsequently he went to Tubingen to hear Niemeyer and Bruns. In April, ISfi."). 
he graduated at Freiburg and on returning home he met Mr. Wocher who requested him to 
correspond with Dr. Kl(>in of Indianapolis, the latter having about decided to return to Ger- 
many. The outcome of this correspondence was that in December. 18t)5. Dr. Bell crossed 
the ocean to .\merica. came direct to Indianapolis, and took u\i the practice left by Dr. Klein. 
This practice the Doctor lias continued ever since and he is classed among the leading and 
successful practitioners of the healing art iu the city. He is a meml>er of the State Medical 



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Association, Marion County Medical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. 
He is associate editor of Memorabilieii, a. German medical journal pul>lished at Heilbronn, 
Germany. For a lont; time after coining to America Dr. Bell operated largely- in surgery 
and was the originator of several difficult and commendable methods of operation. He was 
physician to one of the German orphan asylums of Indianapolis for seventeen years and has 
lieen physician to the Lutheran Orphan Asylum since its e.stablishment He is also consult- 
ing physician to the city dispensary. In the year 1860 the Doctor was united in marriage to 
Miss Catherine IMilier who died a few months later. His second marriage occurred on 
March 11, ISfiy, and si.\ children were born to this union. One son, Leonard, is a prom- 
ising young physician in the city hospital. Mrs. Bell died in May. ISVIO. 

Ch.\rles E. Reynolds. No investment is surer of more enhancing value than one 
judiciously made in real estate, and there are few men in business circles who show so much 
fitness for their avocation in that they are wide awake, experienced, reliable and energetic 
as Charles E. Reynolds, whose projects have been wholly within the sharply defined lines 
of honest motive, as a real estate agent. He came to Indianapolis in 1853 with his parents 
and was educated in the pnljlic schools, after which he served an apprenticeship at the railroad 
business. In 1887 he began dealing in real estate, which he has since carried on success- 
fully, as a leader in this branch of human endeavor. He has owned real estate in the 
vaiions additions of the city, among which are Haughville. West Indianapolis, North 
Tuxedo and others. He has always l)een conservative in his method of conducting his 
affairs, has never favored "booms," bi;t notwithstanding this is decidedly enterprising. He 
believes that in the long run the city's fortunes are best conserved by steady and honest 
growth, and that his views are respected is shown in the satisfactory patronage which he has 
drawn to him, and there are few, indeed, who so well merit success. His character has 
been molded after the patterns of honest intelligence and moral rectitude. He owes his 
nativity to thecity of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born April Ki. 1848, a son of Samuel 
and Hannah (Grisell) Reynolds, natives of Columbiana Connty, Ohio, and early residents 
of the city of Indianapolis. Mr. Reynolds was married in 187fi to Miss Mar)' E. Godey, a 
native of Ohio, and to their union the following children have been given: Ulela and Zella 
(twins), and Mary A. Politically Mr. Reynolds has been a supporter of Republicanism, 
but is by no means a partisan in local affairs, preferring to support the men whom he 
thinlis will use their influence for the best interests of the city. 

C.1LEB Belles, son of "Major" John Belles, one of the original settlers of Marion 
County, Ind., was born in Scott County, Ky., July 29, ]81], on a farm occupied by his 
father, near Georgetown. Until ten years of age our su))ject lived and received his school- 
ing in Scott County, but at that age he accompanied his father and family to Indiana. They 
came direct to Marion County and located on Pleasant Run, where Major Belles rented 
eighty acres of James Bradley. On this was a good clearing and a log cabin and here they 
resided al)out a year, raising a crop of corn. In the fall of the same year thej- moved on to 
a tract of eighty acres in Franklin Township, lying along the Michigan road, and settled in 
the green timber. A log cabin was erected, and although they had nothing to help them- 
selves with except their own hands and sturdy independence, they entered uiion the ardu- 
ous task of clearing the farm. Major Belles paid $1.2.') an acre for this tract, and about four 
years later entered eighty acres more adjoining, at the same price. On this he passed the 
remainder of his days. He was married in Scott County, Ky., to Miss Artemesia Tarleton, 
daughter of Caleb Tarleton, and ten children were the fruits of this union, one of whom, an 
infant, died in Kentucky. Nine giew to mature years and their names are as follows: 
John J., (deceased), was iirst married to Miss Margaret Ross, who bore him five children. 
His next union was with Miss Rachel Bodeman and tliey became the parents of four chil- 
dren. Henry T., resides near Paris, Mo. He married Miss Mary Belles, daughter of Henry 
Belles, but she is now deceased. Caleb (our subject), was married in 1830 to Miss Mary 
O'Neil, daughter of Lewis O'Neil, and they have had five children, four of whom are now 
living, as follows: John J., Lewis, William and Mary C. Harrison Belles, deceased, was 
married in Missouri to Miss Nancy Payne. He left several children. Richard, deceased, 
married Miss Elizalieth Glazier and they had a family of children. Mary Ann Belles, de- 
ceased, married John Tyner and became the mother of one child, who died in infancy; Dr. 



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Joshua Belles, resides in Spencer, lud. His first marriage resulted in tbe birth of one 
dauf^hter. For his second wife the Doctor chose the widow of Thomas Tull, of Marion 
county. 8he died and left several children. Nancy married John Rudisil, and they have 
chihlreu, and Katherine, deceased, was the wife of Dr. John Johnson, and tiiey lived in 
Iowa. "Ifajor" John Belles, father of these children, was a Whig in politics and 
afHliated with that [larty up to the time of his death. Mrs. Belles, mother of the children, 
died in Augu.st following their arrival in Indiana, and in tbe fall of that year tbe Major 
moved on tbe Michigan road and opened a tavern, which ac(piired a great reputation. Caleb 
Belles, our subject, was cook, and acted as such for over two years, when tbe Major married 
again, his second wife being Dorcas Snell iiee Sanders. One daughter, Artemesia, was 
horn to this union. She married Thomas Aahbrook, who is now deceased. Caleb Belles lived 
on his father's farm until 1886, when he married Miss Mary O'Neil, as before stated, and 
shortly after moved to Franklin Township, where be settled on eighty acres of land be had 
purchased from his brother James, paying $l.r)() per acre. Heat once commenced to clear 
up a little place for a cabin, and on that tract be resided until about 1877, when he came to 
Aeton to live. He is now retired from the active duties of life, and he and his most estima 
ble companion are passing the remainder of their days in the enjoyment of the fruits of 
their labor. No better citizens find their home in tbe county than Mr. Belles and his W(jrtby 
wife. Both are exen)])lary members of the Missionary Baptist Church and for years he was 
deacon in the same. He has been a member since seventeen years of age. Our suViject's 
eldest child, John J., resides in Indianapolis. He married Miss Martha A. Kemper, daugh- 
ter of H. M. Kemper, and they have three children, Julia, Otie A. and Harr\". Lewis Belles, 
resides in Douglas County, 111. He married Miss Mary B. Foncannon and they have 
four children, Charles, Mary, Arthur and Scott. William, deceased, married Miss Lizzie 
Manpiu and they had one daughter, Willie Mary, and Mary C , of Lexington, Ky., is the 
wife of B. T. Buford. They have no children. Our subject became the owner of consider- 
able laud but sold all but forty acres when be came to Acton, and gave the proceeds of the 
sale of forty acres to his children. Lewis O'Neil, father of Mrs. Belles, was born in Galla- 
tin County, Ky. , and he was married in that State to Miss Catherine Orr, daughter of Will- 
iam Orr, a native of Virginia, Culpeper County and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. 
O'Neil came to Indiana in IS'26 and settled in Marion County, where he made his home 
until bis death in 1841. He was the father of ten children, nine of whom grew to manhood 
and womanhood, but only Mrs. Belles is now living. 

Thomas E. Sp.^ffoed. Theli fe of Mr. Spafford has been marked by deep conviction of duty, 
which has led him to conscientiously regard all tnists reposed in him. Possessed of praise- 
worthy ambition to succeed, he has applied himself with great diligence to business, seizing 
all opportunities for informing himself thoroughly as to minor details. This explains his ready 
grasp of the whole field of operations and the signal success that has attended his business 
career. Such a man becomes a sure and safe trustee for others, who can bo assured that he 
will act for them as for himself. Mr. Spad'ord has charge of the interests of the gas com- 
pany at Haugbville, a position he has ably held for over four years, and that he is tbe right 
man in the right place cannot be denied. He was bi>rn near Picton, Prince Edward County, 
Canada, Jniy 13, 1854, a son of Guy S. Spafford, who was a native of the same locality. 
Irii Spafford, the j^aternal grandfather, was born in the State of Massachusetts, and when a 
young man went to Prince Edward County, Canada, and settled on the farm upon which 
Guy S. Spafford now resides, and has resided for over seventy years, during which time he has 
tilled the soil with great success. Thomas E. Spafford attended the schools of his native 
county, but at the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to learn the trade of a machinist at 
Belleville, where he remained four years with W. H. Walbridge, in the Victoria foundry. 
For some time after this he labored in the iron works at Oshawa, Godridge and the Lake 
on the Mountain. In 1878 he came to the States and located first at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
The same year he came to Indianapolis and for some time thereafter was in the employ of 
the Eagle Machine Works, after which he entered the service of the firm of Haugb & Co , 
which is now known as Brown, Ketcham & Co. While with tiiem he acted in the cajiae- 
ity of foreman until 1881, at which time he established the first store in Haugb\ ille, in 
which the first postoffiee of the place was located and of which he became postmaster dur- 



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ing President Garfield's administration. His establishment comprised a stock of general 
merchandise, and he carried on a very successful business until July, 1892, when he gave 
it up to take charge of the interests of the gas company at Haughville, which were so 
extensive as to demand all his time and atlention. Mr. Spafford is a man who never suffers 
his business to push him, but, on the contrary, is constantly on the lookout for means of 
extending the business. He has served as a member of the school board, of which he was 
secretary one term; is a friend to every enterprise which tends to extend the influence of 
Haughville, and by building up her business and mercantile interests he has proven him- 
self an excellent and useful citizen. 

Thomas R. Mount. Special adaptability to any particular calling in life is the one 
necessary adjunct to permanent success. No matter the vim and determination which char- 
acterizes a man's start in Imsiness, unless he is to the manor born, he will find to his sor- 
row that his line has been falsely cast, and the quicker he draws aside and takes up another 
calling the better it will be for him. The career of Thomas R. Mount has been one of suc- 
cess and he is to-day in the enjoyment of a competency which is the result of noble energies 
rightly applied. He was born in Shelby County, Ky. , on October 5, sixty-five years ago, 
his parents being Atwell and Lucinda (Fullenwider) Mount, who were liorn in Virginia and 
Pennsylvania, respectively, the birth of the former occurring on what manj' years later be 
came the old Bull Run battlefield. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mount were taken to Kentucky dur- 
ing the pioneer days of that State, at which time he was a lad of eight years, and there they 
grew to maturity, married and resided until one year after the birth of the subject of this 
sketch, their arrival in Indiana dating from November 18, 1829. The remainder of their 
days were spent in Montgomery County, the father's death occurring in 1879 at the age of 
seventy-four years, and the mother's on November 1, 1868, when sixty-eight years of age. 
After coming to this State they settled on a woodland farm in a little log cabin, but this 
afterward gave place to a more pretentious dwelling when their means justified them in 
making this improvement. The old homestead is now owned by Hon. James A. Mount, a 
brother of the subject of this sketch. The parents were members of the Presbyterian 
Church for many years, in which the father was ruling elder. They became the parents of a 
good old fashioned family of twelve children, all of whom are living with the exception of 
two. Thomas R. Mount was the eldest of these children and received his first instruction 
in the old-time log school-house of his day. He remained with and assisted his father until 
he was t we [it J' two years of age, then commenced farming for himself and cleared up a farm 
of his own. He continued to reside on this place until about 1878, then moved to Boone 
County, Ind., and four years later to Madison Count}'. In November, ISSl, he came to 
Marion County and took up his residence in west Indianapolis and began devoting his atten- 
tion to carpentering, which occupation he has since continued. During this time he has 
erected many of the most substantial business houses and residences in west Indianapolis. 
Six years since his services were employed by Nordyke & Marmon, with which firm he has 
since had charge of the elevator department. In 1852 Mr. Mount led to the altar Miss 
Eliza J. Ward, who died on March 27, 1891, having become the mother of three sons and 
two daughters. On March 22, 1893, he took for his second wife Mrs. Sarah D. Wood, a 
native of Ohio. Mr. Mount was a member of the Presbyterian Church for thirty years, 
but twenty years ago joined the Methodist Church, with which he has since been connected. 
He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for fifteen years, and since 1856 has been a Re- 
publican in politics. 

Major A. L. Varnev, of the ordnance department of the United States army, command- 
ing the Government arsenal at Indianapolis, is a native of Maine and a descendant of one of 
the pioneer families of that State. He was born in 1839, in Windham, Cumberland County, 
Maine, was fitted for college at Westbrook Seminary and was graduated in 1862 from Bow 
doin College, Brunswick, with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He entered the service of 
the United States as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Maine Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, 
which was a part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, servirig in the early part of the war in the 
Department of the Gulf. He participated in the Texas campaign in 1863, in the Red River 
campaign in the summer of 1864, and in Sheridan's Shenandoah campaign in the fall of 1864. 
After the cessation of hostilities, he was transferred to the ordnance department (United 



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States arm}) and his first duty afterward was to receive the arms of the Iowa volunteers at 
Clinton, Iowa, as they were relinquished to the Governmeut at the close of the war. In No- 
vember, ISfif), he was transferred to Watervliet arsenal at West Troy, N. Y., and thence, after 
a brief time, to the arsenal at Watertowu, Mass. In 187(1 he was ordered to the ordnance 
depot at Chayenne, Wyoming Territory, and was stationed there until 1872, when he was 
transferred to the arsenal at Leavenworth. Kas. In 1874 he was transferred to Rock 
Island Arsenal and was stationed there till, in the fall of the same year, he was returned to 
Fort Leavenworth, as chief of the ordnance officer department of the Missouri, and was 
attached to Gen. Pope's staff. In 187S he was ordered to Watervliet arsenal at West Troy, 
N. Y., where he had been stationed a short time in 1805. In 1884 he was ordered back to 
the Rock Island arsenal and thence, in 18S9, again to the arsenal at Watertown, Mass. , where 
he remained until February, 1892, when he was placed in the command of the arsenal at 
Indianapolis. Major Varney joined the ordnance department as second lieutenant, Febru- 
ary 15. 18(35, was promoted to tirst lieutenant June 2;i, 1874, to captain October 29, 1874, 
and to major November 31, 1891. He is a member of the L. L. May 9, 18(>(>, he married 
Miss Hannah Josephine Gibson, a native of Massachusetts, who has borne him two sous: 
Gordon E. and Theodore. 

John B. McGnFFiN. The success of men in l)usiness depends u])on character as well as 
upon knowledge, it being a self-evident proposition that honesty is the best policy. Busi- 
ness demands contidence and where that is lacking business ends. The city of Indianapolis 
has as fine a body of men engaged in mercantile and industrial pursuits as can be found in 
the country and very prominent in the number, and one who has the respect and esteem of 
the whole community, is the subject of our sketch, alderman at large and superintendent of 
the Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Co. He was born in Monterey, Highland County, 
Va. , December 22, 1856, being the son of James N. and Sarah F. (Stuart) McGufiin, both 
natives of Virginia and of Scotch-Irish descent. The family settled in Virginia at an early 
day and both grandfathers of onr subject took part in the early wars in this country; the 
paternal grandfather being in the War of 1812 and the maternal, in that war, and also in the 
Indian wars. The father of our subject was a stonemason by trade and settled at Goshen, 
Ind., in 1858, where he carried on that work, being a contractor on a large scale in stone. 
He died in September, 1891, aged eighty years; his wife surviving him and now living at 
Indianapolis. She is the mother of six children, all living, namely: Nancy, Margaret, 
Cornelia G., Mary E , Charles N., and John B., the youngest. The latter was reared at 
Goshen, Ind., where he was educated in the common and high schools, graduating from the 
latter in 1873. Afterward he went to work in a chairmaking factory at Goshen, but 
did not finish the learning of the trade iu that place, coming to Indianapolis befcne he could 
do so. This was in 187(5 and he entered at once the factory of Gen. A. D. Streight, re 
maining three years, after which he superintended the farm of Gen. Streight, in Newton 
County, for a period of two years. Returning to Indianapolis, he entered the factory of the 
Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Co. , where he has l)een employed ever since. He began 
as a workman, a maker of chairs, and has worked his way up on his own merits, without 
influence of any kind. He is general superintendent of this immense plant which employs 
more than 4(10 hands and is one of the most efficient men in his line in the country. Mr. 
McGuffin was elected a councilman-at laige in 1891 and his teim expires in 1894. He was 
married in 18S0 to Miss Amanda J. Fueal, of Mnncie, Ind., his choice being a most hap|)y 
one. Mr. MctTnffin is a Democrat of the most pronounced type and is regarded as one of 
the most efficient workers in that party in the city. Our subject started out in life without 
a dollar and has worked his way up in the world by himself. His life affords a strong 
proof of what may be done by an honest purpose to make the best of oue's opportunities. 

Bn.\/.iLL.\i M. Blount. In the life of Brazillai M. Blount we tind that which should 
inspire the youths of this and coming generations to lives of usefulness and greatness, and 
it is with pleasure that we note a few of the most important events of his career. Were his 
good deeds faithfully recorded, they of themselves would furnish material for a volume. He 
was born in Highland County, Ohio, June 17, 1828, and was early trained to the arduous 
duties of the farm, remaining on the same until 1841, when he came with his parents to 
Indiana, settling iu Hamilton (now Tipton County), then a wilderness of dense forest trees. 



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He attended the district schools of Highland County, Ohio, and three terms in Indiana, to the 
last of which he walked eighty miles with a knapsack upon his back, paying for his hoard liy 
working at intervals between school hours. He assisted in furnishing the fuel used for 
warming the log caliin in which the school was taught, by chopping wood at the noon hour 
and carrying it to the house upon his shoulder. This school was taught in Huntington 
County, about tifteen miles west of Fort Wayne, Ind. At that period in Indiana's history 
there were no public schools in this part of the State. Subsequently he began teaching 
school, continuing this for ten years, or until twenty-five years of age, principally in the 
winter. In the fall of 1853 he came to Indianapolis and bought a lot on the corner of 
Christian Avenue and Broadway, erected a liouse, and with his two brothers remained there 
anil attended school for eighteen mouths. In the winter of 1855 he went to Blooniington, 
Ind., and attended the State University until April, 1859, when he returned to Indianapolis. 
There he entered the Northwestern Christian University (now Butler), and graduated from 
that institution the same year with the degree of A. B. Three years later he received the 
degree of A. M. from that university. After graduating he went on a farm and preached 
for the Christian Church in Tipton and the adjacent counties of Indiana, for five years. He 
had commenced preaching in 1853 and was regularly authorized in 1854 by Central Christ- 
ian Church of Indianapolis. In 1864 Mr. Blount went to Spencer, Ind., where he acted as 
pastor of the church one year, anil then returned to Ti|)ton, where he preiiched and taught 
school. He acted as county school examiner for Tipton County from ISfil to 18(')4. In the 
fall of isn7bewent to Kokonio, Ind. , where in connection with his ministerial duties he 
taught school a part of the time during the year. In the fall of ]8()8 he returned to Tip- 
ton, Ind., and made his home there until 1879, acting most of the time as county superin 
tendeut and preaching as an itinerant minister. During 187'J and 1873, Mr. Blount filled the 
pulpit of the Christian Church at Sullivan, Ind. In 1879 he removed to Irvington, Marion 
County, Ind., and resides there at the present time. The same year he was elected presi- 
dent of the board of directors of Butler University, having been a member of the board 
since ISNfj, and served in that capacity for twelve years. In 1S92 Mr. Blount was elected 
by the board as financial agent of the Butler University. Our subject still continues to 
preach and is a hale, well preserved man. who tills his responsible position with credit to 
himself and the university. While attending Bloomington University our subject preached 
for the Christian Church there two years. Mr. Blount's first marriage occurred February 
25, 1850, to Miss Mary Jane Patterson, a schoolmate of his in Ohio, in which State she was 
born. She died in June, 1852, leaving one son, Robert S., who grew up, graduated at But- 
ler University in 187G, entered the Christian ministery, and died in October, 1883. The 
second marriage of our subject occurred in September, 1857, with Miss Hannah Cooper, 
a resident of Hanjilton County, Ind., and six children have been born to this union: Mary 
J., widow of George W. Bowin; Friend C. ; Rachel M., wife of Rev. Erastus Conner; Dora 
G., a teacher in the public schools at Irvington, Ind. ; Marven Eugene and Homer S. Silas 
Blount, the father of our subject, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in Octolier, !80(). He mar- 
ried Miss Barbara Miller, a native of Penn.sylvania, in September, 1827, and of the ten 
children born to this union, our subject is the eldest, and only six now survive, viz. : B. M. , 
of Irvington; Jane, wife of R. W. Wright, of Tipton, Ind.; Mary, wife of A. P. Wright, 
of Irvington, Ind. ; Jacob B., a preacher in the Ciiristian Church in Rush County, Ind. ; 
Barbara P., wife of Frank Cassel, of Rossville, Ind., and Alice T., wife of John Kennedy, 
of Anderson, Ind. The father of these children, who was a physician of considerable 
prominence, died in Sejtteraber, ISlK), when ninety years of age. His widow still survives 
and is eighty four years of age. 

William Moore. Among the reliable and substantial farmers of Marion County, Ind., 
may be mentioned William Moore, who has done much to forward the agricultural interests 
of this section, for he was reared to the calling of a farmer, and this occupation has received 
his attention to a greater or less extent up to the present time. He is a public-spirited 
citizen, in harmony with advanced ideas, intelligent progress, and active in his support of 
all worthy enterprises. He is a native of this State, l)orn in Marion County, August 5, 1837, 
aiul the second of twelve children born to John and Sarah (Bowser) Moore, natives respect 
ively of Ireland and Pennsylvania, and the last named of German descent. The father 



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emigrated to this country with his pareuts when lifteeii years of age. and first settled with 
them iu the Buckeye State. Later they moved to Marion County, Ind. (1S81), and John 
assisted his father in clearing and improving a farm. All his life the father of our subject 
tilled the soil and accumulated a fair share of this world's goods. He assisted in grading 
the "Old National Road," and was one of the pioneers of his localitj'. Iu politics he was 
an old line Whig until the formation of the Repul)lican party, when he cast his vote with 
that. The children born to his marriage were named as follows: Thomas H. ; William, our 
subject; Hannah; Retchison; Isabel, now Mrs. Jonathan Yoke; John O. : Catherine, wife 
of Melbnrn Moore; Mary E. H. ; Joseph A., and three who are deceased. The parents of 
these children celebrated their golden wedding September 19, 1883, but the father is now 
deceased, liis death occurring in ISSU. William Moore, the original of this notice, received 
his education iu the common schools of Centre Townshi|i, Marion County, attending tluring 
the winter months and working on the farm during the summer season. He remained under 
the parental roof until 1869, when he married Miss Lucy A. Kitley, daughter of Richard and 
Martha (Davis) Kitley, and on March 29 of the same year he moved on a tract of 180 acres 
he had purchased about eighteen months previously of the Wilson heirs, payiug for the same 
$50 per acre. Of this tract 80 acres were cleared when he bought it. and he has since 
cleared 20 acres. Mrs. Moore inherited 80 acres from her father's estate. They are very 
comfortably fixed, and are well liked in the community. Their mariiage resulted in the 
birth of tiiree children, as follows: Sarah E.,died in 1871, when about one moiitii old; 
Isabella Aurelia, and William R.' Jlr. Moore holds membership in the Baptist Church and 
is trustee and deacon of the same. He is not very active in politics, but votes the Repub 
lican ticket. 

Ephraim Collins (deceased). The life narrative of the head of a family is interesting 
not only to his posterity but also to the citizens of the section in which he has resided, and 
this truth is doubly true when such a man has established for himself and his children a 
reputation for integrity, character and ability, and has been of value in the development of 
that portion of the country which was his home. Such a narrative do we have in this sketch 
of Ephraim Collins, who was born in Marion County, Ind.. July 24, 1.S46. When about 
thirty years of age this young man was united in marriage with the lady of his choice. Miss 
Katherine Tutewiler, daughter of Nathaniel Tutewiler who was a native of Ohio and an early 
resident of Indiana. By this marriage Mr. Collins became the father of two children, both 
daughters: Minnie Alice and Myla E. The latter died November 0, 1886. aged six years 
and three months. Before our subject's marriage his father, Isaac Collins, gave him 44 
acres in Franklin township, this county, and later Ephraim bought 64 acres of George 
Richardson which he owned at the time of iiis death, .\ugust 26. 1886. His widow subse- 
<piently married Adam Swarts, a prominent fanner of this section. Nathitniel Tutewiler. 
father of Mrs. Swarts, was a native Ohioan. born March 2, 1813, and made liis home in that 
State until 1840, when became to Marion County, Ind. He there purchased 140 acres anil 
later he added to this twenty acres. He was married in his native state in 1838 to Miss Susan A. 
Murray, daughter of Joseph Murray and six children were the fruits of this union. One 
child, Susan v., died when about twenty-two years of age. She was single. The names of 
the other children areas follows: Lydia E. , widow of James Hensley, has these children: 
OlaB., Harry F. (deceased), Ora M., Even S. , Ann I., James E., and Howard N. Jacol) W. 
Tutewiler was first married to Miss Gabriella Tharp who bore him two children, Harry L., 
now living, and Addison (deceased). His second marriage was with Miss Katherine Harri 
son and one sou, Albert N., was born to this union. Mr. Tutewiler is now living with 
his third wife who was formerly Miss Rachel Miller. James G. Tutewiler married Malinda 
Phillips and five children were given then), all now deceased. He married for his second wife 
Miss Belle Carl aud they have three children: Bertha E., Edith B., and Leander. Ida M. 
Tutewiler, is unmarried. William Tutewiler enlisted in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana In- 
fantry and served three years in the Civil War. The father of these children, Nathaniel 
Tutewiler, died July 15, 1892, but his widow is still living. His father, Jacob Tutewiler. 
was of German descent. 

S.VMUEi, EviN'osTON Earp, M. S., M. D. Among professional men, and especially those 
of the medical profession, there is so much competition iu every large city that the man who 



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rises to a position of special prominence ami distinction tbrougb his own efforts, may justly 
be accredited with the possession of more than average ability. Such a man is Dr. Samuel 
Evingston Earp, who is one of the foremost, as well as one of the most popular physi- 
cians of Indianapolis, who has in a comparatively few years such a place as manj' strive for 
a lifetime to obtain. Dr. Earp has been unusually successful as a physician and as a public 
officer, and has also gained an enviable reputation as a scientific writer and as an expert chem- 
ist. He has brought such tireless energy and such shining ability to his life work that it is 
not too much to expect from him greater achievements in the future. Dr. Earp was born in 
Lebanon, St. Clair County, 111., December 19, 1858, a son of Joseph and Margaret Earp. His 
education was begun when he was five years old in a private school in his native town. 
Later he attended the high school at Alton, and upon leaving it entered Shurtlett' College 
at Upper Alton and was a student there for two years, leaving to enter McKeudree's College, 
Lebanon, from which institution he was graduated in 1879 when he was made the recipient 
of the degree of Master of Science. Wbile still at college this diligent student read medi- 
cine at odd spells and during vacations and attended a series of lectures upon medical and 
surgical topics but not in the general medical course. In July. 1879, very soon after his 
graduation, he entered the office of Dr. G. C. Smythe at Greencastle. Ind., as a regular 
medical student, and attended the session of Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at 
Indianapolis in 1881 and 1882, and was graduated therefrom in March of the last mentioned 
year. Dr. Earp was valedictorian of his class, the highest honor that could have been 
bestowed upon him, and received the Water's gold medal as the prize for passing the best 
competitive examination on diseases of the chest, and a complete and valuable case of gyne- 
cological instruments, as a prize for passing the best examination in the department of 
obstetrics and diseases of women and children. During his college days the Doctor did some 
creditable special newspaper correspondence and he has since made good use of his litera- 
ry abilities in his fluent and finished professional and other writings. After receiving his 
degree from Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, he began the practice of medicine 
in Indianapolis with such success that the sick and suffering have learned to repose un- 
bounded confidence in his knowledge of the ills tliat the human body is heir to and his skill 
in dissipating them. He is an active member of the Marion County Medical Society and of 
the Indiana State Medical Society. In 1882 he was elected demonstrator of chetnistry in 
his alma mater, later professor of chemistry, toxicology and clinical medicine and still 
later professor of materia medica, therapeutics and medical chemistry, which latter position 
he holds at this time. For three years he tilled the position of editor of the department of 
materia medica and therapeutics in the Indiana Medical Journal, in which as well as in other 
publications, his writings have attracted much attention, and they have been more widely 
quoted than have those of many of his brother practitioners of greater age and experience; 
and in the department of medical literature Dr. Earp has done his full share in sustaining 
the high standard attained in this line by Indiana. He is at this time and for some time 
past has been, consulting physician to the city hospital and the city dispensary and clinical 
lecturer in St. Vincent's Hospital. Notwithstanding the great pressure upon his time and 
energies, the Doctor has found leisure in which to pursue valuable researches in medicine, 
and he has been given due credit for his original work and discoveries in that direction, by 
authors of medical works and editors of medical journals. Dr. Earp was elected police sur- 
geon of Indianapolis by the metropolitan board, February 13, 1891, andserved in that capac 
ity until the new city charter went into effect when he was elected police and tire surgeon 
by the commissioners of piililie safety, a position which he still holds with great credit to 
himself and general satisfaction to the public. He was chemist of the Indianapolis board 
of health in 1885 and 1886 and a member of the same body and its secretary and executive 
officer during 1877 and 1878 and was elected by the unanimous vote of lioth Democrats and 
Republicans in the common council and board of aldermen as a member and secretary of the 
board of health of the cit^' of Indianapolis in January, 1889, and served for two years. He 
is secretary and dean of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons and is also one of 
the trustees and secretary of the board of trustees of that institution. He is also past chan- 
cellor and medical director of Capital City Lodge No. 97. K. of P.. and has been represent- 
ative to the grand lodge in that order. He was married May -4, 1892, to Margaret E. 



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MaGlonglilin, a uative of Champaign Coimty, 111., and of Scotch descent. As a man of high 
attainments, as an advocate and promoter of needed public reform and as a scholar whose 
scieulilic knowledge extends far beyond the limits of the medical profession, Dr. Earp occu 
pies a liigh position in the respect and admiration of the people. 

Henry W. Bollock, who is engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business, 
occupies a high place among the younger business men of Indianapolis, who by ability and 
energy have achieved success and occupy an honored position in the esteem of their fellow 
citizens. He was born in Clay County, Ind., September Id, ISOO, on a farm, and obtained 
his elementary education in the common schools of his immediate vicinity. His father. 
Elder Al)salom J. Bullock, is a wellknowu minister of the Christian Church, advocating the 
restoration of primitive Christianity nnfetteied liy creed or dogma. Elder Bullock was Ijorn in 
Randol|ili County, N. C, May 10, 1S38. and was brought to Indiana in 1S4() on pack- 
Ijorses. His mother, Mary (Davenport) Bullock, died in Clay ('ounty at the advanced age 
of eighty two years, respected by all who knew her. The mother of the immediate subject 
of this sketch, Mary (Helton) Bullock, is the daughter of Arthur and Margaret Helton, 
natives of Kentucky, who at an early day came to Indiana, because a slave State was not in 
accordaace with his ideas of justice. He and his wife lived honored lives and died mourned 
by all, aged eighty five and ninety years respectively. Ever since the colonial patriots' 
struggle for freedom in the days of the Revolution, the name of Bullock has been an honored 
one in the South, and numbers governors, congressmen, jurists and judges among its mem- 
bers. Henry W. Bnlloc-k began life for himself as a •' Hoosier Schoolmaster '" at the age 
of eighteen, and during the two terms that he followed this occupation he was practically 
successful in training the young minds under his care. He attended the Northern Indiana 
Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind., for a number of terms, and studied law two years, being 
admitted to the bar October 21, 1887. Mr. Bullock is a hard student and is said by those 
who know bim to be the best informed man in the State ou the various phases of the tem- 
perance question. He is broad and liberal in his views, takes a deep interest in all economic 
and social questions, and an active part in Civil Service and ^Municipal Reform. He is a 
forcible and polisheil writer and is well known as a speaker, having delivered temperance 
and political, religious and educational addresses in various ])arts of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois 
and Missouri, under lecture bureaus and the State and national committees of the Pro- 
hibitionists. Mr. Bullock is an active member of the Christian Church, commonly known as 
Disciples of Christ, and lias devoted much time to home missions, giving his aid and en 
couragement to those who need help. He works in the ranks as a private, delivers lectures, 
makes temperance and Sunday-school talks, and preaches sermons as occasions demand. His 
qualifications make him successful as a farmer, teacher, speaker, writer, lawyer and busi- 
ness man. His high sense of justice and moral convictions make liini the friend of every 
honest reform for the l)ettermeut of mankind. He came to the city in ]S9(I, and his vim and 
ability at once placed him in the front of business enterprises. He is now located at 77 
East Market Street ou the second Hoor, and is doing a large real estate, loan and insurance 
business. He bandies the best residence and business properly in the city and loans money 
on city aud farm property. It is but just to say that his integrity has won him the confi- 
dence of the business community, and being in the very prime of life has before bim very 
Mattering prospects. 

Henry Coe, president of the Board of Underwriters and one of the most prominent in- 
surance and real estate men in the State of Indiana, was born in Jefferson County, Wis , 
April IG. 1848, a .son of Orris K. and Paulina (Bu.shnell) Coe. His father was a uative of 
New York, and settled in Jefferson County, Wis., in 1S30, and was one of the pioneers of 
that county. He early entered Government land and for about ten years after locating there 
carried oa farming with considerable success. At the expiration of that time he opened a 
store at Beaver Dam and sold goods there for another decade, when he removed to Water- 
town, Wis., and entered the employ of the company which projected and constructed the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, as a general representative, and traveled along the 
proposed line purchasing rigbtof-way for the road. This was a business requiring much 
ability and no little degree of tact. Later be was engaged in the lumber trade at Water- 
town. His wife, the mother of the immediate subject of this sketch, was of New York 



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birth, but was of the oKl Connecticut Busbuell stock, which has become historic through 
successive generations. Henry Coe was reared in his native State ami educated at public 
and private schools. Later he entered a military academj' at Fulton, III. During the last 
_year of the war he served in the (juartermaster's department at Camp Stoneinan, near 
Washington, D. C. Returning to Watertown he was for a time associated with his father in 
the lumljer trade. In 1870 he entered the law department of the Wisconsin State University 
at Madison, Wis., and was duly graduated in law. Locating at Whitewater, Wis., he 
entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1873 Mr. Coe came to Indianapolis and was 
tendered and elected to the office of secretaiy of the Indianapolis Fire Insurance Associa- 
tion, a position which he tilled with much credit for four years. At the expiration of that 
time he became interested as a partner in the local tire insurance and real estate business C'f 
M. K. Barnard & Co. Tn 1S79 he established his present real estate and fire insurance 
office, and has built up a patronage that makes him conspicuous above most other real 
estate and insurance men in the city. He is a member of the Columbia and Commercial 
clulis, and was formerly prominently connected with the Board of Trade. He is also iden- 
tified with the K. of P. and the R. A. In politics he is a Republican. He was married 
September 20, IStiy, to Miss Ora C. Orton, a native of Milwaukee and daughter of Hon. 
Harlow S. Orton, for fifteen years associate justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. 

Philander H, Fitzgerald was born in Greensburg, Decatur County, Ind., in the month 
of February, the 14th day, 1847. He removed with his parents to Dearljorn County when 
young. His paternal ancestors came from Ireland and on his mother's side he came of good 
Connecticut stock. His father is Joseph Fitzgerald, of Acton, Marion County. His mother 
was Laura (Northrope) Fitzgerald, who died at Acton February 15, 1891, aged seventy- 
seven years. His common school education was supplemented by a commercial course at 
Manchester College. Mr. Fitzgerald was married at the age of twenty-live to the daughter 
of Bernard Mullin, Esq., of Greensburg. In 18fi4 he came to Marion County and located 
on a farm in Franklin Township, and also studied law for two terms. This, however, was 
given up for a clerkship in the United States Claim Agency in 18()8. The clerkship was re- 
signed in 1872 by Mr. Fitzgerald, who decided wisely to branch out for himself. He was 
admitted to practice before all the departments, in November, 1872, after which he be- 
gan his extensive practice in prosecuting all classes of claims growing out of the late 
war. Bj' careful study and continued practice he soon gained a national reputation as an 
expert claims attorney. He has often been called in consultation by counsel in New York, 
Philadelphia, Washington, and in California, and has handled and collected many cases. 
Mr. Fitzgerald's business has so increased that at times the services of thirty five clerks are 
necessary in answering his correspondence. In 1887 he conceived the idea of conducting a 
soldier's paper in connection with his business, and accordingly bought the Veteran's Kevieir, 
a small paper with less than 300 circulation. The name was at once changed to the Ameri- 
can Tribune. As the results of Mr. Fitzgerald's good judgment and energy, the circulation 
at the end of a twelvemonth reached 5,000. Since then it has grown rapidly and steadily 
and now it aggregates 28,000 a week and is still growing. Mr. Fitzgerald has invested his 
means, from time to time, in Indianajiolis real estate. His last purchase was the handsome 
building at the corner of Market and Circle Streets, known as the Journal Block, for 185,000. 
The building has been lately overhauled and modernized in every respect at a cost of ?40,000 
and it is one of the largest and finest in the city, lieing contrally located and in every way 
de8iral)le. He has also built some thirty-five first-class pieces of property and recently gave 
14,000 to the new church of North Meridian. Mr. Fitzgerald was one of the founders of 
the Indiana Mutual Building and Loan Association, one of the largest in the city, is one of 
its directors, and was elected treasurer of same in July, 1893. He is a member of the 
K. of P., with which order he has been identified since 1872. He is a member of the 
Columbia Club, the Commercial Club and the Board of Trade. In politics he is a Repul)- 
lican. 

James Greene. In every community some men are known for their upright lives, 
strong common sense and moral worth rather than for their wealth or political standing. 
Their neighbors respect them, the young generations heed their example, and when they 
go to the grave posterity listens with reverence to the story of their quiet and useful lives. 



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Among suoh men is James Greene, a man of modest and unassuming demeanor, well edu- 
cated, a friend to the poor, charitable to the faults of his neighbors and ready to unite with 
them in every good word and work, and active iu the support of laudable public enterprises. 
He is the State agent at Indianapolis for the Berkshire Life Insurance Company of Pitts- 
lield, Mass., a position he has tilled for about twenty live years. He is among the oldest 
and best known citizens of Indianapolis, having become a resident iu 1S58. and has seen 
tlie city's population increase from KS.dOO to 14t),()()0 souls Mr. Greene was born at Scitu- 
ate, R. I., December Ij, 1810, a son of llowlaiul ami Susanna (Harris) Greene, who were 
also natives of that State, where they resided until their respective deaths. Rowland 
Greene was a physician of considerable renown and was an active member and earnest worker 
of the Society of Friends, in the interests of which he traveled extensively throughout the 
then United States, his journeys being made on horseback and extending as far south as 
North (Carolina, throughout which section he became well known to tlie Quakers. James 
Greene remained a resident of Rhode Island until he was sixteen years of age; the major 
part of his education being acijuired at Proviilence under Quaker supervision. In IS'JI) he 
went to Baltimore, Md., where he spent two years iu a wholesale auction and commission 
house, after which he went to Albany, N. Y.. and entered the employ of a brother as clerk 
in a wholesale oil and leather establishment. During the time that he remained in Albany 
he made preparations to take a collegiate course and iu 1833 entered Amherst College from 
which he was graduated in 1837. He then entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, 
N. J., and after pursuing his studies there for three years, he entered the ministry in Ten 
nessee, where he remained about two years. In 1844 he came to Indiana and located at 
Madison, which at that time was the metropolis of the State, and there he established a 
private classical school which he conducted with gratifying success for about eight years. 
The public school system then came into vogue and he closed his institution at Madison and 
went to Evansville, Ind. , where he established a classical school for boys which he conducted 
until August, 1853, at which time he became secretary and treasurer of the Evansville & 
Indianapolis (straight line) Railroad Company and removed to Indianapolis, being associated 
with Willard Carpenter, of Evansville, Hon. Oliver H. Smith, and Gen. John Love, of 
Indianapolis, together with other persons of the State. This undertaking did not prove 
successful; the road was not built and after resigning his position about the time of the out 
break of thi> Civil War, he was appointed, in April, 181)1, assistant quartermaster-general 
of the State, a position he filled creditably for about four years, when he was transferred to 
the department of commissary of subsistence. In 18(57 Mr. Greene engaged in the general 
insurance business, which he has since continued to follow. To Mr. Greene's marriage 
with Miss Mary B.. daughter of William V. and Sidney (Phipps) McCullough (natives 
respectively of Kentucky and Tennessee) seven children have been born, only one of whom 
is now living: D ivies M. , born at Madison, Ind. Of the others Norvell Scott and Thomas 
C. lived to the years of manhood, the others dying in infancy. Mr. Greene is a Republican 
in politics, is a member of the Odd Fellow's fraternity and has been prominently connected 
with the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis since becoming a resident of the city. 

John W. Foittz. The necessary and important calling of the undertaker and funeral 
director has of late years made such rapid jirogress in its methods that it is to dav more of 
a |)rofessioTi than a trade. In few others is there such a deiuand on the part of its practi 
tioners of the most delicate tact and discretion, while to follow it with a certainty of success 
an individual or firm mnst combine high business qualifications with exceptional scientific 
attainments. Among the leading representative establishments of this kind in Indianapolis 
must be mentioned that of Foutz & Fitzhugh, the senior member of which is John N\'. 
Foutz. He was born at Newcastle. Henry County, Ind., Feljriiary 21, 1848, a son of Louis 
and Elizabeth (Conway) Foutz, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter 
in Kentucky. Louis Foutz was a man of intelligence, and thrcughout the active years of 
his life successfully followed the calling of a farmer and is now living in retirement at New- 
castle. At this place John W. Foutz was reared and educated, graduating from an academy 
at that place after having acquired an excellent education in the public schools. Shortly 
after finishing his education he began learning telegraphy, and for seventeen years was man- 
ager of the Western Union at Newcastle, and while there served eight years as secretary of 



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the Buihlitig and Loan Association and the same length o'f time as trustee of his township. 
Following this he engaged in the undertaking business, continuing it there successfully for 
live years, then came to Indianapolis and continued the same business, in which he has been 
more tiian ordinarily successful. His establishment is continually growing in popularity, 
for the seemly and sympathetic manner in which he conducts the sad rites that his business 
calls him to perform has become known, and those who meet with the loss of loved ones are 
anxious to engage his services. In 1869 he was united in marriage with Miss Angeline Mul- 
len, by whom he has one child, Gracie. He was left a widower in November, 1884, and in 
December, ISSO, he wedded Miss Clara B. Collingsworth, of St. Louis. Mr. Foutz has 
shown his approval of secret organizations by becoming a member of the A. F. & A. M. , 
the I. O. O. F., the K. of P., the K. of H.'and the I. O. K. M., in each of which he has 
passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodges. He is a member in good standing 
of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church and has always 8up))orted the men and 
measures of the Republican party, although he has never asjjired to political honors. He is 
a man of whom any community might well be proud, for in his daily walk through life he 
has endeavored to follow the teachings of the Golden Rule, and that he has succeeded is 
attested in the fact that his friends are legion. 

Joseph F. Fitzhugh. The well-known gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a mem- 
ber of the firm of Foutz & Fitzhugh, funeral directors at 187 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 
To attain success in this most delicate line of work, it is essential that a man shall possess 
special attributes, as well as to keep a select line of goods constantly on hand, and these 
essential qualifications, chief among which may be mentioned a sympathetic nature, are 
possessed by Mr. Fitzhugh in an eminent degree, and as a natural consequence the firm 
of which he is a member is in demand. March 20, 1869, he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
his parents being Frank and Mary (Riddell) Fitzhugh, the former of whom was a leading 
attorney of Cincinnati for many years and died when the subject of this sketch was quite 
small. After that event Joseph F. made his home with his maternal grandparents, his 
grandfather. Dr. G. W. Riddell, being one of the best known physicians and surgeons of 
Indiana for years, and a prominent member ot the old Tippecanoe Club. During the 
Civil War he served his country in the capacity of surgeon and was also promiuent in the 
affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an earnest member. He was 
a successful medical practitioner for over fifty years, and at the time of his death had 
reached the patriarchal age of ninety-two years. Under his wise guidance the subject of 
this sketch was reared, during which time he imbibed a large store of knowledge pertain- 
ing to medicine, anatomy and chemistry, receiving valuable information also from his uncle, 
Dr. J. C. Riddell, a very successful physician and a prolific and valued correspondent to 
leading Eastern journals, and at one time editor and proprietor of the Knightstown Oiron 
icle. When a youth he served in the Union army as drummer boy. He eventually became 
an eminent ])hysician of Kansas City. Mo., and acquired an enviable reputation through 
his successful treatment of the morphine and opium habit, of which he made a specialty. 
He died in Kansas City about 1883. In 1885 Joseph F. Fitzhugh embarked in the under 
taking business with Adams & Emrich, successors to the old Ripley & Hedges firm, and 
remained in their employ until the firm retired from business, when he entered the service 
of George Herrmann, a leading German undertaker, with whom he remained a short time. 
He then accepted a position as general manager of the undertaking business of Charles 
Girtou, in which capacity he successfully continued until July 1, 1893, when he purchased 
his present business in connection with John W. Foufz, and has conducted it with satisfac- 
tory results up to the present time. Mr. Fitzhugh holds three diplomas, one an honorary 
degree conferred upon him by the Indiana College of Emijalmiug, the others being from 
Cincinnati and New York schools. He is demonstrator and secretary of the Indiana College 
of Embalming, having been for two years a professor in that institution. Fitzhugh & 
Foutz do an extensive business and conduct on an average about 350 funerals annually. 
They make embalming a special feature of their work, and employ three men in their estab- 
lishment as trimmers and embalmers, meeting all obligations in a prompt and businesslike 
manner. Mr. Fitzhugh is a general correspondent of the Casket, which is published at 
Rochester, N. Y., and is one of the leading undertaking papers of the country. He is also 



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a conespondeiit of the Weiitern Unilrrtdlcfif. |)ul)lishe(l at Chicago, and has contrihiited 
many scientific articles on practical euil)aluiing published in the leading journals of trade. 
Mr. Fitzhugh is probably one of the liest known undertakers of the country and is verj' 
widely known. He is a leading member of the secret orders: K. of P., K. of H., P. O. S. 
of A. and the Red Men, and has been ofKcially connected with the latter in various capaci- 
ties. Politically he is a Prohiljitionist, and he has for some time been a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. His moral character is above reproach, his friends are legion, and 
in him is the stuff of which noble, useful and influential citizens are made. 

E. J. Bkenn.w, M. D. One of the noljlest professions, one of the most beneficial 
to mankind, the profession of all professions, which, while it is prosecuted for gain is in its 
very nature nearest to beneficent charity, is tliat of medicine. At the same time it is one of the 
most exacting upon its devotees. Indianapolis is very fortunate in the number and character 
of its physicians and surgeons and one of the most prominent of them all is Dr. E. J. Bren- 
nan who was born in the famous city of Kilkenny, Ireland, in June, 1849, a son of Michael 
and Houora (Walsh) Brennan. His father was a cooper by trade and his family and also 
thnt of his wife are among the oldest and best known in Ireland. The Doctor was brought 
to Buffalo, New York when he was Imt six months old and at a proper age was placed in the 
school of the Christian Brothers where he pursued his studies until he was between fifteen 
and sixteen years of age. Thus, early in life, he entered upon the acquisition of a knowl- 
edge of medicine and surgery in the hospital of the Sisters of Charity, and during the 
ensuing five years attended lectures at the Buffalo University of Medicine and was graduated 
from that institution in 1871 with the degree of M. D. He almost nnruediately began the 
practice of his profession at Lockport, N. Y. , and remained there two years, meeting with 
much success, and during that time he was the health officer of the city. He then took up 
his residence in Rochester, N. Y. , and pursued a general practice there with flattering appro- 
batioD until 1870. In October of that year he removed to Indianapolis where he at once 
ideutitied himself with the medical and surgical profession and with local interest generally, 
and where he has since built up a large and influential practice. He became a meml)er of 
the faculty of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in ISS'2, by election to the 
chair of diseases of children, and in 1884 he was j)romoted to the chair of obstetrics and 
clinical midwifery, which he still tills. Dr. Brennan is a member of the staff of the City 
Hospital, of that of St. Vincent's Infirmary, and of that of the City Dispensary, and he is a 
physician to the House of Good Shepherd. While practicing his profession in the State of 
New York, Dr. Brennan was a member of the Niagara and Monroe County Medical Societies 
and at this time is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society. He was for two 
years a member of the Indianapolis Board of Health and for four years Supreme Medical 
Examiner for the Catholic Knights of America. He is a frequent and valuable contributor 
to medical literature on subjects relating to tiie special branches of the profession. The most 
substantial success has attended his efforts, both as a practitioner :ind as a professor and 
lecturer, and liis list of patrons is made up largely of some of the best families in the city. 
Of a generous disposilion, kind and ixnassuming in his intercourse with his fellow men, he is 
popular with the public and has made many warm and steadfast friends l)oth in and out of 
the line of his daily duty. His residence and office are at 240 N. Tennessee Street. While 
living in Lockport, N. Y., he married Miss Susan Graham, daughter of John Graham, Es(j., 
a [iromineut merchant of Rochester, N. Y. They have two bright and jiromising sons, now 
students at Notre Dame University, and two charming daughters. 

WiLLiA.ii McGheoor. The original of this notice is a Hoosier by l)irth. and one of 
Marion County's most successful, thorough-going agriculturists. He whs born in Jefferson 
County, thirteen miles east of Madison, June 14, 1828, on a farm belonging to his father at 
the head-waters of Bushy Fork. There he made his home until about seventeen years of 
age, bat never attended school until after he was fourteen. He then went to a pay school 
taught by Donald Cameron, but not very steadily, for the school-house was five miles distant 
from his father's house. School always commenced at daylight, and lasted until dark. 
Cameron was considered a good teacher, but a very strict disciplinarian, keejiing two sizes 
of switches, the small ones for the little folks, and the large one fur unruly ))ig boys. He 
had from fifteen to twenty scholars, and the principal branches taught were the three R's, 



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viz.: ''Reading, Kiting and Ritliraetic." Oar subject only attended two terms of three 
months each, during the winter. He was left motherle.ss when only seven years of age, and 
the father kept iiis four children together, although the youngest was but three months old 
at the time of the mother's death. On tlie old homestead the father received his Hnal sum- 
mons in Feljruary, 1846. As soon as the property was sold our subject and his two brothers, 
Moses and Lewis, went to Madison, Ind., where Moses and our subject entered the em- 
ployment of Charles Richardson, to learn the blacksmith's trade. Lewis at the same time 
entered Henry Davidson's tin shop to learn the tinner's trade. For live years our subject 
remained with Richardson, three years as an apprentice and two years as a journeyman. 
From May to September of the second year of his apprenticeship, our subject jiut in his 
time making spikes to spike down the old strap bais used for track on the old Madison rail- 
road from Greenwood to Indianapolis. In May, 1851, he concluded to leave Madison, 
though he was then making $24 per week on plow work, but he had too many acquaintances, so 
he thought, for his own good, as they prevented him from saving his money. He went to 
Greenwood. Ind., rented a shop and tools, and in the fall he bought a set of tools of a 
blacksmith in Indianapolis. He paid $45 for the tools, getting long credit. This was in 
the fall of 1851, and from May 20 until July 7, he made but 25 cents, selling a butcher 
knife for that amount. He had but 11.75 when he got to Greenwood, but he made an ar- 
rangement with Thomas Howard, from whom he rented the shop and tools, that lie should 
board him and his apprentice and take his pay in work. This was all that made it possible 
for Mr. McGregor to stay there. On July 7 he got his first work from Henry Birely, to iron 
a wagon, and so well did he do this that Mr. Birely interested himself in his behalf, and 
befoie he had finished his first work he had two other wagons to treat in like manner. For 
this he received $25 for each wagon. During the winter of 1851 he added another fire, still 
another in 1852, and a wagon shop shortly afterward. Here he remained for seven years, 
clearing $7,000 in that time, and then sold out his entire plant, receiving $3,400 for it. Mr. 
McGregor then went west to southern Missouri, and in the spring of 1858 he purchased 
250 acres in Polk County, Mo. This he was compelled to give up on account of his daugh- 
ter's health, and in September of that year he moved to Acton, Ind., where he bought a 
house and lot, and built a shop in which he had five fires. He made plows, buggies, wag- 
ons, etc., working five blacksmiths, seven woodworkmen. two painters and a trimmer. He 
carried on the shop until 1866, making money all the time, and then bought eighty eight 
acres of Jose|)h Fitzgerald, paying $84 per acre. In 1869 he bought eighty acres of Joseph 
Kennedy's heirs for $50 per acre, but previous to that, in 1866, he bought forty acres of 
George Whitaker, jiaying 12,100 in cash. At the present time he is the owner of 215 acres 
on Sections 16 and 21, Range ."i East. Of this 150 acres are cleared. Mr. McGregor has 
raised 1,600 bushels of wheat in one year, and averages about thirty five acres of corn per 
season. In 1893 he also raised 600 bushels of oats. At the present time (summer 1893) 
he has three crops of wheat on hand, over 3,000 bushels. He is one of the most progressive, 
wide awake farmers in the county, and is highly esteemed by all. He affiliates with the 
Democratic party, and has never missed voting a Democratic ticket since casting his first 
vote for James Buchanan. He has manifested his appreciation of secret organizations by 
joining Pleasant Lodge, No. 134, A. F. & A. M., of which he was treasurer fora])out fifteen 
years. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. For many years he has been a member of 
the Missionary Baptist Church, of which he is one of the trustees. Mr. i\Ic(4regor was mar 
ried July 2, 1852, to Miss Frances M. Peggs, daughter of Joseph A. Peggs, a native of Ken- 
tucky, but who now resides in Indiana. To this marriage have been born nine children, two 
of whom, Sarah E. and William L. ,died in infancy. The others reached mature years, 
and are named as follows: Joseph A., born in 1852, was married in 1875 to Miss Ida, 
daughter of James Eads, of Marion County, Ind. ; Joseph A. died in March, 1893, leaving 
six children: Maud. Edna, Gertrude, Adeline, Samuel and Kennedy, the last two being 
twins; Cyrena A. married B. F. Beal in 1S78, and they have two living children (Howard 
O. and Chester); Charles R. resides in Marion County, Ind.. married Miss Carrie Anderson 
in 1883, daughter of Hayden Anderson, and they have two sons (William H. and Frederick 
E.); Mary L. married Cornelius Belton in 1879, and they had one son (Lewis S.), the mother 
dying in 1883; Martha E. married Oliver Means, of London, Ind., in 1881 ; Naomi married 



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D. H. Snepp iu 1SS4, ;ui<l Jlinnie. who is at home. The father of our subject, Ah?x;mcler 
McGregor, was horn in (Glasgow, Scotland, about 178(1 and came to America in 1815, locat- 
ing in Jefferson County, lud. He was a weaver by trade, and worked at this for the sur- 
rounding country until his death February 11, 1846. He was a Presbyterian in religion, 
and a Democrat in politics. He was married in 1826 to Miss Martha Rogers, daughter of 
Moses Kogers, a native of Ireland, and these children weie liorn to them: ^Yilliam; Mary, 
widow of Henry Voorhees, of Polk County, Mo., has eight children (AVilliam. Mo^es, Lewis, 
Martha, Sallie, Jane, Indiana and Charles): Moses died in 1883, mairied Miss Louisa Peggs, 
who died iu ]8()0, leaving one child. Belle, who married Judd Fitzpatriek, and Louis, died 
iu 1884, entered the Confederate service in Arkansas at the outbreak of the Rebellion, served 
two years, and was then captured. The mother of these children died in 1833. Our sub- 
ject's father-in-law, Joseph Peggs, was born in Trimble County. Ky., in 1806, and there he 
was reared. He was married in Mason County, Ky.,in 1835, to Miss Mary A. McCready, 
daughter of Alexander McCready, a soldier of the War of 1812, and at once emigrated to 
Palmyra, Mo., where he lived about three years. After that he returned to Kentucky, and 
in 1844 came to Johnson County, lud., where he located in Pleasant township. There he 
and his worthy wife reside at the present time. Seven children were born to their marriage, 
six of whom grew to mature years: William A. married Miss Nancy Wiley, and they now 
reside in Marion County; Margaret F. married our subject; John H. served in the Civil 
War, married Miss Mary Sheets, and resides at Columbus; Mary A. married Peter Myers, 
and resides iu Marion County; Louisa A. married Moses McGregor, and died in 1865, and 
Charles E., who married Miss Clara Hester, who bore him five children, and died iu 1889. 
Joseph Peggs, the grandfather of Mrs. McGregor, was born in Ireland, emigrated to America 
at an early date, saw the "Royal Ship George" sink, and located in Kentucky. He married 
there, but later came to Indiana, where he afterward died. 

J.iMt:s S. Cku.se. The steady ratio of development observable iu the Indiaiuipolis real 
estate market and the universally high reputation that investments therein have attained, 
reflect the greatest credit upon the leading real estate agents and dealers. Among the more 
[>rominent and enterprising members of the ])rofession in this city is James S. Cruse, who 
combines insurance with his real estate operations and in that department represents some 
of the stanchest companies before the public. Mr. Cruse was born at New Albany, Ind., 
July 16, 1858, a son of John P. and Anna M. (Dudley) Cruse. His father, who was a native 
of Philadelphia, Penn., located in New Albany while yet a young man and began liusiness 
there as a stone and brick mason and contractor. In 1862 he removed to Indianapolis and 
not long afterward engaged iu the manufacture of brick which he continued extensively and 
with success for twenty years. He retired with a competency and died in January. 18U3. 
much regretted by a large circle of accpiaintances and especially by the older business men 
whose associate he had been for so many years. His wife died .January, 1877. Of their 
four children two died in infancy. James S. Cruse was about four years old when his 
parents came to Indianapolis, and this city has been his almost lifelong home. He was 
educated in the public schools, and later was connected with his father's brick making enter- 
prise as office clerk and foreman for about two years. He then accepted a position as clerk 
in the abstract office of John Batty, and after Mr. Hatty's death managed the enterprise 
until it was sold to John R. Ruth. It was iu this connection that he acquired a knowledge 
of the fundamental principles of the real estate business and a bent of mine which later led 
him to eagage in it permanently. After a course at a prominent business college, he next 
entered the employ of Dain I'i,' McCuUougb. After the dissolution of the partnership between 
Messrs. Dain and McCullough. Mr. Cruse remained with Mr, Dain in the real estate and 
rental bu8ine.ss and after the death of Mr. Dain, in 1883, succeeded to the business which 
he has since continued so successfully that he now ranks with the prominent business men 
of the city. He has l)een a member of the Commercial Club since its organization and is a 
prominent member of the Marion Club. He is also well known as an Odd Fellow and a 
Mason and is in all ways popular in business and social circles. He was married May 24, 
1882, to Miss Anna H. Wands, a native of Indianapolis and a daughter of Alexander and 
Catherine (McOuat) Wands, natives of Scotland. The business methods of Mr. Cruse have 
always been conservative yet energetic. He has not taken many speculative risks, but has 




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doue a straight, legitimate business being conteut with honest trade honestly worked up 
and honestly conducted. He combines in a remarkable degree all of the diverse tjualities 
essential to success in his distinctive line, and is recognized by his associates as most truly 
and emphatically the "right man in the right place." 

J. H. George, D. D. S. The deufst when well up in his profession is a most valuable 
man in the community, and in Indianapolis there is none who ranks higher than Dr. J. H. 
George. Although he is still young in years he commands a thorough knowledge of his pro- 
fession and his ability and insight into his calling, as well as his ability to express himself 
intelligently has been the means of winning for him the positicjn of demonstrator of operative 
denti--try in the Indiana De tal College, a ])ositiou which was tendered him a verj" short time 
after his graduation from that institution in 1891. He owes his nativity to Jeiferson County, 
Ind., where he first saw the light of day March 2S, 18(j0, ason of W. J. and Edith M. (Spann) 
George, both of whom were born in the Stat- of Kentucky but afterward located near Madi- 
son, Ind., in the public schools of which place Dr. J. H. George received his literary educa- 
tion. He possessed a bright, receptive and retentive mind, made rapid progress in his 
studies and upon leaving school was considered a well-informed young man, and capable of 
fighting the battle of life for himself. In 1889 he came to Indiaua]iolis and graduated from 
the Indiana Dental College in 18U1 with much credit to himself, his record in that insti- 
tution i)eing greatly to his credit. He is filling his preasent jtosition with great al)ility and 
is proving that he is the right mau in the right ])lace. Politically he has always been a 
Republican and for some time he has been a member of the Marion Clul). 

John F. Craig. One of the most efficient and trustworthy servants of L'ncle Ham is 
John F. Craig, who has charge of the postotfice at Haughville, Ind. In addition to looking 
after the duties of this position he is the proprietor of a hardware establishment which is 
netting him a satisfactory yearly income. The city of Glasgow, Scotland, gave him birth 
January 28, 1860, his father being James F. Craig, who was also born in the city of Glasgow. 
He learned the trade of a machinist in the land of his birth and became so expert that he 
was placed in charge of a large foundry in that country. The free soil of the United States, 
however, possessed great attractions for him and after reaching this country in 1872 he set- 
tled down in Wauregan, Conn., which place he made his home tmtil four years since when 
he came to Haughville, which place has since been his home. Upon first reaching this city 
he worked in the Malleable Iron Works, and as he has been industrious and careful in his 
expenditures, though by no means niggardly, he has accumulated considerable property of 
value in Haughville. Mr. Craig is a Mason and Odd Fellow and he and his wife are strict 
memliersuf the Presbyterian Church and pride them.selves on their Scotch blood. The 
mother can trace her ancestry liack 2011 yeajs. John F. Craig was the third of eight chil- 
dren, five of whom are now living, born to his parents, and in the bonny laud of Scotland he 
was first led in the paths of learning. After the removal of his parents across the wide Atlantic 
to this country, and after their location in Connecticut, he attended the schools of that State 
for some time, but upon reaching the age of eleven or twelve years much of his time was devoted 
to learning the mHchiuist's trade and his school days were few and far between. After becoming 
thoroughly familiar with this calling he came West, in 1885, and entered the works of Ketcham 
& Brown and afterward the Ewart Chain Works, leaving the employ of these gentlemen to take 
charge of the tool works of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Western Railroad, where 
ho remained a valued employe for two years. At tLe end of this time he opened 
a grocery store in Haughville but gave up the business after a short time to engage 
in the hardware business, which iiraneh of human endeavor has sin-je received his attention, 
and in which he has met with reasonable financial success. He has served in the capacity 
of town trustee, but resigned this jiosition to take charge of the postoffice, the duties of 
which he has discharged in a successful and able manner and to the entire satisfaction of the 
residents of the place. He is a Republican and socially is a charter member of the I. O. O. F. 
lodge at this place, which he served in the capacity of secretary for a number of years, and 
he also belongs to the Calledonia Quotin Clul). Mr. Craig has just been married to Miss 
Jennie Corbett, of Indianapolis. He will reside at 143 King Avenue. 

E. J. Sherer. The subject of our sketch is one of the largest contractors in the city of 
Indianapolis, and a member of the council-at-large. He has made his way along through 



154 ^fE^fOTRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

lifp alone aud nnaideil, and his large accumulations represent the labor of his own hands, 
he starting out for liimself with a trade, liealth and a clean conscience. Mr. Sherer was 
l)orn in Dayton, Ohio, March 15, 1854: being the son of George W. and Christina (Shilling) 
Sherer, natives of Als.nce. Germany, who emigrated to this country about the year 1830, 
settling in Dayton, where the father engaged in the linseed oil business, which he followed 
until his death. This inilnstrious man was the father of eleven children, eight of whom are 
living, namely: Michael. ^Fary, George, Anna, John, Joseph, Edward J. aud William. Tlie 
father of this family died at Dayton in January, 187U, his wife still living in that city in 
the possession of good health and active for one of her years. Our subject was reared in 
his native county, where he attended tlie common schools, and later was apprenticed to the 
frade of a plasterer at Dayton, serving out his time and working at it until 1873. when he 
came to Indianapolis, resuming his labors at his trade here aud continuing at that work 
until 1879. In the previous year he had done some contracting on his own account, which 
he made protital)le, aud was so well satisfied with this business that he now gave up his 
whole time and attention to it and has followed it ever since. E. J. Sherer is a man who 
never does anything by halves and he has pursued the contracting work with great energy, 
having done among other things the stone work for the State House, for the insane asylum, 
Tomlinson Hall, Circle Park (which is now torn out), the Columbus (Ind.) starch works, all 
the city breweries of Indianapolis, a large amount of work at Franklin (Ind.), the custom 
house at New Albany, aud has carried out many other large contracts. The firm in which 
he is a partner bears the name of Laakman & Sherer, which was formed in 1878. and is the 
oldest and best known in the city, its business being that of artitieial stone. Mr. Sherer 
was empty handed when he left his home Vmt had a brave heart and he has never once faltered 
since. His manliness has always asserted itself and he has kept hands and head busy He 
owns very valuable pro]>erty on "West First Street and in other portions of the city. The 
Builders' Exchange has in him a mo.st active and useful member and he was one of the tirst to 
identifv himself with that organization. Social bv nature, be has a larce circle of friends 
and ac([uaintauces in w-hose company he always enjoys himself, and he is a member of the 
K. of P. and of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Sherer takes a most active interest in politics and in 
the affairs of the city and was elected to the city council from the fourth ward in 1890, 
and a councilman-at-large in 1892, he being a very popular man among his fellow citizens, 
and has proven himself a very energetic and most useful member of the council. Mr. 
Sherer was married in 1S74 to Miss Ada Sullings. of Greencastle, Ind., who has borne iiini 
two children, namely; Harry J. and Goldie E. Our subject was too young to take any part 
in the late war. but three brothers, George, Conrad and Michael, were brave and good 
soldiers in the army, and Conrad was killed in a skirmish at Battle Kidge, being struck liy a 
shell He was a lieutenant and a young man of much promise. His remains lie in the 
cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn. The subject of our sketch is a man who has so deported 
himself as to gain the confidence and the respect of all who know him. Strictly honorable 
and possessed of excellent liusiness sense, he is a most valuable member of the council and 
his future gives promise of still greater success and usefulness. 

Anton Schmidt. A close observer, in sttulying the history of the adv:incement aud 
development of the city of Indianapolis, will tind golden th.reads ruiuiing through the web 
and woof of events of the past years. These are indicative of the lives of those men whose 
public spirit and energy have made her first among the cities, and give her a conspicuous 
place among the commercial marts of the world. A true rejiresentative of such men is 
found in one whose career inspires this brief notice, Mr. Anton Schmidt, now councilman for 
the fourteenth ward, was boru in Germany, September 12, ]84fi, and his parents, Charles 
and Louise (Brunk) Schmidt, both of whom were natives of that countrv, received their final 
summons in that State. Anton grew to manhood in Geilnan, Geimany, aiul like many of his 
countrymen decided to make his future home in the United States. In lN(^i6 he took passage 
for this country, lauded in New York City, and came direct to Indianapolis wliere he worked 
in the California House. Ambitious atid persevering he worked at anything that would 
l)rnig him in an honest living, aud iu this manner gained a solid footing. He has been 
a resident of Indianapolis for twenty-six years and in liusiness for himself for twenty years. 
Success has crowned his efforts and he is to-day one of the prominent men of Indianapolis. 



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He was elected a memher of the city council in 1891 and it is safe to say that in the discharge 
of the duties of that position his course will redound to the credit of himself and the present 
city government. He is a stockholder in the Shelliy Street Building and Loan Association 
of which he is president, and socially is a member of the K. of H, His first marriage was 
to Miss Minnie Brocksmith, and his second to Miss Lizzie Schaub. Five children have 
blessed these unions— Louis, Hattie, Carrie, Lydia and Louise. A Democrat in his political 
views, Mr. Schmidt has ever espoused the principles of that party. 

Dk. William Niles Wish.\rd was born in Greenwood, Johnson County, Ind., October 
10, 1851, a son of Dr. William H. and Harriet K. (Moreland) Wishard, and was educated at 
the Southport High School and at Wabash College. After leaving school he turned his at- 
tention to the study of medicine and was graduated from the Indiana Medical College in 
February, 1874. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Southport. and 
after gaining some valuable e.xperience in that way became a student in Miami Medical Col- 
lege, Cincinnati, and was also graduated therefrom in March, 187(1 Immediately there- 
after he resumed his practice at Southport, but in November, 1876, lemoved to Indianapolis, 
and was in active and successful practice there until July 1, 1879. when he assumed the 
duties of superintendent of the city hospital, to which he bad recently been elected. Dur- 
ing the period of his practice in Indianapolis he served as deputy coroner of Marion County, 
and in that capacity made most of the post mortem e.xaminations with which the coroner 
was credited. He gave great satisfaction as superintendent of the city hospital until Janu- 
ary 1, 1887, when he declined a re election in order to devote himself to the active practice 
of" his profession. It was during Dr. Wishard's superintendency that the present elegant 
and commodious hoispital building was erected, and it was chieily through his intluence and 
untii-ing energy that this great work was accomplished. For years he devoted himself to it 
and it will stand as a memorial to his useful labors. Dr. Wisliard was appointed assistant 
surgeon general of the State of Indiana by Gov. Hovey, and was appointed surgeon geneial 
by Gov. Chase, and served with much credit in both positions. He was one of the organ- 
izers and was elected the tirst |)resident of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, and at this 
time he is first vice president of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, vice-president of the 
Marion Comity Medical Society and a member of the American Association of Genito Urinaiy 
Surgery. He has been honored by the Medical College of Indiana by appointment as as- 
sistant to the chairs of principles and practice of medicine, lecturer on clinical medicine 
and professor of genitourinary and venereal diseases, which last mentioned position he 
now holds. On leaving the city hospital Dr. Wishard was appointed consulting surgeon in 
that institu ion on genito urinary and venereal diseases, and the same position was given him 
in the city dispensary. Soon after severing his connection with the hospital he took a course 
in the Post-Graduate Medical College and Polyclinic, New York, after which he returned to 
Indianapolis and resumed general practice, which he soon abandoned to devote his entire 
time to the practice of what had become his specialty, genitourinary surgery. He has done 
some original work in prostatic surgery, having performed the first operation for removal of 
the lateral lobes of the prostate gland through a perineal opening. In 1890 Dr. Wishard 
went to Europe for the purpose of better qualifying himself to practice bis specialty, and he 
attended the International Medical Congress held in Berlin, afterward visited the hospitals 
in Berlin, Paris and London, saw and conversed with most of the leading specialists in his 
line of practice in those cities, and returned home in the autumn of that year. He is well 
read outside of professional literature, and having mingled much with some of the l)rightest 
men of the day he is a most charming and entertaining companion. He was married in 
May, 1880. to Alice, daughter of Mr. William Wesley Woollen, of Indianapolis, a most brill- 
iant and fascinating lady, who died on December 9 following their marriage, and since then 
he has remained a widower. The Doctor has been a member of the Presl)yterian Church 
since 1N73, and, besides having served as ruling elder in the body with which he is identified, 
he has been influential in church councils and lil)erally helpful to all church interests and 
good works. Being six feet, two inches in height, compactly built and without surplus flesh, 
the Doctor is of commanding and most pleasing presence. His complexion is fair, and he 
has blue eyes and brown hair, and, all in all, his appearance is striking, yet attractive, and 
his manner is so hearty and cordial that a stranger upon entering his presence is put at once 
at his ease. 



150 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

GtsTAVE C Lange. Love of flowers is iijl)oin in the majority of people, but it is to 
only a comparatively few that the art of i-ultivatinCTthem in their utmost perfection is given. 
Mr. Giistave O. Lange seems to possess a natural aptitude for this branch of human endeavor, 
and in the position of florist for the State Insane Asylum at Indianapolis he has shown 
the best of judgment, great skill and the utmost taste. He has been a florist of Indianapolis 
for the past twenty-five years, but was born in Prussia in 1839, his father being George 
Lange. Gustave C. received his education in the land that gave him birth and while still 
residing there learned the art of gardening, for which he seemed to have a natural aptitude 
and a decided taste. In 1868 he left Prussia to come to the United States, and after spend 
ing some time in St. Louis went to Cincinnati, but permanently located in Indianapolis 
shortly after, and turned his attention to floriculture exclusively and kept a well stocked and 
appointed establishment on East Wasliington Street, in the immediate vicinity of which he 
owned a nice tract of land upon which he at once put up extensive green-houses which he 
liberally stocked with all kinds of plants from the choicest exotics to the simple violet. After 
a time he sold out and removed to Peru, Ind., and later bought the place owned by B. A. 
Fohl. After selling this property he went to Dallas, Tex., where he was in business three 
years, then returned to Indianapolis and ojiened a store on North Illinois Street, but as the 
business was not a paying one he decided to give it up, and when asked to take charge of 
the grounds of the insane asylum he accepted, and the reputation of their great beauty has 
gone thronghoixt the State. He has proven himself in every way competent to fill this 
responsible position and the directors of this institution have every reason to be satisfied 
with his services. He was married in Cincinnati in 1871 to Miss Johanna Dinnse, a native 
of Prussia, and to them a daughter and three sons were given. After the death of this 
wife he married her sister, Carrie, by whom he has one son and three daughters. He and 
his wife are members of the Lutheran Church and he is a member of the Indianapolis 
Florists Club, and socially lielougs to the K. of H. 

Joseph R. Adams. The business of house painting has liecome an art and one of the 
men who excels in this line of human endeavor is Joseph R. Adams, whose excellent taste 
and good judgment have brought him prominently before the notice of the most extensive 
builders and contractors, as well as property holders, in the city of Indianapolis. He owes 
his nativity to the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born on March 13, 185'2, a son of 
John C. and Rhoda (Miller) Adams, the former a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, aud the latter 
of the State of Pennsylvania. John C Adams is now a successful ]tainter and contractor of 
Cambridge City, Ind., a calling he has followed ever since starting out in life for himself and 
although in his sixty-second year is yet hale and hearty. He was a soldier in an Ohio regi- 
ment during the great Civil War and was loyal, brave and useful in espousing the cause of 
the Union. Joseph R. Adams is the eldest of his parent's children and in his youth was 
given the advantages of the excellent public schools of Cincinnati, which he did not fail to 
improve, and at the early age of sixteen years he turned his attention to learning the 
painter's trade with every branch of which he became thoroughly familiar under the intelli- 
gent direction of his father, with whom he remained until he attained his majority. He 
then left the shelter of the parental roof and came to Indianapolis, where he worked as a 
journeyman for ((uile a number years, after which he was engaged as foreman by William 
Muecke. which position he retained for thirteen years at No. 24 Virginia Avenue. At the 
end of this time he entered the employ of Salisbury & Stanley, as foreman, but only 
remained with them a few years, when he commenced the battle of life independently and 
since that lime has done a very extensive business, in fact one of the most extensive in the 
city. Some of the most notable of the buildings which he has erected are the Lombard 
building, the City Hall, the Bates House, the Union Depot, the Grand Hotel, the Spencer 
House and has done a great deal of theater work and erected many beautiful dwelling 
houses in different portions of Indianapolis, in which work he has had direction over from 
twenty-five to forty men. all of whom he chooses caiefully. He is one of the best versed 
contractors of the city, having given his attention to this line of work for many years, and tlie 
buildings which he has erected have been conspicuously commented upon and noticed by all 
builders and contractors, as well as by those who expect to Iniild. He is a man of unbiem- 
shed character and is loyal to his promises in all his undertakings. He is a member of the 



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Master Painter's Association, the Builders' Exchange, and socially Iwlongs to the A, F. & A. 
M. and the K. of H. March 15, 1S76, he was married to Miss Lucy Rueb, of Chillicothe. 
Ohio, and to their union a son and daughter have l)een given. 

William Bradley Clarke, M. D. One of the leading homoeopathic physicians of 
Indianapolis is Dr. William Bradley Clarke, who was born at Columbus. Ohio, November 8, 
1848, and is consequently forty-tive years old the World's Fair year. Dr. Clarke's father, 
who was a druggist at Columbus, was named Sumuer Clarke, and was of the old Puritan 
stock, born at Northampton, Mass., where his father, Enos Clarke, was for years deacon in 
the famous Jonathan Edwards orthodo.x church. Dr. Clarke's mother, whose maiden name 
was Maria Haddock, died suddenly of cholera when the Doctor was less than a year old and, 
the family breaking up, he was sent to Massachusetts to be reared by his uncle and aunt, his 
uncle being Rev. T. J. Clarke, a congregational minister at Cummington, Hampshire County ; 
the historic little town was also the poet, William Cullen Bryant's home. Here he attended 
the common schools and for years was carefully educated by his uncle, Rev. Mr. Clarke, who 
was a graduate of Williams College and a man of the tinest literary attainments, and who 
was as nearly a father to the boy as any uncle could have been. Then came a removal to 
Ashfield, the home of George William Curtis, for a few more years' residence. It would be 
interesting to trace just how much influence the literary labors of two such eminent men of 
letter, his neighbors, so to speak, had upon the mind of young Clarke, especially in inspiring 
in him the insatiable love for books and literary matter that has always been one of his chief 
characteristics. Another removal took him to Bernardston, Mass., where he was placed in 
the then noted Powers Institute, where he was to be fitted for Amherst College. His father 
was now operating a large flouring mill near Chicago, which took lire and was destroyed; its 
owner was taken sick some time afterward, it is supposed from the effects of exposure and 
over-exertion at the Are, his illness terminating fatally. The mill insurance could not be col- 
lected and young Clarke, thrown upon his own resources, reluctantly gave up his idea of 
entering college, left school and at the age of sixteen of his own volition entered a newspaper 
and printing oflice with the determination of entering the trade and business; making rapid 
advancement he was, by the time he had reached his majority, competent to hold any position 
in which he might l)e placed. Passionately fond of travel, he served in many journalistic 
capacities in most of the large cities of the country, principally St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, 
New York and Boston, and gradually acquired the nickname of "Walking Encycloj)edia." 
Medical works early attracted his attention and in 1870, while a proofreader and editor, he 
began in earnest to read medicine with a view of entering a medical college, finally doing so, 
and three years thereafter graduating with honors from the Chicago Homceopathic Medical 
College, March 6, 1884, winning the college dispensary position and in the subse(iuent competi- 
tive examination, the eighteen months interneship in the great Cook County Hospital. Ciiicago. 
Finally settling in Indianapolis associated with Dr. O. S. Runnels, he at once identified him- 
self with the State Medical Society and was elected secretary thereof, a positit)n to which he 
has been yearly re-elected five or six times. He is also a member of the National Society of 
'Homceopathic Physicians, honorary member of the Missouri and Kentucky societies, member 
of the Indiana Academy of Science and (though not a theosophist) secretary' of the Indian- 
apolis Theosophical Society. He was married at Indianapolis February 4, 1890, to Mrs. 
Alice P. Winings, their union being blessed with a beautiful boy, Clarence by name. Being 
of a literary turn of mind by nature and education, before receiving his medical diploma, it 
was impossible for him to afterward lay down his pen; indeed he has kept it phenomenally 
active ever since, all of his spare time Ijeing spent in pre]>ariug articles for medical societies 
in general and for newspafiers. These articles cover a wide range of subjects and are always 
written with a view to entertain and instruct and for this reason are both eagerly welcomed 
by publisher and reader. One of the former thus speaks of him (Minneapolis Medical Argus, 
July, 1892); "To merely enumerate the titles of the topics touched upon by Dr. Clarke to 
the medical journals and newspapers would require all the space in this issue of the Argus. 
Suflice it to say that much of this work has been of a missionary character for homoeopathy. 
Dr. Clarke has done more to bring homoeopathy to the favorable attention of the 
laity than any ii)eml)er of the profession in America, and for this and for his untiring 
energy in all lines of professional work he deserves the hearty thanks of the profession. " And 



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as sbowiui; the esteem in which Dr. Clarke is held at home, the following from an editorial 
in the Indiandiiolifi tSiiu so long ago as November fi, ISSit. mav l>e cited: "Dr. Clarke seems 
to be on the road to recognition as one of the most advanced medical thinkers in the West." 
Dr. Clarke is always quick to see what is needed in any sudden emergency, especially of a 
public nature. For instance daring the blighting heat of the summer of ISlK") when a public 
meeting was called to devise measures to save the babies from its effects, his remarks regard- 
ing the utility of tent life in open spaces and the statistics adduced made such an im]>ression 
that when the Summer Mission for Sick Children was soon after put in operation, his sug- 
gestions were carried out to the letter, the })lau being still followed every year. M'hile Dr. 
Clarke enjoys a large and lucrative prai'tice, lie still tinds time to devote to keeping abreast 
with the advancement made in his profession, as is evidenced l)y the fact that in the winter 
of 1SS7 -88 he visited the various hospitals of New York, as well as by his persistent, thorough 
and systematic reading upon all topics in any way allied with medicine and surgery. 

EuoENK I'UKLL. As the years advance the discovery of some new element has a ten- 
dency to broaden the field of business operations and promulgate a general influence that en- 
ables men to attain a higher grade of knowledge than their predecessors. The different ends 
to which gas has been put have In'ought into activity men of keen business discernment and 
sound judgment. Eugene Uilell represents the Indianapolis Gas Company and he and 
\V. S. Scholield were the founders of the plant at this point, and since that time Mr. Tdell 
has been its most successful and reliable manager. He was born near Albany, N. Y., April 
10, fifty three years ago, a sou of Gardiner Udell, who was also a native of that immediate 
section. The paternal grandfather was a Welshman, and after reaching this country came 
direct to Albany County and located near the Hudson River, and in the vicinity of the town 
of Bethlehem Gardiner Udell was reared. He died in Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1873, at the age 
of sixty-eight years. He was a man of excellent morals, was self made and was highly edu- 
cated through his own efforts. He was an omniverous reader, rememliered what he read, 
and apjilied his knowledge to a good use. He had a host of friends and was held in high 
esteem for his strict integrity and many other noble attriiiutes. He would never accept an}' 
official jiosition, although often urged to do so. He was a strong Al)olitionist prior to and 
during the war and did all he could for the freedom of the colored race. He was first a 
Whig and later a l{ei)ublican in politics. As a farmer he was successful and as he farmed 
on scientific principles he was considered an authority on agricultural questions. He was 
strictly temperate and practiced temperance in all things. His wife was Manervia Bennett, 
who died in New Jersey in 18fi2, when about sixty years of age. In the common schools of 
Albany County, N. Y., the subject of this sketch received his education, which he finished 
in Greenville Seminary. At the age of eighteen years he turned his attention to school 
teaching in Bethlehem, which occupation he continued two terms, at the end of which time 
he entered the United States armory at Springfield and became lock maker for the Sjiring- 
tield Rifles. Tiiree years later, or in 18f)3. he went to Watervliet Arsenal, where he was en- 
gaged in making seieutitic sights for rifled cannon, where he remained until the war closed. 
He then entered the service of the New York Central Railroad, stationed at West Albany, 
but not long afterward he and his wife came west to Ypsilanti, Mich., and bought a farm 
of Lionel Udell, a prominent citizen of that section, and took care of the latter and his wife 
until their respective deaths, which occurred about eight years later. About 1874 Jlr. and Mrs. 
I ciell came to North Indiana|>olis and this place has since been their home. Soon after coming 
here Mr. Uilell became associated with his brother, C. G. Udell, who was the founder of the 
Udell Ladder Works, and soon after this Eugene took charge of the ladder department, 
over which he had control for one 3'ear. At the end of that time he opened a grocery 
store, which he conducted some fifteen years, and during this time he was instrumental in 
establishing the first postoBice and for two years thereafter carried the mail without charging 
for his services. After retiring from the grocery business he succeeded in securing natural 
gas for North Indianapolis and has been manager of the Indianapolis Gas Company ever 
since. The establishment of this plant has been of inestimable benefit to North Indian 
apolis and has been the means of greatly benefitting and improving the town. Mr. Udell 
is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He has never l)een an aspirant for public favor, and 
upon Cleveland's first election to the presidency be resigned the position of postmaster, 



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which he had so long and ably tilled. He has ever V)een uoted for his deeds of charity aud 
beuevolence and it became well kuowii among the fraternity known as "Tourists," that 
Eugene Udell aud his wife never refused to give them aid when asked to do so. Mr. Udell 
was married in 1860 to Miss Fannie \V. Tompkins, a relative of old Guv. Tompkins, and 
a descendant of tlie renowned Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. She is a native of 
Albany County, N. Y., and is the worthy wife of a worthy man. 

Allan Hendricks. In tracing the genealogy of the Hendricks family, we find that our 
subject is related to the Hendricks family of note, that his ancestors came originally from 
Holland, and he from a parentage marked Ijy great strength of character and a certain hos- 
pitality, and largeness of nature. This family emigrated to America at a period antedating 
the Revolutionary War, settled fir.st in New Jersey, and one member fought bravely for 
independence in this war. The original of this notice was born in Madison, Ind., Septem- 
ber 24, 1S64, and his parents, Abram W. and Sarah B. (Butler) Hendricks, were natives 
respectively of Westmoreland County, Penn., and ]Madison, Ind. The father left his native 
State at an early date, and came to Madison, Ind., where he studied law for some time. 
At the breaking out of the Civil War he raised a company in the First Indiana Cavalry, but 
was subse(juently made paymaster, with the rank of colonel, which position he held until the 
cessation of hostilities. He was mustered out late in 1865, aud in 1800 he came to Indian- 
apolis, where he engaged in the practice of law with Oscar B. Hord and Thomas A. Hen- 
dricks. This partnershi|) continued until the death of Gov. Hendricks, 1885, and was con- 
tinued by the survivors until the death of Mr. Hendricks, in 1887. This most worthy aud 
estimable citizen served in the Legislature, session of 1853, and although not an office seeker, 
he held many positions of trust and responsiljility. He was a brilliant lawyer, a fluent aud 
forcible speaker, and one of the foremost men of his section. Of the six children born to 
his marriage live are now living, and Allan Hendricks was second in order of Ijirth. The 
latter passed his boyhood and youth in Indianapolis and there received a good practical edu- 
cation, graduating from one of the city's best institutions of learning in 1882. Subseqviently 
he engaged in the manufacture of pressed brick, which business he carried on with fair 
success for several years. Afterward he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar, 
and has since been in active practice. Distinguished as a boy for maturity of mind and 
expression of thought, when matured he was no less noted for his readiness of wit and 
strong intellectual qualities, making him early in life a peer among the legal lights. He is 
secretary of the Century' Club, director in the Indiana School of Art. director of the Marion 
Club, director of the Hoosier's Savings and Investment Company, and is a member of the 
Commercial Club, besides holding membership in other clubs. In politics he is a stanch 
Republican, and in 1892 he tilled a responsible position in the management of the campaign 
in Marion County. He was chosen secretary of the citizens' executive board, in charge 
of arrangements for the twenty-seventh national encampment, G. A. R., held in Indian 
apolis in September, 1893, and contributed largely to the e.\traordinary success of the 
imdertaking by the faultless discbarge of the exacting duties of his position. Whatever he 
undertakes he does with conscientious aud painstaking care, and his work in various respon 
sible positions has demonstrated that he possesses exceptional capabilities. He has a gen- 
uine and thorough love for literature, the indulgence of which, however, has been resisted 
rather than encouraged. He has, in consequence, written little for publication. His inti- 
mate friends only have been privileged to know of the unpretentious efforts which have 
given evidence of his gifts as a graceful and forcible writer, and which unmistakably indi- 
cate unusual qualifications for the higher order of literary pursuits. 

Theodore Potter, A. M. , M. ,D. One (jf the best educated and most successful of 
the younger physicians of Indianapolis, is Theodore Potter, A. M., M. D., of 36 E. Ohio Street. 
Dv. Potter was born at Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, in lS()l,ason of Rev. L. D. 
Potter, D. D., who is a native of New Jersey and a descendant from some of the eaily fam- 
ilies of that State. His grandfather was a colonel in the Colonial army during the Revolu- 
tionary War and his father was a major in the United States army in the War of 1812. Rev. 
Dr. Potter was graduated from Princeton College in 1841, and has lived for thirty-seven 
years at Glendale, Ohio, where he has been for many years president of the Glendale Fe- 
male College. Dr. Theodore Potter was educated in the public schools of his native place, 



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and at Dr. Hammiirs celehrated scbool at Lawienceville near Trenton, and at Princeton Uni- 
versity, and he was graduated at Princeton, one of the honored men of his class in 1SS2. His 
standing in college may be inferred from the fact that he was one of the editors of a literary 
paper at Princeton, which institution conferred upon him in ISS't the degree of A. M. lu 
1S82-S8 he was an instructor at Miami University Classical School, Oxford, Ohio, and then 
began the stndy of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. After fonr 
years diligent application he was graduated in 1887, again with honors, receiving in the 
class of 1SS7 the prizes for the best examination in obstetrics and in the practice of medi- 
cine. During the succeeding year he was house physician in the Good Samaritan Hospital 
at Cincinnati and was appointed assistant demonstrator of bacteriology in the Medical Col- 
lege of Ohio. He was for a time associated with Dr. J. T. Whitaker. as assistant in prac- 
tice and in medico-literary work. In 18S8 he went to Gei-many. spending about a year in 
hospital and laboratory work, returning to this country and locating in Indianapolis in the 
spring of l*^SVt. In the summer of that year he was appointed demonstrator of bacteriology 
and general microscopy in the Medical College of Indiana, and during the succeeding year 
established and conducted the three lines of work which have since giown into the laboratory 
coui-ses in Histology, pathology and bacteriology in that institution. In 1891 he was elected 
professor of bacteriology, the chair being created for him. and in 1893 he was made 
professor of pathology and bacteriology. The same year he was apj>ointed on the staff of 
the City Hospital, having previously been chosen one of the consulting staff of the City 
Dispensary, soon afterward becoming consulting physician for chest diseases to the last- 
meutioned charity. With the reorganizatian of the Indiana Medical Journal in the spring 
of 1S92. Dr. Potter became one of its editors. He has read a number of papers before the 
County and State Medical Associations, several of them having been published. For several 
years he was appointed a committee of one to make the annual report upon bacteriology of 
the State Medical Society. Dr. Potter is a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club, of 
the Portfolio Club and of the Indiana .\cademy of Sciences. 

Thomas P. Mills. Of the many solid citizens engaged in the handling of realty in 
Indianapolis, there is not one who stands higher in public esteem or who enjoy a more sub- 
stantial share of recognition, than Thomas P. Mills, who is a memlier of the well known 
firm of Mills <.t Small, dealers in real estate, loans, rents, etc. Mr. Mills has Ijeen established 
in the line indicated for the past twenty-one years, and by close application and strict 
integrity has acquired a prosperous and infliiential business connection, numbering in his 
clientele some of the wealthiest property owners and shrewdest investors in the community- 
Mr. Mills who was born in Green County, Ohio, December 15, 1835. is a man of energy and 
sagacity, as well as entire probity of character and is thoroughly conversant with every 
feature and detail pertaining to the purchase, sale, transfer, and management of real estate. 
Appraisements are made for purchasers, Mr. Mills being accounted one of the very best 
judges of the present and prospective values of realty in and around Indianapolis. The 
parents of Thomas P. Mills. David and Meloua (Brock I Mills, were born in South Carolina 
and Virginia respectively, the former being a farmer and stock dealer by occupation. In 
182"2 he became a resident of the Buckeye State but in 1838 removed still farther westward 
to Hendricks County, Ind.. where he was prosperously engaged in Inisiuess for several years. 
In 1866 Indianapolis became his home and here he conducted a liverly stable until 1874 
when he retired. His death occurred in 1880. his wife's death also occurring in that year. 
Thoniis P. Mills was about three years old when his parents came to Indiana and until 
fifteen years of age he resided on his father's farm in Hendricks County, at which time he 
entered his father's store as a clerk, after having acquired a good practical education in the 
common schools and at Mooresville College. After clerking for about three vears he returned 
to his father's farm where he engaged in agricultural and stock pursuits on an extensive scale 
for several years, but in 1872 disposed of his land, stock and other property to come to 
Indianapolis and engage in the real estate business which he has followed continuously 
ever since with most satisfactory results. On Novemlier 4, 1854, Mr. Mills was married to 
Miss Anna Bowles, a native of Wayne County Ind., a daughter of George and Elizalteth 
(Bailey^ Bowles, natives of North Carolina, the former having Iieen the owner of but sold the 
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of whom died when young. Mr. Mills is a uiember of the A. F. & A. M., the A. F. 
A. , belongs to the Republican party and he and his wife have long been members of the 
Friends Church, of which Mrs. Mills has been a minister for a number of years. 

WiLLi.\ii Williams was born in Rockbridge County, Va., near the Natural Bridge, April 
1, 1S22, and two years later his parents, William and Mary (Sanders) Williams, moved to 
Botetourt County, Va., where the father, who was a cooper, made barrels for a flour mill. 
The parents were natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively, and the father was a 
soldier in the War of 1812. Twelve children were born to their union, as follows: Pow- 
hatan; Mildred, who married Samuel Morricle; Hector; Adeline, deceased, was the wife of 
William Zimmerman; Nancy, deceased, married Mr. Kitterman; David; Malinda, deceased, 
was the wife of Preston Joues; William (subject); John, killed in the Confederate service; 
Susan, deceased, who was the wife of Early Dickinson; Demaris, deceased, was the wife of 
Mr. Kitterman, and Matthew died from the effects of a wound received in the Confederate 
service; he was the husband of a Miss Saurs. The father of these childreu died in Virginia 
in 1842 and his wife followed him to the grave in 1856. Until sixteen years of age our sub- 
ject remained in Botetourt County, and during that time only received about two terms of 
schooling. He worked with his father and five brothers at tlie cooper trade until January, 
1849, when he started for California. He reached St. Louis and found the prospect for get- 
ting an outfit so poor that he and 100 others abandoned the trip. He then came to Marion 
County, Ind., and for three years was engaged in making barrels. In 1852 he bought eighty 
acres in Perry township and tilled the soil there for three years when he went to Iowa and 
bought 100 acres of land in Benton County. One year later he returned to Marion County, 
Ind. , and purchased forty acres in Perr}' township. On this he erected a house and made 
his home there until 1863, when he sold it and the following year bought eighty acres of 
Andrew Shirk, in Section 15, Range 4 east, and paid $21 per acre, all green timber. In 
September, 18()4, Mr. Williams was drafted and assigned to Company H, Seventeenth Indi- 
ana Infantry, and serveil nine months. He participated in the following battles: Red 
Mountain Iron Works, near Selma, and at Selma. From there they went to Montgomery, 
Ala. ; thence to Columbia, Macon, Ga., and Oglethorpe, Ga. , where they remained about three 
weeks, and in the latter part of June Mr. Williams retiuned home. The next day, June 21, 
he commenced cutting the wheat he had put in in the fall when drafted. In 1865 he bought 
ten acres at $75 per acre, and a year or so later he purchased the balance of the forty acres 
for $65 per acre. In 1893 he bought forty acres at $60 per acre and all his land is cleared 
except about twenty acres. In 1892 Mr. Williams raised about 1,100 bushels of wheat. He 
raises from twenty to twenty-five acres of corn per year that averages about seventy-five 
bushels to the acre. In 1893, on seven acres, he raised 400 bushels. In politics 
Mr. Williams has ever been a decided Democrat. He joined the Missionar}' Baptist 
Church in Virginia when nineteen years of age and has held membership in the 
same ever since. His wife is also a member of that church. He has always refused 
office, both in army and civil life and the church, except to serve as trustee in the 
latter. He was never sued in his life, and never sued but one man when he had to pay the 
costs. He then decided that he had done with law. Mr. Williams was married December 
26, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth J. Sanders, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Obeuchain) San- 
ders, and twelve children were given them: George E., married Miss Martha McClain, and 
they have three children, Joel E. , Clarence E. and Katy V.; Sarah, died when about 
ten years of age; John W. , died in 1888, married Miss Ruth Girton, daughter of Ad. 
Girton, and left one daughter, Carrie J.; Flora B., died June 22, 1861, when an infant; 
Mary E., died August 7, 1865, when an infant; Charles A., born June 13, 1865, and died 
August 13, 1877; Nora F., born October 9, 1868; Laura A., born July 17, 1866; Owen, born 
March 19, 1871, married Miss Sadie Toon, daughter of Lewis and Dicey (Collins) Toon (they 
have one son, Charles); Ida B., born September 11, 1873, married Oscar Morgan, May 12, 
1892; Katie, born January 14, 1876. died August 13, 1877, and Artie May, l)orn August 12, 
1877. John Sauders, father of Mrs. Williams, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., and he 
was there married to Miss Elizabeth Obeuchain. He was a blacksmith by trade and came to 
Indiana in 1848, settling in Marion County. Later he moved to Benton County, Iowa, and 

there died about 1864. His wife died in l886. Five children were born to them, as follows: 
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George, who luarried Miss Elizal)eth Wlieateraft, resides in Indiana; Elizahetli J., subject's 
wife; John W., who married Miss Sarah Kerns and now makes his home in Iowa; Mary V., 
married Robert Kirkpatrick, and is now a widow residing in Texas, and Edward J., who 
married Miss Emma Watson and resides in Iowa. 

Joseph Penn, one of the well known and prominent agriculturists of Marion County, 
Ind., and a lineal descendant of the famous William Penii, owes his nativity to Bourbon 
County, Ky., his Inrth occurring near Paris, right in the heart of the Blue-Grass region, 
January 21, 18"2+. The incidents of his early life were not materially different from those 
of other boys living on farms in the country. He was taught to work at anything necessary 
for him to do, ami ia this manner gained habits of industry and perseverance which have 
remained with him through life. In common with other boys he attended school winters in 
the stereotyped log school house, and in summer assisted in clearing away the forest, fencing 
the fields and raising crops after the land was improved. He would rise long before day- 
light, and after liiiishing his feeding and chores, would walk three miles to the school-house, 
where he remained all day. He learned to read and write and to figure a little. In 1847 
he married Miss Elizalietii Webb, daughter of John Wel)b, a native of Virginia, and the same 
fall he and his bride started for Indianapolis, Ind., where her father had settled in 1840. 
They made the journey on horseback, and arriving in Marion County about four days after 
starting, slopi)ed with her brother, Austin Webb, who lived on eighty acres of land in Perry 
Townshij). There Mr. and Mrs. Penn remained during the winter and in the spring 
returned on horseback to Kentucky, where our subject began working on his father's farm. 
There he remained until 1851, when he started with his wife for Montgomery County, Ind., 
where he had two married sisters living. He located in Brown Township, that County, 
about nine miles south of Crawfordsville, where he purchased 12(1 acres of land, paying 
$1,875 for the tract. Of this land half of it was ready for the plow. A frame house of two 
rooms had been erected, also a log stable, a well dug and an orchard set out. Mr. Penn 
resided on this tract about eight years, making many improvements, and then, in 1859, he 
sold the place to David Gayley for |35 per acre. Mr. Penn subsequently bought 208 acres 
on Indian Creek, Brown Township, paying $38 per acre, and of this tract there were about 
seveuty-five acres cleared, a three room frame house erected, also a log stable, and a tine 
orchard sot out. On this farm Mr. Penn resided for about twenty five years, or until he came to 
Marion County, Ind., and in that time made many improvements. His son, Lafayette Penn, 
now occupies this farm. During the Civil War Mr. Penn purchased forty acres of land 
formerly owned l)y Moses Orme, located in Perry Township, Marion County, Ind., and in 
1884 he had a good barn and a fine two-story brick house of eight rooms erected on this 
tract. The following year he moved to this lovely place and here he now resides, practically 
retired from the active duties of life. Later he purchased forty acres adjoining, and still 
later twenty acres, on which he set out a tine orchard. He has 100 acres cleared and is 
one of the prosperous farmers of the locality. In politics he is a Democrat. Although not 
a member of any church he attends the Christian Church, in which his wife holds member- 
ship. He has never belonged to any secret organization. Mr. Penn's union was blessed by 
the birth of seven children, as follows: John T. , who resides in Montgomery County, Ind., 
on a tract of 214 acres owned by his father, married first Miss Piney Watson, by whom he 
had one daughter, Margaret, who married a man named Bailey. John T. took for his 
second wife Miss Eva Moore, who bore him four children as follows: Walter, Grace, Bessie 
and Sallie; David is at home, unmarried: Sarah, died in Montgomery County in 1884, aged 
twenty-five years; Mary died in infancy; Lafayette resides on the old farm in Montgomery 
County; he married Miss Lena Ray and they have three children, as follows: Florence. Ford 
and Ruth; Charles resides near John Penn, and is also married, his wife's maiden name be- 
ing Frances Howard; they have had three children, Harry, William and Roy; and Mattie 
makes her home with her parents. David Penn, the father of our subject, willed the latter 
225 acres in Bourbon County, Ky., and Joseph subsequently bought 125 acres more in that 
county. David Penn was a native of Bourbon County, born in 1797, and he was there 
reared and lived nearl}' all his life. He was married before twenty-one years of age to Miss 
Mary Lyon, daughter of John Lyon, and received fort}' acres of land from his father. Later 
he became the owner of several good farms in Bourbon County. He was a Democrat in his 



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political views. He was uot a member of auy church. Seven children were born to this mar- 
riage: Jacob, who resides in Scott County, Ky. , married Miss Sallie Rogers; Charlotte, who 
married Oliver McLeod, makes her home iu Montgomery County,; Joseph (our subject); 
David married Miss Kate Ilnssell and died in 1873; Mary E., married Dr. Jcseph Russell, 
who died in 1893, and now resides in Montgomery County, Ind.; William, who died unmar- 
ried, and Betty died unmarried. After the death of the mother of these children the father 
married Mrs. Pauline Jones, nee Griffith, of Harrison County, Ky., where she owned a farm 
on which Mr. Penn and she lived until her death. Afterward the father came to Indiana 
and died at the home of our subject in the fall of 1889. Joseph Penn, grandfather of our 
subject, was a native of Maryland, but emigrated to Kentucky when that State was almost 
one vast canebrake. He was married twice, first iu Maryland and the second time in Ken- 
tucky. Six children were liorn to the first and eight to the second union. The father of 
our subject was oue of the children born to the second union, his mother's maiden name be 
ing Charlotte Acre, who was of Dutch extraction. The children born to the first union 
were named as follows. Eli, Daniel, Thomas, Samuel, George and Ann. The eldest child 
served in the War of 1812. The children of the second marriage were named as follows: 
Elizabeth, Jane, Delilah, John, David, Sallie, Susan and Joseph. All these children are 
dead, our subject's father being the last to die. 

Louis M. Rowe, M. D. The profession of the physician and surgeon is one that has 
drawn to it, at all periods of its history, the brightest and most honorable of men; for none 
but an intelligent, well-informed man could be a physician at all, and no physician not a 
man of honor could long retain a profitable practice. Indianapolis has always been fortu- 
nate in its physicians, and it is especially so, during recent years, in its younger generation of 
practitioners, who have contributed much to the enhancement of the city's reputation as a 
center of medical knowledge. Conspicuous among these is Dr. Louis M. Rowe who was 
born iu Columbus, Ohio, August 20, 1858, a sou of W. E. and Emma S. (Large) Rowe, the 
former a native of Massachusetts, the latter a native of Ohio. W. E. Rowe has been a rail- 
road man for many years, formerly lived in Indianapolis, and is at this time a resident of 
Fountain County, Ind. Dr. Rowe came to Indianapolis with his parents when a mere child, 
and was educated in the public schools of the city and at the Illinois Industrial University. 
In the fall of 1878 he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of the late Dr. 
T. B. Harvey. In 1879 he entered the Medical College of Indiana and was graduated there- 
from with the degree of M. D. in 1882. Dr. Harvey had trained him and supervised his 
education with the sole idea of making him his assistant in his large practice, and he was 
that successful and skillful practitioner's sole recognized assistant until Dr. Harvey's death. 
Siuce that event. Dr. Rowe has been engaged, with ever increasing success in a constantly 
broadening field, iu a general practice, including among his regular patrons some of the 
leading families of the city and its suburbs. From 1884 to 1889, he was assistant to Dr. 
Harvey, who held the chair of Gynecology in the Medical College of Indiana, and with such 
splendid opportunities and under such distinguished preceptorship, started iu a department 
of investigation in which, in his subsequent practice, he has developed into a most distin- 
guished practitioner, having, from first to last, performed about every operation known to 
gynecology. At different times, as the demands of his large practice have permitted, he 
has visited the leading hospitals of the country, at New York and elsewhere, and has there 
further studied this important specialty and perfected himself generally in his profession. 
Dr. Rowe is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical 
Society, of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and of the American Medical Asso 
ciatiou, and has often attended the conventions of the State and National organizations as a 
delegate from the county association. He has prepared and read before these various socie- 
ties papers on medical and surgical subjects which have attracted wide attention and have 
been published in some of the leading medical and surgical journals of the country. In 
1892, Dr. Rowe married May E. Wollen, daughter of Thomas and Keziah Wollen, her father 
a native of Marion County, her mother a native of Kentucky, her ancestors having been 
among the early settlers of this part of the country. In politics Dr. Rowe is a Democrat, 
and though not a politician in the ordinary sense and having no object of personal gain to 



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serve, is iatelligently and most earnestly interested in the public welfare as cuiicerus the 
city, the county, the State and the country at large. ' 

Adgdstus Lynch Masox, one of the younger citizens of Indianapolis, was born February 
10. 1859, in Bloomington. Monroe County. Ind. His grandfather, Thomas H. Lynch, was 
a Methodist preacher, well kuown m Indianaj)olis for the last half century. At the time of 
his birth his father. N\'illiam F. Mason, was a Methodist minister, and the birthplace of the 
young man was the Methodist parsonage at Bloomington. His boyhood was passed in Cin- 
cinnati where he attended the public schools. lu 1872 his parents removed to Indianapolis 
where he entered what was then known as the Northwestern Christian University, now known 
as Butler University, attending there for two years. In 1876 he entered Indiana Asbury 
University, now known as DePauw, at Greencastle, lud., where he graduated in 1879. On 
leaving college he entered the law office of McDonald & Butler in this city for the purpose 
of studying law. At the time the Mrm had the largest practice in the State, and Mr. Mason 
was the youngest of a series of six clerks and students. By good fortune, in the course of 
two years, he became chief clerk for the tirm and began to take part in im])ortant litigation. 
In 1882 Judge Robert N. Lamb, of the ludiauapolis bar, took Mr. Masou into partnership 
with him. a business relation which continued for a year. During this year Mr. George C 
Butler, a brilliant young lawyer, well known at the time to Indianapolis lawyers, junior 
member of the old tirm of McDonald & Butler, died, and Mr. Mason was invited to become 
his successor in the tirm. The arragnement was consummated May 1, 1883, and the firm con 
tinned to be known as McDonald, Butler t.^ Mason imtil the latter part of 1887. At the time 
of entering the McDonald firm Mr. Mason gave considerable attention to writing, being 
spurred thereto l)y the necessity for money. He wrote a large part of the " Life of Gar- 
field'" within thirty days after the statesman's death; the liook was published under the 
name of John Clark Ridpath, by whom Mr. Mason was employed to assist in the prepara- 
tion of the book. So successful were the chapters in the "' Life of Garfield" prepared by 
Mr. Mason, that at the close of this work he was invited to prepare a popular history of the 
famous Indian warriors and frontiersmen of North America, wliich offer was accepted. In 
eight months he produceil a work of a thousand pages known as "The Pioneer History of 
America" and published in Cincinnati. The l)ook met with a very large sale at the hands 
of subscription l)ook agents. In the preparation of the work Mr. ^lason read and annotated 
some oOll volumes from which he drew his information. His only regret concerning the 
l)ook developed a year or two since when a prominent politician of this State met him in a 
train and declared that the book had caused his vouugest son to run awa^' for the purpose of 
fighting Indians and it cost him ?500 to recover the youth. In the latter part of 1887 Mr. 
Mason had the misfortune to feel the effects of overwork and found that his health was 
seriously impaired. By the advice of physicians he was compelled to retire from business 
and spent a year in travel, visiting practically every part of the United States. In January, 
1889, he returned to Indianapolis much improved in health, and reopened his law office. 
While engaged iu general practice he was chosen by the commercial club and board of 
trade for the purpose of investigating the condition of the laws governing the city of Indian- 
apolis at that time. After careful studj' of the suliject he made a report pointing out the 
unsatisfactory conditions of the laws governing the city as the source if many of the evils 
then existing in the government of the city, and recommended that an entirely new charter be 
prepared for the city and presented to the new Legislature covering the whole field of the 
government of the city. After a mouth or two of hesitation this report was adopted and in 
connection with a committee of eight other members, well known business men, the work of 
reconstructing the charter was commenced. It occupied nearly a year, and was l)ased on the 
latest approved notions of municipal government as tested by other cities, as well as introduc- 
ing many ideas heretofore untried in this country. It was remarked to Mr. Mason when the 
the bill passed the Legislature that it would have been better for his reputation had it failed, 
for the reason that much of it would undoubtedly be held unconstitutional. A large number 
of suits have gone to the Supreme Court involving the validity of various provisions of the 
charter, but up to this time not one line of the charter has been held invalid. It is under 
this law that the entire executive and administrative authority of the city is lodged in the 
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levees ami viaducts, the sprinkling and sweeping of improved streets are paid for by abutting 

property holders whose property is l,enefited. The city is also authorized to build and own 

ts own water, gas and electric light works, as well as its street railways. None of these last 




to him Althouc^h cairying on the burden of his law office, he found time to prepare and 
deliver many lechires before the law school during a period of three years, taking a particu- 
lar interest in corporation and patent law, in which he had done his best work. His connec^ 
tion with corporation matters led him to various employments looking to the construction of 
new street railroad lines in Indianapolis ns well as to the purchase of the o d ones. In the 
sprino' of 1893 Mr. Mason accepted, for the time being, the presidency of all the street rail- 
road fines of the citv, in which position he still continues, although spending part of every 
day in his law office. His tastes are literary and he believes in the gospel of hard work. In 
politics he is a pronounced Republican, and in religion a member of the Methodist church, 
although inclining strongly to the most liberal religious opinions. On January J;), l^yrf, 
Mr. Mason married Miss Annie D. Porter, the only daughter of Hon. Albert G. Porter, ex- 
t^overnor of Indiana, and ex-United States minister at Rome. Italy. 

" Abxer L Newl.\nd. We do not measure a man's life by years but by intensity, if 
we measure the life of Mr. Newland by the work he has accomplished then he is the most 
venerable of men, although he is now but sixty-three years of age, his birth having occurred 
in Union County, Ind., September 30, 1830, near Dunlapville. As an influential citizen of 
the flourishing city of Indianapolis and one who has done much for its growth and advance- 
ment it gives us pleasure to present the main facts of his life to our readers. Both his 
paternal and maternal ancestors were early settlers of Indiana, some of them settling in 
Franklin County as early as 1804. In 1847 our subject moved with his parents to Indian- 
apolis and worked on a farm the first year, a part of the city now standing on that farm. 
Later he tancrht school in Morgan County, near the town of Waverly, Cyrus \\etzel, a 
descendent of the celebrated Indian fighter, being school trustee. After teaching two 
terms he returned to Indianapolis and began clerking for William John Wallace, continuing 
with him for several months. He left there to accept a position as clerk in the post-office 
under W. W. Wick and was a member of the City Grays, a military company that afterward 
furnished so maiiv officers for the war. He was also a member of the City Grays' Band 
and was with them during the gold fever excitement in New Mexico, when they made the 
trip to that countrv. Gold was not so plenty as represented, and Mr. Newland and his com- 
iianions decided to take a look at the western country. He went south through New Mexico 
to Arizona, Old Mexico, 'and through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico and thence back to 
Indianapalis l.y way of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, covering a distance of about .StIW 
miles in about two years. After reaching Indianapolis he entered the store of A. Wallace 
and remained with him until the breaking out of the Civil War. He entered Canip Morton 
the day after the firing on Fort Sumter, and was organized with Company A, Thirteenth 
Indiana, and was made first sergeant. Later he was promoted to sergeant-major at Beverly, 
Va and at the end of six months was promoted to lieutenant and captain, both commis- 
sion's coming by the same mail. After two years' service he was obliged to resign on accoiint 
of disability and he then returned to Indianapolis, where he has since made his home. He 
served as deputy sheriff under Albert Russner and filled the same position m a creditable- 
and efficient manner under Sheriff Isaac King. Later he was bailiff in the Circuit 
Court under Judge Jacob Julian, Alex. C. Ayres, Thomas L. Sullivan and Edgar A. 
Brown. In 1885 he was elected to the council from the twenty-first ward over Pres_ 
ton C. Trussler by a majority of twenty-sii. He is one of the city's most esteemed 
and worthv citizelis and in every walk of life has acquitted himself with credit. In 
domestic pleasure Mr. Newland has found agreeable diversion from the many duties that 
have accumulated around him as an official servant. He has an efficient and cheerful help- 
mate in his wife, who was formerly Miss Sarah E. Bidgood, and whom he married 



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April 3, 1879, at Cninberland, Marion County, Ind. Thev have two children, thrown 
ci son and daughter. " ' f^ > 

O. G. Pfaff, M. D. Among all the able physicians of Indianapolis there is prohablv 
not a more popular general practitioner or a more learned or skillful gynecologist (in which 
department of practice he has performed with gratifying success about every known opera 
tion) than Dr. O. G. Pfaff. Dr. Pfaff belongs to an ancient German family, who bore arms 
as early as the fourteenth century. His father, Dr. Jacob L. Pfaff, was the son of parents 
who came from the " Fatherland " and located in North Carolina just previous to the Kevo 
lutiouary War, in which his father (Dr. Pfaff' s grandfather) served gallantly in defense of 
American independence. In the State mentioned Dr. Jacob L. Pfaff was born. He trradu 
Hted in medicine in North Carolina medical institutions and was for some time thereafter 
associated in practice with an eminent German physician. On account of his pronounced 
anti-slavery views he left North Carolina and took up his residence in Indiana about 1840 
and, locating at Westiield, lived there until his death, which occurred in 1859. As a physi' 
cian he was quite successful, but he made himself unpopular with some (jf his neicrhbors by 
his unequivocal denunciation of slavery in private and in public, for he made many speeches 
in favor of al)olition, which were characterized by all the bitterness engendered in"the hearts 
of haters of human bondage at that time, when the misnamed "divine institution" was a 
black blot on our American escutcheon. He was reviled, insulted and at times moblied 
When invective was found to have no effect upon him missiles, sometimes eggs, were brought 
into requisition, but he did not fear death and they did not deter him from going right ahead 
in the plain path of his duty. He gave to the anti slavery cause much time and a good deal 
of money; he sacnticed to it a part of the success that might have been his had he refrained 
from taking the bold stand he took. He was for years manager of a portion of that historic 
yet unsurveyed " underground railroad," and as such was instrumental in sending a good 
many of his black-skinued fellow men to a freedom beyond our borders that they could not 
find within them. For years he fought a brave and determined light, in which he found no 
mercy and never demanded a truce, and he died just before emancipation was an accom- 
plished fact; but his movement is absolute freedom to all men under the stars and strii)e8 
which will never again be curtailed or circumscribed. In 1858 (April 28), only a year, more 
or less, before the death of this grand man of the people, occurred the birth of his son. Dr. 
O. G. Pfaff. When the latter was six years old. doubly orphaned, his mother having died 
too, he came to Indianapolis and was given a home with" his elder lirothers, who afforded him 
every advantage within their means, not the least of which was opportunity to attend the 
public schools. At the age of twenty he entered the office of the late Dr. T. B. Harvey, and 
under the direction of that able preceptor began the study of medicine. In 1878 he became 
a student in the medical college of Indiana, and was graduated from that institution in 1882. 
During the six months succeeding his graduation ho practiced his profession with Dr. Har- 
vey, and was then, by the county commissioners of Marion County, appointed resident phy- 
sician at the Marion County Asylum, a position which he retaineda year and a half. For'a 
short time after severing his connection with that institution he practiced his profession in 
Wi.sconsin, but he soon located permanently in Indianapolis and has grown into a large gen- 
eral practice and a reputation as a gynecologist that has given him high standing in his pro- 
fession. He has been connected with the Medical College of Indiana in various capacities 
and has been of almost invaluable aid to that institution. At this time he is its leelurer on 
iliseases of women. He is also consulting gynecologist to the city dispensaiv and to St. 
Vincent's Hospital. In 1890 Dr. Pfaff took a post-graduate course" at the New York post- 
graduate school and another in 1891 in the New York Polyclinic. In 1892 he took a special 
course in gynecology, under Dr. August Martin, at Berlin. "Germany , and attended clinics at 
the University at Berlin. He is a member of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, of the 
Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana|)olis State Medical Society, of the Mississippi 
Valley Medical A.ssoeiation and of the American Medical Association. Politically, Dr. Pfaff 
is a most enthusiastic Republican. He is a K. of H., and is medical examiner for 
that order in his district. He was married November 24, 1885, to Mary Alvv, daughter of 
James H. Alvy and a native of Indianapolis. 



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Samuel Small. Within years of recent date the remarkable growth of the real estate 
business has given it a prominence and placed it in a position attained by very few other 
elements in this country. This increase and promotion can be nothing less than a reflex of 
the progress and prosperity of every general interest in the community and constitutes a 
strong reason for gratiticalion among all appreciative and observant business men. In In 
dianapolis this phase of affairs is noticeable and argues brightly for the future. In this 
connection the name of Samuel Small is conspicuous and enterprising and occupies a recog- 
nized position among both real estate agents and the owners of property. He was born at 
Greensboro, in Henry County, Ind. , July 'ji4, 1843, his parents being Joseph and Jane 
(Phelps) Small, the former of whom was born in Wayne County, Ind., and the latter in Gil- 
bert County, N. C. Joseph Small became a thrifty farmer of Henry County, where he made 
his home until 1850, at which time he removed to Hendricks County, Ind., where he con- 
tinued the same occupation until his death, which occurred in February, 1887, his wife's 
death having occurred two years earlier. Samuel Small was about eight years old at the 
time of his parents' settlement in Hendricks County, and there he was brought up to the 
healthy, active and useful life of the farmer, the rudiments of his literary education being 
obtained in the common schools and at Mooresville High School. After leaving school he 
purchased a saw-mill at Plaintield; which he operated successfully for about three years, 
then sold the same and erected a grist-mill at a cost of about $9,000, but a short time after 
its completion he exchanged it for a farm of 120 acres in Hamilton County and for eleven years 
was occupied in tilling this land with satisfactory financial results. Always of a generous 
disposition and warmly attached to his friends, he became security for a number of them to 
considerable amounts and upon their inability to pay was compelled to liquidate the 
amounts, thus losing heavily. He then gave u]i his farm and removed to Plainlield, in 1881, 
where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, but on January 1, 1889, he 
became a member of the present firm of Mills & Small and moved to tlie city March 14, 1890. 
These gentlemen have had sufficient experience in the handling of real estate to make them- 
selves and their advice valuable in the extreme to operators who intrust their interests in their 
hands. November 7, 1866, Mr. Small was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Coggeshall, a 
native of Wayne County, Ind., and to them a family of five children have been given: Leora 
B. , Millicent J., Bethana Estella, Joseph O. and Robert P. The wife and mother was called 
from life in February, 1890, and on June 29, 1892, Mr. Small was united in marriage to Miss 
Anna M. Keehn, a native of Reading, Berks County, Penn. Mr. Small has always been a 
Repul)lican in politics, is a member of the Friends' Church, and socially is a member of the 
A. O. U. W., in which he has held various positions of honor. 

John B. Cockrum. Am'jiig the prominent men of Indianapolis, Ind., stands the name 
of John B. Cockrum, who is at present assistant general attorney of the Lake Erie & 
Western Railroad at that place. He is a product of Indiana, born in Gibson County. Sep- 
tember 12, 1857, and his parents, Col. W. M. and Lueretia (Harper) Cockrum, were natives 
of that county also. The paternal grandfather, Col. James W. Cockrum, came from 
North Carolina at an early day. and settled in Gibson County, Ind., where he was one of 
the pioneers. He laid out Oakland City and followed the occupation of a farmer, but in 
connection was also engaged in mei-chandising. He was Colonel of the State Militia during 
the Mexican war, and was a prominent man. At an early date he was a member of the 
Legislature and associated with the Hon. William H. English, now of this city. The closing 
scenes of his life were passed in Gibson County. Our subject's maternal grandfather, John 
Harper, was an early settler of Gibson County, Ind. , and of an old and highly respected 
family. The father of our subject, Col. William M. Cockrum, is still a resident of Oakland 
City, Ind., and one of its most esteemed and popular citizens. He has been identified with 
all public interests, and is in every way a most worthy citizen. Although active in political 
matters he has never aspired to nor filled any political office, preferring instead to give his 
entire attention to his extensive farm. During the Civil war he was lieutenant colonel of 
the Forty-second Indiana Regiment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Chicka- 
raauga. For some time he laid on the l)attle-field and was then cajitnred and taken to 
Libby Prison where he remained seven months. He was an inmate of the [)rison at the 
time Col. Streight and others made their escape through the famous tunnel. He was 



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paroled at Columlnis, Ohio, took charge of his regiment as lieutenant-colonel, and remained 
with the same until the close of the war. By his union with Miss Harper he became the 
father of nine children, as follows: John B., Ella, Clara, Willie, Morton, Zue, May, James 
\V. and Marion O . all of whom are living except Willie who died in infancy. John B. 
('ockrum, the eldest of these children, grew to mature years in his native town, secured a 
fair education in the same, and then taught school for three years. Later he graduated in 
the Cincinnati Law School. This was in the spring of 1S79, wheri twenty one years of age, 
and he subsequently formed a partnership with C. W. Armstrong, of Boonville, Warrick 
County, Ind. This continued until 1S83, when they together formed a partnership with 
Judge JohnB. Handy, under the firm name of Handy, Armstrong & Cockrum, the same con- 
tinuing until 18Sy. They had the most extensive law practice of any firm in that county. 
Mr. Cockrum is a man of very superior natural endowments, strengthened and enriched by the 
highest culture. His mind is clear, concise, analytical and well poised. Of ipiick per- 
ception, he reaches at a bound what might cause others hours of study and research. He 
impresses you at once as a man of great strength, depth and grasp of mind. In 1888 he 
was selected as the Harrison delegate to the Chicago convention, in as hard a fought dis 
trict convention as was ever held in the State. He was active in this campaign and on 
March 12, 1889, he was appointed assistant United States district attorney for the district 
of Indiana, by President Harrison. This position he held until April 20, 1893. On March 
1, of that year he was a|)pi)inted assistant general attorney for the Lake Erie & Western 
Railroad, Mr. W. E. Hackedorn being general attorney. This position he holds at the 
present time and has recently taken up his residence in Indianapolis, where he purchased 
property on College Avenue. His fine home is presided over by his worthy companion, 
frjrmerly Miss Fannie C. Bittrolff, of Evansville, Ind., whom he married on January 22, 
1880. Two interesting children are the fruits of this union, Freeda and Oatley, aged 
twelve and ten respectively. Mr. Cockrum takes a deep interest in political affairs and 
wields his influence for his party. He is identified with nearly all the secret societies and 
several prominent clulis of the city. He is an Odd Fellow, has held the office of grand 
patriarch of the grand encampment of Indiana, is a Mason, and a K. of P., being chairman 
of the grievances and appeals committee of the grand lodge, and is a member of the Com- 
mercial and Columliia Clubs. 

W. E. Hackedorn. Among the citizens of Indianapolis who have carried their way 
from a modest beginning to the rank of its prominent men, not one occupies a more envi- 
able position than W. E. Hackedorn. Possessed of excellent ability, grafted upon a 
stock of sturdy honesty, he also possesses a goodly degree of those personal attributes that 
spring from a kindly heart, an honest purpose, a broad liberality and a fraternal sympathy. 
He was born in Richland County, Ohio, January 29, 1855, to George G. and Lucinda S. 
(Siiur) Hackedorn, the former of whom was a physician by profession, but spent the greater 
part of his life as a banker at Lima, Ohio. He paid the last debt of nature September 1, 
1874. The subject of this sketch was brought up in Lima and was educated in the public 
schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, from which he graduated in 1875. 
Soon after this event he began the study of law and began his j^ractice at Lima. He 
moved to Indianapolis in the fall of 1887, and soon after became connected with the Lake 
Erie & Western Railroad Company, as attorney, which connection has continued u]) to the 
present time to the satisfaction of all concerned. From 1878 to 1SS2 he was attorney for 
the Sandusky Division, and in 1883 was made general attorney for this road, and as such 
still continues. Since 1890 he has also been general attorney for the Fort Wayne, Cincin- 
nati & Louisville Railroad Company, and throughout his entire professional career he has 
been closely identified with railway interests, his advice and labors in their behalf being 
highly valued notwithstanding his youth. He is also secretary of the Indianapolis & 
Northeastern Railroad (company. Personally he is universally )iopular, and in all relations 
his life is without blemish or stain. In 1885 he was married to Miss Dell Hull, of Bucvrus, 
Ohio. 

Lafayette F. Page. M. D. Diseases of the nose, throat and ear, including catarrhal, 
bronchial and allied ailments, have during recent years received the special attention of 
luany physicians of skill and eminence. One of the most conspienoua of the medical prac- 



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fiHoners of Indiiinapolis clevotiiif;; himself to these branches of practice, is Dr. Lafayette F. 
Pacje, who was born at Columbia, Ky., May 21, 1863, and is a son of Robert anil Mary (Irving) 
Page, natives of Charlottesville, Va. Robert Page was a business man of prominence. Dr. 
Page was educated privately and at the public schools of Columbia, Ky., and later pursued a 
classical course at Columbia College, there obtaining the degree of A. B. For two years he 
was teacher of higher mathematics in Kentucky and for one year afterward in Texas. In 
I S85 he removed to Louisville and began the study of medicine at the Louisville Univer- 
sity (medical department). After taking the first course of lectures, he came to Indianapo- 
lis and entered the Indiana Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1887, receiv- 
ing the ]Mears gold medal as a mark of special honor. At the same time he entered a com- 
petitive examination for the position of interne at the city dispensary and secured the 
a[)pointment for one year. He then entered upon a general practice to which he devoted him- 
self with increasing success for two years. Later he took two post graduate courses at 
New York with the end in view of perfecting himself in a knowledge of pathology and treat- 
jnent of the specialties to which he has given his almost exclusive attention since 1890. 
Though still a young man, he has gained a reputation in this line which has made him well 
and widely known for his skill and success. He is a memlier of the Marion County Medical 
Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Ameiican Medical Association, and since 
coming to Indianapolis, has been physician to the county asylum, and he is at this time con- 
sulting physician in diseases of the throat, nose and ear, to the city dispensary. He is a 
member of the K. of P. and in politics is a Democrat. 

John C. Greene. One of the well known and successful lawyers of Indianapolis is the 
gentleman whose name appears above. He is no less popular socially than atthe bar and is 
distinguished as lieing descended from a family of more than orilinary prominence during 
the revolutionary days. He was born in Rush County, Ind., February 17, 1831, a son of 
Lot and Anna (Cooper) Greene, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky. His pa- 
ternal grandfather, who was for many years a resident of Guilford County, N. C. , was Thomas 
Gi'eene, whose father, a Rhi)de Islander, was first cousin to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. 
Gen. Greene and Thomas Greene were members of the Society of Friends, and Gen. Greene 
had many Quakers among his followers through the revolutionary struggle who suspended 
their relations with their peaceful brotherhood during the j)eriod when their country had 
such dire need of their services. When the independence of the colonies was assured, several 
of these made a request for themselves and for their comrades for reinstatement. A com- 
mittee was appointed on behalf of the society to consider their application and after due de- 
liberation informed them that they would be reinstated if they would acknowledge before the 
congregation tiiat they had done wr(3ng in taking up arms in mortal strife. Gen. Greene 
was appointed spokesman for the patriot "Friends." They were of one mind. They had 
risked their lives iu the cause of liberty and they were not only not sorry for it but were 
proud of it. The General stated to the committee that in reply to its demand that they 
should acknowledge the act as wrong he had but one answer to make and that it was a de- 
cided one, "they would be damned if they would do it." From that time on Thomas Greene 
repudiated the Society of Friends. He left his peoj)le and went to Virginia, thence to Som- 
erset County, Ky., and thence to Franklin County, Ind , where lie died on his farm two 
miles below Brooklyn. Mr. Greene's grandfather. Cooper, also served the cause of the pa- 
triots for two years during the war for independence. He was a farmer and a Baptist 
preacher and closed his days in Rush County, Ind. Lot Greene, father of the immediate 
subject of this sketch, was a farmer in Rush County all his active life. He was a man of 
fine attainments for those days and at different times taught school with such success that he 
is regarded as having been an able educator. For twenty years he was justice of the peace 
under the old constitution. He married Anna Cooper and she bore him eight children, 
named as follows: John C. (whose name heads this article). Samuel, Louisa (of California), 
Dr. James, Dr. W. F. (deceased), Amanda (deceased), P. M. (president of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Pasadena County, Cal.), and Mrs. Anna G. Porter, of California. John C. 
Greene was reared on his father's farm in Rush County, Ind. , attending the district schools 
and working on the place until he was twenty-two years of age. He then entered DePauw 
(then Asbury) University, and was a student in that institution until compelled, nearly four 



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years later, to relinquish his studies on account of failing health. Not long afterward he 
entered the law office of Davis & Wright, at Shelby ville, Ind., and read with them until he 
was admitted to the bar in March, 1856, and began the practice of Ijis profession in associa- 
tion with his former preceptors as a member of the firm of Davis, Wright & Greene, a rela- 
tion which continued most pleasantly and protitalily for all concerned for ten years. InOc- 
tol)er, 1860, became to Indianapolis. He was for about one year thereafter in the service of 
the United States Government, and afterward was for nine years a wholesale merchant, first 
ill tobacco, cigars and teas, and later in drugs. But Mr. Greene gave up his mercantile 
career to return to the practice of his i)rofession, which has since engaged his time and at- 
tention. As a lawyer he is noted for the skill with which he prepares his cases, the ability 
with which he jirescnts them and the force and logic with which he argues them. It is his 
invariable custom to advise against litigation as long as litigation can be avoided without 
detriment to his client's interests, but when he once takes a case in hand he leaves no stone 
unturued in the road to victory. He numbers among his clients many of the leading citizens 
firms and corporations of Indianapolis and its vicinity, and is specially retained by the Mu- 
tual Life Endowment Association. Politically Mr. Greene is a Republican, and wliile he 
can ((uite plainly state his reasons for so being, he is not in the ordinary sense a politician, 
and he has never sought nor accepted oliiee, preferring to devote himself entirely to his busi- 
ness interests and having really no ambition in the direction of a public life. In a worldly 
way he has been quite successful. He was married in September, 1854, to Miss Catherine 
Houston, a cousin of Samuel Houston, of Texas, and who has borne him two children, Robert 
L. and Lucien, both of whom live in Chicago. His present wife, whom he married in 
March, 1885. was Azie McLean, of New Orleans. As a citizen Mr. Greene has always been 
most public spirited and helpful. He is proud of Indianapolis and of the grand State of 
Indiana and zealous for their progress and prosperity. 

Dr. Robert Gkddes Gr.wdox, now retired from the active duties of his profession, is 
probably one of the best known physicians of Marion County, Ind. He has been unusually 
successful in the practice of his profession, and that he deserves the good fortune that 
attended his efforts is indisputable, for he is not only honest and reliable and intelligent, 
but he has ever been sympathetic yet cheerful in the sick room, and possessed the happy 
faculty of winning the confidence and liking of bis patients, which had much to do with 
their restoration to health. In fact, throughout the county he is considered an authority in 
medical lore, and is highly regarded by the medical fraternity. The Doctor first saw the 
light of day in Lancaster County, Penn., August 17, 1819, his parents being Alexander and 
Sarah (Geddes) Graydon. The father was born in Harrisburg, Penn., his birth occurring in 
1791, and the principal part of his life was spent in meichandising in his native town. In 
1843 he went to Indianapolis, Ind., where he was engaged in merchandising until 1858, and ten 
years later his death occurred. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was in the cam- 
paign when the British burned the capitol and bombarded Baltimore. He was married 
first, in 1818, to Mi.ss Sarah Geddes, a native of Pennsylvania, and to this union was born 
one son, our subject. The mother's death occurred at that time. On September 10, 1822, 
Mr. Graydon was married to Miss Jane C. McKinney, daughter of Mordecai McKinney, 
and fourteen children were born to this union, nine of whom reached mature years. Of 
these three died unmarried. Those who married were named as follows: Mary E., who 
became the wife of Joseph K. Sharp, of Indianapolis; William M. , who married Miss Mary 
Merrill, resides in Indianapolis; Alexander, who resides in St. Louis, married Mary Frances 
Foster; Emma is the widow of James C. Alexander, and resides in Indianapolis: Andrew, 
married Mi.ss Lavinia Doxon, and now makes his home in Indianapolis; and James W.. who 
resides in London, England, first married Miss Mary McCullough and after her death was 
married to IMiss Mary Bodine. William (irraydon, the grandfather of the above mentioned chil- 
dren, was born in Bristol, Penn., on the Delaware River, in 1759. He was a lawyer l)y 
profession, and in his early manhood moved to Harrisburg, Penn., where he was soon after 
appointed justice of the peace by George Mifflin, Pennsylvania's first governor, and held 
that position for fifty years. His death occurred in October, 1840. He assisted in suppress- 
ing the whisky insurrection in Pennsylvania, and was under Gen. Washington. The 
grandfather was first married to Miss Eleanor Scull, who bore him six children. After 



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her death he was married to Miss Eleanor Murray, and four children were bora to them, 
two of whom are now living: William, who now resides in Philadelphia, and Henry M. , 
who lives in Harrisburg. Alexander Graydon, the great-grandfather of our subject, was 
born in County Longford, Ireland, in 1709, and was educated for the Episcopal ministry in 
Dnblin. He came to America in 1730, settled in Philadelphia, and at once commenced the 
study of law. A number of years later he was appointed judge of the Bucks County Court, 
of which Bristol was the county seat, and he moved to that town and made his home there 
until his death in 1760. He was married in Philadelphia to a Miss Marks, and several chil- 
dren were born to them, of whom two sons, Alexander and Andrew, were soldiers in the 
Revolution, Alexander serving as captain and Andrew as cornet player. The former was 
captured and confined in New York city for some time by the British. He was afterward 
prothonotary or clerk of Dauphin County Court, and held that position for many years. He 
was a member of the constitutional convention of 1793, and was one of the electors who 
voted for George Washington. He died in Harrisburg in 1817. Although married twice, 
he left no children. The Doctor's earliest maternal ancestor of whom he has anj* trace was 
Paul Geddes, who was a native of the Emerald Isle, born in 1660. Ho married the Widow 
McElroy, and died in 1720 or 1730. His son, James Geddes, was born in 1704 and died in 
1764. The latter married Miss Margaret Muir and came to America in 1752, settling in the 
Keystone State. He and wife had three sons, Paul, William and Samuel, all born in Ire- 
land. William Geddes' birth occurred in 1735, and he married Miss Sarah McAlleu in 1762. 
They had seven children, one of whom. Robert Geddes, whose birth occurred in 1771. was 
the maternal grandfather of our subject. He married Miss Jane Sawyer, in March, 1797, 
and the mother of our subject was one of his children. Dr. Robert G. Graydon never 
knew the tender care of a mother, and when ten days old was taken to Harrisburg, Peun., 
by his father, and there grew to sturdy manhood. He attended the schools of that city, and 
he also attended a private academy, thus receiving a fair education for his day. In 1S38, 
when nineteen years of age, he went to Hanover, N. H. , and there entered Dartmouth 
College, from which institution he graduated in 1S42. Returning to Harrisburg, Penn. , he 
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. William W. Rutherford, and later attended the 
University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the medical department of that institution in 
1845. Again he returned to Harrisburg, but only to remain there a short time, for in 1846 
he came to Indiana and located at Indianapolis. He practiced there a short time and in 
1849 started for California, overland, making the start from Independence, Mo., together 
with a company of about fifty or sixty individuals. The party split up along the road and 
only about a dozen stuck together. They landed at Sutter's Mill after a trip of five 
months, during which time they had no trouble with Indians and no bad luck to amount to 
anything. Dr. Graydon remained in California from August, 1849, until September, 1850, 
digging for gold most of the time, and he then returned home by way of the isthmus. He 
stopped at many places on the way, and after an ocean voyage of fifty-five days reached 
New York City. From there he went to Philadelphia, thence to Harrisburg, where he 
visited friends, an<l then came to the Hoosier State with about $2,000 he had made in the 
Gold State. In 1852 he located in Greenwood, Johnson County, and jiracticed his profes- 
sion there until 1858, with the exception of six months s]ient in Texas, and then came to 
Southport, Marion County, where he has since remained and where he practiced his profes- 
sion until 18S7, when he retired. He was a member of the Marion County Medical Society, 
also the State Medical Society, and was a charter member of both. In his religious views he is a 
Presbyterian and a member of the session. In the year 1886 he was elected justice of the peace 
for four years, l)ut his successor failing to qualify, Dr. Graydon continues to serve. In politics 
he is a Repulilican; originally a Whig. He was not able to vote for William H. Harrison, being 
in college, and as a conse(|uence his first [iresidential vote was for Henry Clay. He voted 
for John C. Fremont, then for Douglas, then MacClellan, but since then, for the most part he 
has voted the Republican ticket. In the year 1851 the Doctor was married to Miss Sarah 
C. Todd, a native of Kentucky, as was also her father, Levi L. Todd. One child was born 
to this union, but it died in infancy. Mrs. Graydon died in 1857, and the Doctor's second 
wife was Miss Eliza B. Todd, daughter of Thomas J. Todd. One child, a daughter, was 
born to this union. l)ut died in infancy. The second wife died in August, 1867, and his 



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third wife's maiden name was Flora A. FiiR-h, dauf^hter of Moses Finch, a native of New 
York. No children have been horn to this union. 

L. P. Harlan. The Harlan familj' is one of the honored old American families mem- 
bers of which have been prominent in about every important period of our civilization. Early 
representatives of it were able lawyers and eloquent divines. The name has made itself 
honored in war and in peace, in the celebrations of the church and in the counsels of the 
nation. One of its best known representatives at this time is Levi P. Harlan, of Indian- 
aj)olis. This popular lawyer was born in Marion County, Ind., March 3, 1853. a son of 
Austin B. and Elizabeth L. (Couwell) Harlan. His father was a native of Connersville, 
Ind., and his mother of Xenia, Ohio. The latter was brought to JIarion County when but 
an infant, by her parents, who settled on a farm which became known widely as her family 
home. Nathan Harlan, Levi P. Harlan's paternal grandfather, removed, when only about 
sixteen years of age to Connersville, Ind., from his native state. Kentucky. In 1S25 he 
came to Marion County and was a well known farmer here until his death, which occurred 
in 1S47. He entered a tract of land in 1827 about nine miles east of the city, which is now 
the home of the father of the immediate subject of this sketch. His father, Joshua Harlan, 
was one of the most prominent early settlers of the State and was a pioneer judge at 
Connersville. He came from Kentuck\' to Connersville, and with him came his son, Nathan, 
then about sixteen years old. Before the latter came to Marion County, in 1825, he had 
married, and he brought with him Austin B. Harlan (L. P. Harlan's father), then three 
months old and certainly entitled to be written down as one of the youngest pioneers here- 
about. Here he was reared and still lives, having made his home on the same place for 
sixty-six years. He began as a boy to aid in the task of clearing and cultivating the land. 
He was a pupil in the old red log school-houses of his time and availed himself to the 
utmost of such educational advantages as were afforded him, and later supplemented them 
with systematic reading until he is regarded as one of the best informed men anywhere in 
the country. Considering his years he is exceptionally hale and hearty. He is prominent 
in all the affairs of his neighliorhood, and is known the country over as a stanch and uncom- 
promising Democrat. He has been twice married and has a large family of children. The 
^ul)ject of this sketch and his brother, Allison W. Harlan, a well known dentist of Chicago, 
are the only ones by the first marriage now living. The following by the second marriage 
are living, Isaac, Jacob, George, Harry, Clara, Adeline and Bessie. Mr. Harlan's boyhood 
days were passed on the farm and in the district school. He was early practically familiar 
with the rough work of ])roducing from the soil the food of the people. The foundation 
of his education was primary in its character. He took up the labor of study in earnest at 
Butler XIniversity, and in Jnne, 1873, went to Chicago and began to read law in the office of 
Wilson. Martin & Montgomery and remained there about two years. Upon his return to 
Iiidianajiolis he was elected superintendent of the schools of Marion County and held that 
important i)osition for ten years, until 1885. For something more than two years there- 
after he was cashier in the city and county treasurer's office. This position he was obliged 
to relinquish on account of extreme and protracted illness, and when he was siitSciently 
recovered to do so, he devoted himself to restful and recuperative travel, which was con- 
tinued about a year. On his return he became a member of the law firm of McCullongh & 
Harlan, his partner being Senator McCullougli, whicii existed for three years, and since its 
termination he has lieen ensraged alone in the practice of his profession. He has attained a 
prominence at the bar which is but the just reward of his merits and iiis success. He has 
never had any political ambition to gratify, and such official preferment as has Ijeen accorded 
to him has come to him as the one conspicuous man who could most worthily assume it and 
perform its duties. In all the relations of life he has borne himself with credit, and to the 
honor and gratification of his fellow citizens. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and is most liberal and helpful to all its interests. He was married in 1877 to Miss 
Sarah L. McVey, a talented and most estimable lady, and has five children: Horace, Ethel, 
Clara, Dayton and Loren. His suburban home is one of the most comfortable and elegant 
about Indianapolis and l)reathes welcome and good cheer in its eveiy appointment. Here 
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan dispense a generous hospitality which has ma<le the ]ilace known to 
the most solid and substantial people, and, with their children, live quietly and contentedly 
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Cornelius \V. Sullivan. Special adaptability to any particular calling in life is the 
one necessary adjunct to permanent success. No matter tlie vim and determination which 
characterizes a man's start in business, unless he is to the manner born, he will find to his 
sorrow that his line has been falsely cast, and the quicker he draws aside and takes up an- 
other calling, the l)etter will it be for him. That Cornelius W. Sullivan is especially fitted 
for the calling which now occupies his attention, that of plaster contracting, cannot be 
doubted, for he has a large amount of work constantly on hand, some of which is of consider- 
able importance and demands the utmost care and attention. Although he is quite young 
he commands his full share of work, and with reason may be accounted one of the most suc- 
cessful and extensive contractors in bis line in the city. He was born on Delaware Street, 
Indianapolis, January 1, ISGO, a son of Timothy and Anna (O'Donnell) Sullivan, the former 
of whom was born in the State of Kentucky, and the latter on the Isle of Erin. She was 
brought in childhood to this country, here giew to womanhood, and upon reaching a suitable 
age was united in marriage with Timothy Sullivan. This gentleman learned the trade of a 
plasterer in Louisville, Ky. , and in 1850 came to Indianapolis and followed his trade with 
success for quite a number of years. He is now deceased, but his widow still survives him 
and makes her home with the subject of this sketch. In the public schools of the city of 
Indianapolis Cornelius W. received his education, and later was an attendant of St. Patrick's 
Catholic Church. Upon starting out in life for himself at the early age of eleven years he 
began laboring in a stave factory and afterward in a pork house, Init when he attained the 
age of fourteen years he began learning the trade of plastering with Matthew Hartman, one 
of the old time contractors of the city, with whom he remained until the death of Mr. Hartman. 
In 1885 he went to Cincinnati and the following year to Chicago, but shortly after returned 
to Indianapolis and again worked for Mr. Hartman until the time of his employer's death, 
which occurred August (). 1893, then commenced contracting plastering, having purchased 
IMr. Hartman's business, and has since been contracting for himself and has filled some very 
important and extensive contracts successfully. He has taken an active interest in politics 
for years, and in 1891 was assistant doorkeeper of the State Senate, and is now a member of 
the executive committee of the Democratic party, of which he has long been one of the most 
enthusiastic supporters. He is a member of the Builders' Exchange, and has very lately 
been elected secretary of that organization. He has always taken an active interest in labor 
organizations; was a member of the Operative Plasterers Association, of which he was presi- 
dent until his resignation, when he engaged in business with others. He is a member of the 
Operative Plasterer's International organization, of which he has been president nineteen 
months (United States and Canada), and has been secretary of the local organization and a 
member of the board of trustees. He is a man of much intelligence, public spirited to a 
degree, and a useful and influential citizen. 

Hon. William H. Craft. The real estate agent has a function important alike to those for 
whom he sells, and to whom he sells, and if he be a man of integrity, tills an obligation to both 
classes with whom he deals. The business of more than one man has been unsettled through the 
fault of unscrupulous real estate agents and a man in this line who is really upright and honest 
and has at heart the best interests of all concerned is pretty apt in time to receive a large patron- 
age. One of the most reliable of the real estate agents of Indianapolis is William H. Craft, 
whose place of business is located at 16, Virginia Avenue. He is a member of the firm 
of W. H. Craft & Co., real estate, insurance, loan and rental agents, his two sons, Harlan and 
Ernest, being associated in business with him. The character of the gentlemen composing 
this firm is alone sufficient to commend it to the public favor and they are unhesitatingly 
acknowledged to be gentlemen of superior business qualifications. The head of the firm,. 
William H. Craft, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, September 0, 1833 and in the common 
schools of that section he received the advantages of a thoroughly practical English education. 
At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to learn the printing business and served three 
years as a compositor, at the end of which time he entered Neff Academy, a well conducted 
institution of learning, and there continued to pursue his studies for one year. He next 
served a three year's aiiprenticeship at the watch-maker and Jeweler's business and first came 
to Indianapolis in Novemljer, 1854. In 18(50 he commenced business for himself in the Odd 
Fellows' Hall, but when the great Civil War came up he cast aside personal considerations and 



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enlisted in the ^service of his country. At the close of hostilities he resniued the jewelry 
business which had been interrupted by the war, and established himself at "24. East 
Washington Street. In April, 1S86. Mr. Craft then sold out and quit the jewelry business 
ami turned his attention to other avenues of labor. He has been twice married and has had 
born to him eifjht children, six of whom are living. In IStio he was elected to the office of 
City Treasurer and to the Citj' Council in 1870, to which office he succeeded himself in 1872 
and 1874. He has served as a member of the State Legislature, being a representative from 
Marion County to the House of Representatives, during which session the Bill for the erec- 
tion of the New State House was passed, in 1877. Mr. Craft has a wide acquaintance and 
has long been familiarly known as Harry Ciaft, many of the old settlers knowing him only 
by this cognomen. 

Georoe W. Millek is successful!}' engaged in the manufacture of carriages, wagons, etc., 
and has been established in this line of work since 187(^ and has continued the same ever since. 
At the present time the principle manufactures which he turns out are delivery wagons, and 
he is also extensively engaged in a general repair work. He owes his nativity to Wayne 
County, Ind., where he was born June 14, 1827, to Isaac and Mary (Witter) Miller, natives 
of the Keystone State. The father was reared in Virginia, however, but in 1826 removed to 
Wayne County, Ind., where he purchased a farm and resided on and tilled the same until 
his ileath, which occurred in 18(52, his widow survivinor him two vears. George W. Miller 
spent his boyhood and early manhood on the old home farm in Indiana and like the 
majority of the farmers" boys of his day his education was limited to the common schools, 
but he improved his opportunities and made fair progress in his studies. At the age of 
twenty-one he began learning the carriage-maker's trade at Cambridge City, where he also 
later engaged in business for himself. Upon leaving that place he went to Dublin, Ind., 
where he engaged in the manufacture of carriages, and during Pierce's administration acted 
in the capacity of postmaster of that place. When the w'ar opened he enlisted in Companj- 
C, Eighty fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry (August 8, 18f)2), and served until the close, 
receiving his discharge at Indianapolis. June 28, 18(j5, and being mustered out as corporal 
of his company. He is a member of the G. A. R., and since 1851 has been a member of the 
I. O. O. F. , Meridian Lodge, No. 4S(), in which order he has passed all the chairs. He was 
married in lSri4 to Miss Sarah E. Barrett, a native of Henry County, Ind., and a daughter 
of Aquilla and Elizabeth (Mellett) Barrett. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Miller two 
children have been given, William B. and Mary L., both of whom are deceased. Mary 
became the wife of Edward Dickinson. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have long been in communion 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church and are among its most active workers. Mr. ^liller 
is one of its trustees and is a man whose character as a Imsiuess man is above reproach. He 
is kind and considerate in his family, a faithful friend, an accommodating neighbor and an 
upright, law abiding citizen, an honor to his family and to the State w-hieh gave him birth 
ill which all ins life has been spent. 

1)k. Ch.\kles Ai.mer B.\rxes. The State of Vermont is always suggestive of the honest, 
hard and rugged characters in human life. It presents to the mind pictures of the bold 
Green Mountain boys and brave Ethan Allen before the gates of Ticonderoga. It was peo- 
ple like those who won their independence from the British king and erected the basis of 
this great American natitin. It is their descendants who have come out in the West and 
formed the nucleus of a great territory and a great people. Charles Aimer Barnes, of 
Southport. Ind., came of this stock. He was born in Ferrisburg, Addison County. Vt., 
October 11, 188(>, to the union of Jesse G. and yinry (Barron) Barnes, the former a native 
of Vetmont and the latter of Canada. Mrs. Barnes" father, Maj. Barron, was an officer in 
the English army during the War of 1812. The father of our subject was justice of the 
peace in White County, Ind., many years, and was a man highly esteemed l)y all favored 
with his acquaintance. His death occurred in 1863 and the mother died in 1884. He had 
been married twice, first to a Miss Alvord who bore him three children, Alfonso, William and 
Richard H., all deceased. To the second union nine children were born. Cyrus B., de- 
ceased: Jesse G., James E., D. F. , Charles A., subject; Sarah J., wife of George W. 
Glover; Richard H. ; George W. and Mary E., who married William Savior. Our sub- 
ject was only foiu- years of age when his parents left Vermont and made their way to 



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St. Lawreuce County. X. Y. Tlierf yonug Barnes remaiued for five years, atteuding scbool 
for a short time, and then moved with his parents to Huron County, Ohio, where thej' 
resided fur two years. From there they moved to Indiana, locating near Monticello. White 
Count}-, and there our subject remained until 1S57, attending school and receiving most 
of his educational training. In the spring of that year, while young Barnes was read- 
ing medicine in the oliice of Dr. H. P. Anderson, the struggle began in Kansas and he 
left his studies and went to that Territory. This was after the repeal of the Missouri 
compromise bill. Later Mr. Barnes entered the army at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., as 
civilian employe, and served as courier. He was also in the qaarterma.=ter department, 
was with the ammunition train at tie battle of Bull Run, and with the ambulance on 
the field at the battle of Antietam. lOn account of ill health, after eighteen months of 
service, he was discharged and returned to Monticello, Ind. , where he finished his med- 
ical studies. He had four brothers in the service, as follows: James, who served in the 
western army for three years; Richard H. was in the western army for three years; 
George W. enlisted in 1S64 ami served until cessation of hostilities, and D. F. . who was 
a Methodist minister, served in the sanitary commission. Our subject gi-aduated from Rush 
Medical College, Chicago, in 1870, and then began practicing at Goodland. Newton County, 
Ind. Previous to this, however, and previous to graduating, be had practiced his profession 
for sis years at Monon, Ind. In 1877 he went to Brightwood, Ind.. and there remained until 
1887 when he came to Southport, Ind. . and here he has since practiced his profession. He is 
a member of the Marion County and the State Medical Societies and for some time was a mem- 
ber of the Newton County and White Count}' Medical Societies. He was a delegate to the 
American Medical Association from White County. Ind., that met at Cincinnati. The Doc- 
tor was a Republican, but of late years has been voting the Prohibition ticket. Socially he 
is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Southport Lodge, No. 27(1, in which he has held the 
oflBce of Worthy Master, and he was master of the lodge in Newton County, Ind. In his 
religious views he is a Presbyterian, but is of Quaker descent. In the year 1805 he was 
married to Miss Henrietta Tharp, daughter of Amariah Tharp, of Jasper County. Ind.. and 
four children were born to them, of whom only two are now living. Dr. Aithur L. married 
Miss Mary E. Glenn, daughter of A. J. Glenn, and Charles Albert Barnes. The Doctor has 
been more than ordinarily successful in the practice of his profession, and is an excellent 
and reliable all-around physician, of which fact the public is thoroughly aware. 

Cakl L. B.\BSES, M. D. Although a young man Dr. Carl L. Barnes bids fair to become 
a model physician. His cheerful confidence in the sick chamber is often as potent as his 
medicines, and he has been and still is a student in his profession, ever grasping after new 
truths in science. He keeps himself thoroughly posted in his profession, his diagnoses being 
almost instantaneous and very rarely incorrect. He is a young man of great steadfastness of 
purpose, and seldom fails to accomplish what he undertakes, while his tenderness and com- 
passion, kindness and consideration in the sick room, cannot fail to be recognized and appre- 
ciated. He was born in Connellsville, Penn., May 18, 1870, a son of Zepheniah E. and 
Elizabeth (Dawson; Barnes, who were also lK)rn in the Keystone State. The Barnes family 
was well-known in Pennsylvania, and in that State the father became widely known as an 
extensive stockdealer. One of his uncles was L'nited States senator from that State, pos- 
sessed a fine intellect and as a congressman made a name for himself. The paternal 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch was the well-known orator of Philadelphia — A. S. 
Barnes. The maternal ancestors of the subject were of German Quaker origin, and tlie 
history of this family may be traced back many years. In the town of Connellsville Dr. 
Carl L. Barnes was reared, and his education was acquired in the public schools and an 
academy of Connellsville, and after graduating from the latter he turned his attention to the 
study of medicine and shortly after came to Indianapolis and entered the Medical College 
of Indiana where he pursued his researches successfully and thoroughly until March 20. 1892, 
when he graduated. Dr. Barnes has made a special study of surgery and for the purpose of 
perfecting himself in this branch of his profession he has visited the principal hospitals of the 
city of New York at different times. His practice is confined almost exclusively to surgery 
and office practice, and he has already Iniilt up a patronage of which the oldest medical 
practitioners of the country need not be ashamed. He has given much time and study to 



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tlie process of embalming, and was the originator and one of the incorporators of the 
Embalming College of Indiana, of wbicb institution be is president and one of tbe demon- 
strators. This college was incorporated February 24. 1893, being tbe second one of tbe 
kind to be incorporated in tbe United States. The Doctor tilled the chair of anatomy and 
minor surgery in tbe Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons tbe past two years and 
has been given an honorary degree from that institution. Dr. Barnes is a most generous- 
hearted man. full of the milk of human kindness, a close student, a bard worker, and with- 
out doubt one of the most promising young physicians of tbe State. He is a correspondent 
of The Casket and Westert) Undertaker, two leading journals pertaining to tbe undertaking 
business, tbe former periodical having a circulation extending all over the globe. He has 
written articles on embalming, which have Ijeen widely published and circulated and have 
given him a wide reputation for an extensive knowledge of such subjects. He has always 
been a Republican in politics and socially belongs to tbe Masonic order and the Marion club. 

J. C. McNuTT. This well known young lawyer and popular public speaker, who 
occupies tbe responsible and honorable position of State Law Librarian of Indiana, was 
born in Johnson County, May 25, 1863, a son of James and Cynthia J. (Hunt) McNutt, 
also natives of that countj'. His paternal grandfather, John McNutt, was a pioneer in 
Johnson County, and one of his sons, an uncle of J. C. McNutt, is Judge Cyrus E. 
McXutt of Terre Haute. His great-grandfather, Hensley. was tbe first settler in what is 
now Hensley Township, Johnson County, which was named in his honor. Tbe obi McNutts 
and Hensleys did patriot service in defence of liberty of tbe colonies during tbe Revolu- 
tionary War and were men of tbe sturdiest character and tbe most solid worth. James 
McNutt was a prominent farmer. His life was Viusy and successful, thoroughly devoted to 
his family, and he died in August, 1867, leaving four children of whom tbe immediate suli- 
ject of this sketch, then a little more than four years old, was next to the eldest. 
He lived tbe life of a farmer Ijoy of all work, attending school during tbe winter months, 
until he was seventeen years old, when be engaged in teaching school and studying law. 
Four years later be was admitted to the bar and within twelve mouths thereafter, in 1885, 
he began tbe practice of his profession at Franklin, Ind., where be continued it with in- 
creasing success until March 1, 1893, when be was appointed by tbe Supreme Court State 
law librarian. In 1888 Mr. McNutt was elected prosecuting attorney from tbe sixteenth 
district, consisting of Johnson and Shelby Counties. He was re-elected in 1890, and his 
second term expired in November, 1892. In this position be most clearly and ably demon- 
strated his superior qualifications for criminal and other important practice. His cases were 
always prepared with tbe utmost care, his presentation of them was masterly and his 
forensic efforts were of such a character as to mark him as one of the conspicuous natural 
orators in the State. He is extremely popular at the bar. but no more so than so- 
cially. He has been, since he was twenty one, a member of the I. O. O. F. He is 
identified witli other prominent organizations and as a citizen is liberal and public 
spirited, having a real desire to see the advancement of the whole people along tbe lines of 
morality, enlightenment and civil and religious liberty. He was married in July. 1886, to Miss 
Ruth Neely, and has a son. Paul, born in 1891. Mrs. McNutt is a member of the Method 
ist Episcopal Church, of whose leading interest Mr. McNutt is a generous and helpful 
supporter. 

Frederick Ballweg. The career of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch is but 
another evidence of what can be accomplished by those of foreign birth who seek a borne and 
fortune on tbe free soil of America. He possesses the push, energy and enterprise for which 
his countrymen are noted, and as a natural consequence he has been successful in the accn 
mulation of means, and has won a reputation for honesty and fair dealing that is in every 
respect justly merited. He was born in Huntheini. a little village of about 120 inbalj 
itants, in Baden, Germany, March 20, 1825, to tbe marriage of Sebastian and Marianua 
(Schussler) Ballweg, both natives of tbe old country. The father was a cabinet maker and 
was the owner of twenty acres of land. He passed bis entire life in Germany, dying there 
in 1866, when seventj' five j'ears of age. Five children were born to bis maiTiage. as follows: 
Generosa, Cornelia (married Joseph Ballweg. and is now deceased), Frederick (our subject), 
Joseph (deceased) and Ambrose (who died September 9, 1881, in Indianapolis). During 



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the Eebellion the latter was iu commniul of the arsenal at Indianapolis with tlie rank of 
captain. He married Miss Amelia Engelman. They left four living children. Cornelia, 
Alfret, Charles and Emma. Cornelia and Alfret are married. The mother of our subject 
died in 1866. Frederick Ballweg attended school from the age of six to fourteen, and then 
spent live years in learning the cabinet maker's trade. He then left home and went to Paris 
and Toulon, also other places in France, and worked at his trade until twenty four years of 
age, when, on April 1, 1850. he sailed from Havre de Grace, France, to America. On June 
7 of that year he landed in New York city and at once went to Kahway, N. J., where he 
began working at his trade the next day after his arrival. For two years he was thus engaged 
and during that time learned to speak English and saved some money. The first year he 
received S7 per mouth and his board, but the second year he made from SIO to ^12 per week. 
In the spring of 1852 he went to New York city and worked at bis trade there for a year. He 
then came direct to Indianapolis, arriving September 17, 1853, and be at once went to work 
for John Ott; one of the tirst cabinet makers in the city. Mr. Ballweg worked for him for 
about five yeais and then embarked in the lumber business in that city. This he carried on 
successfully for about fifteen years, and then in 1878 he bought eighty acres of land in Perry 
Township, Marion County, for S75 per acre. He at once erected a handsome two-story 
frame house and in this he resides at the present time. Of the eighty acres fourteen acres are 
in timber. He is wide-awake and [)rogressive and one of the best agriculturists of the 
county. A Republican in politics Mr. Ballweg cast his tirst presidential vote for John C. 
Fremont and has never since failed to vote for the Republican candidate. He was lx)rn and 
baptized a Catholic, which religion his people professed, but Mr. Ballweg himself is not a 
member of any church but is in favor of anything that tends to morality and good govern- 
ment. Formerly our subject was a meml)er of the I. O. O. F. He was married January 1, 
1854, in Indianapolis, to Miss Elise Stauger, daughter of Gustav Stanger, and the ceremony 
was performed by Squire Sullivan. Twelve children have Ijeen the result of this union: 
William, born September 29, 1855, died April 2, 1856; Frederick W.. liorn February 4, 
1857; Annie M.. born January 22, 1859: Louis G., born March 15, 1861. and died May 29, 
1869: Franklin A., born May 15, 186:1 and died June 4, 1864; Lena E., born June 11, 
1865. died September 22, 1892; Clara M., born December 22, 186(: Lilly, born February 
22. 1870, died the same day; Louis E., born April 7. 1871; Bertha A., born April 22. 18^3; 
Robert M. , born September 20, 1875; and Otto, born December 15, 18/8, died January 9, 1879. 
Vert Rev. Asthost Scheideler, V. G. The able and distinguised pastor of St. Mary's 
Church, at Indianapolis. Ind., Very Rev. Anthony Scheideler, Y. G., was born in Borgholz, 
Westphalia, Germany, May 23, 1836, a son of Anthony and Anna Mary (Crote) Scheideler, 
both of whom spent their lives in the old country. The father was a man of intelligence 
and his artistic tastes and inclinations led him to follow the calling of an architect. He 
served in the army, was later appointed a public official — receiver of taxes; and of a family of 
seven children, born to himself and wife, four are now living; William, of Holioken, N. Y. ; 
Mary Frizenhousen, a resident of Auenhousen, Westphalia; Wilhelmina, who resides with 
her brother. Very Rev. Anthony Scheideler, for whom she keeps house, the latter being 
the subject of this sketch. When not occupied with his studies, Anthony Scheideler fol- 
lowed various occupations under the direction of his intelligent father, who wisely taught 
his son that to labor was honorable, and also instilled into his youthful mind lessons of hon- 
esty, thrift and frugality. At the age of fourteen he began to study for the priesthood in 
a tine educational institution of his native land, at Paderborn, Westphalia, where he suc- 
cessfully continued his Latin studies for three years. In 1854 he sailed to America, landing 
at NewYork city on May 20, and until 1858 continued his studies at St. Vincent, Penu., 
after which he came direct to Vincennes, Ind., and was here ordained a priest of the 
Catholic Church on October 21, 1860. just nine days before the election of Abraham Lin- 
coln to the presidency, by Right Rev. Bishop Morris De St. Palais, and soon after was 
appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Dearborn County, Ind., on November 28, 1860, 
where he continued to reside until July 28, 1874, when he came to Indianapolis and has 
since Ijeen pastor of St. Mary's Church. He has been Vicar-General of the Diocese of Vin- 
cennes, Ind.. since September 6, 1878, to which he was appointed by Right Rev. Bishop 
Francis Silas Chatard. D. D. Father Sclieideler has shown great energy in discharging 

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bis pastoral duties, and since his residence in ludiauapoli.s he lias made a j^reat many im- 
provements and lias caused to l)e erected a chapel and vault in the cemetery. His cliurch 
has been beautifully decorated, he has built a tine school-house and a handsome hall for the 
meeting of societies, and by unwearied and earnest efforts he has increased the member- 
ship of his church to about 2,000. At the time of his location in Indianajjolis, in 1874, 
be was the only German-speaking pastor in the city and as a consequence bis church was 
largely patronized by those of his nativity. His genial disposition makes him a general 
favorite and he is one of the most charitable and kind hearted of men, sincere in his 
friendships and devotedly attached to the church with which he is connected. He never 
forgets a kindness and never stoops to resent an injury. He is rich in the love of his people 
and of him it may be said: " Well done, thou good and faithful servant." 

John B.\K(1f,k Dobvns is a native Virginian, born near Christiansburg, Montgomery 
County, January 8, 1819, and he there remained until fifteen years of age, receiving his educa- 
tion in the early schools of those days. He attended the school at Taylor's Springs, almost 
on the summit of the Alleghany mountains. This house was in the country, built of logs 
with rails for seats and greased paper for window lights, puncheon floor, clapboard door with 
wooden latch, and other rude furniture of pioneer days. This was a subscri])tion school and 
only lasted about three months. \Vlieu fifteen years of age our subject left his native State 
with his parents, Dangeitield and Eva (Barger) Dobvns, and came by wagon to Indiana, 
landing at Flat Kock, in Shelby County, one mouth after starting. This was on November 
9, 1834. The next summer the father sent our subject to Indianapolis to enter some land, 
provided he could find any that was not taken. He started on foot for that city with a $50 
bill in his jacket and on arriving entered forty acres at §1.25 in White Kiver Township. John- 
son County. He also discovered lOO acres more of desirable land not yet entered. Return- 
ing home he told his father who at once started for Indianapolis on foot, although seventy- 
four years of age. He walked within thirteen miles of Indianapolis and there met with a 
neighbor who carried him to the city. He there entered KK^ acres more land in Johnson 
County and returned home on foot, wading Blue River and Sugar Creek. Arriving home he 
was attacked next day with fever and chills, then so prevalent, and so violent was the attack 
that he died on the third day. He was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., in 1760, and 
died in 1834, the same year that he came to Indiana. He was a school teacher by profession 
and among his pupils was Ballard Preston, afterward a general in the Confederate service, 
and John Floyd, who was in command of the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson. Mr. 
Dobyns married Miss Eve Barger. daughter of Phili]i Barger. and children were given them 
nine of whom reached mature years, as follows; William A., deceased; Samuel, deceased; 
Mahala, deceased: Thomas; Margaret, deceased; Henry M., deceased; Katherine, witlow of 
Marvin Adams, resides in Spencer Coimty, Ind. : John B.. cur subject: Kennerley, deceased, 
and Christian, deceased. The mother of these children died at the advanced age of ninety- 
three years. Both parents were worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church nearly 
all their lives and were highlj- respected in the community in which they lived. Thomas 
Dobyns, grandfather of the above mentioned children, was a native of the Old Dominion and 
there passed his entire life. This family was an old and prominent Virginia family. During 
his father's last illness our subject was also taken sick and was in bed far about ten days. 
When not fully recovered he started for Hamilton County. Ohio, on borseliack. to see his 
elder brother, Thomas, and get his advice and assistance in closing up the affairs of the 
father. He traveled every day until his chills came on. and then stopped until the fever 
came on. and in this way finally arrived at his destination. Reaching that place he decided 
to stay there, and commenced hauling wood to the river for f 10. 25 a month. There he 
remained until the next spring and then he returned to Indiana, where he helped his mother 
with the crops. Later he returned to Hamilton County, Ohio, and in January. 183(), 
apprenticed himself to Philip A. Hill for three years to learn the carpenter's trade. During 
bis apprenticeship his master sent him to school three months, and at the end of his time 
presented him with $50. He began working at bis trade and on October 7, 1840, he was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Gaston, now deceased. The next spring be came to Indiana and 
built a log house on the forty acres he bad entered four years previously. There they lived 
four years and then our subject bought 100 acres near this, moved on it, and there made bis 



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home for two years. He then sohl out auil bought 160 acres in the same township. He 
moved on this and later Ijought forty acres adjoining, and made his home here until 1868, 
when he moved to Southport, Marion County, for the purpose of educating his children. He 
sold his Johnson County farm for $10,000 and bought a farm iu Perry Township. Marion 
County, of 120 acres on which he built a Ijrick house. There he lived for about eight years 
and then moved to Hendricks County, Ind., where he had purchased 208 acres on which 
were seven magnetic medicated springs, which have a great reputation for their wonderful 
healing (qualities. On this farm our subject lived for ten years. Then a stock company was 
organized and this company bought the springs and made it a place of resort for invalids. 
Our subject is one of the board of directors. The wonderful curative properties of these 
waters have long been known, and countless testimonials of those who have been benefited 
by their use can be found on demand. The water is absolutely free from organic matter. 
No stifling odors or unpleasant taste, but delightfully cool, pleasant and refreshing. Our 
subject left there in April, 1891, and came to Southport, Ind., where he has since lived in a 
handsome house whicb he owns. He has been a member of tUe Methodist Episcopal Church 
since 1839 and has served as class leader and steward. While residing in Ohio Mr. Dobyns 
was second lieutenant of the Ohio militia. He is a Republican in politics although his first 
presidential vote was cast for Martin Van Buren. His next vote was for Polk aud Dallas. 
Later he voted for John C. Fremont, then for Abraham Lincoln and since that time he has 
preserved the glorious record of his Republicanism. To his marriage were born eleven chil- 
dren, two of whom, Mary E. and Alice, died in infancy. The others were named as follows: 
Missouri C, widow of Robert T. Groves; Mary E., wife of Dr. A. Morgan, of Indianapolis, 
is the mother of two children, Walter A. and Jerome; Dr. K. P., married Alice Crow; Emma, 
died unmarried; Thursey, married Mr. Wooley; Olive, died unmarried; John Elsworth, 
unmarried; Phcebe A., deceased, was the wife of J. S. Michael, who was all through the war 
and is now deceased, and Anna B.. who married Edward White and they have one son, 
Everett. 

William M. Weight, M. D. More than ordinarily successful among Indianapolis' 
younger physicians, is Dr. William M. Wright, if the length of time during which he has 
practiced his profession and the difficulties he overcame in preparing for it are taken into 
consideration, as they undouljtedly should be. Dr. Wright was born at Bridgeport. Marion 
County, Ind., March 7, 186>!. a son of Peter M. and Martha A. ('McCloskey) Wright. Peter 
M. Wright was born in Decatur township, Marion County, November 24. 1826. His par- 
ents, Edward and Jemimah (McVey) Wright, located in that township in December, 1825, 
having lived for a year previous to that time at Flat Rock. Ind. Edward Wright was a 
native of Maryland, but left the eastern shore of that State when a mere lad. He was a res- 
ident of Marion County for several years and owned a farm in Decatur Township. He died 
at Miller's Point, Ky. , in 1844. His widow, Jemimah (McVey) Wright, makes her home 
with her son, Peter M. Wright, in Indianapolis. She has attained to the advanced age of 
ninety-three years and is one of only a very few pioneers of 1825 in Marion County, who are 
still living. Peter M. Wright was reared on a farm in Marion County, going to school in 
the winter months and assisting about the farm work during the balance of the year. He 
became a successful farmer and for many years lived in his native township. In 1891 he 
sold his farm and removed to Indianapolis, where he lives a quiet, retired life. During his 
residence in this county, Mr. Wright has held some official positions of importance, having 
been for six years superintendent of the Marion County asylum and for two years janitor of 
the court-house. He was married January 4, 1857. to Martha A. McCloskey. a native of Ohio 
and a daughter of Alexander and Christina (Blatchford) McCloskey, the first mentioned of 
whom died while Mrs. Wright was a child. Peter M. and Martha A. (McCloskey) Wrio-bt 
had four children: (Dr.) William M., James K., Lewis G. and Ida B. Peter M. Wricht 
is a Mason and he and his family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
politics he is a RepulJican. Dr. William M. Wright was a memljer of his father's house- 
hold until he was eighteen years old, working on the farm during the spring, summer aud 
fall and attending the common school during the winter. In 1881 he l)ecame a student at 
the Indianapolis High School, and subsequently he took a three years' course at the Butler 
University. The succeeding three years he passed as clerk in a drug store and in the study 



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of medicine during his spare time, for two years of this time acting as prescription clerk for 
the county asylum. It does not detract at all from the credit that is due him to state that 
he was obliged thus to earn money to complete his medical education, and on the contrary, 
the fact that he did so speaks eloquently for his determination and his sturdy manhood. 
Entering the Medical College of Indiana, at Indianapolis, in the fall of 18S7, he was gradu- 
ated therefrom with the degree of j\I. D. in 1890. While a junior in the college, he was, on 
account of his knowledge of pharmacy, appointed prescription clerk in the city hospital and 
in the quarantine hospital, which work he managed to do in well arranged intervals in study. 
At the time of his graduation, he entered a competitive examination for appointment as 
interne to the city hospital, and his standing was the highest of seven who entered the com- 
petition, and as a consequence he was appointed to and held the ])ositiori mentioned for a year. 
He was also for a like period senior house physician to the city hospital, and at the expiration 
of his term of appointment entered upon a general medical practice which has lieen successful 
and has grown from year to year ever since until it is one of importance and (juite remuner- 
ative. In 1890, he was made prosecutor of anatomy in the Medical College of Indiana, and, 
in 1891, demonstrator of anatomy, which chair he still holds. He is a member of the Marion 
County Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society, and is medical director of 
the Indiana militia and a member of the consultation staff of the city dispensary. For sev- 
eral yeai's he has been a member of the drill team of the Indianapolis Light Infantry. He 
is a Scottish Kite Mason and has been advanced to the eighteenth degree. In politics he is 
a Republican. 

Ephkaim Boring. Characteristic cjf the Americ-an is the ability to change the lineof his 
business and achieve success in what he undertakes. Of the old adage "a rolling stone gath- 
ers no moss" the reverse may often be said to be true if accompinied by the true spirit. For- 
tunate is he who can — when times are troulilous and circumstances hard — keej) his eye fixed 
on the goal, and forge ahead to grasp success as a reward lor his striving. A gentleman who 
possesses much business ability is Epliraim Boring, a plastering contractor of Indianapolis, 
who has followed this calling since 18()4, and has met with marked success in this line of 
human endeavor, and has won a reputation for ability and thoroughness which is unsurpassed. 
He was born in Carroll County, Md., thirty miles northwest of Baltimore on a farm belong- 
ing to his father in 1830, being the youngest of eight children born to Isaac and Elizabeth 
(Cole) Boring, who were also born in Maryland. The father was a farmer of prominence, 
and by his good management and much energy he accumulated a goodly property, but he 
unfortunately died when just in the prime of life, when the subject of this sketch was about 
six years of age, but his widow lived to be about seventy-three years of age. Several members 
of the Boring family were soldiers in the War of 1812, and all the family were noted for their 
patriotism and loyalty. In his native county, in Maryland, Ephraim Boring received his 
initiatory education, and while still a mere youth he began learning the plasterer's trade, 
and has followed that occupation ever since — a period of forty years. After finishing his 
trade in Baltimore he did more or less contracting for some time, and about one year after 
his arrival in Indianapolis, in 18(i3, he started in business for himself, being a.ssociated with 
Cassius Cornelius for thirteen years, and was then by himself fur the balance of the time 
until admitting his sons, Edward E. and Ejihraim, to a partnership, both of whom are prac- 
tical plasterers, having learned all the details of the business from their father, who proved 
a wise and able instructor- Mr. Boring is a member of the Builders and Traders' l]xchange, 
and has been since its organization, having been a director in the same for two years. During 
the great Civil War of this country he offered his seiviees to the Union, but for good reasons, 
but by no means to Mr. Boring's detriment, he was not accepted. Politically he has always 
been a Repul)lican. In 1859 he was married to Miss Mary Wolf, of Maryland, by whom he 
became the father of three sons and live daughters, two daughters being now dead. Socially 
Mr. Boring is a member of the Chosen Friends, and as a citizen is loyal, public spirited and 
law aliiding. 

William A. Scott & Sons. This well known firm of contractors and builders have 
won a reputation for thoroughness and honorable and upright dealing which is not .surpassed 
by any other like firm in the city of Indianapolis, and they therefore have a trade that keeps 
them constantly employed and nets them a satisfactory sum annually. William A. Scott, 




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was born in Pennsylvania, August 30, 1830, a son of Robert Scott, a pioneer of Greene 
County, Ind., who moved to tbe wilds of Eel River in 1839 and with the help of his son 
Willaim and the other members of the family he succeeded in clearing a good sized farm. 
William A. was educated in the schools of Greene County arid upon reaching manhood 
learned the carpenter's trade and aided in the building of the town of Worthington, in which 
place he made his home until coming to Indianajiolis in 1S8'2. He at tirst followed his 
calling by himself, then he and his son, Samuel R., formed a partnership, and later two 
other sons, George A. and W. P., entered the firm, and they took the name of William A. 
Scott & Sons. Since that time they have built a planing-mill and have made a specialty of 
of the manufacture of screens, of which they are the most extensive manufacturers in the 
city and probably in the State. While a resident of Worthington, Mr. Scott took an active 
part in politics and served several ye irs as townsliip assessor, and also held other positions 
of trust. Of late years he has been identified with the Prohibition party, and as he believes 
in practicing what he advocates, he is a total abstainer. During the great Civil War, 
although not an active participant in the service of his country, on the field of battle, he 
was none the less actively employed at home and through his influence induced many others 
to enlist who would not otherwise have done so. For his companion through life he cho.se 
Miss Nancy McLarren, of Greene County, and to their marriage a family of three sons and 
three daughters have been given, all of whom (except one daughter who died at the age of 
three months and twenty-two days) are intelligent and promising, and a credit to their 
parents. For many years Mr. Scott has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and socially has been a member of the I. O. O. F., in which he has attained to the encampment. 
He and his sons control a liberal and profitable l)U8iness, l)uilt up by their own energy and 
careful attention to the higher lines of their indispensable business. Their reputation is a 
sufficient guarantee of their honorable past record and they have made many friends among 
the business men of the city. 

Mr. George A. Bceckling was born in Michigan City, Ind., February 2, 1802, and is the 
son of Anton and Elizabeth (Smith) Bceckling, both of whom were liorn in Germany and 
came to America in the fifties when they located at Michigan City Ind.. where Anton Bceck- 
ling in order to provide his family with the necessary means of sustenance followed the 
occupation of a cooper. At the present time he resides in Indianapolis retired from the act- 
ive duties of life. George A. Bceckling was reared in the place where he was born and 
after attending the public schools for a time entered St. Ambrose Academy, in which in- 
stitution he finished his literary education. Immediately after this he became a clerk in a 
grocery store, then a traveling salesmen, a liusiness which he followed for several years 
traveling through all the larger cities of the Union and Canada, after which he decided to 
embark in business for himself and engaged in the wholesale lumber business, locating in 
Inilianapolis in the early part of 18V)0. Mr. BfBckling. is one of those enterprising and 
wide awake Inisiness men who believes in having more than one string to his l)ow. He is a 
most honoralile, prudent and successful business man, and during the time he has been actively 
identified with the business in this city he has become connected with several large and flour- 
ishing companies. Being the president and executive officer of the following: The Berk- 
shire Investment Company, the G. A. Bceckling Company, Marion Investment Com]iany. 
Keystone Land & Improvement Company. Albany Land Company, and Kramer Bros. & 
Bceckling Company. Entering the field actively some years ago, upon wise investments, 
untiring labor and tact he has forged his way to the head of the successful business men 
in the State of Indiana, and his council in matters of public improvement is sought as 
being very valuable. Mr. Bceckling has done much to build up this city having erected 
in the jiast three years over 400 houses and sold them on the monthly payment plan, of 
which he is the originator, and in this manner he has done untold good in inducing citi- 
zens to save their means and become property holders. Whilst Mr. Bceckling is a very 
busy man he is easy to approach, and to make his acquaintance is to be captivated with 
his capable, practical, honest methods of business and those interested regarding lots for 
dwellings or sites for factories etc., should call at his office, where all details are cheer- 
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Dk. Fkederic Carroll Heath of Indianapolis is a native of Maine and was horn in 
the old town of (Tardiuer, January \'>, 1857. His grandfather, Asa Heath, was a physician 
of local prominence and his father, who was editor and publisher of the Gnvdiner Home 
Journal, lost his life at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., in December, 1862. Dr. Heath 
prepared for college in the public schools of Gardiner and was graduated at Amherst 
College, Mass., in 1878, leading his class in Greek and winning the first prize for the 
l)e3t oral and written examinations on all the work of the sophomore and junior years in 
that study. He was also appointed to the P. B. K. Society for high general rank at the end 
of the junior year. After teaching school a few \'ears he began the study of medicine 
under Dr. A. Sawyer, of Gardiner, and graduated in 1884 at Bowdoin College (medical 
department) at the head of his class, delivering the valedictory address, which was published 
ill full or in part in many of the leading journals of the State. In October, 1884, he was 
appointed steward and in January, 1885, acting assistant surgeon in the United States Marine 
Hospital service and stationed at Portland, Me. In April, 188*5, he passed first among a 
large class before the examining board of Marine Hospital Surgeons at Washington and 
was made an assistant surgeon, serving nearly four years at Chicago, Mobile, Buffalo, Cleve- 
land and Detroit, and then resigning to enter upon the jiractice of his specialty (eye and ear) 
to which he had devoted considerable attention while in the Marine Hospital service. After 
a long course of study in the eye and ear hospitals and dispensaries of New York, which he 
su])[)leiuented with much instructive clinical work, he settled at Lafayette, Ind., where he 
was soon appointed oculist and aurist to St. Elizabeth's Hospital and St. Joseph's Orphan 
Asylum. December 20, 1889, he was married to Mary M. Anderson, daughter of T. H. 
Anderson, of Rockville, Ind., and moved to Indianapolis in October, 1891, but from Novem- 
ber, 1891, to May, 1892, was out of the city on account of the sickness and death of his wife 
from consumption. Since his return he has been gradually acquiring an increasing 
amount of the confidence and support of the profession and public, and has been appointed 
eye and ear surgeon to two dispensaries. He is an active worker in medical and literary 
societies, and is now, or has been connected with the following named associations : Alex- 
andria and Hitchcock Society of Inquiry at Amherst (president of latter), Gardiner Debat- 
ing Club, East Machias Literary CIulj, Detroit Academy of Medicine (vice-president), 
American Academy of Medicine, Tippecanoe County Medical Society, Parlor Club of La 
Fayette, Marion County Medical Society, Indianapolis Young Men's Christian Association 
Literary Club, Mitchell District Medical Society, Delaware District Medical Society (honor- 
ary), and the American iMedical Association (sections in ophthalmology and otology). Among 
his papers are the following: "Report of a Case of Aneurysm of the Pulmonary Artery," 
"Two Interesting Cases of Enteric Fever," "Heart Tonics," ''The Physician's First Indi- 
cation," "Medical Harmony," "Oliver Wendell Holmes," "Nasal llefiexes," "The Patho 
geny of Sympathetic Ophthalmia,'' "The Eye in Relation to General Disease," "Benefits and 
Evils of Glases," "Practical Suggestions to the General Practitioner in Ear Troubles," "A 
Case of Gonorrheal Ophthalmia," "Report of a Case Symlilepharon with Successful Opera- 
tion," "Steel in the Iris Twenty-seven years, etc., etc. 

Robert Denny. There are many lawyers in Indianapolis but there are very few lawyers 
left who were members of the bar of Marion County a quarter of a century ago. One such 
is the old and highly respected gentleman whose name appears above. The American fam- 
ily of Denny is of English and Scotch-Irish descent, and Robert's ancestors were at first resi- 
dents of Pennsylvania. The l)ranch of the family from which he descended is tracealile from 
Pennsylvania to Virginia, from Virginia to Kentucky, and thence into Indiana. His grand- 
father, also named Roliert Denny, was a farmer and a blacksmith. He lived in Virginia, 
l)ut about the year 1790 went with his young family to Kentucky where he was a pioneer. 
Two of his sons and a son-in-law were soldiers in the War of 1812-14. Eventually he came 
to Washington County, Ind., and there died. Elisha Denny, father of Robert Denny, of In- 
ilianapolis, was during his earlier active life a tanner and a stone-mason, but the latter half 
of his years he devoted to farming. He was born in Frederick County, Va. , and was about 
six years old when tlie family removed to Kentucky, In 18l(* he married Miss Polly Hedger 
(a most worthy Christian lady of Scotch-English descent), and the same year came on horse- 
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■which he afterward purchased from the Government, returned to Kentucky. In the autumn 
of 1811 he again came to his intended Indiana home, cleared a small patch in the dense 
forest and erected a cabin of unhewn logs, with a stick-aud-mortar chimney, and the roof of 
clap-boards, riveted by hand and held in place by weight poles. In 1812 he brought out his 
family and a horse, a cow and a sheep. The mother and their son, Morris T. Denny, then 
eight months old, rode on the horse, which also carried a sack of provisions, and the husband 
and father walked and drove the cow and sheep, the bedding of the family being strapped to 
the cow. Upon their arival in Washington County, April 12, 1812, they entered Fleenor's 
Fort, where they remained several months for protection from hostile Indians. On leaving 
the fort tbey moved to their quarter section of land near the fort, three and a half miles 
northeast of Salem, the county seat, and he lived upon it until his death in October, 1855. 
His wife died ten years earlier in the same month. They had thirteen children, twelve of 
whom lived to maturity and live of whom are now living: Morris T. , of Washington County, 
Ind., in his eighty-third year; William H. , of Cumberland County, 111., in his eightieth year; 
Thomas H., of Logan County, 111., in his seventy eighth year; Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Fre- 
mont County, Iowa, in her seventieth year, and Robert, now in his sixty-sixth year. Elisha 
Denny was a most conscientious man. He rarely liad a misunderstanding about a iiusiness 
matter and never was a pai'ty to a law suit during his entire career. This is all the more 
remarkable in view of the fact that he was to some extent a public man. He was commis- 
sioner of Saline lands, by appointment under President William Henry Harrison, while gov- 
ernor of Indiana Territory, and made his final report to the first governor of the State of Indi- 
ana, Jonathan Jennings. He assisted in laying out the State road from Indianapolis to Leaven- 
worth, on the Ohio River, and performed various other public services under the Territorial 
and State Governments. Notwithstanding he thus received ample evidence of the place he 
occupied in the public estimation, and might liave felt assured of election if nominated, he 
would never consent to be a candidate for any office. He was fond of books and was regarded 
as unusually well iraformed, especially upon history and current topics. Robert Denny was 
reared on his father's farm, and availed himself of such limited educational advantages as 
were afforded by the district schools of the neighborhood, reading omuivorously in every spare 
hour, and without wearying, whatever he could tiud that promised to instruct and edify him. 
The variety, extent and accuracy of his learning is very surprising in view of the fact that 
he never, as a student, saw the inside of any college, lecture room or institution of learning, 
other than a backwoods, one-room school-house. In the best sense of the phrase lie is self edu- 
cated. He left the farm at the age of twenty-three, and busied himself at whatever he found 
to do, dividing his time partially between merchandising, teaching school and reading law. He 
early espoused Christianity as a member of the Cliristian Church, and spent several years 
before the war, and the first two years of the war. in church and Sunday-school missionary 
work. He was noted for his anti-slavery principles, yet he held the postmastership of Camp- 
bellsburg, Ind., under three administrations, those of Presidents Fillmore, Pierce and Bu- 
chanan, until he voluntarily resigned. In 1868 Mr. Denny organized Company C, One Hun- 
dred and seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. He declined a captain's commission in favor of sol- 
diers of experience in the company, liut was soon commissioned as second lieutenant and 
served with the company with that rank until he was discharged in May, 1864. While so 
serving he was offered the appointment of (|nartermaster of a division of the army of East 
Tennessee, but declined because lie had promised the men of the company to remain with 
them during their term of service. Returning to Indiana, he located at Indianapolis and 
entered upon the practice of his profession. His career at the bar has been one of honor and 
success, and his high standing is but the legitimate reward of the earnest and sustained en- 
deavor to succeed, which has been the rule of his professional life. To him the law has been 
and is the science of justice and equal rights among men, and he abhors the course of those 
in the profession who use the law as a system of trickery, to defeat justice and establish wrong 
instead of right. In the preparation of his cases he had been most careful, and to this fact 
he attributes much of his success. He never held the office of judge by election, but has at 
times been called to the bench as a substitute in the absence of regular judges, and upon 
such occasions he has acquitted himself more than creditably, so that he is universally known 
as '"Judge" Denny. He possesses the most admirable social qualities and has, perhaps, as 



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many warm personal frieiuis as any man in tbe city. In ])olitics he holds the Prohibition 
views, not because he considers all of (lolitics embraced in the single proposition of Prohibi- 
bition. but because he believes Prohibition necessary and sees no way to bring it about except 
through a distinct political movement, and has been one of the main pillars of the Probibi 
lion party ever since its tirst organization in Indiana. He is full of charitable good will 
toward those who differ from him in either religion or politics. He loves to associate with the 
veterans of the late war, and for many years has been continuously honored liy his comrades by 
election to various positions of trust and responsibility, including the presidency of the Per- 
simmon Brigade Association. When about twenty-one years old he married Mrs. Mary M. 
Hitchcock. She possessed virtues and qualities of mind and heart which made her one of 
earth's noblest of Christian women. By her first husband she had four sons, all of whom 
entered the Union army at the outbreak of the late war. and two of whom sleep in unknown 
graves, having sacrificed their lives at Chickamauga and Atlanta. Ga. Mrs. Denny is de- 
ceased, leaving him an only daughter, Adaline, their other three children having died in 
infancy and childhood. 

Frederick Stein, M. D. Few, perhaps none, who have trod the arduous paths of the 
profession, can be aware of the array of attributes and the host of minor qualities essential 
to the making u]) of a great physician and surgeon. His constitution must be of the har- 
diest, to successfully withstand the constant shock of wind and weather, the wearing loss of 
sleep and rest, the ever gathering load of care, and the insidious approach of every form of 
fell disease to which his daily round of duties momentarily expose him. The above is but a 
few necessary remarks introducing Dr. Frederick Stein, who for many years has been a suc- 
cessful practicing physician of Indianapolis. The land of Germany gave him birth March 
27, 18'25, his parents being Clemens and Amelia (Ebert) Stein. He was reared and educated 
in his native land and took a full course in a noted university there, after which he served a 
two years' apprenticeship at the drug business, but never followed that occu|iatiou. He 
next entered the service of the German Government as a civil engineer in railroad work, in 
which capacity he labored conscientiously until 1849, when the German revolution came up, 
in which he took an active part. After the defeat of their cause and fearing the conse- 
quence of further residence in the land that gave him birth, he decided to come to America, 
and in the spring of ISTjO he found himself in the city of New York, where he lived and 
labored for five years, securing employment as a druggist. At the end of that time he came 
to Indianapolis and soon secured employment as a draughtsman in compiling maps of the 
ditt'erent counties of Indiana and also one of the State from United States surveys. From 
the fall of 1855 to 187*1 he was connected with the State auditor's office, and in 1809 he was 
appointed by the General Government as superintendent of improvements on the Wabash 
River, which work occupied his time and attention for seven years, at which time he became 
incapacitated by rheumatism for further service. Upon regaining his health he began the 
study of medicine, and in 1879 entered the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
from which he graduated in 1881. He immediately entered upon a general practice, which 
he continued successfully until February 19, 1891, when he sustained a stroke of paralysis, 
from which he has never fully recovered, although at present his professional work is con- 
fined to office practice. He built up a reputation and knowledge of his profession that is an 
honor to himself and the noble calling which he follows. He was married in Germany in 
1849 to Catherine E. Kurzrock. a native of that country, and five children were the result of 
their union: Theodore, Albert. Henry, August and Frederick. Mrs. Stein died February 20, 
1882, and since that time the Doctor has remained unmarried: He has been a Mason of 
many years standing, but at the present time is not an active member of that order. He has 
identified himself with the land of his adojitiou since coming here, and is of the stuff of 
which noble and useful citizens are made. 

Theodore Steix. A somewhat recent movement in realty circles is growing quite 
popular at Indianapolis and other cities, this is the establishment of companies which 
furnish complete abstracts of titles. Delays in securing titles in the old way were often 
interminable and vexations, and often after they were secured the owner found himself 
involved in some sort of trouble which had escaped the notice of the attorney employed to 
examine the title. In the olden days when land was very cheap the same care was not exer- 



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ciseil as now, hence deeds were not so closely drawn and errors would creep in. A gentle- 
man who makes a specialty of this line of work, and who guarantees the utmost satisfaction 
and absolute perfection of title is Theodore Stein, who is one of the wide-awake, progressive 
and intelligent business men of the city of Indianapolis. He is a native of the city in 
which he lives, born November 7, 1858, a son of Frederick and Catherine (Kurzrock) Stein, 
a sketch of whom appears in this work. In this city he was reared and in the pul)lic schools 
he obtained his literary education. After leaving school he was apprenticed to learn litho- 
graphing and engraving with Braden & Burford, with whom he remained four years. He 
then entered the city civil engineer's otlice, and was also in the county recorder's office for some 
time. Succeeding this he became bookkeejier and afterward manager of the H. Hermann 
Lumber Mills, in which capacity he served until 1887. In the fall of that year he purchased 
the aljstract title business of the late W. O. Anderson, which he has since continued, and as 
that gentleman was noted as one of the most painstaking abstracters of the city, Mr. Stein 
has fully sustained this reputation, as an evidence of which fact he at present employs more 
clerical help in the prosecution of his large and increasing business than any other firm in 
the same line in Indianapolis. Mr. Stein has identified himself with the varied interests of 
Indianapolis and has paid a great deal of attention to building and loan associations, at one 
time being president and secretary of six different corporations. At the jiresent time he is 
a stockholder in about twenty-five of them, but is only officially connected with three, being 
secretary of two and treasurer of one. He is fully equipped for his work and it requires 
but a lirief investigation into the objects and aims of his business to learn how really im- 
portant are its functions and to pursuade everyone who buys land that it is to his interest to 
avail himself of the services of tliis gentlemen. He very properly takes great pride in his 
business, and it is through his own untiring efforts that it has come to be recognized as the 
leading one in its line in the city. He is of a very social disposition, has attained the Scottish 
Rite degree in the Masonic fraternity and he also belongs to the society of the Sons of Kevo 
lution, the Lyra Casino Club, and he was one of the founders of the Columbia Club, although 
he is not a member of this society at present. He has always been a Republican in politics, 
but is no office seeker, the duties of his business completely occupying his time. He was 
married March 15, 1882, to Miss Bertha Kuhn, a native of Indianapolis, and a daughter of 
William F. and Nannette (Hesselbach) Kuhn, both natives of the old country. The union 
of Mr. and Mrs. Stein has resulted in the birth of two children: Pauline and Theodore. 

Jerry Collins, deputy sheriff of the county, and jailer, owes his nativity to the Isle of 
Erin, his birth having occurred in the beautiful County of Kerry, December 29, 1863. The 
Collins family came to America in ISfin, and very shortly after landing on American .soil they 
turned their faces westward and in a short time founti themselves in the city of Indianapo- 
lis, Ind., in the public schools of which place Jerry Collins was placed as soon as he was old 
enough, and continued to attend until he had attained about the age of sixteen years. He 
then began to do for himself, and secured the position of bell l)oy in an Indianapolis hotel, 
but later became assistant clerk at the Grand Hotel, during which time he acquired such a 
thorough knowledge of the details of the business that he secured remunerative positions in 
some of the leading hotels in different cities throughout the country. His agreeable man- 
ners, kind and accommodating disposition and desire to please those who called upon his 
services rendered him a great favorite with the traveling pul)lic and won him many warm 
personal friends. In 1882 he went to Colorado and Utah, and for two years was clerk for 
the superintendent of construction of bridges and buildings on the Denver & Rio Grande 
Railroad between Grand Junction and Salt Lake City, his head(juarters being at Green 
River, Utah. When the two years were over he returned to Indianapolis and since that 
time has made this city his home, with the exception of a trip to the San Juan country, in 
Colorado, where he followed mining in the Sheridan mine, in Marshall Basin for nine 
months. His intelligence and ability to adapt himself to circumstances has led to his hold- 
ing a number of important offices, and for some time he was in the township assessor's 
office and in the city civil engineer's department, which position he resigned December 10, 
1892, to accept the appointment of deputy sheriff, to which he was elected, and he was at 
once placed in charge of the jail, a position he still holds and for which he is admiral)ly 
fitted. He is keenly alive to his responsibilities, fulfills them in the most prompt and thor- 



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ouf:;ti mauDer, and even bis political enemies have come to understand that be is the " right 
man in the rigrbt place.'' His management of the jail is above criticism, notwithstanding 
the fact that the building is an old one, many times inadequate to accommodate its occu- 
pants, and to properly look after those placed in his care the greatest ingenuity and good 
judgment is required. Politically, be has always been in strong sympathy with the Demo- 
crat party. 

Henry Pauli. It is a pleasure and a privilege to record the character and enterprise 
of men of l)asiness. who. on account of their long tenure and extensive operations comprise 
almost a history of the business in which they are engaged. Of such men it is unnecessary 
to speak in words of colored praise. " By their acts ye shall know them."' Their very 
existence is emphatic evidence of the honorable position they occupy and the long course of 
just dealing that they have pursued. A gentleman in mind is Henry Pauli, who was born 
in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1836, a son of John and Katharina (Jacobi) Pauli, also 
natives of the (Terman Empire. They died when their son Henry was a lad of nine or ten 
years, the father having been a tlour, saw and oil mill oiierator. In the schools of bis native 
place Henry acquired a ]iractical education, Imt in 1S52 he left the "halls of learning,"' and. 
bidding adieu to home and friends, embarked for the United States, and for some time after 
reaching this country he resided in the city of Little Falls, N. Y. He then came to the city 
of Indianapolis and for some time thereafter woj'ked in the old Palmer House, one of the 
old landmarks of the place, now the Occidental Hotel, as dining-room boy. After a time he 
commenced to learn his trade under Charles Helwig. with whom he served a three 3'ears' 
apprenticesbi]!. He then worked for other parties until 1867, at which time he formed a 
partnership with Christian F. IMiller, one of the old settlers of the place, and this liecame 
one of the liest known contracting tirms in the city. He Imilt many of the ]irominent l)usi 
iiess buildings of the city, as well as some of the tinest residences, and bis partnershi]> with 
IMr. Miller continued until quite recently, since which time ]Mr. Pauli has conducted bis opera- 
tions on his own responsibility. His career has been quite a remarkable one, for, on starting 
out in life for himself he at first received only $3 a month compensation for his services, 
which was raised, owing to bis good conduct and efficiency, to the munificent sum of §3.50 
per month, and this was later increased to S-4.50. He has slowly but surely climbed the 
ladder of success and has the satisfaction of knowing that he owes bis present independent 
position to no one but himself. He is in the prime of life, has the advantage of having long 
been a settler of the city and is thus in touch with the s]urit of Indianapolis and its enter 
prise. He is a highly esteemed citizen and during his long business career has ever proven 
true ami honorable to bis transactions. He is a memlier of the l)oard of the German Orphan 
.\sylum. Iteing at one time its president, and was one of the organizers of that well known 
institution. He is a member of Zion's Evangelical Church, joining in 1864; was presi- 
dent of the board of trustees for fifteen years, and has been a teacher in the Sunday school 
for twenty- seven years. In 18f>9 Miss Louisa Niermann. who was born in Prussia in 1840. 
became his wife, and to their union three sons and four daughters have been given, all of 
whom are intelligent and promising. 

Nelsox J. Hyue. The office of State inspector of oils is a most important one, requiring 
special knowledge and a degree of integrity demanded in but few other positions. Its 
present incumbent. Nelson J. Hvde. was appointed in 1SS9, after a memorable contest, and 
has proven a most diligent and faithful official. Mr. Hyde was born in Plattsville, Wis., 
January 23. 1851, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Nelson) Hyde. His father was a native 
of Ohio and a well-to do farmer. His mother was born in Ireland and was a woman of many 
virtues. In 1856, when be was six years old, voimg Hyde was orphaned by the death of his 
father, and his mother has since died. In 1857 he went to Indianapolis to make bis borne 
with bis uncle, Abner R. Hyde, a pioneer hotel man in that city. He grew to manhood as a 
meml)er of his uncle's household and was educated in the public schools. By the time he 
was twenty-one he was a good practical hotel man, familiar with every detail of the business, 
and during bis active career be has managed several good bouses, among them the "National " 
and "Capitol" hotels of Indianapolis, and the "Taylor" house at Havana, 111. ^Ir. Hyde 
became very jiopular. personally, and acquired considerable political influence of the quiet 
but effective kind. He has never sought office but has accepted several important positions 



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when they have been proffered him. He was for three years clerk in the county auditor's 
office under the administration of "Tom" Taggart, and had otherwise served the puljlic more 
than acceptHbly prior to bis appointment to his present position. He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity, and is a K. of P.. and is prominently identified with the Hendricks and 
Cleveland clubs. All in all. he is one of the most popular citizens and officials in this part 
of the State. He was married April 27, 1876, to Miss Julia A. Downey, a native of Perry 
County, Ohio. 

WiLLi.\M P. Smith. This gentleman was born Octolier 19, 1840, in Indianapolis, Ind 
His paternal ancestors trace their genealogy Ijack to the days of William the Conqueror, 
where the line is lost in the, then, important office of "butler'' or cup-bearer to the first 
King of England. B. K. Smith, father of our subject, came from South Carolina to Wayne 
County, Ind., in 181*3, and settled on the west fork of White River, where his early boyhood 
was passed. Elder B. K. Smith, as he was commonly known, was truly a self-made man, 
having left the civilization of South Carolina,, which his father had spent his early days in 
helping reclaim from a wilderness, and migrated to the great "Northwest"' before Indiana 
was admitted into the Union. His scholastic training was limited to two years, in which 
time he mastered Murray's grammar and learned to chew tobacco, as he facetiously remarked 
when speaking of his "early advantages."' Later he learned the trade of blacksmith and 
wagou maker, came west with his brother Carey, and established a business in Indianapolis. 
One evidence of his thrift is found in the fact that for the building and ironing of one two- 
horse wagon he received a warranty deed to two town lots in Indianapolis, each 195x67i 
feet. Exchanging these for a farm five miles from the city, he moved his family to the 
country and there, leaving them to take care of themselves as best they could, mounted a 
horse and started out to convert the denizens of the unbroken wilderness of Indiana to the 
doctrines of salvation as set forth by Alexander Campbell. Elder Smith was one of the 
pioneer preachers of the State, whose contributions to the Millenial Harbimjer. Christian 
Arje and Cliristiftn Standard did much toward molding religious thought. William P. 
Smith traces his maternal ancestors to an Irish and Welsh origin through the Bristows and 
Prices. His great -grandsire was a revolutionary soldier, settled in Virginia after peace 
was declared, and died while Peyton Bristowwas an infant. Peyton Bristow entered -K 10 
acres of Government land near Indianapolis, paying SI. 25 per acre. Allured by the abun- 
dance of game that roamed the trackless forest, and fish that filled the waters of White River 
and its tributaries, he left his numerous family to "clear up'" the land while he furnished 
them with fish and venison with his home-made fishing tackle and unerring flintlock gun. 
A typical pioneer, he died at the advanced age of ninety-four years, having celelirated his 
diamond wedding to Mary Price, who survived him three years. They left six daughters 
and six sons, ninety six grandchildren, thirty-two great-grandchildren and two great-great- 
grandchildren. Their daughter .Sarah became the wife of B. K. Smith and bore him 
twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was sixth 
in order of birth. Amanda, the first, married Aaron Clem; Araminta died when sixteen; 
Mary A. married John Hosbrook: Charles H. died at the age of fifty-two. unmarried: B. K., 
Jr.. now drawing a pension for disability incurred during the Rebellion: Walter S. : John 
C. ; Alexander C. ; Mark A. and Benjamin F. The subject of this sketch combining the 
Saxon. Scotch. Irish and Welsh blood in equal proportions, is strongly fitted by nature for 
the peculiar traits of character which he seems to have inherited from each branch of his 
ancestors. His father having accepted the charge of a congregation in Edinbui'gh, Johnson 
County, Ind. , had removed there about 1850. Two years of struggle against the character- 
istic poverty of pioneer preachers at this place, the family removed to Harrison, Ohio, where 
the subject of this sketch lived until fifteen, fishing for food for the family, skating, swim- 
ming, and marble playing. The family moved back to the farm in Indiana in 1856 and two 
years later William entered the Northwestern Christian University, chopping cordwood in 
vacations to pay tuition and board. In December. 1864. he read law with his uncle, Jeremiah 
Smith, of Winchester. Ind.. and was admitted to the bar the following year. Returning to 
Indianapolis he became deputy county surveyor of Marion County. November 19. 1867, he 
married Elvira, daughter of Royal Mayhew. a prominent attorney and ex treasurer of the .State 
of Indiana, who is a lineal descendant of Thomas Mayhew, founder and patentee of 



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Martha's Yiuej'ard, Nantucket and Elizabeth Isles. Four children have been born to 
them: Minnie Mavhew. who died in infancy; Royal Mayhew, who married Miss Flor- 
ence Abuey, and Sarah L. William P. Smith is original in style, thought and reasoning. 
Early impressed with the fact that authors of books were simply men, and liable to err as 
other men, he ceased to )ilace implicit confidence in books and established writings and to look 
upon "established truth" with suspicion, especially when remote auti(|uity was the sole sup- 
port. Regardless of his rashness in daring to oppose "established truth"! ^ I he has espoused 
the cause of the oppressed wage earners. He has prepared articles arguing that the 
same cause that produces paupers and profligates in Russia, Ireland and Spain, will 
produce them in America. Much of Mr. Sniith's time has lieen spent in lecturing on 
the social pro'.ileni under the title of the '"Problem of Civilization." None of his best 
articles have appeared in print, the position held l>y him being so contrary to "established 
truth "( y) that the proprietors of magazines and pulilishers of daily papers refuse them 
space. His published writings consist mainly of contributions to daily and weekly papers, 
a collection of Irish. Negro, German and Yankee dialect verse, including orations, dialogues 
and dramas of versatility, wit and morals. He was the founder of three different secret 
societies of an educational nature. The Archer ritual is his production. Mr. Smith, recogniz- 
ing the universal law of attraction and repulsion as operating constantly upon all matter 
through all space, argues by an ingenins process of reasoning from cause to effect, that 
(ilanets, satellites and suns have been developed from a conilition of absolute cold to their 
present proportions and that the ultimate destiny of our planet is to attain the ))roportions 
and conditions of a sun, when the "elements will melt with a fervent heat."* Mr. Smith's 
ideas of religion are original and unique. He says: " The mission of Christ was to establish 
a kingdom of righteousness and joy and peace upon earth, to save mankind from committing 
sin, not from the effects of sin committed; to restore mankind to the blessing, comforts and 
delights of this present life; to teach man how to live; that he may avoid sin, not how he 
may escape from the effects of sin: that religion is not to get, but to ' do the will of my 
Father which hath sent me;' that when the world is truly civilized the religion of Christ 
will be the business of the world. Christ says: " ^ly people shall be a contented people; they 
shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat of the fruit thereof; 
they shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not ])lant and another eat.'"' This he 
argues is the true test of a Christian civilization. Mr. Smith's ideas on political economy, 
as might be expected, are opposite to those accepted by the political economists who furnish 
text books for our schools and colleges. He says: "Afoney is a memorandum of value due 
the bearer from the commonwealth.'' That " honest " money can not be made from the 
so called " f)recious metals.'' That no government can become free from any debt that 
forms the basis of its circulating medium, unless that debt is paid in somthing else beside 
the money based on it. The debt grows larger by accruing interest, the money less, by loss 
and wear. This perpetually widens the gap between the debt and ]>owev to pay the debt, 
which bankruptcy alone can pay — that a people never can be free whose circulating medium 
is based on bonds — that bonds are instruments of bondage and bondage implies servitude. 
Being specially gifted in his powers of speech, Mr. Smith has been called upon, at various 
times and on sundiy occasions, to talk lo the public on special siibjects. Invariably he has 
acquitted himself with credit and satisfaction. He is a courteous gentleman, an excellent 
neighbor and an upright citizen. 

Emanuei, Anthon'y, M. D. The subject of this sketch following a resolve that came 
upon him at a very early asre, entered upon the study of medicine, and pursued it with a 
rare enthusiasm, an impression being strong within him that this was his sure vocation, a 
feeling that was as strong as that which glows in the breast of the enthusiast who offers him- 
self for some remote missionary service under the idea that the sacrifice of life is involved 
in the discharge of the duty. Such was not the thought of Dr. Anthony, but rather, that 
he might Vie the means of communicating health to others and save many from the hands of 
death. It was this spirit of resolute purpose that sustained him when he applied himself to 
his books for eight hours of each day at a time when he was teaching a large school which 

»It Is rPKretii'il tiy the |iiibllslier.s of this volume tliat space cannot be given herein to explain fully and at length, the 
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demanded more tliau oiJiuary care ami attention. This spirit remains as strong with liim 
to-day, and explains the success that has attended his practice and the distinction he enjoj's 
in his profession. Dr. Emanuel Anthony was bom in Loudoun County, Va., May 27, 1840, 
being the son of Joseph and Rachel (Rogers) Anthony, the former a native of Spain and 
the latter of England. The father was a farmer by occupation and in 1841 settled in Athens 
County, Ohio, where he resided until his death in June, 1856. He was a soldier in the 
armv which resisted the invasion of Napoleon into his native country and participated in 
the first victory of the Peninsula war. He came to America in 1S07 and settled in Virginia. 
Our subject was about a year old when his parents settled in Athens County, and there he 
was reared upon a farm, receiving his early education in the public schools, afterward attend- 
ing Miller's academy. At the age of eighteen, in 1858, he began the study of medicine with 
Dr. E. M. Bean, at Pleasanton, Athens County, pursuing his studies for seven years, and 
taught school during the greater portion of the time in these years, and it was at this time 
that he compelled himself to study eight hours every day, and this without neglecting in 
any wise his duties as a teacher. At the expiration of the seven years he entered the otfice 
of his preceptor and assisted in the general practice for three years, when he entered the 
Physio Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1868, from which he graduated in the spring of 
1869. Immediately after this he settled at Guysville, Ohio, and practiced there until Jan 
iiary, 1881, when he came to Indianai)olis and entered upon a practice which has continued 
uninterruptedly up to the present time, and has worked up a lucrative practice. He pays 
special attention to snrger\', his tastes and inclinations leading him into this line of work. 
In 1872 Dr. Anthony was elected to till tlie chair of anatomy and physiology in the Physio 
Medical College at Cincinnati, which he accepted and filled until 1877. In 1879 he was 
elected to the chair of surgery in the Physio Medical College at Indianapolis, which he still 
tills with great credit, and in 1881 he was elected president of the faculty, holding this posi 
tion until February, 1893. The Doctor is a member of the Physio-Medical Society of 
Indianap<ilis, of the Indiana State Physio-Medical Society and of the American Association 
of Physio Medical Physicians and Surgeons. He was the first president of the Indianapolis 
society and has been president of the State society. Dr. Anthony served in the One Hun- 
dred and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantiy, in the one hundred-days service enlisting in 
the month of May (first day) and was discharged in the following fall. His regiment was 
assigned to general duty in Virgiaua, being on guard service. Dr. Anthony was married 
Decemlier 29, 1864, to Elvira Calvert, a native of Athens County, and a daughter of Amos 
and Margaret (Stephenson) Calvert, also natives of Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Anthony are the 
parents of one child, Elisha G. Anthony. The Doctor and his family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics the Doctor is a Prohibitionist, believing that the 
morals and the happiness of the people will best be advanced by the triumph of the prin- 
ciples of that party. 

Albert E. Buchanan, D. D. S. In this country where so many young men are thrown 
upon their own resources at an early age and are often obliged, while yet inexperienced and 
unfamiliar with their own tendencies and inclinations, to choose their occuiiation in life, it 
cannot always ba expected the most suitable or most congenial pursuit will be selected. In 
the old eountrj', where too often genius and ambition are both ab.solutely opposed by the old 
adage, '"follow your father, my son, and do as your father has done," young men do not 
have the advantage they do here. In this country it is the trend of legislation to place no 
ol)stacle in the wav of the full development of talent and the skyward expansion of genius, 
and thus the youth of this countrj- usually find as suitable an occupation as did Albert E. 
Buchanan, who chose the calling of a dentist, and has found it admirably suited to his quali- 
fications and desires. He was born in Cumberland, Marion County, Ind., June 8, 1860, a 
son of John and Jane C. (Ferguson) Buchanan, who were also born in Indiana, and were 
among the early settlers of Marion County. In the town of his liirth the subject of this 
sketch was reared, and he there obtained his education and in Moore's Hill College. In 
July, 1881, he came to Indianapolis, and began the study of dentistry, his preceptor being 
Dr. T. S. Hacker. After remaining under his instruction for some time he entereil the 
Indiana Dental College in October, 1881, and was graduated therefrom in 1883, after which 
he remained with Dr. Hacker for seven years as his associate in the practice of dentistry. At 



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the end of that time he embarked in Inisiuess for himself, iii which he lias Iniilt up a very 
large and paying practice. For a number of years after his graduation Dr. Buchanan as- 
sisted Dr. Hacker as demonstrator in the Indiana Dental College, but now devotes bis entire 
time to his practice, the duties of which he has found arduous. He has already won a repu- 
tation for skill that is by no means local, and what he endeavors to do he does well. His 
charges are reasonable, and being generous and considerate he never pushes his debtors. 
He was married January '20. 1SS6. to ^liss Nellie Roll, a native of Indianapolis, and a daugh- 
ter of \V. H. Roll, and to their union one child has been given. Julia J., born May 31. 1891. 
The Doctor is a member of the Indiana Dental Association, and is a member of the Com- 
mittee on Code of Ethics in the same. He is a member of the Post-Graduate Society of 
Indianapolis, and socially belongs to the I. O. O. F. He and his wife are members of the 
First Baptist Church, and for several years he has been a teacher in the Sabbath-school, and 
also assistant superintendent. Politically he has always affiliated with the Republican party, 
an<l at all times supports its men and measures. 

Georoe M. Smith. This gentleman is a native of that country whose citizens are noted 
for their iudu.stry. frugality and honesty. Germany, and throughout life he has shown 
that he is possessed of these worthy characteristics in an eminent degree. He was born in 
Seideudorf. OctoVier 14, ISSrt, and received the benefit of the schools of his native land from 
the time he was six up to the age of fourteen years. In 1852 he came to America in com- 
pany with his brother Conrad and his sister Elizabeth, taking passage at Bremen, ^lay 2. 
and after a long voyage of fifty-six days they reached the port of New York. They then 
went up the Hudson River to All>any, then by rail to Dunkirk, then across the lake to San- 
dusky, Ohio, then by the old fiat bar railroad to Dayton, Ohio, and on to Hamilton. Mr. 
Smith says that frequently the cars got off the track and that in such cases the passengers 
would get off the cars and walk until the train caught up with them. The trip from San- 
duskv- to Hamilton occupied two days and a night. I'jwn his arrival in the latter place Mr. 
Smith went to work in Mr. Becket's paper-mill, then apprenticed himself to Philip Huber, a 
baker and confectioner, but as his employer did not pay him his wages as agreed, he left him 
at the expiration of six months and entered the employ of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, ex con- 
gressman, with whom he remained until the spring of 1S54, when he came to Hancock 
County, Ind. , where his brother Conrad had preceded him. He became an employe of Widow 
Gooding, mother of Hon. David S. Gooding, at the hotel kej^t by her in Greenfield. He 
remained in her employ and that of Dr. N. P. Howard, her son-in-law. for two years, then 
went to Shelby County, and for two years conducted a general store at Pleasant View. There 
he was married March 28, 1858, toDelphiiia. daughter of Squire Renl>en Barnard, a Quaker 
and a native of Nantucket, Mass. In 18r)() he bought a farm of 70 acres of Henry Grass 
onto which he moved and in time added 15 to the 30 acres that had been cleared. In 18t>7 
he l>onght 40 acres on Sugar Creek, in Shelby County, but -sold it in November, 1868, and 
in the spring of the following year sold the rest of his land and came to Marion County, 
purchasing iTiO acres, consisting of two N(>-acre tracts, for which he paid ^10,(ltX>, One hun- 
dred acres were cleareil and he now has 120 acres cleared on which he raises the usual farm 
products. He has always been a Democrat, and since the time of Stephen A. Douglas he 
has never missed voting for a Democratic president. He was elected trustee of his township 
in 1874, serving for two years. He is a worthy member of the Christian Church at Irvington, 
and is an enthusiastic member of the I. O. O. F. Of eleven children born to himself and 
wife only one is dead, Emlora. who passed from life in infancy. The rest are as follows: 
Elizabeth G., who married Isaac Harlan, has two children, Mary and Smith: Cora M. : 
William C , ex-county surveyor: Oscar L. : Amy E., assistant principal teacher in the Free 
Kindergarten at Buffalo, N. Y. : Clarence K. ; Ivy M. ; Walter E. : George M. and Mary D. 
The paternal grandfather of these children was George J. Smith, who died in his native 
laml in Germany in 1843, .seven weeks after his wife died, at which time he was fifty-one 
years old. He had been married twice, his first wife giving him four children, only one of 
whom grew to maturity. Michael. His second wife was Anna Marie Helmreich, and by her 
he became the father of ten children, three of whom survive as follows: John K , of Fair- 
land, lud. : Elizabeth, widow of Jacob Kohler, of Hamilton, Ohio, and George M., the subject 
of this sketch. The latter's father-iu-law was born on the Island of Nantucket. Mass.. in 



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1805, and in 18<)<>. owiug to tlie piTsecutions to wbieL tbe Quakers were subjected, bis 
father, Libroy Barnard, witb otber Quakers, emigrated to North Carolina, settling in Guil- 
ford County, and there on Deep River, within twelve miles of Greensboro, Reuben Barnard 
was brought up and lived until September, 1S33. when he came to Indiana, locating tirst in 
Cent«rville, from whence he walked in March, 1834, to Indianapolis, entering 80 acres of 
land in Hancock County. About two years lat«r he entered 80 acres more and there lived 
until his death in 1869. He was justice of the peace in Hancock County for quite a number 
of years, and politically was a Democrat, his fir^t vote having been cast for Andrew Jackson. 
He was a Quaker but was excommunicated for marrying outside the pale of the church. He 
was married to Elizaljetb. daughter of David and Sarah Curry. She was born and reared 
in Davidson County. X. C, and bore her husband ten children, as follows: Louisa: Fred- 
erick, who died in Texas, was married to Mattie Bond, whose father was a Colonel in the 
Confederate service during tbe Civil War; James J. married Jane McAdams (nee Shannon) 
and had four children — Reuben, Elizabeth, Eunice and Frederick: Sarah E. tirst married 
Ezekiel Cunningham, who died in the Federal service at Helena, Ark., and by whom she had 
three children — Adolphus, Elenora. and Samuel, and after his death she married Christian 
Scheldmeir and to whom four children were given, two of whom survive — Bertha, who mar- 
ried Thon)as Groves, and Laura: Delphina became the wife of George M. Smith: Mary E. , 
as the widow of William T. King, married George W. Jenks (Mary T., her child by her tirst 
husband, married Rol>ert T. Lee), and by George W. Jenks she became the mother of one 
son. Charles: Elihu B., who died at the age of sixteen years: Eunice (deceased) married 
Richard Senour, by whom she had seven children, of whom five survive — Marj-, Edward, 
Laura, Nellie, and Elizal>eth: William, of Greenfield, Ind., married Amanda Gibson and 
has two children, Borgia and Audrey; Charlotte J., who married John Burkhart, lives in 
Shelby County. Ind.. has seven children— John: Charley, who married a Miss Williams; 
Eunice. Adrian, Edna, Jesse, and Ernest. Mr. Barnard, the father of Mrs. Smith, died in 
1869. and his wife July 24. 1892. at the age of eighty sis years. Mrs. Smith's paternal 
great-grandfather, was in all probability the Huguenot emigrant ancestor who. with so many 
of his co-religionists, tied from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and with 
a band of brotherly, loving friends, purchased the Island of Nantucket that they might 
have a place to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. 

J. O. Hendebsos. The career of this well-known journalist and jKjlitician illustrates 
the value of those sterling qualities which enable men to make their way to positions of 
responsibility and distinction. John 0^icar Henderson was born in New London, Howard 
County. Ind.. forty-five years ago. the second of five sons of the late J. F. Henderson, a 
pioneer physician and noted early Democratic leader of the Indiana Reserve. Soon after 
the beginning of the Civil AVar the family moved to Kokomo, the seat of justice of Howard 
County, and Dr. Henderson entered the Union army as surgeon of the Eighty-ninth Regi- 
ment Indiana Volunteers. Mr. Henderson received an academic education at Kokomo and 
was graduated from Asbury (now DePauw) University in 1S72. Meantime Dr. Henderson 
had founded and was the owner of the Kokomo Dispatch, and his two sons. J. O. and H. E. 
Henderson entered upon their career as journalists in 1876. and soon established themselves 
firmly among the leading Democratic editors and political managers of the State. For 
years J. O. Henderson was chairman of the local county committee. In 1885 he was 
appointed revenue collector for the Eleventh Indiana District by President Cleveland, and 
filled that position two years with much credit and success. In 1886 he served as a memtjer 
of the executive committee of tbe Democratic State central committee, and in 1888 he wa~ 
a delegate to the Democratic national convention and was made assistant secretary of that 
body. In 1889 he was elected president of the Democratic Editorial Association of Indiana. 
In 1890 he was elected auditor of the State of Indiana, and was re-elected in 1892, and is 
now for the second term filling that office. 

Amos L. Wilson. M. D. . of Indianapolis was born near Casey, 111.. August 20. 
1858. .son of Jonathan and Mary 'Huntington) Wilson, the former a native of Kentucky, the 
latter a native of New York. His father, who had laeen a life long farmer, came to Indiana 
when a young man and has lived in this State and Illinois all bis life since, being at this 
time resident in the vicinitv of Casey, 111. Two of his sons (brothers of Dr. Wilson) named 



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Jiiiues N. Hnil Josliua C. Wilsou, servpd their country in the Civil War, and the former, a 
meinlier of Gen. Benjamin Harrison's regiment, lost liislifeat Kesaca. May 1">. 18(54. Joshua 
C. Wilson is a resident of Nebraska. Another sou of Jonathan \\'ilson (John A.) served 
for seven years with the regular army in the West until discharged for disal>ility. Besides 
those mentioned above there are three other children of Jonathan Wilson living, and resid- 
ing in Indianapolis, viz. : Asa B. Wilson, Mary A. Wilson and Mrs. Sarah McFall, and 
three, one son and two daughters, dead. When Dr. Wilson was about four years old his 
mother died. He was reared in Johnson County and divided his youth between farm labor 
and the common schools, followed by a normal school course. For live years thereafter he 
taught in the [uiblie schools of Johnson and Bartholomew Counties, Ind., and in the spring 
of 1S84 came to Indianapolis, and in September of that year was appointed clerk in the city 
postoffice, one of the tirst appointed under the civil service rule. Thirteen months after 
entering upon the duties of this position he resigned it to devote his entire time to the study 
of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. E. F. Hodges, graduating from the Medical Col- 
lege of Indiana in the spring of 1887, and by competitive examination securing the appoint- 
ment as physician to the city dispensary for one year. At the end of that time, he entered 
upon the regular practice of his profession, which he has continued to the present time. He 
is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Society 
and of the American Medical Association, and has prepared and read papers before the 
county and State societies. Of the County Medical Society he has been secretary. In 
])olitics he is a Republican and is connected with the K. of P. and the R. A. April 
2i. 1SS9. he married Mrs. Nellie (Gilford) Rothingatter, a native of Michigan and a 
daughter of George and Laura (Fanning) Gifford. They have a daughter named Helen 
GitTiird and a son named Wilbur Niles. Georgia Rothingatter is Mrs. Wilson's daughter by 
her former marriage. 

Virgil. H. Lockwood, the well-known lawyer and patent attorney, was born on a farm 
uear Fort Branch, Gilison County, Ind., May (5, 181)0. His father, James T. Lockwood, 
was a native of Westchester County, N. Y. , and is now a leading merchant at Prince- 
ton, Ind. His mother, Juliet Neely Adams, was born in north central Kentucky and 
belonged to a family that produced several able men in Kentucky, southwestern Indiana 
and elsewhere, including Gen. John I. Neely, Gov. Neely, of California, Gov. Ralston, of 
Tennessee, and Ex Congressman Thomas, of Metropolis, 111. Mr. V, H. Lockwood grew 
up on the farm and received his early education at Fort Branch. That he was an apt and 
diligent student is apparent from the fact that he was graduated from the Fort Branch High 
School at the early age of fifteen. His father being at the time unable to give him the col 
legiate education he desired, Mr. Lockwood taught school during the remainder of his 
minority, except in 1S78, when he was a student at DePauw (then Asbury) I'niversity. At 
the early age of eighteen he assumed the principalship of the High School and continued in 
that position for three years. In ISSl he entered the law school of the I'niversity of Vir- 
ginia and was graduated therefrom. The next four years he devoted to various special 
branches of scientific and literary study in the University of Virginia. After reviewing his 
legal studies at the same institution, he began, in March, 1886, the practice of his profes- 
sion at Detroit, Mich., in association with E. Y. and C. M. Swift. During his legal and 
collegiate training, which Mr. Lockwood procured through his own unaided efforts, he pre- 
pareil himself for the practice of the specialty which has since received his entire attention 
with marked success. He was led to choose his specialty by reason of his interest in the 
material progress of the people, his liking for all means whereby man utilizes the laws 
and materials of nature for his own advancement, and the belief that a man can be of great- 
est service to his fellow man by limiting the scope of his efforts and investigations. Mr. 
Lockwood came to Indianapolis and. in March, 18'>2, succeeded to the patent-law business 
of Charles P. Jacobs, Esq. His efforts, both in general law and in patent law, have met 
with invariable success, due to his thorough training and the study and care he always 
devotes to the preparation and conduct of all cases. Above all, he is reliable and spares no 
efforts to gain success in any undertaking. He is popular at the bar and in liusiness and 
social circles. He is a member of the D. K. E. college fraternity, of the Century and Com- 
mercial Clubs and of other well known and useful organizations. In 1889 he married Miss 



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Bertba M. Greene, a ilaugbier of CLmles P. Greene, Esq., of Indiauiipolin. He is a mem- 
ber of tbe Second Presbyterian Cburcb of Indianapolis and is interested in all movements 
for tbe betterment of tbe condition of bis fellow citizens and for Ibat reason is pul)lic- 
spirited and devoted to tbe rapidly-growing interests of Indianapolis, and especially of tbe 
State of Indiana. 

Joel T. Elliott. Tbere is no class of business men wbo more surely rear up visible 
monuments to tbeir industry and tbeir enterprise tban tbe builders of tbe sigbtly structures 
wbicb become a landmark, not only locally but in tbe bistorical sense, in all our great cities, 
and Joel T. Elliott bolds a prominent place among tbeni. He was born in Putnam County, 
Ind., Ai^ust 11, LS65, a son of J. M. Elliott, wbo was Ijoru on Blue-Grass soil and is now a 
resident and successful farmer of Putnam County, Ind. lu bis early manbood be followed 
tbe calling of a wagon maker and during tbis time bis sou, Joel T, , acquired a knowledge of 
how to handle a saw and plane. He was the second of eight children born to bis parents, 
and when he bad attained a proper age be was placed in the public schools of Putnam County, 
where he acquired au excellent and practical education. During the time that be was not 
pursuing tbe paths of learning, be was assisting his father in the shop. At tbe age of sixteen 
be began learning the trade of a carpenter, at which he continued to labor until he had attained 
the age of nineteen years, then he entered tbe railroad office at Fillmore, and learned 
telegraphy, and continued until the Fall of 1887. In 1887 be located in Indianapolis and 
commenced bis present business of contracting and building and from tbe start his work was 
in every way satisfactory and tbis fact soon became known to those wbo contemplated build- 
ing and his services were employed and he has now a patronage among the best class of citi- 
zens and all be can properly attend to. He was one of the firm of Ayers & Co., wbo put up 
$48,000 worth of work on the State Fair Grounds, principally on the Woman's Building and 
has built many of the handsomest private residences in tbe city as well as having erected 
numerous other Ijuildings of prominence. His work is characterized by its substantial and 
symmetrical nature, and bis patrons have found it a jileasure to deal with him, for he is 
thoroughly to be relied upon, is prompt in fulfilling bis contracts and is the soul of honesty. 
Although be started without means be has now a comfortable property, the result of energy, 
perseverance and economy. In September, 1892, he was united in marriage with Miss Nona 
Horine, of Richmond, Ind. Mr. Elliott has taken quite an interest in politics and has ever 
voted the Democratic ticket, the success of which has ever been dear to his heart. Socially 
he is a member of tbe K. of P., West Indianapolis Lodge, No. 244, and be and bis wife belong 
to the Pythian Sisters. 

George W. Nash. M. D. An aljle physician in general practice wbo gives special at- 
tention to tbe diseases of children and is therefore most successful as a family practitioner, is 
Dr. George W. Nash, of Indianapolis. Dr. Nash was born in Hendricks County, Ind., 
October 15, 183-"), and is the eldest of seven children of Richard E and Frances (Smiib) 
Nash, tbe former a native of Ohio, tbe latter a native of Kentucky. Richard Nash was a 
farmer by occui)ation, and was a man of tbe strongest common sense and of tbe most praise- 
worthy enterprise within the limits by which he was necessarily circumscrilied. He died in 
1846, his wife in 1856. Of their children, three sons, Richard, Isaac and William R., 
served in the late war. The two first mentioned lost their lives iu tbe service, the latter is a 
successful physician at Fairmount, 111. Dr. George W. Nash was ten years old when his 
father died, and the responsibility of carrying on tbe farm of eighty acres and caring for his 
six younger brothers and sisters devolved upon him to a very marked extent, and it is credit- 
able to him that, turning aside from tbe amusements and recreations so dear to youth, he 
devoted himself assiduously to work and in every manner possible aided his mother and 
made her burdens lighter. His early educational opportunities were not of tbe best, but 
be made such as he bad available with tbe result that he was soon able to teach school, and, 
for a part of the time at least, leave the heavier work of the farm to others better adapted 
to it physically, for the bard labor of his early years had to an extent broken down his con- 
stitution, never robust, and made such a change necessary to him above almost anything else. 
For five years he taught with increasing success, and in 1860 be opened a drug store at 
Brownsburg, Ind., and, iu his leisure time, devoted himself to the study of medicine, which 
he pursued diligently for three years. Meantime, as a druggist, he was making consider- 



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able liiiaiicini progress, aiul lit> deteimiueil to forego tbe furtber stmly of his cbosen profes- 
siou for a time auil ilispose of bis drug store and engage ia general mercbamlising and mill- 
ing. In tbis new venture be was not so successful, but on tbe contrary sunk about all tbe 
means be bad accumulated, and in 1871 be relimjnisbed it, and, removiug to Covington, 
lud., again eugjiged in the drug business, in which he continued for three years. In ISTTt 
be became a commercial traveler, and as such was on tbe road until 1884. Meantime, in 
1881. he located in Indianapolis, and upon quitting the roail opened a drug store in that 
city, which he conducted successfully until ISiKX when he solil it to his son. During all of 
this time be had not forgotten his natural liking for tbe profession of medicine, and be had 
availed himself of every opportunity to retain and add to all he had acquired of its theory in 
tbe coui-se of reading be had taken, and in 18Sri he entered tbe College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Indianapolis, and was graduated therefrom in 1888 with the degree of M. D. , 
and at once began a general practice, which has been iuterrnpted only by bis absence in 
New York during tbe fall and winter of 18'.H) to take a post-graduate coni-se. He is a mem- 
ber of tbe dispensary stalt" of tbe College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is identitied 
with the Marion County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Society, and has 
read papers before the two bodies which have attracted nmch attention in tbe profession. 
In politics Dr. Nash is a Republican. He was married March 4. 1857. to Mary J. Clark, a 
native of Kentucky, who bore him four childrei': William B.. Lee T., Dolly and Daisy, and 
who died April 2i, KSiHl August Vl, 18',U. Dr. Nash married Alice M. Brown, a native of 
Kentncky. Dr. and Mrs. Nash are members of tbe Christian Church. 

Sylvester A. Morgan. The linger of time is one of the most satisfactory and reliable 
endorsers of a man's business career usually. Men in the various walks of life may with 
justilication bait and refuse to listen to tbe solicitation of a beginner; but in so doing he 
wouUl in many cases make a mistake and ]>ass by one who was in every way worthy his pat- 
ronage. ;nid this would be especially true in the case of Sylvester A. Jforgan. who, although 
be has been in business here only five years, has yet made an excellent reputation as a con- 
tractor and bnilder. He is a product of Butler County. Ohio, where he was born January 2, 
1858, a son of Edward ,J. and Mary Morgan, well known residents of Elizabethtown. Bar 
tbolomew County. Ind. .Although tbe father was formerly a builder of considerable note, 
he bas for some time since given bis attention to farming, in which occupation be has been 
reasonably successful. In Elizabethtown. Sylvester A. Morgan received such educational 
advantages of which be is now possessed, and his leisure time when not in school, or tbe 
greater portion of it. was spent in learning the trade of a carjienter under bis father. He 
remained with bim until be attained bis majority and then engaged in the ice business in 
Louisville. Ky. He very soou gave up this work to engage in farming near Elizabethtown, 
Ind.. and after devoting his attention to this business for two years, meeting with misfortune 
in this, be then moved to Noblesville. Ind.. and began teaching school during the winter 
season, the warm months being devoted to carpentering which he had resumed, .soon having 
charge of work as foreman. He remained in that locality until about 1888, at which time 
be took up his residence iu West Indianapolis, commencing business ou his own responsibil- 
ity, and here bas been very successfnlly engaged in contracting and building ever since. 
Many- of the import;int structures of west Indianapolis have iieen erected by him and all the 
houses iu many blocks stand as monuments to his industry, knowledge of his calling and tbe 
estimation in which he is held l>y the public. He also built the whole plant for the Van 
Camp Packing Company an 1 has fultiiled some large contracts for the .American auvl Standard 
Wheel Company, Parry Manufacturing Company, built the adamant wall plaster building and 
some beautiful residences, particularly in the neighborhood of Fourteenth and Pennsyl- 
vania Streets?, in the city of Indianapolis. He has under his management a large force of 
men. and his operations are invariably conducted with safety and are always brought to a 
successful termination at tbe specitied time and to tbe letter of contract. He is a man of 
nublemisbed honor and loyal to his promises in all his undertakings. In 18Vt() he wedded 
Miss Sylvinia Snowden. of Elizabethtown. and both are worthy members of the Trinity 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Morgan being a trustee and treasurer since its foiuiding. 
Socially he is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge E. \- A. M.. the K. of P.. being a charter 
member of West Indianapolis Lodge, No. 244. and the Builders" Exchange. 





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William F. Lander. This geiitleiuuu has Lad a career in some respects remarkable, a 
narrative of wbicb will be found most interesting. He is a New England Yankee, and was 
born iu Medford, Mass., March 21, 1847, a son of Francis and Harriet (Kenedy) Lander, 
natives, respectivelj', of Boston, Mass., and the State of Maine. His father, a distant rel- 
ative of Franklin Pierce, was born and reared on '"Old Fort Hill,"' a locality popularly 
recurded at that time as quite an aristocratic neighborhood, now known as Washington 
Square. He became a ship contractor, and is now a resident of Cambridge, Mass. In the 
course of his busy career he has built wholly or in part many vessels, making a specialty 
of cabin work. He was well known among seamen and vessel owners, and had a most envia- 
ble reputation with the general business pul)]ic. Mr. Lander comes from patriot stock. 
His great-grandfather was orderly sergeant of the Concord, Mass., company, which did 
service in the Revolutionary struggle, and was at the historic Ijattle of Lexington, and lost 
a leg at the battle at ^loiimouth. He died at the age of forty-tive years. His paternal and 
maternal grandfathers were both soldiers and officers in the United States army during the 
War of 1812-14. His father is a veteran of the late war, having served aa second sergeant 
of Company F, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, mostly in North Carolina. His grandfather 
Lander was educated at Eton and Oxford Colleges, England, and for several years was a 
professor of penmanship in the schools of Boston, in which his wife was also a teacher. 
He was a native of England, and was, no doubt, related to the great English traveler of 
that name. He died and was buried in Massachusetts. Mr. Lander's maternal grandfather 
was a sea captain, and was lost at sea at the age of thirty seven, by being washed over- 
board during a storm which his vessel encountered en route from Cuba to Boston. Will- 
iam F. Lander was reared at Medford, Mass., and educated in the public schools of that 
place. At the age of seventeen he went to sea and led a seafaring life for four years 
thereafter, making voyages to South America, the Sandwich Islands, Chili, Peru, Rio 
Janeiro, the Mediterranean and the island of Sicily. He doubled Cape Horn four times, 
visited tiibralta twice, spent eight weeks at Valentia, Spain. Relinquishing his sea life, he 
engaged in piano and organ manufacture at Cambridge, Mass., and continued in it with 
much success until IS84, as a contractor, employing from sixteen to twenty men. During 
that year he came to Indianapolis and engaged in the organization of fraternal orders and 
branches of the same, a kind of work in which he liad already had considerable experience, 
having been for a few years grand secretary of the K. & L. of H., of Massachusetts. In 
188'J he organized the O. of E., and was made its supreme secretary. The affairs of 
this order are conducted in the most conservative manner, and it has come to the front as 
a popular and growing enterprise. Fully r),000 membership certificates have been issued, 
and more tiian a hundred local councils have been organized and are in a flourishing con- 
dition. Mr. Lander is a member also of the I. O. O. F. , the K. P., the Uniformed Rank, 
the A. O. U. W., the K. & L. of H., the M. W. and other orders. He is a popular mem- 
ber of the Columbia and Marion Clubs, of Indianapolis. Mr. Lander was married in 187.'), 
to Miss Emma J. Alderson, of Plymouth, Mass., :ind has six sons: Francis, Percy W., 
Roswell S. , Frederick, Charles A. and Robert V. 

Simon P. Scherer, M. D. The younger physicians of Indianapolis have, some of them, 
done as much to give reputation to tlie medical profession of the city as any of their older 
professional brethren, and one of the brightest, best infoi'med and most promising of this 
class is Dr. Simon P. Scherer, who was born in Tipton County, lud., August 20, 18(55, a son 
of the Rev. Ambrose H and Sarah E. (Patton) Scherer. Rev. Ambrose Hinkle Scherer was 
born in Guilford County, N. C. , November 22, 1822, and died April 14, 1892, at Sharpsville, 
Ti])ton County. At the age of twelve years he removed with his parents to Tennessee, where 
he remained three years. He then came to Hendricks County, Ind., in which State be lived 
until the day of bis death. At the age of seventeen years he united with the English Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Churcii. He studied theology under the direction and tutorage of Rev. 
Jacob Scherer, bis uncle, at Olney, 111. He was regularly licensed to preach the gospel at 
the second session of the synod of northern Indiana, held at Columbia City, Ind., in 1849, 
and was ordained at Ladoga, Ind., in 1852. His first charge was the Bethel Church, in 
Morgan County, Ind., which church he organized. This charge he served one year, when 
he moved to New London, Ind., organized Union Church, and supplied with it several 



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ueifjbboring poiats for live years. This work of orgauiziug eburches iu central Indiana, 
acting as a missionary, and most of the time witliout any assistance from the Ijoard of home 
missions, he was engaged in until the day of his death. Seventeen churches stand today iu 
Morgan, Madison, Hendricks, Hamilton, Tipton, Howard and adjoining counties, as the result of 
liis early, self-sacriticing and earne.st work. In the organization of several of the al)ove named 
churches, Mr. Scherer was assisted by the venerable "Father" Wells. Three years ago he 
was stricken with paralysis, when in the midst of his last work — the organization of St. 
Peter's Church, in Sbarpsville, Ind., and the erection of the church building. At its com- 
pletion and dedication, in June, 1890, be felt that his life-work was accomplished and resigned 
himself to the call of God. He was married to Sarah Pattou, a native of Maryland, in Car- 
roll County, October 9, 1850, and his widow and ten children survive him, remembering him 
as a devoted husband and most indulgent father. Dr. Scherer was reared amid all the 
advantages of a cultured Christian household, in the county of his birth, and was educated 
in the common and graded schools of Sharpsville. and at the county normal school. He 
remained on his father's farm until he was twenty two years old, and then, going to Indian- 
apolis, was for a year a student iu a ])roniiuent business college. The next year he spent in 
reading medicine under the direction of Drs. Heath and Rubush, of .Sharpsville. Then, 
returning to Indianapolis, he continued his medical studies with Drs. Todd and Maxwell 
and entered the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in the fall of 1889, and was 
graduated therefrom with honors, as the valedictorian of his class, in March, 1891. In 1890 
he was, for about seven months, employed as a drug clerk and assistant at the city dispen- 
sary, a connection that was of much practical benefit to him in the j)rosecutiou of his studies. 
Inunediately after his graduation he entered upon the practice of his profession in Indian 
apolis. His standing as a practitioner is indicated by the following facts: He is attend- 
ing physician to the polyclinic of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, a 
member of the Marion County Medical Society and a member of the Indiana State Medical 
Society. He was married October 14, 1891, to Miss AUie J. Culley, a native of Monroe 
County, Ind., and a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Field) Culley, both of whom were 
born in this State, the former being now dead and the latter a resident of Indianapolis. 
Dr. Scherer is a member of the Presbyterian Church; his wife is identified with the Christian 
Church. In politics the Doctor is Republican. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and 
is connected with other worthy organizations. As a citizen he is zealous for the public 
good and has ever contributed his full share to the furtherance of all worthy objects and 
measures. 

Alfred R. Hovey is one of the leading lawyers of Indianapolis, and the tirm of Hard 
ing & Hovey, of which he is a member, is the second oldest law firm in the city. ' Mr. Hovej' 
comes of the best American stock. His father is Goodwin S. Hovey. His mother was 
Salina Weed, a daughter of Reuben Weed and a relative of the late Hon. Thurlow Weed 
and Smith M. Weed, of New York, men of national fame. On his mother's side Mr. Hovey 
can trace his ancestry in America back to 1635. The Weed family are of revolutionary 
memory and Mr. Hovey"s great-grandfather was an olScer in a Connecticut regiment and 
as such risked his life in defense of American independence. Reuben Weed, Mr. Hovey's 
maternal grandfather, was a judge in Allegany County, N. Y. His great-grandfather was 
one of the early judges in Wyoming, iu eastern Peimsylvania, and his family were there at 
the time of the historic Wyoming Massacre, south of the present Wyoming County, on the 
bank of the Susquehanna, opposite Wilkesbarre. At that time Judge Gore was in the revo- 
lutionary army. The Hovey family are of Anglo-Saxon origin. Three brothers came to 
America in the seventeenth century, one locating in Massachusetts, one iu Vermont and one 
iu Connecticut, and from the latter descended the line of which Alfred R. Hovey is repre- 
sentative. From the time of his great-grandfather, the Hoveys and many of the families 
with which they have intermarried, have lived in New York State. Some of them were 
among the early settlers iti Wyoming C.iunty. the very garden spot of the State. With 
olhers, some of Mr. Hovey's maternal ancestors made a trade with the Indians, under 
authority of the general Government, and secured much valual)le land iu Cayuga Count}', 
N. Y., upon which they erected houses, barns, and fences and made other improvements. 
There was a conflict of authority which has become historical, and under orders from Gov. 



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De Witt Clinton, the sheriff of Cayuga County was ordered to proceed to tlie neighborhood 
and burn out these sturdy settlers whom it had been found impossible to dispossess by milder 
means. Even this harsh measure did not succeed, for, bereft of house and home, Mr. 
Hovey's ancestor and his companions retained possession of and protected their title to their 
lands. This ancestor, Elisha Durkey, was a member of the general assembly of New 
York. Mr. Hovey has in his possession a letter concerning the burning of the farm- 
houses written liy his great-grandfather 101 years ago. Mr. Hovey's paternal grand- 
father, Alfred Hovey, was, at the time of his death, principal of the old Binghampton, 
N. Y., Academy, and had been for fourleen years. He was a civil engineer of the finest 
attainments, and in his professional capacity made surveys for several canals in the State of 
New York and of the Saginaw Canal in Michigan, and made the first survey for the Erie 
Railway west from Binghampton. Goodwin S. Hovey, father of the immediate subiect of 
this sketch, was born and reared and has always lived in New York. His earlier years were 
spent in the lumber business and he is now living, retired from active business, in the little 
old town of Dalton. He is the owner of considerable property gained by the industry and 
prudence of his active years. Always prominent where he has been known he has countless 
times been solicited to accept public office, but has never been prevailed upon to do so 
except when he consented to take the office of township supervisor, to which he was 
successively elected, an office involving grave responsiliilities under the laws of New 
York. Very active in religious matters, he has always been a liberal supporter of 
churches and for more than twenty-five years has been a Sunday school superintendent. 
Formerly he was a Free Soil Democrat, but since the organization of the Kepublican party has 
affiliated with it and exerted all his influence in suppoit of the principles it has rej^resented. 
Goodwin S. and Salina (Weed) Hovey had one son and two daughters. Of the latter Helen 
R. married Fernando Baldwin, a prosperous farmer, living near Dalton, N. Y : Minnie L. 
is the wife of Lorenzo S. Gelser. one of the leadinsr business men of Filmore. N. Y.; Alfred 
R. Hovev was reared at the family home in New York State and was educated at the Alfred 
University, Alfred. N. Y. After teaching school a couple of years in his native State he 
taught for a year at Sycamore, 111., meantime reading law. In November, 1877. he came to 
Indianapolis and pursued the study of law under the direction of Hon. Lucian Barl)our. 
In May, 1S7S, he was admitted to practice in the District and Circuit Courts of the ITnited 
States. He remained with Mr. Barbour until October, 1879. The firm of Harding & Hovey 
was organized in 1880. Mr. Hovey is popular at tiie bar and no less so in commercial and 
social circles. Following in the footsteps of his father, he is a stanch Republican. He was 
the first president of the Marion Cluli. the most active Republican organization in the city, 
and in 1892 was nominated by his party for presidential elector. He is a K. of P. and a 
member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married in November, 1882. to Miss Sylvia M. 
Wade, a native of Champaign County. Ohio, and has two children, Maude, aged eigrht. and 
Goodwin S., aged two. The late Gov. Hovey was a descendant from the same old Hovey 
familv frotn which Alfred R. Hovev descended. 

Daniel N. Brown, D. D. S. The calling of the dentist is a most important one and to 
become thoroughly grounded in this branch of medical science, requires years of arduous 
study. To attain perfection as an operator, rec^uiies not only natural aptitude but experi- 
ence as a practitioner, and all their requirements are possessed or have been fulfilled by Dr. 
Daniel N. Brown who is one of the highly reararded professional men of the city of Indian- 
apolis. The town of Brownsville, Ind., gave him birth August 23, 1855, and the " Hoosier 
State" has been his home up to the present time. The family of which he is a member 
was among the first to settle in the State and for many years they were prominently con- 
nected with the history of Union County. The paternal grandfather, William Brown, was 
a native of North Carolina and after locating in Union Comity, Ind.. he entered land from 
the Government, which he cleared and converted into a fine farm. He resided on this home- 
stead for raanv years or until his deatii which occurred at the patriarchal age of ninetv-six 
vears. A part of the old house first erected on the place and occupied bv him is still stand- 
ing. He was a man of intelligence, enterprising, industrious and frugal, and as a natural 
sequence, he accumulated a comfortable competency. He was an uncle of Gen. Ambrose Burn- 
side. He was active in the affairs of his section, was interested in the political affairs of 



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liis ilay, and lield tbo olHce of county treasurer and was several terms county commissioner. 
The parents of the subject of the sketch. Tiiomas E. and Mary J. (Brown) Brown, were 
born in Indiana, and from this State the father enlisted in the service of his country at the 
opening of the Rebellion, and was in the service from 1JS<)1 to IStiS. participating in many 
hard fought and bloody combats. He was seriously wounded in the engagement at Mission 
Kidge, being shot throngii the hip and back, and as be was unable to make his escape, he was 
captured and taken as a prisoner of war to Andersonville, in which foul pen he was coutined for 
eight months. He is now much broken in health from the hanlships, toils, and privations of 
army life and from the effects of the untold privations he endured while in prison. He and 
his worthy wife are now living in retirement at Liberty, Ind. Tiie early days of Dr. 
Daniel N. Brown, were spent in Union County, in the public schools of which he obtained 
a fair knowledge of the English branches, after which he tinished his education in the high 
school of Liberty, from wiiich he graduated. At the early age of seventeen he engaged in 
teaching the " young idea " and continued to follow this occupation during the winter months 
for about four years, the summer seasons being devoted to the study of dentistry, which 
profession he had decided to mjike his life work, bis preceptor beiugDr. S. C. Carter, now 
of Minneapolis, Minn. In ]ST< he began practicing his profession at Dublin, Ind., but one 
year later came to Indianapolis and became associated with Dr. B. B. Eaton, with whom 
he confined to labor untJl the latter's death. Soon after this he entered the office of Dr. 
Talbot with whom he remained until the latter sold out his business and moved from the city. 
FoIk)wing this Dr. Brown went to Cincinnati and for two years thereafter worked for the 
Ohio Steam Dental Company and at the expiration of this time located at Portland, Ind. 
(in 1881) where he opened an otSce of his own and practiced his profession until 1888. At 
the end of that time he returned to Indianapolis and accepted a position with the New- 
York Steam Dental Company, but in the winter of IS^Jl he again opened au office of his own 
and has built up an extensive and paying pationage. He is skillful and thorough in his 
work, anxious to please and willing to put himself to any trouble to do so, the result being 
that he has made money and has accumulated considerable property in Indianapolis. He 
was married on December 25. 18S1 to Miss LillieB. Ellis, native of Darke County, Ohio, and 
a daughter of Micajah and Mary J. Ellis, and to their union four children have been given: 
Pearl M., Thomas M.. Goldie Y. and Ernest Max. Mr. Brown is a member of the Marion 
Lodge. No. 1, of the K. of P., Uniformed Rank Indianapolis Division Xo. 2. He is a past 
Commander of the grand order of the G. C, and he and his wife are members of the Myrtle 
Temple No. 7, Pythian Sisters. In the Uniformed Rank of the K. of P. he has served as 
keeper of records, and he was also a member of the Drill Team, No. 18, which participated in 
and won the prize drill at Kansas City. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Friend's 
Church, and in politics he is a Repul>lican. 

D. A. Myers. One of the well known attorneys at law of Indianapolis who commands 
the respect as well as the admiration of his brother practitioners is D. A. Myers, who stands 
as a living refutation of the popular idea that "there is no honest lawyer." His liirth 
occurred at Gettysburg. Ohio, February 28. 1848, a son of Scipio and Mary (Campbell) 
Myers, the former of whom was born on what afterward became the battle Held of Gettys- 
burg, Penn. . the latter's birth occurring near that place. This worthy couple, in company 
with some of their Pennsylvania neighbors, moved by wagon to Darke County, Ohio, where 
they took up their residence on a farm, their neighbors settling in the same vicinity. They 
established tiie town of Gettysburg, Ohio, and named the township Adams in honor of their 
old home in Pennsylvania. Scipio Myers manifested his patriotism at the opening of the 
Civil ^A'ar l)y enlisting in the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and re enlisting in January. lSf)4, in 
the Eighth Ohio Cavalry service, and was in the command of Gen. Phil Sheridan to the 
close of the war. After his return home at the close of hostilities, he was elected to the 
State Legislature from Darke County, and in this capacity, as well as tliat of a soldier, his 
duties were discharged faithfully, earnestly and efficiently". He is still a resident of Darke 
County and is retired from the active duties of life and in the enjoyment of the fruits of a 
life well spent. He and six children survive the wife and mother, who died in Sej)tember, 
1892. and all reside near Gettysburg, Ohio, with the exception of D. A. Myers. He was 
brought up on his father's farm and in early life attended the public schools, finishing his 




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education in and graduating from the Iowa State University in June, 1874. The following 
vear be graduatecl from the law department of the State University at that place, after which 
he came to Indianapolis, a total stranger, and entered upon the practice of bis pro ession^ 
Unlike the majority of young attorneys he was not compelled to wait long for clients, and 
his acrreeal.le manners and undoubted ability soon won him recognition at the bar, a reputa^ 
tiou which has known no diminution since that time. His practice extends in nearly all 
the courts He is a forcible speaker and pleader, and in the advocacy of cases l^efore a jury 
he isespecialy strong and successful. His legal training has been careful and thorough, 
which enabled him to grasp and easily solve the most complicated lega questions into their 
elementary constitutent principles. Ho is attorney for three of the leading building and 
loan associations of the city, as well as for a number of its most prominent business firms 
He eniovs the confidence and esteem of all the brethren of the legal profession, and m all 
matters looking to the advancement and welfare of the community he has always been prompt 
and liberal In 1879 Miss Mattie Wolf, who resided in the vicinity of Indianapolis, became his 
wife, and to their union two children have been given : Ernest and Tyner. Mr. Myers and 

his wife are church members. -r. ■ , ^ 

Theodore Vernon Denny and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Denny. It is always a pleasure 
to deal with the history of one of those grand old pioneer families that have been distin- 
guished for patriotism, the genuine spirit of Christianity and the strong characteristics which 
have made its members men and women of mark. When a citizen of worth and character 
has departed from this life, it is meet that those who survive him should keep in mind his 
life work, and should hold up to the knowledge and emulation of the young his virtue^ and 
the characteristics which distinguished him and made him worthy tlie esteem o h.s neighbors. 
We, therefore, present to our readers a narrative of the life of the representative pioneer, 
Theodore Vernon Dennv. This highly honored and eminently useful member of society was 
a native of the Old Bay" State, born in the town of Leicester, the seat of an academy then, 
and loner after, noted for the thoroughness of its preparatory instruction as wel as for having 
laid the'educational foundation of many men renowned in statesmanship in letters, and m 
the learned professions. Like all thorough going institutions of learning, Leicester Academy 
imparted a high moral tone, a culture, to the people of its immediate neig d.orhood, by mere 
absorption if not bv actual contact. To this day, though the academy has no longer its 
prominence nor its' prestige, tlie town still retains all the characteristics of a literary cen- 
ter Theodore Vernon Dennv partook of the aca.lemic instruction of his native town, 
though not so liberally as did his brothers and sisters, who became teachers, bnnkers 
merchants, manufacturers and capitalists. The religious and practically missionary spirit 
was stroncrlv manifested throughout the family. Without exception, its members were 
orderly, industrious, independent, respected and influential. The family was a large one. 
It may be found to-dav with creditable representatives, in large numbers, m Leicester in the 
nei<.hboring cities of Worcester and Boston, and scattered throughout Massacluisetts and 
MaTne, and' indeed all New England, with a not inconsequent delegation m tlie Midd e, 
North-western and Southern States. The family traces its genealogy to John Denny who 
received from King Henrv VI, a grant of land in Combs. Suttolk County, England in 143J. 
It is a curious fact characteristic of its English strain and of its conservative and cautious 
tendencies, that lineal descendants of John Denny still own and occupy that particular land 
Theodore Vernon Dennv had within himself, to a greater extent than any of hiscollatera 
kindred, the constituent elements of the pioneer in civilization. He remained in his parental 
home until he attained bis majority. Upon attaining his twenty-first bntliday he gave way 
to his longinc' for that broader, less restrained and le.ss conventional life to be found ni the 
then farWe'st Early in 18'il, when John Hobart. a neighbor and companion from child- 
hood, he abandonded his native town. They made their toilsome journey to Ohio, where they 
remained for a vear without settled residence, and then in pursuance of their original impulse, 
thev pushed on to Indiana, to seek a permanent home, and as they fondly hoped o lay the 
foundation for moderate fortunes, in the capital of the new State. They bought land, cov- 
ered with a dense, dark forest, near the town of Indianapolis. The residence of these two 
families in Marion County date from 1823. Mr. Denny's land was^ located abou three 
miles southeast from the court-house. The Cincinnati branch of the Big Four and the Belt 



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railroails cross on the Denny farm. When the road to ('iucinnati was built it ran through 
the old farm house, necessitating tlie Ijuililiug of a new. When the Belt road was built it 
ran over the spot where the new was l)uilt, necessitating its removal. Near this spot Mr. 
Denny started in a settled life. On the 3()th day of March, 1823. he married Miss Eliza))eth 
McLaughlin, H member of the family and a niece of William McLaughlin who came to this 
county in 1821, and who lived near. Mr. Denny participated, as one of the original mem- 
bers, in the organization of the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis. According to facts and 
dates given in Col. Holloway's History of Indianapolis, it apjiears that this is the second 
church, now in existence, organized in the capital. In 1825, his wife who had previously 
been a Methodist, united with this congregation. For many years this husband and wife re- 
mained earnest and etKcient members of that society: and then, to aid a weaker one, removed 
their membership to the Lick Creek Baptist church, an organization old enough to have 
tigured at the constitution of the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis. Mr. Denny was 
a farmer, and an intelligent man. prominent in the councils of his fellows, and in school, 
church, and political matters. He was well read in the current topics of the day, and he was 
ahva\'s prepared for the most intelligent adversary in the discussion of any social, political 
or theological question. His reasoning was fearless, clear and convincing. He was too bold 
a man to truckle for favor. He never held an office higher than that of school director, and 
he never soughtone. He was exacting in his expectations of just treatment from others, and 
in his requirements of the conduct and associations of his children. He was a stern adher- 
ent to any cause or doctrine that seemed to him to be right. He lived in a time when theo- 
logical controversy was an absorbing occupation, and no man, not a professional controver- 
sialist, could maintain his side of a theological argument with greater force. He was a 
stanch Whig, and had an intelligent comprehension of the doctrines aud tendencies of that 
party. He did not live to witness its extinction. He was a pronounced anti -slavery man, 
but did not sympathize with the lawless methods of the Abolitionists. Earnest in his 
opinions that the newly opened Territory should not be contaminated with slavery, it cannot 
be doubted that, had he lived, he would have espoused warmly eveiy position of social or 
economic doctrine taken by the Republican party. He lived to see four children from his 
family of eigiit. attain mature years aud start in life apart from the parental roof. One day 
he complained of feeling ill, but took his axe and weut to the woods to drive away ill feeling 
by hard work. That effort no doubt hastened his death. He was iuunediately prostrated 
by a fever from which he died, on January lU, 1854. His remains were interred in the church 
yard of the Lick Creek Baptist church. After the establishment of Crown Hill Cemetery, 
the body was removed to the family lot in that beautiful resting place. 

As we have already seen, the maiden name of Mrs. Elizabeth Denny was McLaughlin. 
She was born in Washington County, Kentucky, March 24, 1S()5. When but nine years of age 
she lost her father and mother in a fatal epidemic then prevailing. Her uncle, William JIc 
Laughlin, took her to his home in Fayette County, Ohio. There she lived for four years, and 
then moved with her uncle's family to a point near Rushville. Ind., where they resided until 
1821. From there they removed to Indianapolis, then containing but sis houses, and settled 
on a farm two miles southeast from the village. Through that land now passes the Michi- 
gan road, the Bent railroad, and that beautiful stream ap[)ropriately named "Pleasant Run." 
The farm is yet well known as the "McLaughlin Farm"' and is chiefly owned by memljers of 
the family. There Elizabeth lived until her marriage with Theodore V. Denny. The relig- 
ious and moral training of this young woman as well as her inherent strength of character, 
titted her for the arduous tasks that lay before her. In her home in the wilderness, with 
hardship and without material comfort, she and her husband struggled to build up a home. 
Eleven children were born to her, three of whom died in infancy. Her aim was then to rear 
and guard from physical and moral ill the eight who remained. It is enough to say of 
Elizabeth Denny that no one could ever point to a mean or dishonorable act of any child 
of hers. The death of her husband left Mrs. Denny with a small farm, not over fertile, 
with a debt of nearly §1,000; with four children not of age and one a helpless infant, 
and with the certainty of a future struggle for existence and for an honorable and respected 
place in the comnnniity. She took up her burden with courage, and carried it to the end. 
In a few years she relieved her husband's estate from debt: in time she educated her 




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youngPi- children l)eyond tlie limit adopted by her abler neighbors. She showed executive 
and business capacity of ii high order and lived on the portion of the farm allotted to her in 
the partition, tilled it, marketed the produce, and bad money at interest,. In 1873, just 
before the inception of the great financial depression, by the fortunate disposal of her land, 
she became as affluent as she had iieen poor. She did not wait her death for the distriVmtion 
of her estate; but divided the most of it. equally among her children—giving liberal gifts, 
however, in the mean time, to Franklin College, to the South Street Baptist Church, and to 
the Home and the Foreign Missionary Societies of her church, objects in which she felt the 
warmest interest. Lick Creek Baptist Church, to which she belonged at the tiuje of her hus- 
band's death, affected perhaps by the more convenient location of other cliurches, and by a 
changed poi)ulation inlluenced by the neighl)orhood of a large city, relapsed into desuetude 
and dissolved. She reunited with the First Baptist Church and remained in it, as a member, 
as long as she lived. Her death occurred October 6, ISUO, and she was buried at her hus- 
band's side, in Crown Hill Cemetery. The children born to this worthy couple are named in 
order of birth as follows: Martha A., wife of John Wade Thompson of Indianapolis; Joseph 
A., of Lake City, Iowa; William C, of Indianapolis; Lucinda A., wife of Joshua H. Vande- 
man, of Warren township, this county; Austin F. and Albert W.. both of Indianapolis. 
Besides the living children of this ]iioneer couple, their living descendants number nineteen 
grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. 

Dr. Thomas B. Harvey. There are physicians and "doctors.'" The public faith in 
men so-called is almost unbounded, but it is not deserved in equal degree by all such. There 
are pretenders in every profession and business. Indianapolis has, from its pioneer days, 
been most fortunate inthe number, character and skill of her family physicians, and among 
them was the ideal family physician, Dr. Thomas B. Harvey, who was l)oth a physician 
and the son of a physician. His father. Dr. Jesse Harvey, a member of the Society of 
Friends, was a noted "AlxJitionist and philanthropist, an educator who taught the first school 
in Ohio to which colored children were admitted and a missionary among the Indians of 
Kansas, where he died in 1848. His maternal grandmother, Mrs. Burgess, a Virginian, 
when her father's estate was divided, received her patrimony in slaves, whom she brought to 
Ohio and gave their liberty in a land of freedom. The mother of Dr. Harvey was, like his 
father, of Quaker stock and she fully sympathized with the latter in his humanitarian efforts 
and lived a life of self-denial that he might the more easily carry on his self chosen work for 
mankind. When he died the family were left in straitened circumstances and were obliged 
to practice the most rigid economy. Dr. Harvey's means of literary education were restricted 
to evening reading, and early in life he addicted himself to a habit learned from his mother 
of studying far into the night. From his father he had inherited a natural inclination and 
talent for scientilic research especially iil the domain of medicine and surgery. In ISIH, at 
the age of nineteen (for he was born in Clinton County, Ohio, November 29. 1827), he began 
the study of medicine, and he graduated from the Miami Medical College in the spring of 
1851 and located at Plaintield. Ind.. where he remained ten years, building up a large 
practice and identifying himself with all the interests of the town. He was a ]iart of its 
social and educational life, and organized a literary society which was maintained with 
weekly meetings during the entire peiiod of his residence in Plaintield. Those ten years 
passed in Hendricks County constituted a period of intelligent and busy apjirenticeship. 
The spirit and sentiment which had led his grandmother to free her slaves and had impelled 
his father to give up much of his devoted life to the education of the negro was alive and 
quickened in Dr. Harvey by the outbreak of the Civil War. His call was not to the front and in 
the field, but to the State Capital where he was appointed examining surgeon for the Indian- 
apolis district, a position which he held to the close of the war, and which led him to remove 
his household to Iiidiauopolis, where he resided thereafter until his death. Following the 
war came the revival in literary and jirofessional education which has resulted in so much 
good to every department of human endeavor. By nature and inheritance Dr. Harvey was a 
teacher. This was first manifested during his residence at Plaintield, not alone in the organ- 
ization and long maintenance of the literary seciety mentioned, but as well in his activity in 
bringing into existence the Hendricks County Medical Society, of which he was the first 
president and which he did much to make studious, harmonious and progressive by the 



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establishment of a winter course of lectures, weekly, for the beuefit of students and neicrb- 
boriiifr physicians, and by other scarcely less effective means. When, in ISBU, the Indiana 
Medical (!ollege was organized. Dr. Harvey was elected to the chair of medical and surgical 
diseases of women, which he held until his death. For twenty years he lectured in his 
chosen specialty and was particularly anxious to complete the course in which Death found 
him engaged, remarking frequently to his family and friends that he might after having so 
done, lie willing to retire from the exciting work of a didactic course. In the palmy days of 
the old Indiana Medical College, it was not uncommon for Dr. Harvey to hold a clinic for 
hours, comprising the whole range of medical diseases. It has been related that, once in 
ISTH. when there was some dilticulty as to the hospital clinics and the faculty of the Indiana 
Medical College hiid withdrawn from the hospital staff, Dr. Harvey apjieared before the class 
and said: "Gentlemen, you need not concern yourself about clinical material, my associates 
and I have not practiced twenty years among the poor of this county to find ourselves at this 
time unknown and unappreciated. Let it be but once announced that there will be free 
clinics on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at the Indiana Medical College, and there will 
be abundant material in our ante-rooms." Under this arrangement he then presented cases 
from 80' clock until dark and was not ableto treat all the waiting patients who were thus enabled 
to avail themselves without charge of this great knowledge and skill. His clinics at the city 
dispensary for women were never neglected, nor those at the city hospital, where every 
Wednesday for twenty-tive years he was in attendance, attracting always a large concourse of 
students from all the medical schools of the city as well as many active practitioners. He 
was distinctively a family physician, and as such he combined all the qualities that go to make 
up the highest conceivable professional type. No man ever rated his profession more higbly. 
He loved his work with an uns]iaring and increasing devotion, and more than forty years in it 
found him as full of enthusiasm and anxiety to improve as when he began it. He loved his 
work for itself and not for any ))ecuniary reward or honor that it might bring biin. He 
regarded it as a sacred trust, ennobled it in his own mind and gave the utmost powers of his 
heart and brain to it. To uphold the dignity of the profession, to enhance its character and 
to widen its scope and grasp, was a burden always borne upon bis heart. To ]>roduce edu- 
cated )ihysicians with noble aspirations and Inroad culture, to elevate the standard of profes- 
sional re(|uirements, were objects tbat apjiealed to his whole nature, and be counted no per- 
sonal cost too dear that aided it. Not only was be the chief spirit in organizing the 
Hendricks County Medical Society of whicb he was president and before which he read the 
first papei-. but he also aided in the organization of the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine, which 
was afterward merged into the Maiion County Medical Society; was a member of thelndiana 
State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the ^Mississippi Valley Medical 
Society. In 1880 he was elected (iresident of the Indiana State IMedical Society. In 1886 
the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Indiana State University. In 1888 be 
was a delegate from the Indiana State Medical Society to the International Medical Congress 
held at Washington. D. C. He was a permanent dean of the faculty of the Indiana Medical 
College. Nothing could induce bim to forego bis lectures and clinics, though often be was 
worn out with overwork and should hav(> been in bed or recreating free from professional 
cares. "I will finish my twentieth year" said be to his family "before I resign my chair. "" 
Upon the afternoon njion which he was stiicken be said to bis son Jesse, in the anteroom: 
"I ho]ie to get through this lecture all right. It is an imjiortant subject and I am going to 
cite some cases I re|)orted to the St. Louis meeting of the American Medical Association."' 
In a brief half hour he lay unconscious in the arms of bis son and his fellow students and 
was transferred to the clinical chair on which he had examined scores of patients. Even as 
be was wheeled from the amphitheatre be asked for bis notes and attempted to assort and 
arrange them, intent only on the work be bad been striving to do until the surging stieani 
that destroying his noble brain bad overwhelmed the remotest chamber of tboiigl t and action, 
and be passed into unconsciousness and silence. At 8 o'clock on the evf ning of Ihat day 
(December 5, 1889), be died. While a resident of Plainfield Dr. Harvey married Miss 
Delitha Butler, who with two sons and a daughter, Lawson, Jesse and Elizabeth, suivive 
him. Another .son, Frank, who had determined on a medical career, was drowned during 
his sophomore year at Harvard. Dr. Harvey made many contributions to the Marion County 



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Medical Society, hut few of them have tieeii published. Among his papers c<)ntiil)uted to 
the Indiana State Medical Society and published in its transactions, are the following: In 
ISfil, '-Report on New Remedies;'"' in 18fi3, "Puerperal Eclampsea:" in IS/1, "Prevention 
of Lacerations of the Gervi Uteri;" in 1SS7, "Ovarian Diseases Complicated with Preg- 
nancy;" in 1888, "Conditions Rendering Diagnosis Difficult in Pelvic and Abdominal 
Diseases." 

Jesse Butler Harvey, M. D. Men do not choose professions under accidental circum 
stances, or if they do, their names almost invariably become enrolled on the list of lamentaljle 
failures. In writing the biographies of the "successes" in the different avocations, we write 
for future as well as pre.sent readers; and they will ask "why successful, and how ?" In 
answering this question it is but necessary to tell something of the career of Dr. Jesse But- 
ler Harvey, who was born in Indianapolis November 4, 1864, a son of Dr. Thomas B. and 
Delitha (Butler) Harvey, the former of wiiom was a leading practitioner of the city for many 
vears and a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Dr. Jesse B. Harvey was educated in 
the public and high schools of Indianapolis, after which he entered Earlham College, where 
lie pursued the .scientitic course three years. He then began the study of medicine with his 
father, from whom he had inherited a decided taste for the profession, his kind heart natu- 
rally "turning to that tieldof human suffering for his life work, and in ISS'.I he entered the 
Indiana Medical College and after a thorough three year's course, graduated in Match, IS'.H'. 
at which time he received the api)oiiitment from the Government as assistant surgetn at the 
National Military Home at Marion, Ind., m which capacity he served one year. In the win- 
ter of I8y'2-y3 he went to the city of New York where he took a post graduate course and 
also attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which institutions he received cer- 
tificates. ' He returned to Indianapolis at once and entered upon an extensive general prac- 
tice which has since known no diminution. As a physician his rank is among the first in 
the city. His diagnosis of disease is comprehensive, accurate and quick, his application of 
remedies speedy and bold, and the resnlt is that his patronage is continually and rapidly 
growing iu proportions, and in proportion he is prospering financially. He is fully abreast 
of the latest discoveries in medical science aiul is absorbed in Ins profession. He has found 
that to be successful necessitates continuous study, and therefore is a deep and earnest reader 
and carefully and conscientiously studies each case that is placed under his care. He is a 
member of the Marion County Medical Society and while attending medical college iu In- 
diana he was a druggist and clinical assistant of a city dispensary for one year. He was 
married June '21, 1S93, to Miss Elenora Warner, of Chicago, a native of Springfield, Ohio, 
and a daughter of Simeon and Rebecca (Harrison) Warner, who were also born in the Buck- 
eye State. In politics the Doctor is a Republican although he is by no means a partisan or 
a politician. 

A1.0NZO A. ZioN'. master of transportation of the Indianapolis Union Railroad, was born 
in Lebanon, Ind., July 23. J846, a son of William Ziou, who located in Boone County, lud., 
in 1834, to which region he came from east Virginia, where he was born January I'J, 1812, 
and died March 15, 1880, in Boone County. He was a blacksmith by trade, but later 
engaged in general merchandising, a calling which received more or less of his attention the 
remainder of his life. He was a man of great energy and public spirit, and held various offi- 
cial positions in his section, among which was county sheriff from 183(5 to 1840, and at vari- 
ous times for many years he was postmaster at Lebanon. He was for a long period railroad 
agent at Lel.ianon, and he was (me of the active promoters of the old Lafayette & Indian - 
ai)olis Railroad, and was one of the directors of the road. The town of Zionsville was named 
in his honor. He was a Repultlican in politics, was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
in this honorable secret organization, took some of the highest degrees. He was noted for 
his benevolence, in fact, he was charitable to a fault, and his friends were legion. He was 
married to Miss Amelia Sims, who was l)orn in Brookville. Ind., May 29, 1814, their union 
taking place on December 13, 1832, at Rushville, Rush County. Ind. To their union seven 
sons an<l four daughters were born, of whom the immediate subject of this sketch was the 
seventh in order of birth. The mother is still living, and is a devout member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church of many years standing. Alonzo A. Zion inherited German blood 
from his father, and English from his mother, a combination that made him a decided, euer- 



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g»>tic, pnsliincj and euterpiising man. He attended tbe schools of liis native town until be 
attained bis thirteenth year, then entered railroad service, and in ISS'.I commenced to learn 
telegraphy in tbe office of the old Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad, where he remained 
until 1S(>3. He then entered the service of the United States Military Telegraph as an oper 
ator, and was on duty in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, as well as a number of other 
southern States. He was on the battlefields of Nashville and Cleveland, Tennessee and De- 
catur, Ala., and although bis duties as military telegraph operator was considered very dan- 
gerous service, be fulfilled his duties untlincbingly. and escaped unharmed. He received an 
bonorable discharge in JIarch, 18fi4, after which be was appointed agent of the Indianapolis, 
t'incinnati \- Lafayette Railroad at Lebanon. Iiid., and became freight agent of the Big Four 
road at Indianapolis in 1S74. When the Belt Railroad was com]ileted be was appointed chief 
train dispatcher November 11, 1877, which position he held until tbe Indianapolis Vnion 
purchased tbe Belt Railroad, when be received the appointment to the responsible position 
lie now holds. He has served two years on the school board of West Indianapolis as treas- 
urer, and the ably conducted schools which are in vogue at tbe present time are in a great 
measure due to tbe efforts of Mr. Zion, and to the building of the pleasant, commodious and 
light school-bouses which were erected through his energy and )iusb. September 1, 18R8, 
be was married to Miss Anna Morris, a daughter of Peter and Esther Morris, of Lebanon, 
Ind., berbirtb having occurred in Columbus, Ind., Junell. 1840, and their son Eddie A. .was 
born November fi. ISfi!', and died Septemlier 7, lSi:lO, his untimely death being deeply 
mourned by all who knew him. Harry F. was born August 29, 1875. The elder son was a 
fireman on the Fnion Railroad at tbe time of his death, a position liis brother Harry holds at 
the jiresent time. Mr. and !Mrs. Zion and Harry can each use a telegraph key in an expert 
manner. Mr. Zion has passed through the chairs of Lebanon Lodge, No. 48. and Magnolia 
Encampment. No. 45. of tbe I. O. O. F., and has represented both in tbe grand lodge 
and grand encampment of the State. He is a trustee of West Indianapolis Lodge, No. 244 
of the K. of P., and is also a member of Comanche Tribe, No. 128. I. O. R. M. , 
in which he has passed all the chairs, and has also represented this tribe in the Great 
Council of the State. He is a member of the Train Dispatcher's Association of North 
.America, of which be was president two terms, and he was also one of its promoters and 
organizers. Mr. Zion is a man who keeps thoroughly posted and up with tbe times, is ener- 
getic and pushing, and being in tbe full vigor of manhood be has manv vears of usefulness 
before bin). He understands bis business thoroughly, can be relied upon at all times, and 
is one of tbe thoroughly popular officials of the road witb which be has so long been con- 
nected. 

Ovid Butler. This distinguished lawyer, journalist anil philanthropist was born at 
Augusta. N. Y.. February 7. 1801. and died at Indianapolis, Julv 12. 1881. He was a son 
of Rev. Chauncey Butler, the first pastor of the Disciples Church of Indianapolis, who died 
in 1840. His grandfather. Capt. Joel Butler, who was a revolutionary soldier and served 
at Quebec, died in 1822. In 1817 tbe family removed from New York to Jennings Coun'tv. 
Ind. . where Ovid Butler grew up and was educated according to his opportunities, and taught 
school and read law. He settled at Sbelbyville in 1825. and practiced bis profession there 
until lS3f>, when he removeil to Indianapolis. He ccintinued his practice in that city until 
compelled to retire on account of ill health in 1849. having as jiartners Calvin Fletcher. 
Simon Yanders and Horatio C, NewcomVi. successively, and during this period be built up 
a large and lucrative clientage. As a lawyer. Mr. Butler excelled as a counsellor and in tbe 
jtreparation of cases. With not many of the graces of tbe orator, his style was concise and 
strong, neither humorous nor ornate but logical and convincing. He was noted for the rest- 
less perseverance witb which be pushed every cause through the courts and be was regarded 
as a most formidable antagonist. Few of his competitors at the bar possessed mental 
strength and culture in tbe same degree and few were so indefatigable in their (lerseverance. 
During a few years succeeding tbe Mexican War. while the question of tbe extension of 
slavery was being ajritated, he was active in politics. He established tbe Fief Soil Bnnver 
at Indianar>olis in 1848. This paper went beyond tbe mere question of the extension of 
slavery and attacked slavery itself in its stronghold. Its motto was "Free soil. Free States, 
Free Men." Before this humanitarian problem engaged his attention, he bad been a 



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Democrat. He served ou the Free Soil electoral ticket ami upon important political com- 
mittees and made many speeches in advocacy of the anti slavery principle iu the campaigns 
of 1848 and 1852. lu'the year last mentioned he contributed very largely to the fund for 
establishing the Free Soil Democrat which in 1854 was merged into the Iiiduiiiapolis Jour- 
nal in which Mr. Butler had a controlling interest and which became the organ of the Repub- 
lican party. Jlr. Butler also helped to establish an influential Free Soil paper at Cincinnati 
and he was liberal in contributions to and prominent in advocacy of the cause espoused by Louis 
Kossuth upon his memorable visit to America. After his retirement from the bar, he gave 
much attention to the interests of the Christian Church and of the Northwestern Christian Uni- 
versity, now called Butler University. For many years he and some friends had contemplated 
the establishment of an institution such as this university, and the session of the Legislature of 
1849-50 they obtained its charter, which was drafted by Mr. Butler, and which thus 
clearly set forth the object of the University: "An institution of learning of the highest class 
for the education of the youth of all parts of the United States and of the Northwest : to establish 
in said institution departments or colleges for the instruction of students iu every branch of 
liberal and professional education; to educate and prepare suitable teachers for the common 
schools of the country; to teach and inculcate the Christian faith and Christian morality as 
taught in the sacred scriptures, discharging as uninspired and without authority all writings, 
formulas, creeds and articles of faith subsequent thereto; and for the promotion of the 
sciences and arts."' For twenty years he served as president of the board of directors of 
the university, retiring in 1871 at the age of seventy. In 1827 Mr. Butler married Cordelia 
Cole, who died in 1838. In 1840 he married Mrs. Elizabeth A. Elgin, daughter of the late 
Thomas McQuat, who survived him only a year, dying in 1882. During the latter years of 
his life he sought quiet and retirement and removed his residence from hi.s old home in 
town to his farm north of the city. Here his family assembled, his children and their chil- 
dren, to enjoy his society and pay respect to his wishes in all things. His life was well 
spent and useful, devoted most generously to the good of his fellow men. 

Henrt Crdse, farmer. Although over four-score years have passed over the whitened 
head of this venerable old pioneer, his mind is as keen and as active as in the days of his 
early manhood, and it is only so far as his physical being is concerned that Father Time 
has left his traces. His walk through life has been characterized by a sturdy independence, 
uncompromising honesty, great energy, and the utmost loyalty to his family, his friends and 
his country, and he may truly be said to be a man among men. He is a product of Butler 
County, Ohio, where he was born February 0, 1812, but since 1820 he has been a resident of 
Indiana, at which date he came with his parents to this region, and has ever since resided 
here with the exception of three years which he spent in Illinois. He is a son of Henry and 
Susannah (Cress) Cruse, who were natives of the Buckeye State where they were married 
about the year 1798, and eventually their imion resulted iu the birth of live sons and 
live daughters, of whom Henry was the eighth in order of birth. Their names are as 
follows: Philip, Susannah, Absolom, Leah, Solomon, Joseph, Rachel, Henry (the subject 
of this sketch), John and Levina, all of whom are now deceased with the exception of Henry. 
The paternal grandparents of the latter were Philip and May (Stnmpp) Cruse, natives of 
Germany, who left the home of their birth and crossed the ocean to America about 1 <25. 
After thirteen weeks on the ocean they reached this country and took up their residence in 
North Carolina, where they each, for seven years afterward, worked for one man in payment 
for their passage thither. They were shortly after married and brought up a large family, 
principally boys, who like their father, who died at the age of one hundred and ten years, 
became Ijlacksniiths by trade. Among these sons was Henry, whose Inrth occurred about 
1761 in Guilford County, N. C. His union with Miss Cress took place about 1785 in the Old 
North State and there they made their home until their removal to Butler County, Ohio. In 
1810 they took up their residence in Vincennes, Ind. , and in 1820 came to Marion County 
where the remainder of their days were spent. Upon the opening of the Black Hawk war 
Henry Cruse enlisted in the service in 1832 and was under the command of Capt. John W. 
Reddin. While fighting the redskins he camped ou the ground where the city of Chicago 
now stands, at which time there were 50(» regular troops stationed there and the now second 
city in the Union consisted of a few French settlers. After the Indians had been subdued 



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Henrj' returned to liis home where he shortlj- after fell a victim to cupid's darts, and wooed 
and won for his wife Miss Eliza Jane Whitinger, and the two were made one on October 9, 
1884, in Marion County, which has been their home ever since. To them a good old-fash- 
ioned family of fifteen children were given and they were named as follows: Snsan. born 
August 2, 1835, was married to Jonathan Campbell in 1861 and is now a resident of Hamil- 
ton County, Ind; Mary Jane, born September 29, 1836, married J. S. Hinshaw in 1858 and 
resides in Hamilton County; Margaret, born December 8, 1S37, married James Moulton 
(deceased) in 1857 and is a resident of Indianapolis, Ind.; Solomon, lioin August 22, 1839, 
married Nancy Jane Stultz, who is now deceased, and resides in Hamilton County; Leah, 
born September 30, 1841, married Thomas Campbell in 1866 and now lives in Argentine, 
Kan.; Martha, born December 21, 1842, married Jacob Cloe in 1865 and died one year later; 
Absolom was born May 14, 1844, married Myra Vance in 1871 and now lives in Clay County, 
111.; Henry, born November 17, 1845, married Sarah Heaton in 1869 and lives in Clay Count}', 
111.; Jacob, l)orn December 16, 1847, married Sarah Pierce in 1870 and lives in Hamilton 
County, Ind.; Daniel, born December 3, 1849, married Lucinda Iml)ler. and now lives in 
Boone County, Ind.; Sarah, born December 29. 1852, died in infancy; Eliza, boin Novem- 
ber 16, 1853, married John Kolyer in 1883 and now lives in Indianapolis; William. Ixirn 
November 25, 1855, married Sarah Sutton in 1880 and lives in Marion County, Ind.; Peter, 
born November 5, 1858, married Ellen Newby in 1879 and lives in Marion County, and 
Thomas, born September 13, 1860, married Delilah Sutton in 1885, and died in 189(1. 
Henry, Absolom and Jacob served in the Civil War, the first two serving in the Seventieth 
Indiana Infantry, and all returned safely to their home with the exception of Henry who 
was wounded in tiie left leg in one engagement. The mother of this family is a plump and 
active old lady, still capable of doing a considerable amount of hard labor, and bids fair to 
live many years longer. She is a daughter of Henry and Susannah (Ernest) Whitinger, who 
were Ohio people, married in 1813. She had tliirteen brothers and tluee sisters, making a 
family of seventeen children, ail of whom lived to maturity, and six of whom are living at 
the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Cruse are the grandparents of eighty-two children and 
have twenty great-grandchildren, which makes their family record almost unparalleled. Mr. 
Cruse's father and mother lived to be sixty five and ninety-six years respectively while Mrs. 
Cruse's father lived to be sixty- six years and her mother to the age of ninety-two years. 

Amos W. Fisher, M. D. The field of medicine and surgery has so widened, the reme- 
dies in use being so many, the diseases so numerous and increasing through the moditications 
of life in our growing civilization, and surgery being applied now in so many eases where 
previously medicines alone were given for relief, that the most conservative of physicians, 
even, have become persuaded that there are potent reasons why there should be si)ecialists 
in tlie profession. It is manifest that the ])hysician and surgeon who ajaplies himself dili 
gently t;o the stud}^ and practice of the profession in given forms only should become much 
more expert in them than he would be if he divided his time i)etween all the ills of which flesh 
is heir. Every school of medicine now permits special practice and to this is due much of 
the knowledge and experience that have been given to the world in the past quarter of a 
century. The subject of our sketch, a well known and popular physician of Indianapolis, 
one whose fame and practice extend far out into the States on every side, was born in Prel)le 
County, Ohio, March S, 1837. His father, John Fisher, was a farmer by occupation, born 
in Ohio in 1816, of German descent, and died at the age of thirty-three. His wife was Eve 
liaper, a native of Wayne County, Ind, and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Keesling) 
Uaper, the former a native of Liverpool, England, who came to America when a lail and 
settled in Wayne County in 18t18. John Raper was a soldier in the War of 1812, and after 
his death his widow drew a pension. She was a native of Virginia, of German descent, and 
lived until A]iril 29, 1879, and was nearly ninety years old at her death. The mother of the 
subject of this sketch survives her husband and resides near Richmond, Ind., at the age of 
seventy-six. John Fisher and his wife were the parents of live children, our sul)ject l)eing 
the eldest. He was reared in Union County, Iiui., upon a farm and received his prinuuy 
education in the old conventional school-house of logs. Subsequently he attended the college 
at Richmond, Ind., and later the Southwestern Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. After 
teaching school for about live years, or in the spring of 1861, he began the study of medi 



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cine with Drs. Hasty & Weeks, in Heury County, Ind. Two years afterwiiid Dr. Fisher 
entered the Physio-Medical Institute at Cincinnati and attended one course of lectures, when 
he began the practice in Wayne County, which he continued, with the exception of two years 
spent in Illinois, until his coming to Indianapolis in 1880. At this time he entered the 
Physio-Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis, from which he graduated one year later, 
and since that time has continued to practice in this city, confining himself to treatment of 
piles and diseases of the rectum. ' In this special practice he has been eminently successful, 
ranking among the foremost physicians in Indiana in his specialty. Since 1881 Dr. Fisher 
has tilled the chair of diseases of the rectum in the Physio- Medical College of Indiana at 
Indianapolis, and he has also been a trustee of the institution for the past several years. 
The practice of Dr. Fisher extends all over the country westward to Nebraska and Colorado, 
southward to Mississippi and also north and east. Dr. Fisher has been for five years secre- 
tary of the American Association of Physio Medical Physicians and Surgeons, and has held 
the same position in the State association of that body for an equal length of time. Since 
the organization, over thirty years since, he has held numerous positions in that body and 
was its second secretary. The Doctor is a gentleman of social impulses, finding much pleas- 
ure in the companionship of agreeable people, and he takes nmch interest in the Masonic 
order, with which he has been connected for a great many years. Dr. Fisher was married 
April 28, 1862, to Nellie A. Pennock, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Ira and Aurora 
(Gilbert) Pennock, the former a native of New York, and the latter of Ohio. Mrs. Fislier 
died April 16, 1888, and Dr. Fisher again married June 16, 1889, his last wife being Mrs. 
Martha E. (Coddington) Green, a native of Union County, Ind., and dangljlerof Enoch 
Coddington. Dr. Fisher is a memlier of Plymouth Church. In politics the Doctor is a 
Republican, earnestly supporting the candidates of that party. 

Hon. John C.wen. Few men have lived more quietly or unostentatiously than John 
Caven, and yet few have exerted a more salutary influence upon the immediate society in 
which they move, or impressed a community with a more profound reliance on their honor, 
ability and sterling worth. His life has not been illustrious with startling incidents or 
striking contrasts; but it has shown how a laudable ambition may be gratified when accom- 
panied by pure motives, persevering industry and steadfastness of purpose. In presenting 
to the readers of this volume a sketch of his life, character and public acts, it will lie found 
that his name is closely connected with the peace and prosperity of the capital city of Indiana. 
For ten years he ably performed the duties of chief magistrate of the city of Indianapolis, 
and during this time evinced ([ualities of head and heart which shed lustre upon hisnanje and 
won the hearty approval of all right thinking peo]ile. His career points its own moral, and 
it is not to be wondered at that a history of his life would be of more than ordinary interest, 
for it enables society to arrive at correct conclusions and to establish theories of life, its 
obligations and po.ssibilities, which cannot fail to be of benefit to thoughtful people. He 
comes of Scotch Irish and English-Scotch parentage, and was born in Allegheny County, 
Penn.. April 12, 1824, his parents being William and Jane (Laughead) Caven. He was 
left with but little means, but he inherited what was far better, a healthy body and a 
vigorous mind and a reverence for the good and beautiful and the true, which were the 
stepping stones to success in later years. He was always very generous in his judgments, 
for he studied every side of a ((uestion carefully, and in the councils of his city has 
ever been considered a leader whose judgment could at all times be relied upon. In youth 
he was inured to hard work and his labor brought him into direct contact with the children 
of toil, for which reason he has every right to be considered a self made man. His ad- 
vantages for acquiring an education were not of the liest, but he was a student by birth, and 
although his books were few and his instructors inferior, his mind was retentive and what 
he learned he did so thoroughly. In time he acquired a wide range of knowledge and a 
polish that would have done credit to a graduate of any university. At school he mastered 
the old English reader and Daboll's arithemethic, and with this foundation he went fourth 
to master all liranches of learning that would better prepare him for a successful career at 
the bar. He spent some time as a workman in salt works and coal mines and also as a flat 
boatman, unhesitatingly putting his hand to any honorable employment he could find to do. 
In 1845 he came to Indianapolis, and in 1S47, at the age of twenty three, entered the law 



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office of Smith i Yandes, and iu due time entered ujiou the practice of the profession he 
later adorned. In lSt38, when thirty-nine years of age, he was elected to the mayorality of 
Indianapolis without opposition, and his administration was so able that in 1865 he was 
again elected without opposition, and during this time, which comprised eight vears, and 
while Indianapolis was rapidly developing in every way. he gave much impetus to her prog 
ress and development. In 1868 the residents of the city elected him to the State Senate 
for four years, during which time he made an enviable record for himself, and his speeches 
were eloquent upon all matters touching political, educational and humanitarian suljjects. 
He voted for the fifteenth amendment, and earnestly advocated the establishment of 
schools for colored children. He was again elected to the office of mayor of Indianapolis in 
1875. and the two terms following he succeeded himself in the position. In the routine 
work of the office of mayor he tilled the requirements of a just and humane magistrate, and 
his efforts to reform the fallen who were brought before him will ever remain as monuments 
to his faith in the good that lies in every human heart, and the powerful effect of moral 
suasion. He was instrumental in secxiring the Belt Railroad, and establishing the stock 
yards at Indianapolis, and at the time of the great strike of 1877 he proved himself equal to 
the demands of the hour, and made a record for himself and the city, which has been com 
mented on favorably by the press of the entire country. Mr. Caven is an honored member 
of the ancient order of Masons, in the mysteries of which he is thoroughly drilled, and he is 
deeply devoted to its principles. He was the first and for seven years continued to be the 
deputy for Indiana of the supreme council A. Jt A. Rite, northern jurisdiction. He was the 
first worshipful master of Mystic Tie Lodge, F. Jc A. M., and held the position seven 
years. He was the tirst grand chancellor of the K. of P. for Indiana and was reelected, 
and was the only one who ever was, and was the first officer of the first Uniform Rank in 
Indianapolis. Mr. Caven is a tine specimen of physical manhood, is six feet tall and weighs 
210 pounds. He is a bachelor. l>ut l>y no means a recluse or cynic, for he loves home and 
social enjoyments. Time has dealt kindly with him. and many years of usefulness are yet 
before him. 

WiLLi,\M Hexrt Wagsek. The question of demand and supply is one which agitates 
the mind of every thinking man to-day. The rapid growth of cities, the abnormal increase 
in population tend to raise to a higher pitch the call for more products to sustain life, and 
there are constant opportunities for bright men to array themselves as public providers. 
The groceryman is especially essential and from him may be obtained everything that goes 
to supply a well set table. A well conducted and well supplied house is that of which 
William Henry Wagner is the proprietor in Haughville. He is the oldest citizen now 
residing in the town and iu days of yore cultivated the laud on which the town of Haughville 
is located. He was born iu Jackson Countv, Ind.. in 18-14. a son of John Wagner, who is 
still living and a resident of Jackson County. The latter was born in Kentucky and came 
to Indiana seventy-four or seventy-five years ago and took up his residence in Jackson 
Countv with his father, George Wagner, who was a Pennsvlvanian bv birth. George Wag- 
ner went to Kentucky when a young man and there lived among the Indians for some time 
but died in Indiana at the extreme old age of ninety-eight years. He was a man of tine 
constitution and great vigor and when in his ninety-seventh year he walked from Jackson to 
where Haughville now is. preferring this mode of locomotion to riding. He was a farmer 
by occupation, as is his son. John Wagner, who has attained to the age of seventy-nine 
years. He has been successful in the accumulation of worldly goods and is now in the 
enjoyment of a liberal competency. He was one of the pioneers of Jackson County and has 
been a healthy and rugged man the most of his life, his tine constitution being without 
doubt inherited from his father who was never sick a day in his life, never had the toothache, 
even, and never took a dose of medicine throughout his long career. William Henry Wag- 
ner was one of a large family of children born to his parents and his early education was 
obtained in the district schools of Jackson County. On October 7, 1861, he enlisted in 
Company A. Fiftieth Indiana Infantry, and during his service was in many hard fought 
battles among which may lie mentioned Murfreesboro and Mumfordsville. Ky.. where he was 
taken prisoner and was kept in captivity three weeks before being paroled. Some time after 
rejoining his command he was again taken prisoner at Lexington. Tenn., this time by Gen. 



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Forrest. He served his country faithfully in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas and 
Mississippi, and besides the engagements aljove mentioned, was at the liattles of Franklin, 
Nashville, Mobile, Fort Blakely and others. He was mustered out of the service September 
20, 1865, and returned to Jackson County, Ind., and was married to Miss Abigail Carman, 
who died in 1890. He has since been united in marriage to Miss Maggie Longfellow, of 
Haughville. Soon after wedding his first wife he came to Haughville and turned his atten- 
tion to farming and teaming, in fact, did not hesitate to engage in anything that was honor- 
able in oriler to obtain a livelihood. He has many a time plowed the ground on which his 
present grocery store is standing, and at one time or another has cultivated the entire ground 
on which Haughville is situated. In 1889 he opened a grocery store and meat market and 
since that time has been successfully engaged in following this occupation. He keeps a 
first-class line of goods, a large stock at all times, and has a patronage which speaks in an 
elocjuent manner as to the popularity of his house. He has served two terms as marshal of 
Haughville, and for six years acted in the capacity of constable. Socially he is a member 
of the I. O. O. F. , the K. of P. and for some time he has been major of Anderson Post of 
the G. A. R. Politically he has always been a Republican. Mrs. Wagner's father was a 
successful physician of Decatur, and was extremely well and favorably known throughout 
that section. He was born in New York State, on Lake Champlaiii, removed from there to 
Ohio where he was married to Miss Sarah Williams, then came to Decatur ('ounty, Ind. 
Mrs. Wagner is the only surviving member of that family and was the youngest of their 
six children, four of whom lived to be grown. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner are members of the 
Christian Church, and he has been an officer in the same. He comes of sturdy Penn- 
sylvania Dutch stock, and is a man of sound business principles, to be relied u])on at all 
times. 

■ Edwin R. Lewis, A. M. , M. D. The philosophy of the German, to learn one thing, 
but to learn that well, is being adopted by the medical profession to a very considerable 
extent, the olden prejudice against any member becoming a specialist having practically died 
out. Time has demonstrated that the physician who devotes himself exclusively to given 
forms of disease, or to surgery, or given forms of surgical cases, becomes far more success-ful 
than if he generalized, and at the same time he confers inestimable benefits n))on the gen 
era! practitioner by imparting to him the general results of his investigations, practices 
and triumphs. The subject of this sketch. Dr. Edwin R. Lewis, has devoted himself to 
diseases of the nose and throat, with the result that he has become eminent in his profession 
and has conferred inestimable benefit upon his fellow creatures who have suffered from 
attacks in those members, and at the same time the results of his practice have aided his 
brethren. Dr. Lewis was born at Madison, Ind., April 2, 1839, being the son of James 
and Sophronia (West) Lewis, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Massachusetts. 
The paternal grandfather settled in Madison, Ind., in the year 1818, being one of the pio- 
neers of the ))lace, and he was previously a soldier in the War of 1812. The maternal 
grandfather of our suljject was in the navy in the War of 1812, and his great grandfather 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Thus it will be seen that the blood of loyalty and 
patriotism pervades the veins of Dr. Lewis. The father of Dr. Lewis was reared in Madi- 
son, where he engaged in l)usiness when he grew to man's estate, and resided there until his 
death. Our subject was reared in his native place, receiving instruction in the graded 
schools, and subsequently attended Amherst (Mass.) College, whence he graduated in the 
year 1861. In that same year, August, and directly after he passed from college, he enlisted 
in the Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and served three years, being mustered 
out in August, 1864, with the rank of captain. Previous to enlisting he served three months 
on the .staff of Gen. Wallace. During his service with the gallant Twenty-first he partici 
pated in the battles of Antietam; Fredericksburg, siege of Knoxville, Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania. Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and numerous skirmishes, being constantly in active service. 
At the battle of Knoxville he was wounded in the right arm, a most serious injury, and he 
narrowly missed losing that member. After being mustered out with a record of which he 
may well be proud, for he was always at his post of duty and was brave in battle and a gal- 
lant and skilled officer, ho entered, in the fall of 1864, the medical dejiartment of Harvard 
University, from which lie graduated in 1867. He then engaged in practice at Amherst, 



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Mass., until 1870, wheu he went to Sj'riii as professor of cheaiistry in the medical college at 
Beirut. Here be remained for thirteen years, or until 1883, and then returned to America and 
entered the Polyclinic College in New York. In April, of the following year, he came to 
Indianapolis and entered uj)on his practice, but left in the fall to accept the professorship 
of chemistry in Wabash College, a position he held until the fall of 1888, pursuing the 
practice of his profession during this time. He then returned to Indianapolis, where he 
has since remained, being a specialist in disease of the throat and nose, and has built up a 
very large and lucrative practice and has attained great eminence. He is a patient, studious 
and persevering man, possessed of a vast fund of general knowledge, learned and skillful 
in his profession, and a gentleman of culture and refinement. His is a natuie that attracts 
and he inspires conlidence and respect on all sides. Dr. Lewis was married in 18(')4 to Har- 
riet Goodell, at Amherst, Mass.. who died in Syria in 187M. A son born to this union, Edwin 
S., graduated from Wabash College iu 1888 and then spent four years in John Hopkins 
University, at Baltimore, where he took tlie degree of Ph.D., and during his study there 
took two scholarship prizes, which entitle him to two seasons of study in Europe, under the 
direction of the University. After graduating he received an appointment as professor of the 
Koman languages al Princeton College, which distinguished position this remarkably talented 
young man is now tilling. The attainments of Piof. Lewis in scholarship are truly estraor 
dinary and he has l)efore him a brilliant future. Dr. Lewis was mariied a second time in 
1885," at Crawfordsville, IncL.to Ellen Poole, of Philadelj.hia, who died in April, 1889. In 
April, 1892, tlie Doctor was married to Rose Baldwin, of Indiiinapolis. Our subject is a mem- 
ber of the Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana Medic.il Society, American Medical 
Association, the American Khinological Society and the American Academy of Medicine. 
Besides his connection with these several bodies of distinguished. men, he is also a member 
of the G. A. R. , of the L. L., and of the various orders of masonry up to and including the 
Scottish Rite, or thirty-second degree. He is likewise connected with a number of prominent 
social organizations, among which is the Columbia Club, Country Club, and the Indianapolis 
Literary Club, the latter being a most exclusive association, the membership being based 
upon merit. The Doctor is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, as also is his wife. 
In politics he is an independent, being influenced in his vote largely by the character and 
merit of the candidates for office, having, of course, jironounced views upon the great ques- 
tions that divide parties, but neither of the great parties properly reflects his opinions. He 
is a warm personal friend of Secretary Gresham and ardently endorses the independent 
stand of that gentleman. Dr. Lewis' connection with the many organizations named above, 
in all of which he takes active interest, would indicate a very large personal acquaintance, 
but these represent only in jiart those with whom he has association, for he enjoys the friend- 
ship and esteem of distinguished people all over this country and in Europe, who are 
attached to him on account of his noble qualities of mind and heart, and who admire him 
for his scholastic and professional attainments. 

Judge Addison L. Ro.\che. Seventy six years have passed over the head of the gen- 
tleman whose name heads this sketch, leaving their impress in the whitening hair and 
lined features, but while the outer garment of the soul shows the wear and tear of years, 
the man himself is richer and nobler and grander for the experience that each successive 
decade has brought hira. He is one of the old settlers of Indiana, but was born in Ruther- 
ford County, Tenn., in 1817. In 1828 he moved with his parents to Bloomington, Ind., 
and was educated iu the State university, graduating in the class of 183fi. All his class- 
mates except one have j>assed over to the silent majority and he is left almost alone. After 
finishing his schooling, young Roache went to Rockville, Ind., and entered the law office of 
Gen. T. A. Howard, being admitted to the bar in 1839. After traveling for about two 
years he located in Rockville, Ind., in 1842, and began practicing law, remaining there until 
April, 1859. In the meantime he was elected to the Legislature from Parke County, Ind., 
first in 1847-48, and re-elected, serving two terms. In the year 1852 Mr. Roache was 
elected to the State supreme bench, and after serving eighteen months resigned and 
resumed his practice at Rockville. In April, 1859, he removed to Indianapolis, and formed 
a partnership with the late Joseph E. McDonald, which continued until the hitter part of 
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a very large corporatiou practice, and were attorneys for the defendant iu many of iLe 
whisky cases, then very numerous. As a result, Judge Roache's health became shattered, 
and iu the latter part of 1869 he was obliged to abandon his practice, which he did not 
resume until 1876. At that date he began practicing with his son-inlaw, E. H. Lamme, 
the partnership continuing until the fall of 1887, when Mr. Lamme removed to Los An- 
geles, Cal., where he now resides. Judge Roache has not practiced any since 1887, and is 
now retired from the active duties of life, satisfied with a long career of usefulness. In the 
year 1871 he was one of a committee of five to devise a city school law, which they did, 
and which law is now, with minor amendments, the school law of Indiana. The section 
which made the public libraries, now so common, possible, was originated by Judge Roache, 
and the people of the State are now reaping the benefit of his wise foresight. He served 
on the school board of Indianapolis for years, and also served for years as one of the 
trustees of the State university at Bloomington, Ind. He is of English descent on the 
paternal side, and his father. Dr. Stephen Roache, was a native of the Old North State. 
The latter came to Indiana in 1N28, located at Bloomington, but later removed to Rockville 
(1855), and died at the home of onr subject in 1873, when seventy-eight years of age. 
His wife died in August, 1891, when ninety-three years of age. Socially Judge Roache is 
a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is a member of the Presbyterian Churcii. In 
June, 184'2, he married Miss Emily A. Wedding, and to them were born seven children, of 
whom five survive, one a son, A. L. Roache, Jr., and the remainder daughters. 

John G. Raths.\m. In him is found a man whose business career is a decidedly inter- 
esting one showing the shrewdness, Ijusiiiess ability and competency which can be attained 
by the natives of other lands. This gentleman is a Horist whose place of business is a most 
attractive one to the lover of the beautiful, and is advantageously situated on the corner of 
College Avenue and Fifteenth Street, where he does a general greenhouse business, and 
retails his goods at figures within the reach of rich and poor alike. Mr. Rathsam owes his 
nativity to Bavaria, Germany, where he was born in 1856, and when still a lad, over twenty 
years ago, he crossed the ocean to the United States to see what Dame Fortune had in store 
for him on this side of the water. He almost immediately came to Indianapolis and com- 
menced working at anything honorable he could find to do. After continuing thus for two 
years, and being anxious to give his attention to some settled pursuit, he engaged in garden- 
ing, for which occupation he seemed to possess a natural aptitude and decided liking. 
After some time he removed to Noblesville, Ind., following gardening for three years. With 
the ]audal)le desire of bettering his financial condition he moved l^ack to Indianapolis and 
embarked in the manufacture of crockery and Hower pots for florists, at the corner of 
Alabama Street and Fort Wayne Avenue, which business he continued with success for 
eight years. At the expiration of this time he came to his present location and began his 
career as a florist and gardener, in which he has met with good success and has built up a trade 
strictly in keeping with his honorable methods of conducting his affairs, his energy, perse- 
verance and reliability. He is prompt and accurate in supplying the wants of his patrt ns, 
has a line line from which to select, and is deserving of great credit for the manner in which 
he has bent the force of circumstances to his will, and has gained a liberal patronage and a 
comfortable competency. April 15, 1879, witnessed the celebration of his marriage with 
Miss Maggie Decker, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., and four children have blessed their union — 
three daughters and a son. Mr. Rathsam is a member of the Marion County Florists' 
Association, and he and his wife are members of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, of 
whicli he has for .some time been officiating elder. He is of the stuff of which good citizens 
are made and is a credit to his calling and to the business community in general. 

JoHx Randolph Brown, M. D. A recognized expert in the treatment of diseases of the 
mind and nervous system. Dr. John R. Brown, of Indianapolis, is likewise well and favor- 
able known as a general practitioner of skill and success. Born in Randolph County, N. 
C. , December 20, 1855, he is a sou of John R. and Mary (Lane) Brown, his father's occupa- 
tion being that of merchant and planter. Dr. Brown received his literary education at 
Trinity College (N. C), and began the study of medicine in 1876, under the direction of Dr. 
J. D. Graves. Later he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Balti- 
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in 1S7T, be was graduated from the Medical College of ludiaiia in 1S82, aud was immedi- 
ately thereafter appointed interne at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Not hmg after 
ward he was made first assistant physician of that institution and he served in that capacity 
for six years, resigning it to accept the position of assistant superintendent in the Eastern 
Hospital for the Insane, at Knoxville, Tenn., to which he had heen called. In this position 
he served with credit and increasing reputation for four years, hut reliu<|nished it to remove 
to Indianapolis to enter piivate practice. At this time, in connection with his general prac- 
tice, he is conducting a private sanitarium for the treatment of diseases of the mind and 
nervous system, which is meeting with such success that it promises soon to rank with the 
most popular institutions of its kind in the country. Dr. Brown is a memlier of the JIarion 
County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Society and of the .American Medical 
Association. He was married in 1889, to Agnes Fletcher, of Indianapolis, daughter of Dr. 
W. B. Fletcher, and has one daughter, Agnes C. Brown. Dr. Brown stands no less high in 
the public esteem as a citizen than as a physician, and as an expert in mental and nervous 
affections be is becoming well and widely known. 

HiR.\M C. Castor, M. D. During the comparatively short period of Dr. Castor's prac- 
tice he has met with unusual success and gained much substantial reputation as a general 
practitioner with the profession aud the public. Hiram C. Castor was born in Indianapolis, 
April 11, 18(')(), a son of Edwin A. and Samantlia W . ((Traham) Castor. His father was by 
birth a Pennsylvanian: his mother was an Indianian. They took up their residence in 
ludianapolis about 1858 and are well known and highly respected in the city, Edwin A. Cas 
tor, who is a master builder aud superintendent of construction, having a record as a soldier 
during the Civil War of which any man might well be proud. He was a member of a 
Pennsylvania regiment and did gallant service on manj^ a hard-contested field. Dr. Cas- 
tor was reared in Indianapolis and received his literary education in the public schools of 
the city. In 1886 he began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. E. S. Elder, 
and in the fall of the same year entered the Medical College of Indiana, fi'om which institu- 
tion he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D., aud immediately entered upon the 
[)ractice of his profession. He has been careful and conservative, yet sufficiently original in 
his practice, aud has achieved a success which has already been quite substantially rewarded 
tiuancially. he having been enabled to purchase from his professional earnings a comfortable 
home aud fix up an attractive aud well appointed office. Dr. Castor is a member of the 
the Marion County Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society. His popu- 
larity as a man aud a citizen maj' be inferred from the fact that he is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity and of the K. of P. and the Uniformed Bank, K. P. In politics he is a 
Republican, but he has no political aspirations and is too busily devoted to his prcifession to 
ever think of any. He was married November 25, 1888, to Gertrude Isaac=, a native of 
Marion County and a daughter of Alfred ami Sarah (Webb) Isaacs, who has borne him one 
son named Byron E. Castor. 

Henry Russe, "Man lives not unto himself alone'' was said l)y one who was wise and 
good, and there is nothing in this world that presents a more inspiring or nobler spectacle 
of a mau, who, although immersed in business that requires much ardent labor and care, 
finds time to give to the succor of the needy and distressed, and upon whom the cries of the 
orphaned and the sorrows of the widowed are not lost. Such a man is the subject of this 
sketch, Henry Russe, wholesale dealer in seeds, grain, flower and feed, at Nos. 23 and 25 
North Tennessee Street, Indianapolis, and also a member of the school board of this city. 
Mr. Russe has felt the touch and the sting of poverty and the spirit of man's infirmities hav 
ing l)een upon him, it has quickened his sympathies and broatlened his chaiities so that he 
is a man who has done and is doing much good in this world. Mr. Russe was born at Osna- 
brueck, Germany, April 17, 1849, being the son of Herman and Angel (Schue-tte) Russe, 
both of whom died in their native country, German}'. The father carried on the business of 
a general merchant and was also a farmer, besides he held office under the Government for a 
number of years. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, namely: Louisa, liv- 
ing in Germany; Mary, living in Cincinnati; Lisetta, matron of the German Orphans' 
Home of Indiana, and William, liviqg in Germany, the others being dead. The subject of 
our sketch was reared in Germauv, where he received an education, to a certain extent, and 



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remained with his father in the store until 18')9, when he set sail for America from Bremen, 
and arrived in New York on the steamer "Herman;" went thence to Richmond. lud., where 
he was employed as laborer on the Panhandle road for some years. He held the position of 
Hreman for two years and was then made railroad car inspector, holding the position until 
the strike of 1874, when, because he refused to obey an order to take out an engine and run 
it (which meant his antagonizing his fellow workmen), his wages were cut, which led him to 
leave the employ of the Panhandle and go to the Big Four road, where he tilled the posi- 
tion of car inspector for sixteen years at the Union depot. Then, in 1889, he l)ought his 
present business from John Osterman and has carried it on most successfully ever since. 
Mr. Ru.sse was elected a member of the school board in June, 1892, and tills the office with 
great fidelity and usefulness. He has l)een president of the German Orphan Home for the 
past twelve years, was its secretary for five years and is now one of its trustees, manifesting 
a most lively and sincere interest in and sympathy for the unforlunate ones who have been 
deprived of their natural protectors. Mr. Russe has deep-seated and reverential religious 
convictions and is a member of the German Evangelical Zion Church, is a trustee in that 
body and has been its president. Our subject has many social and business interests, 
among which may be named his connection with the Odd Fellows, he having passed all the 
chairs of the subordinate lodge and the encampment; is a memlier and a trustee of the K. 
of H. ; is president of the Standard Building & Loan Association, a veiy nourishing and 
popular organization; is a trustee in the Turners' Association, in which he takes a very de- 
cided interest; is a member of the board of trade, and is president of the German Amer- 
ican Democratic Club. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Russe is a very busy man, for his busi- 
ness is a large and growing one, demanding a great deal of his time and care, and in every 
organization mentioned with which he is connected he is known as one of the most industri- 
ous and useful members of them, respectively. Besides the individual cases which he 
looks up, tlse many charities and public enterprises with which he is connected, and the 
every day call that is made upon him for advise and counsel, all these unite to make of him 
one of the l)U8iest and most useful men in the city. When Mr. Russe landed in this coun- 
try he had but 65 cents in all the world; but he had a big capital of pluck, nerve, 
industry and good common sense. He was not afraid of any kind of honest work, and had 
strong arms, a robust body and the best of health. Working hard by night he attended a 
commercial college one-half of each day, reserving the remaining one-half for sleep. Doubt- 
less as he worked through the long and silent hours of the night be I'eviewed in his mind 
what had been taught him during the day and thus indelibly impressed the lessons upon his 
memory. In this way the persevering and good man acquired his English education. 
After the storm, calm, after the battle, peace. Mr. Russe has toiled early and late, but his 
duties now, while many and great, are not compulsory, for he has by thrift and good manage- 
ment acquired a ver_y nice property and might retire altogether from business if he would. 
He has surrounded himself with the comforts and luxuries of life and has a most happy 
home, which is to him in very truth the dearest ]ilace upon earth. He was married in 1873 
to Miss Amelia Hebany, a native of this city and a most worthy woman, wife and mother. 
He and his wife are the parents of a most interesting family of four living children, namely: 
Harry. William, Eddie and Paul: one, Freddie, is dead. 

Alfred Bbewer. This well known and enterprising contractor is a member of the firm 
of A. Brewer & Son, and the emanations of his skill and knowledge of his calling may be 
seen in all parts of the city of Indianapolis, where his home has so long been. He was born 
in Southport. Marion County, Ind. , October 20, 1842, his parents being Abram and Cathar- 
ine (Smock) Brewer, both of whom were born in Mercer County, Ky. The father was a son 
of John A. Brewer, also a native of Kentucky, and with him moved to the then wilds of 
Marion County, Ind. in 1825 and located in Perry Township where they cleared up and put 
under cultivation a timber farm. Catharine Smock, the mother, was a daughter of Peter 
Smock, a Mercer County Keutuckian, who also became a resident of Marion County in 1825 
and located on a farm just south of Pleasant Run. Abram Brewer and his wife possessed 
decided relitfious tendencies and for many years were membeis of the Presbyterian Church, 
but during the latter part of their lives were connected with the Baptist Church, which they 
helped to organize in their neighborhood, and they gave their liberal assistance to the erec- 



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tioii of oup of tli« first cluiiclii'8 in their sectiou of the country. To them a family of seven 
(iliildien were •,'iv('ii, four sons and two (laugbters of whom are living at the present time. 
Al)ram ]?rewer ilieii in ISCiO at the age of forty-five years, having lieeu a tiller of the s(m1 all 
his life and a reasonalil}' succe.'^sful farmer. The grandfather died when the 8ul)jec't of this 
sketch was a small boy. Alfred Brewer was the third child born to his parents and in the 
district schools of his neighborhood he acquired a good practical education and on the home 
farm stout muscles and an independent and energetic spirit. In ISfjO he began learning the 
trade of a carpenter and after following this occupation for about six years in various por- 
tions of the county he came to Indianapolis and for two years thereafter was in the employ 
of various contractors, after which lie moved to Newton, Kan., where he, himself, engaged 
in contracting and continued four years. At the end of that time he returned to Indian- 
apolis and in IS77 lie became a contractor here, since which time he has erected some of the 
handsomest and most substantial residences in the city, several of them being among the 
most beautiful on Woodrutf Place. He thoroughly understands every detail of his work, is 
to be re'ied upon at all times, and his services are therefore in demand. In 1862 he was 
tinited in marriage with Miss Mary A. Anderson, a Kentuckian by birth, and their union 
has resulted in the l)irth of five children: Calvin L. who is Lis father's able assistant and 
partner in business, and Etta (Cumingor) who is a resident of Louisville being the only ones 
living. Ida (lied at the age of seventeen yeais, Carrie also died at that age and Maggie 
passed from life in infancy. Mr. Brewer is a member of the Contractors and Builders' Asso- 
ciation and is one of the most substantial citizens of the city. 

Geokoe ^V'. Vehnon, M. D., V. S. Recognized as a specialist of ability and success in 
the treatment of diseases of children and as a dermatologist, Dr. George W. Vernon, before 
devoting himself to these 8[)ecialties had attained an enviable re]mtatiou as a general 
medical practitioner, and is regarded by his professional brethren as a physician of wide 
information and the highest order of trained judgment. Dr. Vernon was Ijorn in 
Muskingum County, Ohio, Ajjril 20, 1857, a son of Noah and Mary (Morgan) Vernon, the 
former a native of Ohio and of Scotch-English descent, the latter a native of Virginia and of 
German parentage. The family of Vernon were among the |)ioiieers of Ohio, and Noah 
Vernon was a farmer of enterprise and success. After his death, which occurred January 1, 
1864, the old homestead in Ohio was sold and the family removed to Champaign County. 
111., where Dr. Vernon was reared and educated in the common schools, which he attended 
winters, being obliged to assist in carrying on the work on the farm during the spring, 
summer and fall; and, being the eldest of the cliildren, many of the resjionsibilifies of 
caring for the family rested upon him. At the age of seventeen he began teaching .school, 
and was thus employed with considerable success for about six 3 ears. In 1880 he l)eg8n to 
deal in drugs, in a small way. near his home, and later removed to Champaign. III., where hi' 
served as a prescription clerk in one of the leading drug stores. In the fall of 1S83 he took 
up his residence in Indianapolis, Ind., and began the study of medicine with Dr. Jose])h 
Eastman, and in due time became a student in tlie Central ('ollege of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, from which he was graduated in February, 1886, by competitive examination securing 
the position of interne to the Indianapolis City Dispensary, which he filled with credit for a 
year. During the autumn preceding his examination he was made assistant to the chair of 
physiology in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the fall of 1888 he 
became lecturer on physiology and assistant to the chair of diseases of children, in the 
same institution, and in the sjiriiig (jf 188!) he was made profes.sor of diseases of children 
and dermatology, and still occupies that chair. Immediately after his graduation he 
entered iipon general practice, which he continued with increasing success until July, 1S'.I'2, 
since when he lias limited his practice to diseases of children and dermatology, and in his 
chosen field his success has been most creditable and flattering. Dr. Vernon is a niemljer 
and has been for three years treasurer of the Marion County Medical Society and a member 
of the Indiana State Medical Society, of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and of the 
American Medical Association. He has been physician to the Indianapolis Orphans' Home 
since May, 1888, and consulting ])hysician on diseases of children ;it the city hospital and 
the city dispensary. In the s))ring of \>^'.Ki he had conferred upon him the degree of V. S. 
by the Indiana Veterinary College, and is professor of physiology and secretary of that 




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institution. Politically Dr. Vernon is a Republican, and he takes an intelligent and active 
interest in public affairs, municipal, county. State and national. He is a Mason and a K. of 
P. and is identified with other prominent secret and heneticial orders and associations. As a 
citizen he is public spirited and helpful to every measure and movement tending to the 
benefit of the people at large. 

JoHx GuEDELHOEFER. Astouishing has been the progress from the great lumbering 
coaches of George I., of England, to the artistic, graceful and light vehicles of to-day. In 
this age of elegance, refinement and polish, not only must artistic touch be upon the car- 
riage, the phpeton and the surrey, but the necessary strength must be concealed, as it were, 
in bars, braces, bolts and springs of light and almost airy proportions, the whole combining 
to form a beautiful effect. The enormous increase in the demand for carriages and wagons 
of all grades has rendered their manufacture a prominent industry in all parts of the United 
States. Indianapolis has long been regarded as a leading source of supplj' in this line, and 
one of the oldest, best-known and most reliable houses engaged in it is that of John Guedel- 
hoefer, who is a native of Germany, and has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1869. He 
was born December 26, 1832, to John and Anna (Gross) Guedelhoefer, who were also na- 
tives of Germany, in which country they resided all their lives, the father being engaged in 
mining. The subject of this sketch was about six months old when his mother died and 
after reaching a suitable age he was placed in the public schools which he attended until he 
was about twelve years of age, according to the law of that country. He was trained in the 
art of carriage making from the time he was about seventeen years of age and possesses an 
intimate knowledge of all the details of the business and the requirements of the public in 
the direction of trade. In 1869 he decided to come to this country, and upon bis arrival in 
Indianapolis' he had but 5 cents in money. He immediately set about securing employment 
and after working at his trade for three years he had saved enough money to engage in busi- 
ness for himself, founding his present concern on a very small scale in 1873, his shop on 
South Street being but twelve feet square. In pursuing this calling he sliowed the utmost 
diligence, and the superior excellence of his work soon attracted the attention of the trade, 
and his business developed at a very rapid rate. In 1886 he became the owner of a trian- 
gular piece of ground at the corner of ^Yest Georgia Street and Kentucky Avenue, and he at 
once proceeded to erect thereon the commodious buildings in which he is now doing busi- 
ness. These buildings consist of a blacksmith shop 5(1x60 feet, a wagon factory 20x80 
feet, and a paint and finish shop 40x100 feet in <limensions. His business is continually 
and rapidly on the increase and such proportions did it reach in the early part of 1893, that 
he was obliged to erect another building 60x100 feet. Steam power is used in his shops 
and constant employment is given to about twenty-fire men, all of whom are skilled in their 
departments. All the operations of the house are conducted under the personal supervision 
of .Mr. Gnedelhoefer: thus he secured such products as will withstand the most critical tests, 
both in regard to materials used in their construction and the workmanship employed. All 
the work is done by hand, and the vehicles turned out are unsurpas^sed by any in the mar- 
ket for strength, lightness, ease of draft and thorough liabilit)-. and in regard to their price 
Mr. Guedelhoefer defies competition. Repairing and general jobbing receive his prompt 
attention and as a consequence his establishment lias a deservedly large patronage. In his 
native land, in 1855, Mr. Guedelhoefer was united in marriage to Magdalina Schmidt, also 
of that country, and of the ten children born to them, only the following are living: Will- 
iam. Julius. August. Mary. Paulina, Otto and Ben, the last two mentioned having been born 
in Indianapolis. Mr. (juedelhoefer Is one of the substantial l)Usiiiess men of the city, is a 
prominent member of the Carriage Builders' Association and he has long been a member of 
the German Catholic Church. 

Georoe W. Spahr. The world was never presented but once with the spectacle of a 
great army composed of nearly 3.000,000 of men, who, after a war of unprecedented 
severity, were quietly mustered out and returned to the peaceful pursuits which had been 
interrupted by liattle and the great struggle for the preservation of the Union. Never before, 
as in this late war, was there such spontaneous and general rallying to the support of the 
Government, and never liefore was there witnessed so many spectacles of men who had 
known absolutely nothing of military affairs, developing into strategic and brilliant com- 



216 MEMOIRS OF IXDIAyAPOUS 

manders. and never before was there shown so manr instances of iadiridaal brsTerr and 
patient eudorance of the hardships and privations incident to and inseparable from war. Xo 
wonder that the Union soldiers perpetuate the meoiorv of those days that tried the seals of 
men. by maintaining or<^uizations composed exclnsively of those heroes. The subject of 
onr sketch was one of this grand army of brave men whose heroic deeds will never die bat 
will l)e perpetuated in song and history and be perpetuated in enduring bronze and stone. 
He is also the colonel commander of Encampment No. S" of that well known and popular 
organization, the Union Veteran Legion and past commander of George H. Thomas Post, 
G. A. R., in which are enrolled so many hundreds of thousands of names of the soldiers of 
1S61-1865. George W. Spahr is a well known, able and very popular member of the In- 
dianapolis bar. Mr. Spahr was bom near Reading. Penn.. March 21. 1S31*. l^eing the son of 
.Jacob and Maria tMilleri Spahr. the father a native of Switzerland and the mother of Lan- 
caster C'luuty. Penn. The father came to America when » lad of nine years of age with his 
parents and grew to manhood in Lancaster County. Pa., followiog. after attaining his 
njajority. the CDUstruction of public works, and became a very prominent contractor, having 
erected among other notable structures, a number of public buildings at Lancaster, the 
aqueduct at Reading, and the bridge across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg. Va.. at 
the head of tidewater. He was a money making man, but spent it freely, being possessed 
of a very generous nature and giving liberally. In politics he was a Democrat, and took a 
keen interest in the great contests in which the whole country engaged ever}" general elec- 
tion. The father of our subject was killed September 24, 1ST3. by a collision with a pas- 
senger train on the Peru i Indianapolis Railroad. This active and energetic man came to 
Indtauapolis in 18-15 and then settled at Millersville. six miles north of the city, where he 
carried on an extensive flour and saw mill and a distiller}' and where Le owned, from first to 
last. T'H* to S'** acres of land. He shipped his pr'>3ncts to Lawrenceburg by wagon, before 
there were any markets for them at Indianapolis. The mother of onr subject is living in the 
eighty-fourth year of her age. She bore her husl)and three children, two of whom are liv- 
ing: George W. and William H. : John M.. decea-«ed. served a short time in the late war, 
being discharged on the account of disabilities. Our subject was but six years of age when 
he came with his parents to Indianapolis, reaching here by the canal packet boat. He was 
educated in the common schools of the country, completing his course at the Northwestern 
Christian University, now Butler University, gradnatiog July 1. 1S*51. and thirteen days 
later. July 1-1. 1S61. he entered the army, thus literally stepping out of the sch"X>l into the 
arena of battle. Mr. Spahr enlisted in Company F. Third Indiana Cavalry, and served 
three years and three months as a private soldier and took part in every battle fonght by the 
Army of the Potomac during that time, including South Mountain. Antietam. Fredericks- 
burg. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and every engagement or skirmish in which his regi- 
ment t'X)k part, except one. that of Beverley Ford, at which lime Mr. Spahr was absent at 
Washiogton. He had a horse shot under him in Virginia in a cavalry engagement under 
Gen. Wilson. He took part in what was called the great Wilson raid, the latter part of 
June. 1S*>-1, when Gen. Wilson, with his division of cavalry, and Gen. Kantzes' brigade of 
cavalry went in to the rear of Gen. Lee's army and cut off his supplies and destrc>yed his 
railroads from Richmond to the Roanoke River. This was undoubtedly the hardest and 
iCreatest raid of the war. In this raid Gen. Wilson was hotl v pnrsuetl by the cavalry of Gen. 
Lee's army, and also by a large force of infantry, for fourteen days and nights. Mr. Spahr 
was mustered out in September, ]8*>4, at In«iianapolis, Ind., receiving an honorable dis- 
charge after thirty eight months of active, continuous service in the field. He came home 
very much impaired in health by reason of the excessive hard service which he had seen, and 
went to his old home on the farm where he spent three years trying to regain his health. 
after which he entered the law school at Indiaua[x>lis. and graduated therefrom in 1S69, 
when he bejran the practice of law in said city and has pursued it diligently ever since. 
Mr. Spahr has always taken an interest in military affairs. He was commissioned major 
and chief of cavalry in the State militia under Gov. Porter. The army organizations grow- 
ing out of the war, are very near and dear to him. He earnestly believes in caring for the 
needy comrades, and the widows and orphans of those who fell in defense of our country. 
In politics he is a Repablican. pronoanced and positive, believing firmly in the principles. 



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feacliings and patriotism of his party, and Las worked earnestly for the success of his party 
in numerous campaigas since the war. As a lawyer he has won a well deserved reputation, 
having had a number of very important cases, one of which began in 1858, three years 
Ijefore the war, and which had been pending twenty years before he went into the case, and 
which was appealed four times to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. He gives the 
cause of his clients close attention, and vigorous and determined efTort. Our subject was 
married in IS(jf) to Miss Lizzie V. Root, of Rush County. Ind., who has l)orne him two chil 
dren. Mar}' and Florence, both graduates of the Indianapolis High School. Mr. Spabr was 
commissioned by Gov. Grey, of Indiana, a member of the committee authorized l)y act of 
the General Assembly of Indiana, to mark the places on the battle-tield ot Gettys- 
burg, occupied by the several regiments from Indiana in that great battle and to erect 
suitable monuments on the places thus marked, commemorating the part taken by Indi- 
ana troops in that engagement. When the committee was called together Mr. Spahr was 
elected chairmau, and in his report to the Governor he designated Gettysburg as the 
turning point in the war, the battle marking the high tide of the slave holder's rebell- 
ion. Mr. Spahr l)elieves that the influence and presence of religious societies, checks 
and restrains the evil tendencies of the people, gives us better society, better laws, and 
better government, lifts the people up iu to a higher and better life, and to that end 
he has worked and contributed of his means. Thus he has lived and is living a life of 
usefulness, with the motto ever iu view that the purpose of the life of man is to be 
good, and to help one another. 

Lewis C. Ci.ine, of Indianapolis, Ind., was born near Cloverdale, Putnam County, that 
State, October It), 1851. He is the sixth sou of Nicholas Cline and is of German and 
English descent. His early life was divided between labor on a farm during the ''crop" 
seasons and the attendance of short terms of school in the winter. At the age of sixteen 
young Cline, by the consent of his mother and older brothers (his father Laving died three 
years previous), re.solved to leave the farm and begin the battle of life by a reliance upon his 
own resources. Ho soon found employment, and by careful planning and economy accumu- 
lated means to continue his education and eventually to take a course of study in Asbury 
(now DePauw) University, after which he was engaged for two years in teaching public 
schools. In 1871) he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. E. B. 
Evans, of Greencastle. Ind. On completing the required period of study he attended the 
Jefferson Medical College,Philadelphia,Ponu., from whence he received his medical degree in 
1879. He then returned to his native county and began the practice of medicine at Putnam- 
ville, where he at once acquired the respect and patronage of the best people of that vicinity 
and in November of the same year was married to Joanna C. Stevenson, a daughter of the 
late Dr. A. C. Stevenson, of Greencastle, one of Indiana's greatest pioneer physicians and 
surgeons. In the spring of 1880 Dr. Cline entered into a partnershiji with Dr. R. F. 
Stone, at Bainbridge, a flourishing town in the northern part of his county. This pleasant 
association continued until the following autumn, when, after an extensive acquaintance and 
a thorough intrcjduction into the practice of the community, assisted by the good will and 
courtesy of Dr. Stone, this partnershi]> was by mutual consent dissolved and the latter phy- 
sician removed to Indianapolis. After six years of active professional work at Bainbridge 
the subject of this sketch also removed to the city of his present residence, where he con 
tinned in general practice until he had by a course of study fitted himself for that line of 
work which he intended to adopt as his future specialty. During the winter and s()ring of 
1887-88 he attended the postgraduate school and hospitals of New York, where he took a 
course of study with special reference to diseases of the throat, nose and ear. He supple- 
mented his studies during the following year by taking a course in the Mackenzie Throat 
Hospital, London, and also attended the cliniipies in the hospitals of Vienna. Since his 
return from Europe to Indianapolis he has limited his practice to the medical and surgical 
treatment of diseases of the throat, nose and ear, in which branch of practice he is recog- 
nized as one of the most popular and successful practitioners of Indiana. In 1889 he was 
appointed to deliver a course of lectures on his specialty in the Medical College of Indiana, 
and in 1890 he was elected professor of laryngology and rhinology in the same institution, 
which chair he still holds, having tilled the position with credit to himself and the school. 



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Dr. (Uine is a member of the staff of the Indiauapolis City Hospital and City Dispensary 
anil has performed the work appertaiaiiig to rhinology and laryngology in the latter institu- 
tion for tlie last three years. He is also a meniiier of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, the 
Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley 
Medical Society, the American Rhiuolugical Association and the American Medical Associa- 
tion. He has contributed papers, on various occasions, to all these societies, and has read 
papers before many of the county societies throughout the State. 

OscAH B. HoRi> was born in Mason County. Ky.. August 31, 18'.i9. and died at Indian- 
a[H)lis, Ind., Jautiary 15, 188S. He was the eldest sou of Hon. Francis T. Hord, for many 
years judge of the Circuit Court of that county. He began the study of law at an early 
age in his father's olHi'e, and at the age of twenty years he came to Indiana and formed a 
|)artnershi|) with James (iavin, at Greensburg. In 1S52, being then only twenty three 
y(iars of age, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the circuit in which he lived, ami 
discharged the duties of that office with zeal and efficiency. On November 1, ISoU, he 
married Mary J. Perkins, of Indianapolis, the daughter of the late Samuel E. Perkins, for 
many years judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana. The fruits of this marriage were five 
children: Samuel E , Emma, Henry E., Francis T., and Kicketts, of whom only Henry E. 
and Francis T. survive. He was the Democratic candidate for attorney-general in 1S60, 
and shaied the defeat of the ticket on wliich he was placed. In 18(32 he was again a can 
didate for the same office, on the Democratic ticket and was elected. Shortly after his 
election he removed to Indianapolis, and at the close of his official term he entered into 
partnership with the late Thomas A. Hendricks. Into this tirm Samuel E. Perkins was 
received, and remained in it for a brief period. It was afterward enlarged by the admis- 
sion of Abram W. Hendricks and Conrad Baker. Mr. Hord was not only the partner of 
these men, but he was their trusted personal friend and ally. Their firm was more than an 
ordinary business arrangement, it was a brotherhood of wise and good men, and the rela- 
tions of its members to one another were close and affectionate. The bar of Indiana was 
greatly indebted to Mr. Hord for the compilation of the statutes, which was only sui)erseded 
by the late revision of them under the authority of the Legislature, and is yet a monu 
merit to his careful industry. For more than a quarter of a century Oscar B. Hord was 
known to the bench and liar of Indiana. He was eminent among his brethren at the bar 
for the accuracy and amplitude of his professional knowledge, and for his untiring indus- 
try in the practice of the law. Early in liis career he mastered the statutes of this State, 
and it may be said he held them in his memory. He was acquainted witii the history of 
almost every legislative act. No one was so entirely conversant with the course of judicial 
decisions from tlie days of Blackford and Dewey to the time of his death. He was recog- 
nized by his lirethren throughout the State as the most eminent authority on State juris- 
prudence. Judges advised with him, ami lawyers from every ipiarter sought aid of his 
profound ac(piirements. Of the many illustrious names enrolled upon the record of the 
Supreme Court of Indiana, none will be fonnd recurring so often or leading in so great a 
number of important cases as his own. His profound knowledge and remarkable acquire 
ments as to the rights of men were not limited to the State and nation; he w-as not less 
familiar with the laws of other States and England. His capacity and power of research 
were uneipialed. Hardly any man of hw time had a wider or more accurate knowledge of 
the laws of English speaking peoples. His investigation of cases was ])atient and thorough, 
and its results were exact. He valued only those opinions of law or facts that are based 
u|>ou intelligent and painstaking inquiry, and he professed none other for himself. He 
made tin* ctiuse of his clients his own, and deemed no labor too arduous or severe which 
was necessary to jirotect their rights. He loved his friends and freely gave himself for 
them. The ties which bound him to them were only strengthened by their misfortunes, 
for he was doubly a friend in need. He was grieved even more by their afflictions than 
by his own, and he had many sorrows. Under every stress of his personal fortunes he 
manifested to the world a serene fortitude, which was ecpially remote from passion or stoic- 
ism and was su|)Hrior to either. His demeanor was mailced by a geniality which never 
succinnbeil to private grief or disappointment, and always imparted some degree of itself 
to every one witli whom he came in contact. He had a wide acquaintance with general 



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literatnre, and souglit and fouud an agreeable respite from bis laliors in the courts and at 
his office in the coiupanionship of books. His literaiy culture and his powers of conver- 
sation made an Hcquaiut;ince with him a liberal education. He was a man of scrupnlous 
integrity, aud his integrity was not of that sort which is the mere creature of favorable 
circumstances, but was of that indomitable kind which withstands the shock and strain of 
adversity. At the meeting of tiie Bar Association, called to take action on his death, 
ex-President Benjamin Harrison, among other things, said of Mr. Hord: "As a lawyer, he 
was not only his client's counsellor but his faithful friend as well. He laid bare all the 
facts in the case. He did more work than almost any other lawyer at the bar, of his stand- 
ing. I think his desk will reveal more memorandums of more citations than that of any 
other lawyer in the State. Mr. Hord tried his cases lalioriously, and I cannot conceive how 
a lawyer can try a case well otherwise. The fact that with the death of Mr. Hord one of 
the greatest law firms that ever existed here is extinct, is certainly a sad one. I knew and 
loved O.scar B. Hord. He was always a courteous adversary and a true friend." To his 
boys he was a loved father and comrade. 

George W. S],o.\n, Phaii. D. , M. D. One of Indianapolis" most prominent druggists is 
Dr. George \V. Sloan, who was born at Harrisburg, Pa., June 28, 1835, a son of John and 
Mary (White) Sloan. His father was a native of New York city, his mother of Philadelphia. 
His paternal ancestors were of that stanch Pennsylvanian stock which has stamped the 
impress of its thrift and enterprise upon nearly all sections of our country, and his maternal 
relatives were Quakers, better known around Philadelphia as memliers of the Society of 
Friends. His father, who was a cabinet maker, moved to Indianapolis in the spring of 1837, 
and became an active and well-known business man of the city where he resided tuitil his 
death in 1873. Dr. Sloan was reared in Indianapolis from the time he was two years old, 
and here obtained his primary education in the public schools. At the early age of thirteen 
years he found employment in a drug store, and there remained until 1856, when be entered 
the Philadel|)bia College of Pharmacy, and there took the course of that institution. The 
panic of ]sr)7 made it impossible for him to continue bis studies, and be returned to Indian- 
apolis and resumed work as a drug clerk. In 1862 he became a member of the drug tirra 
of Browning & Sloan, and so contiinied until 1887, since when be has conducted a drug 
business of which be has been the sole proprietor. Meantime (May 16, 1864) he enlisted in 
Company B, Thirty secoiul Regiment Indiana Infantry, and was made first lieutenant. His 
regiment saw four months' service doing guard duty between Louisville, Ky., and Chatta- 
nooga. Tenn., keeping railway communication open during Sherman's famous " March to 
the Sea," As a druggist, Dr. Sloan ranks with the best pharmacists in the city or State, 
carrying a stock averaging from $12,O0tl to •|15,<100 in value, and doing an extensive and 
profitable trade. He is one of the oldest active members of the American Pharmaceutical 
Society, bis connection with that l)ody dating from 18r)7, and was its ]iresident in 1870-80. 
He was one of the charter members and organizers of the Indiana State Pharmaceutical Society 
and has served on seveial of its most imjiortant committees. The degree of doctor of pharmacy 
was conferred ujion Dr. Sloan by Purdue University, and the degree of doctor of medicine 
by the Medical College of Indiana, and he is an honorary member of the Marion County 
Medical Society, and of the Indiana State Medical Society. In Masonry Dr. Sloan has 
been specially prominent, having been tieasurer of bis lodge of Free and Accepted Masons 
for more than twenty years. He is a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and alfo a 
Knight Templar of the York Rite, and is a member of the Chosen Friends. Dr. Sloan has 
been a member of the board of trade since its organization, and has, during all the time 
that has since elapsed, been a member of the board of governors, and is at present vice presi- 
dent. He is also ])rominently identified with the Commercial Club, and is a member of 
George H. Thomas post, G. A. R., and Indiana Commandery, L. L. In 1866 Dr. Sloan 
married Miss Caroline, daughter of Hiram and Mary A. (Blair) Bacon, her parents 
being natives of Massachusetts, and among the early settlers of Marion County, Ind. Three 
children have been born to their union, named: George B. . Mary A. and Frank T. The 
first named, who is a graduate of ])barmacy from Purdue College, his father's alma mater 
in the same science, has been for some years connected with his father's business. Dr. aud 
Mrs. Sloan are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church anel the former has been a mem- 



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ber of its vestry for more tlian a score of years?. The Doctor is a Republican in liis polit- 
ical affiliations, but has always been too busy with, and too entirely devoted to his business, 
to take any prominent or more than ordinary active part in politics. 

John B. Long, M. D. One of the best known physicians and professors of medicine 
and surgery in Indianajxilis is Dr. John B. Long, who was born near Clernjont, Marion 
County, Ind., August 20, IS-'^. His fathei', William P. Long, is a native of Hamilton 
County, Ohio, and is a prominent farmer of Pike Township. Dr. Long was reared on the 
home farm and received his primary education in the common schools. Later he was a 
student fer two years at the Northwestern Chiistian University (now Bntler University) for 
a year at the Normal School at Valparaiso, and for a year (1878) at the Butler University. 
In the meantime he had read considerably upon medical subjects and having fully deter- 
mined to adopt the profession of physician and surgeon, he, in 1878, took up the study of 
those sciences systematically, and entering the College of Physicians and Surgeons at 
Indianapolis in 1880, he graduated therefrom with the degree of M. D in 1882. He lost 
no time in begiiming the practice of his profession and located in Indianapolis, where he 
has since continued with increasing success. He was made assistant demonstrator of 
iinatomy, at the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1S82, and in 18S5 was 
called to the chair of demonstrator of anatomy, which office he held until the fall of 18'.I3, 
also professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy. He is a member of the Marion 
County Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society. He was a member 
of the board of health of the city of Indianapolis for two years (1887-88) and was for 
six years a member of the staff of the city disjiensary. He has acted as medical examiner 
for lodges of K. of P. and Uniformed Rank, Chosen Friends, and Golden Chain, etc., 
of which he is a member. August 20, 187U, Dr. Long married Margaret L. Hunt, a 
native of Rush County and a daughter of A. W. and Margaret (Stephens) Hunt, natives 
of Ohio, who were among the early settlers of Rush County. Dr. and Mrs. Long are 
the parents of children named in the order of their birth: Lulu E., William A., Frank 
E. and Mabel C. The family are members of and attendants upon the services of the 
Central Christian Church. In politics the Doctor is an active and influential Republican, 
but he seeks no political preferment and is not a politician for gain or for personal 
ambition. 

Peter Boli.er is a prominent ]iainter and contractor who has been estaljlished in busi 
ness in Indianapolis fur the past twenty-five years. In his line of work he possesses no 
ordinary ability an<l during his long residence here he has attained a popularity not sur- 
passed by any of his craft and a reputation which might well be envied by those less fortu 
nafe than himself. His personal supervision is given all work done by his employes and 
everything is guaianteed to be satisfactory. He owes his nativity to that country which has 
produced some t)f the l)est citizens of which this country can boast — Germany — his birth 
occurring in Hessen Darmstadt in 1838, his father being John Boiler, who was a reasonably 
successful tiller of the soil and died in the old country when the subject of this sketch was a 
child. Peter was given the advantages of the common schools of his country up to the 
re(|uired age. but at the age of sixteen years, with characteristic energy and enterj)rise, he 
crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and for some time thereafter resided in the 
city of New York where he learned the trade of a painter with John Hagner. Twenty eight 
years ago he commenced working at his trade for John B. Osgood, of Indianapolis, and was 
later with Frank Ferfig, of the same city, and at a still later period became a contracting 
|)ainter on his own responsibility, and has thus continued up to the present time with the 
best success. Since coming to the United States a penniless l)oy and by hard work, business 
ability, and a wise and jirudeut economy, he has accumulated a comfortable competence and 
has made a name for himself in his line of work. He gives alnnist constant employment to 
ton or twelve men and has done the work on the female prison, the l)oai(l of trade building, 
and many other notable pieces of work, of which he has every reason to be proud. He is a 
meraV>er of the Builders" Exchange, the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. He was married in the 
State of New York to Miss Mary Friedrich, a native of Germany, and to their union three 
sons and five daughters were given. He and his wife are liberal patrons of the Zion Evan- 
gelical Cliureh and he is also interested in the prosperity of the German Orphan Asylum 



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and in all charilable and laiulable euterpiises, whether educatioual, social or religious. He 
is a useful citizen and bis social and genial disjiosition predisposes every one in his favor. 
E. B. Martindale is a native of Indiana. He was liorn in Wayne County, August 22, 
1828. His father. Elder Elijah, was a native of South Carolina, and moved to Wayne County 
in 1809. His mother was Elizabeth Boyd, a daughter of Samuel Boyd, a revolutionary 
soldier, who was wounded, losing his left eye in the battle of Lexington. He was a n;;tive 
of Virginia and moved to Kentucky, and Elizabeth Boyd was born in Mat-on County, Ky. 
In 1832 Elder Elijah moved from Martiudale's Creek and the Walnut level to a farm on Flat 
Eock, four miles east, of Newcastle in Henry County, on which farm Judge Martindale lived 
with his parents until he was sixteen, learning the details of a calling which received the 
attention of many of the mont eminent jirofessional men of the country in their youthful 
days. He was then apprenticed to learn the saddlery business, but he fortunately was permit- 
ted to attend school during the winter months, for he worked at his trade at night and on 
Saturdays, and in this way at the age of twenty he hadoljtained agood English education and 
was also a good mechanic. He then began the study of law, and in ]8r)0, on examination, 
■was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court and began practicing his profession in the 
county of his adoption. During the twelve years that he resided in Henry County he held 
the olBees of district attorney and prosecuting attorney for the counties of Henry, Randolph, 
Delaware and Wayne; and he was also appointed common pleas judge of the district composed 
of the counties of Rush. Henry, Decatur and Madison. In 1862 he took up his residence in 
the city of Indianajiolis and at once entered actively upon the practice of his profession, 
since which time he has taken an active part in nearly all the enterprises calculated to redound 
to the city's interests. Not only is Judge Martindale possessed of sound judgment and good 
practical common sense, reasons from cause and effect, but he is one of the best read mem- 
bers of the bar and by close application and loyalty to his client's interests has won his way 
to the front rank of his calling. He is an excellent reader of human nature, a good judge of 
men and motives, and no man was better litted to wear the judicial ermine than was he. He 
has been a very public-spirited citizen of Indianapolis, has added largely to its growth and 
prosperity, and has been ready, although his life has ever been a busy one, to respond to the 
calls made upon him in the cause of humanity. He purchased the Roberts Chapel at the 
northeast corner of Market and Pennsylvania Streets and converted it into a tine business 
block, also the lot east of it on which stood the first brick house ever erected in the city. 
This house he renjoved and in its place put up an elegant block of business houses, and in 
numerous other ways has added greatly to the city's prosperity. He has a palatial residence 
on North Meridian Street, in which he and his family reside, and where a refined yet gener- 
ous hospitality is extended to all who enter its portals. There are many private enterprises 
in which he has been engaged, which have remained unknown to the public, and the citizens 
of Indianaj)olis have every reasen to be proud to number him among their numl)er. He was 
for a time the proprietor and publisher of the Indianapolis Journal, the leading Republican 
paper of the State, but it has been in the hands of others for a number of years past. Judge 
Martindale's father was one of the pioneer Christian ministers of Indiana, and in that church 
the Judge was brought up, but since he attained manhood he has been connected with the 
Presbyterian Church, is a member of the First Church of that denomination in the city. 

John A. Lajibert, M. D. Among the popuhir, successful and rising young physicians 
and surgeons of Indianapolis Dr. John A. Lambert is one of the most prominent. Born at 
Rockville, Parke County, Ind., March 4, 1800, he is a son of James R. and Minerva (Green) 
Lambert. He remained in his native town until he was eleven years old and their received 
his early schooling. In 1871 the family removed to Indianapolis, where his father entered 
the drug trade, and there he was a student in the public schools and graduated from the 
high school in 1875. During the intervals in his school life he spent his time in his father's 
drug store learning pharmacy and gaining a practical knowledge of the drug business, and 
after leaving school he continued in his father's employ and as his father's partner until 
1IS86. Meantime (in 1880) he had entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, gradu 
ating from that institution in 1882. In 188t) he severed his business partnership with hi^s 
father and opene<l an independent drug store, which he managed with considerable success 
until 1889, when he disposed of it in order to complete his studies in medicine and surgery, 



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which, iu his spare time, be had carried forward to such a stage that he was ready to take 
lectures. Entering the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, he was graduated there- 
from in the class of 1891, with the degree of M. D.. and immediately entered upon the prac- 
tice of his profession in the northern part of the city. His success has been most substan- 
tial tinanciall}' and most flattering professionally, and he has attracted a laige. influential 
and constantly-increasing patronage. Indeed, he at once took a position in the medical pro- 
fession of Indiauajiolis that of itself demonstrated the degree of faith reposed in him by his 
older professional brethren. In the very year of his graduation from the Central College 
of Physicians and Surgeons he was elected to the lectureship on pharmacy, a position in the 
faculty of that institution which he still holds, and he has also Ijeen assistant demonstrator 
of anatomy in that college. He is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 
of the Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Society, and of the 
American Medical Association. When the Indiana State Pharmaceutical Association came 
into existence, in 1882, Dr. Lambert was one of its organizers and charter members. He 
has always taken an active and helpful interest in each of these several societies and is 
esteemed as a prominent and useful member by his associates in them. Great as are the 
profitable demands upon the Doctor's time he has never yet refused his professional services 
to the deserving poor who have needed them and yet been unable to pay for them, and the 
instances when he has thus donated the benefits of his knowledge and skill in behalf of suf- 
fering humanity have been so numerous as to give him a warm place in the hearts of many 
grateful people. Dr. Lambert was married Octolier 17, 1883, to Miss Sarah E. Brundage, 
a native of New York and daughter of Reul)en N. and Ann (Sullivan) Brundage, and they 
have one child, a son, named Frank B. , who was born September 0, 1884. In politics the 
Doctor is a stanch Republican. 

Charles L. Wollenweber. The city of Indianajwlis is peculiarly fortunate in her 
builders and contractors who are among her most prosperous, energetic and enterprising 
citizens. A gentleman successfully engaged iu this line of work since 1871 is Charles L. 
Wollenweber, who is a product of the city of Cincinnati, where he was born May 7, 1848, a 
son of William Wollenweber, who was born in Germany and there learned and followed the 
calling of a carjienter and cabinet maker. He came to the United States with his father 
when a young man of eighteen years, but after remaining here a very short time they returned 
to their native land. William, however, did not remain there long but returned to this country 
and up to 1S41( resided in Cincinnati, at which time he moved to Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, 
where he was called from life April I'J, 1893, at the age of sixty-eight years two months and 
t)venty five days. He was a .successful man of affairs, and at the time of his death was in 
good circumstances financially. He was a Republican politically, and during the great 
Civil War of this country served the Government whose flag protected him, in the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, and was a faithful and fearless soldier. Charles L. 
Wollenweber was educated in the public schools of Hamilton, and may be said to have 
grown up in liis father's shoj), of whom he learned his trade. August 19, 1863, he joined 
Company D, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery and remained in the service until September 1, 
ISdy, when he received his discharge at Camp Cliase, Ohio, having tieen nuistered out at 
Nashville, Term. At the close of the war he began working at his trade with his father, con- 
tinuing until 1807, when he began doing for himself. He came to Indianapolis in 1871, 
and three years later formed a partnership with Joseph Hoy, and the firm of Hoy & Wollen- 
weber was in existence for about nine years, during which time they tilled some large con 
tracts and made a name for themselves as reliable and trustworthy contractors and builders. 
After continuing business by himself for a time, he formed a partnership with George W. 
McClure, with wiiom he remained associated for three years. Since that time he has con- 
ducted his business alone and has erected some very tine buildings which are greatly 
to his credit. He erected the school-house on Twelth and Illinois Streets and the residence of 
Thomas H. Spann, one for Evan Lilly, the Marlow block and numerous other business 
blocks, residences, etc. The political questions of the day have always had great interest 
for him and the Democratic party has always received his support, but he has never been an 
aspirant for office. He is a member of the German-American Democratic Club, the Con- 
tractors' Association, and the secret organization, the K. of P., and has held official posi 



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tion in Capital Cit_v Lodgi', No. U7. He has beeu married siuce JN81 to Miss Miuuie 
Gratnse, a native of Germany. 

James M. Watts. Physicians of eminence testify that the existence of a well conducted 
di'iig shop is as necessary in the medical world as the advice and prescriptions of doctors. 
In fact it wonld be difficult to name a branch of l)nsine8s more important to the welfare of 
the community tlian that devoted to the sale and importation of drugs and chemicals, or one 
demanding more ability and scientitic knowledge on the part of tho.se engaged. A promi- 
nent druggist of Broad Hijiple, Ind., is James M. Watts, who has been engaged in that 
lnisii;ess in this tliriving town for the past six years, and has won an enviable reputation as 
a reliable and trustworthy business man. He was born September 9, 1847, in Marion 
County, Ind., and is a son of Aaron and Frances (Bunnell) Watts, natives of Ohio, the 
former l)oru March 26. 18(19, and the latter September 10, 1S15. Both parents were early 
settlers of the Hoosier State, coming here al)out 182H, and in Marion County they celebrated 
their nuptials in 18:32. The lather is now deceased, his death occurring April 20, 188'"), but 
the mother, who is well atlvanced in years, still lives and finds a comfortable home with her 
children. To this estimaltle couple were liorn ten children, as follows: Elias, born Mav 3(), 
18H3, married Mary Irwin and resides in Indianapolis; Elizabeth, born in 183'"), married 
Oakley Pursellnow deceased) and resides in Hamilton County, Ind.; Eliza A., born in 
1836, married William M. Lanham and is living in Carmel, Ind.; Ezra, born December 7, 
1838, married Amelia Heaton and makes his home in Madison County, Ind.; John E. , born 
December 6, 1840. married Mary A. Heaton and lives in Indianapolis; Martha, born in 
1843 and died in infancy; James M., our subject; Frances married John H. Thoujpsou and 
died in July, 1887, when thirty-eight years of age: Aaron J., born July 15, 1852, died when 
nine years of age, and Cyrus, ))3rn August 20, 1854, married Nancy Morris and is now 
living on the home farm in this county. The old home farm was purchased by the father, 
Aaron Watts, in 184(), and is still held by the Watts family. The early life of our subject 
was ]iassed in his native county and his scholastic training was received in the common 
schools. On September 7, 1867, he was married to Miss Lucinda Heaton, daughter of Ross 
and Hannah Heaton now living in Marion County, who died April 9, 1871, leaving three 
children, two of whom are still living: Edgar E., aged twenty live years, resides in Chicago, 
is postal clerk on the Monon route, and is married to Miss Catherine L. Wheatsell, daughter of 
Jacob Wheatsell, of Marion County, and Aaron W., who is now twenty-two years of age, is 
single and resides in the State of Washington, engaged in teaching school, dealing in real 
estate and studying law. The other child, a twin to Aaron, died in infancy. James M. 
Watts was married again, September 17, 1873, to Miss Isabelle Ferguson, a daughter of 
Thomas and Sarah Ferguson, who were natives of Kentucky. To this union live children 
were born, two sons and a daughter living: Thomas A., born in November, 1874, and died 
Octoljer, 1880; Frank E., born July 5, 1876, is at home attending high school; the third 
died at birth; Luja, born December 27, 1880, is at home attending school, and James A., 
born November 28, 1884, is al.so at home attending school. Since 1887 James M. Watts 
has been engaged in the drug business in Broad Ripple, and during that tinie he has met 
with the best of success. In 1888 he was elected trustee of Washington Township and 
served two years. He has the entire confidence and esteem of the community and is a 
popular member of society. During the Rebellion he enlisted in the Fourth Indiana 
Battery, October, 1864, and served until the close of the war, participating in the light at 
Nashville. Two of his brothers, Ezra and John E., were in Company F, Tenth Indiana 
Infantry, enlisting in 1861, and the former served three years. The latter was shot through 
the right lung in the battle of Chickamauga and was discharged for disability. This wound" 
still troul)les him and has to be dressed every day. Jlr. Watts is a [lublic-spirited citizen 
and gives his hearty support to all laudable enterprises. 

Rev. Luke G. Bcitterfielp, for many years a popular minister in the Chistian Church, 
is a native of the Empire State, born August 30, 1817, and the sou of Rev. John and 
Johanna (Atwood) Buttertield, who were married in the Green Mountain regions of Vermont 
-about 1803. The parents made their home in that State until 1812 and then moved to the 
State of New York where our subject was born. John Butterfield was one of the soldiers of 
the War of 1812 and from him his sous inherited the patriotism and self-reliance which have 



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ever characteri/ed them. Eleven fbiklren were born to this worthy couple, eight sons and 
three daughters, nine of whom, seven sons and two (laughters, reached mature years. These 
children were: Valorns. horn in 1805, is now living in Brooklyn, Ind., married Clarissa 
Badgely and hy her had fourteen children; Meranieo, born ISOT. married Louisa Badgely 
and by her had fourteen children, and is now deceased; John H., born ISOS), married Frances 
Badgely, became the father of ten children and is now deceased; Silvia, born in IS]], died 
in infancy; William Sanders, born in 1812, grew to mature years but was never married, 
was a miller by trade and died from the effects of a fall in 1838: George Sljinner, born in 
lSi4. died iu infancy; Freelove, born in 181;"), now resides in Johnson County. Ind., and is 
the wife of James A. McAllister, by whom she has had a large family; Luke (J., our sub- 
ject, and Seymour Atwood. born ISlit, was a well known jihysieiau of In<liana|)olis for many 
years, died about 18U1. was a man of more than ordinary aliility and was recognized as one 
of the most successful jihysiciaus of his county, and his son, also a physician, resides in 
Indianapolis; John Butterlield. the father of these children, left New York and came to 
Indiana in ISl'J and in this State two more children were born, Oliver H. P. and Johanna. 
The former was born about 1832 and was drowned while returning from a visit to his 
intended wife, and Johanna, born in 1834. reached mature years and married Thomas 
Breedlove and made her home in Indianapolis until her death. The father of the above 
mentioned children was a popular and prominent niini.ster in the Christian Church and was 
a man who had many warm friends. His son, our subject, came to the Hoosier State with 
his patents in ISIK. and here received his scholastic training. On June 13. ]83tt. he was 
married to Miss Pennelope A. Conduitt. daughter of Willis Conduitt, his parents having 
been married in Kentucky and moved from there to Indiana at an early date. No children 
were born to Mr. Buttertield's marriage and his wife died at Mooresville, Ind., in 1855. On 
May It), 1855, Mr. Buttertield whs married to Miss Elizabeth A. Speers, whose parents were 
Ohio people. To this union were born two children, Amos .\twood and Mary L. The for- 
mer was born February 24, 1856, and is now living in this county, married Julia Johnson 
by whom he had four children, only one of whom, Lelia, is now living. Amos selected his 
second wife in the person of Miss Mattie McLaughlin; they were married in February, 1888, 
and three children have blessed this union: Lourain, Albert O. and Pan]. Mr. Buttertield's 
secoml chilli. Mary L.. born in Ohio in 1S57. is now living iu Indianajiolis. was married to 
Kufus Barr by whom she had one child, Walter Barr. now a young man. and is now a 
widow. Our subject's second wife died in Marion County. Ind.. and on May 10, 1871. he 
was married to Miss Phoebe J. Hatlield, daughter of John and Phoebe (Godfrey ) Haffield 
who were originally from the Buckeye State. By his third marriage Mr. Butlertield became 
the father of one child. Birdie, whose birth occurred ]\[ay It). 1872, and is now the wife of 
Dr. J. W. Bates, of Broad Ripple, Ind.. to whom she was married April 22. IS'JI). Dr. 
Bates is the sou of Ozro and Mary (Hartman) I?ates. and the youngest of several chihlren. as 
follows: Nathan S., Smith L., David. \\'illiam M. and Susanna Ivatherine. Of these chil 
dren, Smith L. is a very prominent physician and is now practicing in ^lissouri. Dr. J. W. 
Bates has almost the entire practice of tlie north part of .Marion County and is a very suc- 
cessful practitioner. Dr. 15ates and wife have two children, Modessa Lenore, born March 
28, 18'J1, and Geneva, boru July 13, 18W3. In 1848 the subject of this sketch became a 
minister of the Christian Church and continued to minister to the spiritual wants of his fel- 
low man until old age compelled him to retire. He has been a church member since twenty 
one years of age. 

CoxsTANTisE R. ScH.\EPER, M. D. One of the young, well read and progressive physicians 
•and surgeons of Indianajiolis is Dr. Constantine K. Schaefer. who was born in Worms on tlie- 
Hhine, Germany, November Vt. 18l)9, a son of Constantine and Anna (Thomas) Schaefer. 
His father was an editor of iutluence in Germany for many years and on coming to .\merica. 
in 1881, connected himself with the (lerman press of the United States and is at present an 
attache of the Gfrman Telegraph of Indianapolis. Dr. Schaefer was reared in Germany 
and received his primary education in the public schools. Later he spent four years in the 
preparatory school and in 1879 he entered the gymnasium where he took a thorough course 
in classical lore and continued during a jieriod of three and a half vears, after completing 
which he came to America in October, 1S83, and, locating in Indianapolis, he was a student 



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in the liigb school uutil M;iy, 1S84, when he secured employment in a drug store where he 
remained until September, 1891, meantime acquiring a thorough knowledge of pharmacy, 
and entering upon the study of medicine imder the direction of Dr. H. S. Cunningham. 
He became a student in tlue Medical College of Indiana, from which institution he was 
graduated in March, 1890. In Maj' following he represented the Marion County Medical 
Society as delegate to the American Medical Association at Nashville, Tenn., and in so 
doing became a meiul)er of the latter body. In September, 1891, he went to New York to 
take a post-graduate course in the medical department of Columbia College, which he com- 
pleted in June, 1892, graduating with honor. In the following October, he entered upon 
the practice of his profession in Indianapolis and at once met with most gratifying success, 
which has constantly increased until at this time he ranks among the leading young German 
physicians of the cit}'. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana 
State Medical Society and, as has been seeii, of the American Medical Association. He is a 
member of the order of K. & L. of H. and medical examiner for the lodge with which 
he is identified. The Doctor is a self-made man and has made his way to his present 
high position in his profession by his own individual effort, paying the expenses of his 
medical education and those incident to his beginning in practice out of money he earned 
as a druggist's clerk. Everything that he has done has l)een done thoroughly with an eye 
single to doing it as well as possible, as was evidenced by his standing in the post graduate 
class at New York, out of the entire twenty-one members of which only six, including Dr. 
Schaefer, had conferred upon them the degree of M. D. In politics the Doctor is independ 
ent, ever holding himself free to vote for any men or measures promising, in his opinion, to 
benefit his fellow citizens in the broade.st and truest sense, witiiout regard to party affiliations 
and with very little regard to political prominence. He was appointed assistant demonstra- 
tor of anatomy of the Medical College of Indiana in June, 1893. 

Christian Dunmeyek is one of those strictly honorable and upright German citizens 
for which Indiana, and especially Marion County, has become well known, and possesses all 
the characteristics for which those of his nativity have become well known — unbounded 
energy, sterling honesty and much public spirit. He is one of the most prominent farmers 
of this section and there is no one who more fidly illustrates in his career the above men- 
tioned characteristics than does he. Mr. Dunmeyer was born in Germany August 21, 1831, 
and there attained his growth, attending school from the age of six to fourteen. After leav- 
ing school he herded sheep until 1851, when he decided that he could better his condition, 
financially and otherwise, by making his home in the "land of the free." He sailed from 
Bremen with his married sister, Louisa, and her husband, and with them landed in New 
York city four weeks and two days after sailing. From there they went to Buffalo and 
thence to Sandusky, Ohio, thence to Cincinnati, from there to Madison. Ind., and then to 
Indianapolis. In the latter city young Dunmeyer went to work for Austin Morris and later 
worked in a grist mill for (len. T. A. Morris' father for about a year. After this lie drove a 
dray for his brother, Freii Dunmeyer, for six months, and then began driving it for hiiuself, 
continuing this for tvpo years. Later he entered F. P. Rush's feed store, was thus employed 
for two years, and then for three years was engaged in street contracting in Indianapolis. 
After this he worked in Phillips' grist mill for nine months and there lost his right arm in the 
machinerj'. On recovering, a year later, the Civil War broke out and he took a contract to 
furnish wood to the Government for Camp Morton. This he did for eighteen months. On 
May 5, 1803, he was married to Miss Sarah Jliller, daughter of Jacob Miller, a native of 
Pennsylvania. After marriage this ambitious young couple began keeping boarding house in 
Indianapolis and carried this on successfully for two years.. Then Mr. Dunmeyer embarked 
in the ice business in Indianapolis with Matthew Garver and carried that on until 1882, when 
he moved on his farm in Perry Townshi[), and on this he now resides. In his political views 
Mr. Dunmeyer affiliates with the Democrats and has ever been in harmony with that party. 
He has been a member of the Lutheran Church, but does not now belong to any, although 
be attends the Lutheran. Three children have been born to our subject and wife: Nettie, 
Harry, and Elsie, who died at the age or two mouths. Nettie, who married Freeman 
Woolery, of Sidney, Ohio, is the mother of two children — Harry C. and Roland A., and 
resides in Indianapolis; Harry D., who married Miss Mary Jones, of Indianapolis, resides 



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in Perry Township. William Dunmeyer, father of our siil)ject, was a native of Germany 
and there passed his entire life. To his marriage were born six children, live of whom are 
now living: Henry, who resides in (iermany; Frederick, of Indianapolis; Louisa, who mar 
ried Louis Poehler; Charles S., Christian, and Anthony, who is deceased, ;dl of Indianapolis. 
The mother of these (!liildren is also deceased. Mrs. Dunmeyer' s parents, Jacol) and Maria 
(Seiner) Miller, had horn to their marriage seven children, the following now living; David 
Miller; Elizal)etli. who married Samuel Shafer, and they live Hamilton County, Ind. ; and 
Sarah, now .Mrs. Dunmeyer. The [)arents of these children are both deceased. Both were 
natives of the Keystone State and the father was a soldier in the War of 1812, receiving a 
land warrant for eighty acres for his services. 

James A. HorsER, M. D. The inscription on the old Grecian temples, "know thyself. " 
is written in the hearts of men of this generation who devote their lives to the healing of the 
sick and the prevention of disease. So earnestly and so persistently and so scieiititically 
have they pursued their investigations, and so generously have they irajiarted their knowl- 
edge each to the other, that it now really seems as though the power of life and death were 
in the hands of the live and progressive physicians of to-day. Their operations in surgery 
their discovery of inoculation for the prevention of given maladies and their general success 
in practice combine to give to the ]irofession the distinction of greatest among the great. In 
the number of those who have labored earnestly and patiently for this knowledge is Dr. 
James A. Houser, of Indianapolis, whose life is a record of steady seeking after that which 
would give him power over the enemy of the physical man. He was born in Ohio, March 
22, 1847. being the son of George H. and Ruannah (Stanton) Houser, the former a native of 
Ohio, and the latter of Maryland. The father was a miller by occupation at an early period 
of his life, and also devoted many years to preaching. He now lives retired from active 
work. Our subject was reared in his native State until he was about twenty years of age, 
receiving his education in the pulilic schools. At that time his parents moved to Indiana. 
In 1807 our subject began the study of medicine, a few years after taking his first 
course of lectures in the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. Continuing his studies 
along with the practice, later graduating from both the old and new schools of medicine. 
Believing there was much good in both, availed himself of this advantage to be better pre- 
pared to aid the atHicted. After thoroughly preparing himself for his work. Dr. Hauser 
made a special study of diseases of the lungs and kindred ailments and soon found many 
patients in his wide field of accjuaintance gained while lecturing upon subjects pertaining to 
human life. To meet the demands of the numbers that visited him at Arcadia, Ind., a small 
town where he first located, the Doctor soon found it necessary to procure larger buildings 
for their accommodation. To meet this demand he purchased the largest building in the 
town, built additions, refitted and arranged it for his patients, where he continued his prac- 
tice until in 1889, when his ever increasing practice, with the augmented number coming to 
see him made it necessary to seek a larger place where hotel accommodations could always 
be had, so in that year he moved to Indianapolis, where he continues his practice which, 
perhaps, is as large as that enjoyed by any physician in the State. Dr. Houser's success in 
his chosen field of lung disease is second to that of no man on either continent. His case 
books show that over 100,000 patients have consulted him. His patients come fl-om 
every part of the United States, and in a few instances the Doctor has iiad the rare 
honor of having patients consult him from England, Scotland, Germany, Mexico and South 
America. Our subject has always been a hard worker both as a student and physician. 
Amid his very busy life he has found time to fill many lecture engagements and do a great 
deal of literary work. As a lecturer. Dr. Houser has visited many States of the Union and 
everywhere created a profound impression for both learning and eloquence, often receiving 
ovations that have but few parallels. A leading journal says of the Doctor's lectures; "Dr 
Houser is the Demosthenes of human science. He is doubtless the most eloquent, charm- 
ing and delightful talker this age has given to the cause of humanity. Arising from poverty 
and daily toil in digging ditches, he has made himself one of the most learned in the field 
of human nature our couutry ever produced. Receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
from both the old and new schools, is what few poor boys have ever done." In the last fif- 
teen years our subject has given the public a number of pamphlets on social and political 



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subjects, and each has bad a very large circnlation, reaching a total of over 1,000,000 
copies. His last and most pretentious, is a work of fiction, a novel, first published in the 
Indianapolis Sunday Sentinel as a serial, under the title of "Out of Darkness into Light,"' 
and has enjoyed a wider reading than any of his previous publications. It is characterized 
by bold, fearless originality, a beauty of description, a charm in its delicate touch of human 
passion that give it a high place in the brain work of the country. As a writer of verses the 
Doctor has produced .some gems of i>athos and beauty. The masterpiece in this line is, 
likely his poem, "Imm<jrtality" that first appeared in the Western Christian Ad rocate. View- 
ing our subject's varied work that has given him success as a physician, lecturer and writer 
in a held whose limits are not bounded by his own country, and all the outgrowth of his own 
energy, patience and perseverance, it may justly be said that few men have worked harder 
or had less idle days. Though interested in politics the Doctor never aspired to ofiSce. He 
was nominated by the People's party in 1892 for lieutenant-governor, but declined to make 
the race. The Doctor was married May ;;50, 1S73, to Miss Juliet Pettijohn, a native of Ham- 
ilton County, Ind. , a daughter of Dr. Amos and Nancy A. Pettijohn, natives of Ohio. Dr. 
and Mrs. Houser are the parents of live children, namely: Lula \\'., Fred, Bert., Annie and 
Ben H. , all living and with their parents in their lovely city home. The Doctor and his 
family are members of the Methodist Ejjiscopal Church, in which body they are earnest, de- 
vout and helpful workers. Dr. Houser is a member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, and of the Western Writers' Association, and several orders and 
lodges, including the Masonic; but at lodge time can usually be found at his desk writing or 
busy professionally. He has a wide acquaintance in Indianapolis and is highly esteemed in 
this city, being regarded as a very skillful physician, an eloquent speaker, a brilliant and 
versatile writer, and a kind and considerate neighbor and friend. 

Solon K. Houser, M. D. Although only about ten years since he began his career as a 
practitioner of the "healing art,'' Dr. Houser has won an enviable reputation, seconii to but 
few physicians in Indianapolis. He is well read and well posted on all matters relating to 
his profession, has a paying practice, and is in truth a physician of thorough learning and 
experience. The Doctor claims Ohio as his native State and first saw the light of day at 
New Salem on February 3, 1853. His parents. George H. and Riiannah (Stanton) Houser, 
were for many years residents of the Buckeye State, but about 18()3 they moved to Indiana 
and settled near Logansport where the father was engaged in milling. Our subject was 
educated in the schools of that town and later learned the miller's trade with his father. 
After following this business for sixteen years at Scipio, Ind., he decided that a change would 
be beneficial and disposing of his milling interests in 1883 he began the study of medicine 
with his brother, Dr. J. A. Houser. Later he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine and 
graduated from that well known institution in June, 1892. From the time he began the 
study of medicine, 1883, he has been associated with his brother, looking after his general 
business interests, professional and otherwise, and is at present engaged in practice witli 
this brother. The happy domestic life of our subject l)egan on P'ebruary 9, 1889, when he 
led to the altar Mrs. Elizabeth (Correll) Bartholomew, a native of Arcadia, Ind., and the 
daughter of John S. and Leah (Gosho) Correll, natives of the Keystone State. Dr. and 
Mrs. Houser are members of the Christian Church, and he is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
In politics he advocates the principles and policy of the Republican party. 

Jasper \V. Scrimsher. An active and progressive system in any profession or line of 
business, when based upon principles of honor, is sure to bring success, and an illustration 
of prominence gained through these means is seen in the record of Jasper W. Scrimsher, 
builder and contractor, who has followed this line of work in Indianapolis for the jsast twelve 
years and is considered one of the city's most reliable and competent contractors. He was 
l)orn in Oldham County, Ky., October 15, 184('), a son of Thomas J. Scrimsher, who was first 
a millwright and afterward became a farmer. In 1853 he came to Indiana with his family 
and located in Morgan County, but after some time returned to his native State where he 
remained until the day of his death. Jasper W. Scrimsher was educated in the public 
schools of Morgan County, Ind., and at the age of eighteen years commenced to learn the 
trade of a carpenter at which he worked for a few years, then entered a drug store at Hall, 
Ind., where he remained for ten years before coming to the city of Indianapolis. Soon after 



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his arrival here he once more tiirued his atteutioii to his trade :uul since that time lie has 
been successfully engaged in carpentering and contracting, making a specialty of residence 
work. He has built some of the most beautiful homes in the city, and his services are 
largely in demand from the fact that he is thorough, painstaking, understands every detail 
of his work, is prompt and lives to the letter of his contract. He has under his employ a 
large force of men, who are competent and skilled workmen, and their combined efforts may 
be seen in many portions of the city. Mr. Scrimsher was married in Morgan t'onnty, Ind. 
in 1868 to Miss Martha M. Stierualt, by whom he has become the father of two sons and 
three daughters. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, in which he is a 
deacon, and are accounted among its most useful and active members. They are intelligent 
and worthy people and have the high esteem of all who know them. As a man of Ijusiness 
Mr. Scrimsher is highly esteemed and to illnstrate the excellent line of his work it is but 
necessary to mention the following buildings which he has erected: The residence of George 
Van Camp, the residence of Frank Wood, the residence of John Keagan, that of Dr. Kim- 
berlin and many others. 

Guino U. Pressler. Of the many things which contribute to make up the beauty of our 
homes and cities that of paint and decoration takes no iiiconsideral)le part. How much of 
their handsome and imposing appearance do the many buildings which we so much admire, 
both as to exterior and interior, owe to this agent. Strip them of their decorations and they 
look bare and uninviting indeed. No person can deny that the asthetic movement started in 
the States in 1880 by 0-icar Wilde, and now being continued l)y Edmund Russell under the 
name of Delsartiauism, has had a vast amount to do with the refining of the home circle, and 
adding another feature to house decorating. Indianapolis has made a marked advance in 
this respect, a fact largely due to Guido R. Pressler, painter and decorator, who has gained 
an enviable reputation in his line all over the country. He was born in Saxony, Germany, 
July 20, 1853, a son of Franc R. Pressler, who was a weaver by trade. The early educa- 
tion of Guido R. Pressler was conducted in the land of his birth according to the laws of that 
country, but before he had attained the age of fourteen years he began serving an ajipren- 
ticeship at his trade, and thoroughly mastered its eveiy detail before his three years' term 
was ended, although he was to have remained four years. He immediately came to the 
United States, and soon after took up his residence in Indianapolis, and although this place 
has been his headquarters np to the present time his services have been in demand all over 
the United States, and he has done some of the most artistic work in his line that has ever 
been executed. However he has labored princii)ally in the city of his adoption, and his work 
may be seen on the court house, the state house, the Odd Fellows Hall, the First Baptist 
Church, St. Joseph's Church, St. Mary's Church, the Second Presbyterian Zion Church and 
other Ijuildings to numerous to mention, in this city. He has made many designs, among 
which may be mentioned the beautiful English Opera House, a building ideally artistic in 
every sense of the word. In recent j'ears he has been principally engaged in church work, 
and his services have been called into requisition in Columbus, Edinburg and Greensburg, 
Ind., the State Library Building in Bloomington, Ind., the Opera House at Hot Springs, 
Ark., the Muncie (Ind.) Court House, and many other pieces of work of noteworthy excel- 
lence. Upon his arrival in the United States he had no means with the exception of a per- 
fect knowledge of his trade, and although ho was unacquainted with the English language 
and American customs, he soon adapted himself to the ways of this country, and by his in- 
dustry, business ability and push has made a name for himself, and commands the lespect 
and eontideuce of all with whom he has business dealings. In November, 1883, lie led to the 
altar Miss Agnes Miller, of Louisville, Ky., and to their vinion a son and daughter have been 
given, who are promising and intelligent children. Mr. Pressler is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
is a Scottish Rite Mason, and is also a member of the A. O. U. W. 

E. Grove Anthony, M. D. Although young in years. Dr. Grove Anthony has made 
rapid strides in his profession and is classed among the jiopular members of the healing art 
in Indianapolis. He has gained a flattering reputation as a physician and has already built 
up a patronage complimentary to his abilitj' in the medical jirofession. He owes his nativity 
to Guysville, Ohio, born May 12, 1868, and is a son of Dr. Emanuel and Elvira IM. (Calvert) 
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his literary education in the schools of that city. When seventeen years of age he began 
the study of medicine with his father, and later entered the Physio-Medical College of 
Indiana, from which he was graduated in March, 1889. He was engaged in general prac- 
tice for one year after this and was then appointed to the chair of ophthalmology and otology 
in tlie above-mentioned college, a position he still holds. He is also demonstrator of practi- 
cal anatomy in that institution. In the fall of 1890 he took his first course in the Philadel- 
phia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and the following year took a second 
course. Since tlie spring of 1890 the Doctor has devoted his time and attention to the eye, 
ear, nose and throat, and as a specialist has met with great success. He is a member of the 
American Association and of the Indiana State Physio-Medical Association and the Indian- 
apolis Physio-Medical Society, having been chairman and secretary of the latter. Socially 
he is a member of the Golden Cross. He is a member of the Central Avenue Methodist 
Episcopal Church and in politics always voted the Prohibition ticket. 

WiLLi.\M F. NoRRts. The material progress manifest throughout the United States 
(luring the past quarter of a century has never had its counterpart elsewhere, and has in- 
cluded in its wide field of activity the business of the painter and contractor as one of the 
most important branches of industry. In this connection William F. Norris may be referred 
to for he has followed the calling of a paint contractor for seven years in the city of Indian- 
apolis and has made a reputation for himself in this branch of human endeavor. He was 
l)orn in Louisville, Ky., October 18, 1848, a son of Thomas J. Norris, who was born in North 
Carolina, but who removed to Tennessee when a young man and settled in the vicinity of 
Knoxville where he resideil for some time. He then removed to Louisville, at which time it 
was a small and unimportant town, where he for some time followed the calling of a gar- 
dener and afterward that of a cabinet maker. Later he removed to Clarke County, Ind., 
where he followed the calling of a farmer in which he became an expert. William F. Norris 
was one of four sons in a family of ten children and received his education in Louisville. After 
serving an apprenticeship of three years at the painter's trade in Louisville hebegau working 
at his trade in that city, afterward in Clarke County, Ind., and at a still later period in Indian- 
apolis. Having come to this city in March. 1875, he commenced contracting but at the end of 
two years turned his attention to other matters. About seven years ago he resumed the 
occupation of contracting and to this occupation his attention has since been given with the 
best results financially and otherwise. He has pursued his calling in connection with resi- 
dence work principally and in this he has made a name for himself. He had but little money 
when starting out for himself but he had what was just as good — a perfect knowledge of his 
calling and a good constitution as well as unbounded energy, and these have been the step- 
ping stones to his present prosperity. On the April 1, 1872, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Nancy E. Beckett, of Clarke County, Ind., and to them four daughters and a son have 
been given. Mr. Norris is a member of Meridian Lodge, of the I. O. O. F.. and politically 
is a Democrat. 

Isaac Montrevii.t.e Todd is a ]iub!ic spirited citizen in harmony with advanced ideas, 
intelligent progress and the best methods of improving agricultural pursuits, and the good 
of his country generally. He first saw the light of day in Franklin County, Ind., Se]item- 
ber 5, 1828. on his father's farm, and when about four years of age moved with his parents 
to Marion County. Ind. The parents settled in Wayne township, on the west side of the 
White River, and there our subject remained until fifteen years of age, receiving a limited 
education in the early schools of that county. He then came to Perry township, this county, 
and made liis home with an elder brother, Henry P. Todd, for about five years. On October 
2, 1848, Mr. Todd was married to Miss Rachel C. Brewer, daughter of Samuel Brewer, 
deceased, and soon after his marriage be returned to Wayne township. There he made his 
home on a tract given him by his father for about eighteen months, after which he returned 
to Perry township and bought 160 acres of the executors of Daniel Brewer, paying $10 an 
acre. At that time there was about sixty acres cleared so as to be tillable, but the farm was 
in bad condition, having been rented for years. Mr. Todd immediately began making 
improvements. He erected a frame house in 1853 and resided in that until abcut 1870 when 
he l)uilt a brick house which was sul)Beqnently destroyed by fire. Al out 1885 he built the 
handsome brick house in which which he now resides, and has made numerous other improve- 



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ruouts. He has cleared al)out eighty-five acres of the IHO he bought and annually raises 
wlieat, corn iind hay, and of late years sweet corn and tomatoes. He raises on an average 
Iwentytive to thirty bushels of wheat to the acre, and about the same in corn. His marriage 
was blessed 1)V the birth of eleven children, one of whom, Elizabeth C. , died in infancy. 
The remainder are named as follows: Ella; (!laral. ; John E.; Emma D. : Elmer E. , deceased; 
Harrv L.. Frank L., Samuel B. , William H. and Norah H. The last three are unmarried. 
The tirst child living. Ella, married A. J. Snider and they have two children : Ada, who 
Alva Hamilton, and Charles E. Mr. Todd's second child, Clara, married Calvin Hanson and 
they have one daughter, liuth. John E. married Emma Herrou, and they have four chil- 
dren: Alma, Omer, Frank and Kalph. Emma D. married George Porter and they have one 
child, James A. Harry L. married Bertha Lyons, and Frank L. married Kate Rose. In his 
[lolitical views Mr. Todd is a Republican and his first vote was cast in 1852. He is a public- 
spirited citizen and has served as assessor of Perry township for two years. During the 
Civil War he organized a company of home guards at the time of the Morgan raid, and was 
elected captain and commissioned as such by Gov. Morton. This company was kept up until 
the war closed. For many years Mr. Todd has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and he is now one of the trustees of the church at Southport. Henry Todd, father 
of our subject, was born in Penn.sylvania July 4, 1779, and after reaching mature years was 
married there to Miss Nancy Martin. Later he and wife removed to Indiana and located in 
Franklin County, near Brookville, where they remained until 1S32. They then came to 
Marion County, where the father's death occuri-ed in 1842. Thirteen children were born to 
this worthy couple, eleven of whom grew up, but our' subject is the only one now living. 
After the mother's death the father took for his second wife, Sarah Mcllvaiu, and they had 
six children, two now surviving : Amanda, who married and lives in Texas, and Marion, who 
resides in Calhoun County, 111. The latter served in an Ohio regiment during the war. 
Mr. Todd's grandfather, Henry Todd, was a native of the Keystone State, and there passed 
his entire life. 

John Lewis McCormick. This al^le and successful contractor has been a resident of 
Indianapolis, Ind., since 1841), but was born in Rush County, of this State, March 24, 1825, 
a son of James McCormick, whose birth occurred in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, in 
1797. He came to Indiana many years ago and located at Connorsville, where his son, 
John, erected the fiist house. It is also said that the McCormick family built the first 
house in Indianapolis, the site being between the old wooden bridge across White River and 
the Washington Street bridge. James Mc(Jormick was a millwright and put up many of the 
old-time water mills i[i Indiana. He built a mill on what is now known as the Pitts farm on 
the Michigan road, besides numerous others in all portions of the State. He died in Hen 
dricks County in 1858, but about the close of the War of 1812 the family lived in Fayette 
County. The wife of James McCormick was born in South Carolina in 1812, but was 
brought liy her parents to Indiana when a child, and in the town of Frankfort she passed 
from life in 1880, a member of the Methodist Church, although her husband had always 
l)een a Baptist. The McCormicks originally came from Scotland. John McCormick, one 
of the early memliers of the family, was a soldier in Washington's army during the Revolu- 
tion. He died in Conncjrsville when very aged. John Lewis McCormick attended the pub- 
lic schools of Shelby and Marion Counties, and when still a mere lad commenced learning 
the millwright's trade ot his father, and afterward branched out into general carpentering, 
at which he worked for some time in connection with farming. In 1849 he commenced con- 
tracting in Indianapolis, and, although he has followed a general line of work, he has rather 
made a specialty of building ice houses for large ice companies, and has pursued this occu- 
pation not only in Indiana but also in Michigan. In 1882 the farm where Crown Hill Ceme- 
tery is located fell into the hands of the McCormick family, and this land Mr. McCormick 
tilled for several years. His business career has been a successful one, for when he started 
out in life for himself he had a cash capital of $3 and a team of horses. On August 9, 
1848, he led to the altar Miss Julia A. Pitts, who was born in Pendleton, Ind. , March 2, 
1826, and a f.'unily of three daughters have been born to them. 

Gkouge N. DiTz.\N, M. D. The calamities of the late war have never been adequately 
weighed, for there was scarcely a home in all the broad land in which there failed to be a 





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Rachel raouruing for her child that did not return. Still, the greatest disaster brings its 
cotupensatiou in some measure, and to the blessing of a Union saved there was afforded the 
sublime spectacle of patriotic zeal all over the laud, meu freelj' offering their lives upon the 
altars of their country, or uumurmeriugly bearing all toil and privation. Another inestima- 
ble Ijoon was the impulse that was given to advanced medicine and surgery, through the 
innumerable opportunities for practice on the field of battle and in the hospital. To-day 
all over the land are physicians and surgeons of the ripest judgment and skill, who served 
their country in its hour of peril and who gained valuable stores of practice, which has been 
of incalculable value to them ever since. One of this number, a man loyal to the core, and 
a physician of eminence, is Dr. George N. Duzan. of Indianapolis. This worthy gentle- 
man was born in Boone County, Ind.. July 8, 1842, being the son of John Duzan, a 
native of Tennessee, who carried on farming in that State, and who emigrated to Indiana in 
1832. settling near Zionsville, in Boone County, being one of the pioneers of that county. 
He was married iu Tennessee to Catherine Cox, a native of that State, and daughter of 
Jacob Cox. John Duzan represented his county — Boone — in the Legislature of Indiana, 
having I)een elected in 1842, on the Democratic ticket, and was one of the first representatives 
from that county. He resided there for many years, was a successful farmer and accumu- 
lated considerable property, and tinally died in 1878, his wife having passed away in 1872. 
The subject of our sketch was reared on the farm in his native county until he was sixteen 
years old, first attending the common schools of the country and afterward the academy at 
Zionsville, and then he began the study of medicine with his uncle. Dr. W. N. Duzan, who 
was a pioneer of Boone County and a physician of many years' successful practice. Our 
subject studied three years, in compliance with the rules enforced by medical colleges at that 
time, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, attending one course of 
lectures. He then began the practice of medicine at Zionsville, in the spring of 1861, which 
he continued until the month of July, 1864, when he entered the army as acting assistant 
surgeon in the United States army, being with the Thirteenth Regiment of regulars. Most 
of the time was spent on detached duty, in Hospital No. 8, at Nashville. While there Dr. 
Duzan attended lectures and graduated from the University of Nashville, receiving the 
degree of doctor of medicine from that institution, bearing date of March 25, 1865. Return- 
ing from Nashville he located at Zionsville, where he enjoyed an extensive practice which 
extended over a period of nearly twenty-five years. He was there recognized, not only by 
the people of the county, but by those of that portion of the State, as the leading physician 
of that region of country. In the fall of 1888 the Doctor came to Indianapolis and here he 
has grown into a very large practice and ranks among the leading physicians of the city. 
While residing at Zionsville Dr. Dnzan held the chair of physiology and clinical medicine 
in Centra! College of Physicians and Surgeons for a period of four years, resigning the same 
al the expiration of that time. He has been a member of the American Medical Association, 
of the Indiana State Medical Society, and of the Boone County Medical Society, but on 
account of poor health has been compelled to sever his connection with them. Dr. Duzan 
was married August 31. 1865. to Nellie Crutchfield, a native of Indianapolis, and a daughter 
of Wesley and Nancy (Brock) Crutchfield. Dr. and Mrs. Duzan have two children: George 
N. and Belva. In politics Dr. Duzan is a Democrat, the principles of that party being in 
harmony with his own views concerning national and State questions. Dr. Duzan writes 
with great fluency and with remarkably clear diction and has been a contributor for a 
great many years to medical and other journals, although professional questions have 
engaged him most. A number of medical works refer in most flattering terms to the work, 
the services and the writings of Dr. Duzan, who is recognized by the profession as a physi- 
cian of distinguished ability. Some of his articles in medical journals appeared as early as 
1865 and have continued until quite recently, most of them touching subjects of interest to 
the profession. He has also read a number of valuable papers before the State and the 
Boone County medical societies. His health has been somewhat impaired of late, the result 
of great study, reading, and the demand made upon his professional services. 

Hon. Timothy E. Howard. To liecome distinguished at the bar requires not only 
capacity, but also sound judgment and persevering industry. These qualifications are com- 
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Howard. A careful aud accurate adviser, and an earnest and conscientious advocate, bis 
success at the bar has been achieved by the improvement of opportunities, by untiring 
diligence, and by close study and correct judgment of men and motives. Like so many of 
the eminent men of the present day his early career was a humble one, for lie was reared on 
his native farm in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, Mich., where he was born January 27, 1837, 
and there he soon came to know the meaning of hard work. His parents, Martin and Julia 
(Beahan) Howard, were both natives of the Isle of Erin, and came to this country in their 
early days, the former first setting foot on American soil about the year 1832. After a short 
stay in the Green Mountain State lie came to Ann Arbor, Mich., a few miles from where he 
eventually entered some Government land, then in a very wild state. There, in the mid.stof 
the forest, and far from any other human habitation, he erected a little log cabin, where he 
lived until his means permitted better improvements, and where the subject of this sketch 
was born. The elder Howard resided on this farm until he paid the last debt of nature in 
1851. At the time of his demise he was township clerk, and had held other minor township 
and disLrict offices. His widow survived him until March, 1892. There are now only three 
surviving members of their family of seven children: Timothy E., Michael F. and Julia A. 
Timothy E. Howard was the eldest of the family, and, although but fourteen years of age at 
the time of his father's death, he took upon his slender and youthful shoulders the manage- 
ment of the home farm, and with the intelligent counsel and advice of his worthy mother, he 
made a success of his undertakings. His early education was obtained in the common schools 
of the rural districts, but he was later fortunate enough to be sent to the "Old Seminary" at 
Ypsilanti, and to the University of Michigan at Ann Arlior, enjoying in the former institu 
tion the instructions of that model teacher, Prof. Joseph Estabrook, aud in the latter that of 
the genial scholar, Dr. Erastus O. Haven. He taught in the district schools near Ann 
Arbor for two years. About tiiis time he secured a chance to teacli aud attend school in the 
University of Notre Dame, Ind. , and at once gladly closed with the offer, and from that 
noted institution of learning he graduated in 1862. In February of that year he forsook 
his alma mater in order to tight his country's liattles, and enlisted in Company I, of the 
Twelfth Michigan Infantry, the fortunes of which he followed until the battle of Shiloh, 
where he received a gunshot wound in the neck and left shoulder, and was sent to Evans- 
ville on a hospital boat and placed in the Marine Hospital, where he remained about two 
months. Upon recovering he came home on a furlough, aud lieing honoral)ly discharged as 
unfit for further duty, he returned to teaching at Notre Dame, graduating therefrom that 
year. He held his position of instructor in that institution for about twenty years altogether. 
In 1878 he was elected to the position of county clerk, and served four years, during which 
time he was also a member of the city council. While at Notre Dame he studied law and 
received his diploma, but did not jiractice until the expiration of his term as county clerk. 
Since then he has been an active practitioner, and his knowledge of law and his intelligence 
in all matters of pul)lic interest were recognized by his being elected to the office of State 
senator in 1SS6, and by being lionored with a re election in 1890. He is the the author of 
the Momence bill for the drainage of the Kankakee Valley, and was chairman of the special 
senate committee in charge of the school text-book law. He secured the extension of the 
new election law to tovvnship and city elections, and drafted the new revenue law. He also 
introduced and pressed to passage the bill for the establishment of the Appellate Court. 
He had charge in the Senate of Indianapolis' city charter, also of the suburljan street rail- 
way bill, l)oth of which became laws. For several years Mr. Howard served as city attor- 
ney of South Bend, and also as county attorney of St. Joseph County. Since 1880 he has 
l)een an active member of the G. A. R. In November, 1892, he was elected one of the 
judges of the supreme court of the State, and took iiis seat ujiou the bench January 2, 1893. 
The following character sketch is taken from tiie Evausville Journal, and was written while 
the present supreme judge was a member of the Senate in 1891: "Senator Timothy E. 
Howard of St. Josepii County, is without question the most influential member of the upper 
house of the Legislature. He is tall, spare, with a mild and rather sad mien. His strength 
lie.-i in his great fairness and liberality, coupled with a keen discernment of motives behind 
actions. He himself never hesitates to ex|)lain fully his reasons for any line of action, and 
when he lias explained there is always a large following of senators who tiiid that they may 




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agree witb him exactly. He is a Christian gentleman, mild, courteous, patient, vmresentful, 
a fine illustration of the oft-disputed fact that a man of lofty character and unyielding 
principle can succeed in political life. He is a Democrat, hut never hesitates to oppose his 
party (associates) when principle requires it."' 

John Four. The subject of this biographical notice is an honoral)le and progressive 
farmer, and as such no name in the memorial department of this work is more worthy of 
mention. He is a product of Missouri, born in St. Louis, in October, 1824. a son of Samp 
son and Sarah A. (Caritwell) Furr, both of whom were born in the Old Dominion but were 
early settlers of St. Louis, at which time there were only three American families in the 
place. Sam]ison Furr was a soldier in the War of 1812. but died in November, 1824, when 
just in the prime of life, his widow surviving him until April 24, 1871, at which time she 
died at Glarksville, Tex., at the extreme old age of ninety-six years. At the early age of 
four weeks John Furr. the immediate subject of this sketch and the youngest of a family of 
twelve children, was left fatherless, and as his mother's means were limiteil he made his 
home with a sister in Shelby County, 111., and was compelled to begin laboring at (juite an 
early age, therefore his advantages for gaining an education were limited. He made his 
home in Shelby County, 111., for some years, working at anything honorable he could find to 
do, but at the age of fifteen years he engaged as a cabin boy on a boat plying on the Missis- 
sippi Kiver, following various occupations on the river until 1845, being watchman for some 
time. He then turned his attention to farming in Shelby County. 111. , and in 1846 was 
married to Miss Martha A. Huls. Three years later he was taken with the "gold fever" 
and made his way to California, driving an ox team across the plains, and was there engaged 
in mining for about a year, with fair success, for when he came to Indiana, in 1S5I. he had 
about .^^IjOOO, with which he purchased a farm in Pike Township, Marion County, Ind., on 
which he has resided ever since. His estate comprises tifty-three acres, which is well and 
carefully tilled and yields a larger income than many more pretentious places. January 21, 
18nO, his wife died, having borne him five children: William (deceased). John, Sarah 
(deceased), David F. and Lucia A. July 19. ISC)!). Clarissa Rodman l)ecame Mr. Furr's sec- 
ond wife, and their children are named: William Gr., born July 2, ISfil; Charles A., born 
September 8, 1868 (now deceased), and Maggie A., born May 23. 1S6B. The mother of 
these children died August 29, 1868, and Mr. Furr's third marriage occurred August 15, 
1869, Miss Mary E. Sny<ler, a native of Hendricks County and a daughter of William and 
Rachel (Huls) Snyder, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky, became his 
wife. Their children are as follows: James F., born November 25. 1870; Martha J., born 
July 7, 1872; Omer B., born July 19, 1874; Clara V , born October 10, 1877. and Daisy A., 
born June 15, 1879. At his country's call for troops in 1864 Mr. Furr enlisted in the Union 
service, becoming a member of Company B, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, which he 
joined September 20, 1S64, and served until the close of the war, receiving his discharge 
July 2, 1865. He was in the Army of the Cumberland and was through Tennessee. Georgia, 
Alabama and Mississippi, his regiment being engaged in guard duty the most of the time, 
although it participated in a number of skirmishes. Mr. Furr is now a member of the 
G. A. R., Boone Post, No. 202, at Zionsville. He and his wife are associated with the 
Christian Church and politically he has always been a faithful and enthusiastic Republican. 

Edward Ames Austin, who is endowed l)y nature with such gifts as characterize true 
manhood in all that the word implies, is descended from an honorable ancestry, and his 
family tree first took root on American soil, in New York City, to which region his parents 
came from England in 1838. The father. Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Austin, was born in 
England, where he was reared and educated, and he was there married to Miss Martha Heg, 
also a native of Eagland. In 1838 they crossetl the ocean to America and located in New 
York city, where the father followed the profession of physician and surgeon and was also 
engaged in the drug business until 1842. At that time his drug stock was destroyed by fire 
and he removed to Indiana, settling in Harrison County. There he practiced his profession 
until 1854, when he removed to New Albany, Ind., and engaged in the drug business in con- 
nection with his practice. In 1861, when the war cloud hung darkly over the nation, he 
enlisted as surgeon of the Twenty-third Indiana Infantry, and soon after was jiromoted to 
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capacity he served until tbe close of the war. Returning to New Albany he shortly after- 
ward established an Episcopal Church at JefPersoaville, and was ordained as rector of the 
same. Previous to this, however, he was a promiaeut minister of the Methodist Church for 
a number of years and, about the year 1871, he removed to Terre Haute, where he became 
rector of the Episcopal Cliurch, continuing in that capacity for about four years. He then 
took charge of the church at Vincennes where he remained until his death in 1S88, at the 
age of seventy two years. He passed an active life, was well known throughout Indiana, 
and WHS a prominent figure in religious affairs and all enterprises for the good of tbe count}'. 
He was also prominently identified with the Masonic order, and at the time of entering the 
army was grand master. He had taken the thirty-third degree at the time of his death. 
His wife died in 1S47. Tbe subject of this sketch, who was born in Harrison County. Ind., 
April 11), 184(), was but eighteen months old at the time of his mother's death, and in 1854 
the family removed to New Albany, where young Austin grew to manhood. He secured a 
fair education in the common schools, and when sixte&n years of age entered the emjiloy of 
the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad as trainboy. In 1S62 he became brakesman 
and two years later he was promoted to the position of conductor, in which capacity be 
served until 1865. In December of that year he left the road and engaged in carpentering 
at New Albany, continuing there until jS09. In December of that year be married Miss 
Amanda A. Rough, a native of the Keystone State, but reared in Floyd County, Ind., and 
soon afterward he and wife settled in Jeffersonville, where Mr. Austin followed carpentering 
until 1870. when he entered the employ of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Rail- 
road. In March, 187fi, he was made foreman of freight ear repairing and in 1880 was 
promoted to master car builder. When three divisions of the Pennsylvania system consoli- 
dated, in 18S4, Mr. Austin was made general foreman of tbe car department at Indianapolis, 
in which capacity he lias since remained. Since coming to Indianapolis Mr. Austin has 
l)een engaged in the business interests of the city, and at present has a grocery and meat 
market on East Washington Street. He carries a stock of about S4,000 and does a thriving 
business. This is managed by his son, Thomas, who is a member of the firm. Mr. Austin 
is progressive and enterprising and has contributed much to the best interests of tbe city. 
In the fall of 1889 he was elected a member of the city council from the nineteenth ward, 
and served two years, during which time the ordinance for the construction of the viaduct 
was passed and he was deeply interested in that work. He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity and is past-master of Jefferson Lodge. No. 840. Mr. and Mrs. Austin are the 
(parents of four children: J. Thomas, liorn November 9, 1870: Albert A . born Mav 28, 1878; 
Flora B.. born August fi. 1875. and Edward M.. born April 13. 1882. Mr. Austin is an 
enthusiastic Democrat and takes a leading and active interest in politics, wielding consider- 
able influence in his ward. 

Isaac Wiuoht. It would indeed be hard to find a man better posted in everything per 
taming to the lumber interests than Isaac Wright, the very efficient and energetic manager 
for the firm of Scatcberd & Son, who are wholesale dealers in hardwood lumber, the main 
office of wbieb firm is at Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Wright is tbe manager of the lirancb office 
at Indianapolis, which was established in 1875, at which time Mr. Wright was placed in 
charge. This firm also has yards at various points throughout Indiana, Mississippi, Ken- 
tucky. Tennessee and Alabama, all of which are under the direct supervision of Mr. AVright, 
a fact wbieb speaks in eloquent terms as to bis efficiency, business ability and the trust 
which is reposed in him l)y bis employers. An enormous amount of l)usiness is done 
throughout the States under Mr. Wright's management, his orders being filled principally for 
eastern markets also es()ort, in all amounting to about 50,000,000 feet annually. Mr. 
Wright was born on tbe ocean, of English and Scotch parents, Isaac and Grace (Glen) 
W right, the former of whom was a merchant and trader by occupation, and eventually died 
m Scotland. His widow and child U])on coming to America with her (larents settled in 
Loudon. Ontario, and afterward in Buffalo, N. Y., in which city the mother paid tbe last 
debt of luiture. In the city of London, Isaac Wright, the immediate subject of this biogra- 
phy, received a liberal education, being an attendant of a good granimer school and later of 
an academy of more than ordinary merit. Thus fitted for the practical duties of life he 
entered tbe office of Frank E. Cornish, at that time mayor of the city of London, and begsn 



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the study of law, which he continued to pursue for three years, at the end of which time he 
entered the office of Thomas Scatcherd, M. P., with whom he spent one year in the study 
of law. He was articled for five years, but at the end of four years he decided to turn his 
attention to other pursuits, for which purpese he went to Buffalo, N. Y. , in May, 18fi2, and 
entered the employ of James W. Scatcherd, an extensive and exceptionally prosperous whole- 
sale lumber dealer. This firm afterward became Scatcherd & Belton, and later Scatcherd & 
Sou which title it retains at the present time. Mr. Wright has been with this firm continuously 
for over thirty years and from his excellent judgment, keen commercial instincts and fine 
business management, the utmost confidence is reposed in him. In the year 1S66 he mar- 
ried Miss Kate E. Warner, of Buffalo, N. Y., daughter of T. H. and M. L. Warner and 
remained in the city of Buffalo until about 1871, when he Itecame manager and buyer at 
different points and in IS (5 established a l)ranch yard and headquarters in Indianapolis, 
where he has since resided with his family. Since locating in this city he has taken a deep 
interest in everything for the advancement of its best interests, is public spirited to a degree 
and is liberal in the use of his means in the furtherance of any enterprise which has for its 
object the welfare of this section. He is a member in good standing of the Commercial 
Club, and in politics is a stanch Republican, ever taking an active interest in the affairs of 
his ward in particular. 

Joseph Robert Perky, Ph. D., M. D. The time has never been when the prescrip- 
tion druggist was not of as great importance to the community as a practicing physician. 
Indeed it would be difficult to name a branch of liusiness that is more indispensably impor- 
tant than that devoted to the sale of drugs and the preparation of prescriptions. One of the 
prominent retail houses in this line in Indianapolis is that owned and conducted by Joseph 
Robert Perry who has been the proprietor of his present establishment since 1872. He car- 
ries a choice stock of goods valued at about $5,000 and has a lucrative trade, the sequent 
of careful attention to business and a sincere love for his calling. Joseph R. Perry, was 
brought up in Wayne County and received his education in the public schools of Indiana. 
When a mere lad he became a clerk in a drug store, during which time he ac(iuired a liking 
for the calling which has always remained with him. In November, 1868, he came to 
Indiana])olis and kept the books of several firms up to 1872. at which time he decided to 
open a drug establishment of his own and time has shown the wisdom of this venture. He 
was the originator and organizer of the State Pharmaceutical Association in 1882 and for 
eight con.secutive j^ears he was secretary of the same. He is also a member of the Marion 
County Druggists' Association and has been officially connected in various capacities, and is 
a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association. The Doctor served throughimt the 
Rebellion, enlisting in Company C, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers, April 16, 1861, serving 
for four months in West Virginia, and being discharged August 12. 1861, by reason of 
expiration of term of service. He re-enlisted in October in Company F, Fifty seventh Regi- 
ment Indiana Infantry, the majority of the officeis of which were ministers of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and it was known at that time as the "Preachers Regiment." He was 
an active participant in the bloody battle of Shiloh, as well as numerous hotly contested 
skirmishes, and at Scary Creek in July, 1862, he was shot just below the knee in the left 
leg, which so disabled him that he was finally compelled to leave his regiment, which he 
was very loath to do, receiving his discharge in July. 1863. At one time he was placed on 
the operating table in order that the injured member might be amputated but so vigorous 
were his protestations against this measure that the surgeons yielded to his wishes and thus 
the limb was saved. He proved himself to be a faithful, fried and true soldier, and it is 
owing to just such men that the Union was preserved. At the time of the organization of 
the State Pharmaceutical Association in 1882, Dr. Perry established the Indiana P/iaj-wioc/s/, 
a monthly journal, which has grown in favor with the ]>rofession and has now a circulation of 
over 6,000. The journal was first started as an experiment and to advertise the State 
Pharmaceutical Association, with no thought of continuing it, but it met with such encour- 
agement and favor that it has been regularly issued ever since and is now considered one of 
the leading pharmaceutical journals of the country. In 1872 he was married to Miss Eliz 
abeth Daugherty, a native of Philadelphia and a daughter of William Daugherty. Dr. and 
Mrs. Perry have two children: Prof. St. John Perry, M. D., of Lincoln, Neb., and Ida M. 



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Perry, now teaching school in the Indianapolis public schools. Dr. Perry is a man of great 
energy and industry, possesses a thorough knowledge of the requirements of his business, and 
the well established reputation of his house assures the very best treatment to all who may 
become its customers. The ever expanding wealth and luxurious tastes of the country tend to a 
demand for more expensive and elegant goods, and the Doctor always keeps iu full step with the 
spirit of tiie age and always offers the best and latest novelties as well as all the standard articles 
usually found in his line of trade. He is public spirited in a more than ordinary degree, 
contributes to the best interests of the city, and he and bis wife are popular in social circles. 
He was secretarj- of the Mercantile Association, which was afterward merged into the board 
of trade, is a Scottish Rite Mason, takes an active interest in the G. A. R., the S. of V., the 
U. V. L., and is the surgeon of Anderson Post, No. 869. of which he is also past com- 
mander. The principles of the Republican party have always recommended themselves 
to his judgment and he always supports the men and measures of his party. 

■John E. Foley. The self made man is entitled to respect and he gets it in America. 
He represents all that is vigorous and sul)stantial in our American Institutions. Indian- 
a|)olis has many such, but none more deserving of notice in a work like this than John E. 
Foley, chief clerk in the otiice of the United States Marshal. Mr. Foley was born in Madi- 
son, Ind., August 25. 1856. a sou of James and Bridget (Murtaugh) Foley. His father, 
who came to Indianapolis with his family iu 1865 and remained here until his death, which 
occurred in 1S86, was a prominent contractor. Mr. Foley was educated largely in the city, 
but for three years was a student at St. Joseph's College at Teutopolis, 111. He acquired a 
knowledge of telegrajilij' and for some time devoted himself to it professionally. In due 
time he was appointed ticket agent and telegraph operator at Massachusetts Avenue, ladian- 
a]iolis, for the Indianapolis, Pittsburg & Cleveland Railroad Company, and filled that 
position with much fidelity for four years. He then accepted a position in the freight de- 
partment on the "Bee Line" at Brightwood, and was thus connected for thirteen years. 
The success and credit with which he acquitted himself here may be inferred when the 
reader is informed tliat from a clerk he rose to be chief clerk of the Indianapolis division 
and superintended the work of clerks who were placed under him. He resigned that position 
May 1, 1892, to accept the chief clerkship in the United States Marshall's office. Mr. Foley 
has taken an active part in politics for more than ten years, and was one of the organizers 
of the Gray Club, of which he was for two years vice-president and is now president. This 
body iuis a membershiji of 400, and is considered the leading Democratic club of the State. 
^Ir. Foley was especially active in the organization of the Democratic Railway Club, and 
his success as a recruiter and organizer is attested by the fact that in live weeks the member- 
ship was brought up to 2, 187, He was unaniraou.sly chosen its president in recognition of 
this service. He was not an applicant for his present honorable and responsible position, 
but it was conferred upon him because of his fitness for it and his deserts as an unswerving 
and always effective worker in the interests of his party. He is genial to a degree and has 
as many warm personal friends as any man in the city. He is a prominent member of the 
B. & P. O. of E. . and of the Catholic Knights of America, and identified with other popular 
social and Iieneficent organizations. As a citizen he is public spirited and most liberally 
helpful toward any movement having a tendency to benefit any considerable class of his 
fellow- townsmen. 

Mi;s. Eliza, A. Bl.\kek. Among prominent eastern women of to dav. few. if anv, take a 
higher rank than iVIrs. Eliza A. Blaker. the well-known superintendent of Indianapolis Free 
Kindergartens and Domestic Training Schools, as well as principal of the Normal School for 
the training of teachers. This lady has gained prominence and a national reputation through 
her remarkable and rare executive ability. So certain is success to follow all her efforts that 
her name in connection with any undertaking is regarded almost as a talisman of success. 
She is one of those in whom action becomes unconsciously a synonym of leadership, and by 
intuition and by choice her attention has l)een turned largely to )iublic matters, in which the 
interests of numbers are involved. This has made her a marked figure in public movements 
in her home, city and State. Yet the time she gives to these matters is what, for another 
woman, would l)e leisure hours, Mrs. Blaker is by birth and by h(>r most noticeable charac- 
teristics and special symi)atbies, an eastern lady, born in the city of Brotherly Love, Penn. 



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March 5. 1854. She coiui's of English Quaker descent, so noted for sterling qualities, and 
has inherited the best of these qualities. Her grandfather was a German and the family 
settled in Philadelphia at a very early date, being among the pioneers of thatcity. This family 
is also related to the old and well-known historic family of Coopers. Mrs. Blaker's father, 
Jacob L., was a man of self education and was noted for his conversational powers. He 
married ?lliss Mary Core, and to them were born three children, two besides our subject, Dr. 
John L. and Mary T. The former is a resident of Albany, N. Y., and the latter a teacher 
in the kindergartens of this city. Earlj' in her youth Mrs. Blaker had high aspirations and 
with a view of becoming an educator studied most diligently early and late, and as a result 
while yet quite youug, graduated from both the High School and Normal Training School for 
teachers, also the Centennial Training School for Kindergartens. She has always been a close 
student. After graduating she was employed as a teacher in the public schools in Philadel- 
phia, which position she filled with highest honors for several years. Inspired with the love 
for kindergarten work she took up the study of this art in the Centennial Training School, 
and after a thorough course she entered ardently upon her labors in its cause. In 1882 she 
was called to Indianapolis for the purpose of organizing a training school for kindergartners 
and primary teachers, out of which has grown one of the largest, best and noted free kindergar- 
ten systems in the United States, largely due to the untiring energies of Mrs. Blaker. There 
is probably no other woman in the country better known in kindergarten work than she. She 
is devoted to her work in all its branches, is a noble woman in every sense of the term, and 
is loved by all her teachers as well as her pupils, from the little ragged "black" urchin to 
the ones of the wealthiest parents. A well known writer says of her: " The saying that one 
must go from home to hear the news was well illustrated during the National Educa- 
tional Convention at St. Paul last July, in regard to our Normal School — for while I will 
venture to say that many of our membership do not even know that we have such a school — 
those who attended that convention or read the St. Paul dailies during its sessions, learned 
that the Indiana Kindergarten Normal School had distanced all competitors, and by its dis 
play of work conferred honor on the State whose name it bears. Its principal, our own Mrs. 
Blaker, was made secretary and treasurer of the kindergarten department of the National 
Educational Association. She is, therefore, secretarj' of that department for the Interna- 
tional Convention, to be held this summer in Toronto, Canada, commencing July 14. In 
addition t« her regular work as superintendent of eight kindergartens, six kitchen gardens, 
and two domestic training schools, two Slojd schools, the Boy's Educational and Industrial 
Union, for which she plans and directs all the work, the instruction of the eight classes in 
the Normal, to which her afternoons are devoted, and a large correspondence in reference to 
the work here, and advice to its establishment elsewhere, scholarship in the Normal School, 
and positions for former graduates in different schools and institutions: has charge of all the 
correspondence in reference to kindergarten work with ail the nations of the globe who con 
template sending representatives to the International Convention. I think we, as a society, 
may well feel proud of having such a superintendent for our kindergartens and kitchen 
gardens, and such a principal for our Normal School. The work this Normal School is doing 
is far-reaching in its results, for the young women thoroughly trained in it for kindergarten, 
domestic science, kitchen garden, primary and normal work, are called to positions in the 
east and west, north and south, and are thus sowing the good seed throughout the land. 
Summing up the result of the last year's work (l89'2-93), we point to 4,182 pupils helped 
and taught in a way that tells now in its immediate influence on the parents and the homes, 
and that will tell more and more as the years go by, and these children become in their turn 
parents and ,makers of homes, and so on through the generations, both for time and for 
eternity, such work, such teaching, will tell the whole world of her success."' Mrs. Blaker 
was chosen one of the speakers of the Woman's Congress, held at Memorial Art Palace at 
Chicago, from May 15 to 22, 1893. She was also appointed on the Board of Jurors on Ele- 
mentar}' Education in Liijeral Arts Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition. She was 
married in 1880 to Mr. Louis J. Blaker. of Philadelphia, and who is now agent for the 
White Line Central Transit Company, Indianapolis. They reside on North Meridian Street, 
in a Ijeautif ul home away from the noise and bustle of city life. From her infancy Mrs. Blaker 
was trained to a strong belief in the rights of women to widen opportunities for education 



•238 MKMOlIiS OF JaXDIAAAI'OJJS 

ami to a fiillor sliiiio in tlu' lioiiors ami (ln< piolits of business, professional and industrial 
activity llian tliev bavi> iiitliorto onjoyetl. She has always labored with a broad view. Her 
work is all done above the plane of personalities, and she eares little for the honors that it 
brini's her, in comparison with the ijjood of the cause. She has worked steadily for harmony 
iiml consolidation amonj; eoutlictiiifj interests, and with an eye single to the jiernianent i^ood. 
Wii.LiAM 11. Smvi'Hk, now a jirominent tigure in the atVairs of American Freemasonry, 
is a lloosier by birth, born in Putnam County, near the city of Ureencastle, July -. ]84(). 
His grandparents were born in Virginia, and were iinlustrious and enterprising citizens of 
that grand old mother of States. One branch of the family, however, at a later day emi- 
grated to Kentucky, in which State the father of our subject was born. The mother was a 
native of Indiana. When Williaiu was about nine years of age be was left fatherlt>ss, and 
when twelve years of age he received an injury to the knee that threatened to and did 
make him a cripple for life. Uealizing that he must learn a trade for his ow'n subsistence, 
as well as to aid his mother sujiport her large family, he entered a shoemaker's shop at the 
age of sixteen. From the age of twelve until he had reached iiis sixtetMith birthday he saw 
but few idle moments, devoting the time spent by other boys in amusement to sawing wood 
and in other occupations suitable to his age and strength. In this way he earned sutlicient 
means to support himself and to obtaiu the learning he so much coveted. From the time he 
commenced his trade he labored at it for sixteen years, but to a niind like his the work of the 
l>euch was not sutlicient, though it brought him a comfortable maintenance. The desire for a 
lietter odncaliou was strong in this Hoosier youth and followed him into manhood. Many 
times the midnight oil was consumed while he stiuggled with subjects that would lienetil 
him in coming years, and the v(>ry best books were i>agerly devoured by him. Some time 
after attaining his majority he became interested in the Masonic fraternity and received the 
degree of Master Mason in Applegate Lodge, No. 155, at Fillmore, Ind., Jiiue 1, 18t)U, 
serving as master of the lodge in 1S7S anil IST'.I. The year ISTl he was made a Uoyal Arch 
Mason and served as high priest of his chapter for four years. In 1874 he became a royal 
ami select master and presided over his council for -six years. He was made a Knight 
Templar in 1S7(>, and two years later was made eminent commander. His marked pronii 
nence in the craft at this writing consists in the fact that he occupies the [)ositions of 
grand recording otticer of all the grand bodies of the Ancient York rite in Indiana. He 
was elected grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in May, 
1S7S, and re elected at each succei'ding annual meeting; was appointed giand secretary of 
the (iraud Chapter of Uoyal Arch Masons, grand recorder of the Grand Council of Koyal 
and select Masters, and grand recorder of the Grand Commaudery of Knights Templar, 
respectively, on November U\ ISSS, and has been elected to these several positions at each 
sncceeding annual meeting since held by them. He has also served as grand secretary of 
the lirand Chapter of the O. E. S. , of Indiana, the system of .Vdoptive Masonry in Amer- 
ica, continuously from lS7ti to lS'.);-i, and has been treasurer of the Masonic Mutual Benefit 
Society of Indiana for a j^eriod of live years. The discharge of the duties thus contided to 
him necessitated his removal to Indianapolis, where he has long resided. These positions 
are a jiart of what is known as the York Rite of JIasonry, but his alTection for ami interest 
in every branch of Free Masonry led hin\ to seek and attain the mysteries of the Ancient 
Accepted Scottish Kite, and he received its degrees up to and including the thirty second 
degree, at Indianapolis, in 1881 and 1884. He was honored by the Supreme Council for 
the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction with the degree of sovereign grand inspector general, 
thirty-tliird degree, the last degree of the rite at Chicago, in September, 188t). ]\[r. Smythe 
is a man of spotless reputation and absolute integrity. The hard training of his early life 
was the thorough school in which he learned the importance of punctuality in all engage- 
ments and fidelity to every trust; and also mental discipline and self reliance. These at 
once mark his success in life, his high standing in his community, and universal respect 
and esteem of all who know him. His ever thoughtful and constant care of his family, as 
a husband and father; his prompt and most etlicient discharge of the duties of the high 
stations he is occupying; his uudeviating courtesy toward all who approach him in business 
relations; his kindness, consideration and accommodation to those who seek his counsel or 
assistance, by private request of every character; have made him innumerable admirers 




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and friends in all portions of the State, and indeed in nnmerons localities throughout the 
country. 

William H. Kendeick, M. D. The physician is a man who inspires confidence l)ecau8e 
he is worthy of it. His humanity is expressed in the interest he takes in his patient's wel- 
fare as well as for the experience he may gain while pursuing the paths of this arduous 
profession, in order to benefit future sufferers. Dr. Kendrick is a ph^'sician who has always 
loved knowledge and as a physician is devoted to his profession, careful in his investigations 
and gives all the time he can find in his busy life to books and periodicals devoted to medicine 
and surgery. He is built upon a broad gauge and he has always lal)ored under the belief 
that it was his duty to gain knowledge from whatever source it came, so that it was reliable 
and valuable. He has always despised charlatanry and deceit in all its forms and believes 
in deserving the confidence of patients by pursuing strictly open and honorable methods. 
His range of information is broad and during the many years that he has pursued the calling 
of Esculapius he has won a wide reputation and a large practice. The Doctor is now in his 
eightieth year, for he was born in Knox County, Tenn., near Wrights Ferry on the Holsten 
River on December 21, 1814, and there resided until he was five years old. He was then 
taken to the State of Ohio and until he attained manhood he gave his father his assistance on 
the home farm in Preble Connty. He was an attendant of the common schools during his 
youth, and in early life was converted to the Christian religion and soon after began speaking 
in the cause of Christ. Some time after he was ordained to preach in the United Brethren 
Church, the Laying on Hands being performed Ijy Senior H. Coombs, presiding bishop, 
after which Dr. Kendrick became a traveling minister and thus labored in his Master's 
vineyard for several years. Owing to his health giving way he gave uj) this work and turned 
his attention to the study of medicine in the office ofDrs. Myers & Hammond, of Richmond, 
Ind., and upon leaving them he went to Washington, Wayne County, where he practiced his 
profession for two or three years. At the end of that time he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, after which he returned to Washington and 
resumed his practice. After a short time s])ent in Pendleton, he came to Indianapolis in 
1851, and in this city has made his home ever since. During the great Civil War he was 
made assistant surgeon of the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment but after a time was taken from 
the field and placed in charge of the patent office hospital, which position he retained until 
he was taken with a severe spell of typhoid fever, which so undermined his health that he 
resigned his position and returned home. He was very shortly after made professor in the 
Medical Eclectic College, of Chicago, where he delivered lectures until the great fire of 1871 
swept the college away. He then returned to his home in Indianapolis where he has remained 
ever since and assisted in establishing the Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons and 
was made Dean of the Faculty, continuing as such three years. Although he is now much 
broken in health, and is quite advanced in years, yet he is possessed of a wonderful consti- 
tution and his mind is as clear and active as in the days of his youth. He is a member of 
the Indiana Eclectic Medical Association of Marion County and was chosen a delegate to 
the Eclectic Medical Congress held at Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, but ill 
health })revented him from attending. In the field of politics Dr. Kendrick has been honored 
Ijy his party and in 1861 he was elected to the State Legislature and after his return from 
the war was re-elected, serving in all three terms. He introduced several bills whch after 
ward became law, and during his first term when an objectional bill was introduced relative 
to the secession of Indiana from the Union the Doctor was one of the majority of Republicans 
who left the legislative hall to prevent the passage of the same. He was married on March 
19, 1842, to Jeannette Meredith, a native of North Carolina, and a cousin of Gen. Meredith. 
To them two children were born: Robert and Minerva J. Originally he was a Jacksonian 
Democrat in his political views but assisted in the formation of the Republican party and has 
ever since been a stanch supporter of the same. 

HiR.\M MooRHous. This successful farmer was born in Warren Township, Marion 
County, Ind., July 4, 1884, on the farm belonging to his father, Andrew Moorhous, who 
was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., in 1796, and came to Indiana in 1824, entering, soon 
after, 220 acres of land in Warren Township of the county in which his son now resides. 
Before his death, which occurred in 1864, he had cleared 100 acres and made many improve- 



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ments ic the way of buildings. He was married in March, 1825, to Miss Theresa White, 
and to them were born eight children, as follows: Louisa (wife of Capt. John A. McLaugh- 
lin, who served throughout tlie Civil War as a member of Company A, Forty-seventh 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, became lieutenant colonel, commanding that regiment, and b)' 
his wife the father of five children — Mary (wife of J. L. Penny), Ida (deceased), Emma 
(Mrs. Everett), James A. and John G.): Albert (who died May 10, 181H), was a corporal in 
Company D. Fourth Indiana, during the Mexican War and was captain of Company L, 
Ninth Indiana Cavalry, during the Civil War: was badly wounded at Nashville and his 
death resulted from these wounds): Clarissa; Indiana (married Isaac H. Shriner, by whom 
she has one child); Thomas; Hiram (the subject of this sketch); Sarah (who died unmarried), 
and Robert (who served as sergeant in Company L, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, was captured in 
northern Alaliama and lost his life in the terrible explosion of the steamer "Sultana ""). The 
father of these children was a Democrat politically, and a member of the Baptist Church, as 
was his wife. He was a private in Capt. Redding's company, organized in Indiana for the 
Black Hawk War, and went from Indianapolis to Chicago on horseltaek, but the war was 
over when he arrived. His wife died in 1889 at the age of ninety -one years. The paternal 
gilindfather, Nathaniel Moorhous, was born, lived and died in the State of New York, and 
was a farmer all his life. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, being a member 
of Capt. Bell's company of scouts. His children were Andrew, Silas, Sylvanus, Mary and 
Wilbur. The immediate subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm of 260 acres, 
belonging to his father, one of the patents for which bears the signature of John Q. Adams, 
another having the signature of Gen. Andrew Jackson. In the suliscription schools of his 
boyhood days Hiram Moorhous was educated, but he attended only about two months out of 
the year up to the age of fourteen years. He remained on his father's farm until about 
twenty-eight years of age, and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company K, Eleventh 
Indiana Regiment Zouaves, of which Col. Lew Wallace was the commander. He entered 
as a private and served as such for three months; then, having servetl his term of enlistment, 
he became a member of Company A, Forty-seventh Indiana, and was made first duty ser- 
geant and six months later was promoted to second lieutenant, which rank he held up to the 
time of his discharge, which occurred at Helena, Ark., in November, 1863. He was in the 
following battles: Romney, Va. ; Island No. 10; a gunboat light at Riddle's Point, below 
Island No. 10; New Madrid, Mo. ; Brown's Plantation, Miss.-, where his company lost thir- 
teen out of twenty -one men. Although Mr. Moorhous' health was always poor during his 
service, with the exception of the tirst six months, he remained faithfully with his company 
and was always ready to report for duty. Upon receiving his discharge he returned home, 
and for a yeai' thereafter was an invalid. He remained at home until 1868, then liought 160 
acres of land in Warren Township, Marion County, Ind. December 3, 1868, he was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth, daughter of John Ellenberger, and they settled on the tract of land men- 
tioned. Since then he has increased his holding to 260 acres, of which 220 acres are cleared. 
He raises the usual farm products and ai)Out fifty head of hogs yearly, in fact is a thrifty 
and industrious farmer. To himself and wife five children have been given, of whom one, 
John A., died in infancy. Those living are; Ella E. , Charles H., Frank F. and Theresa A. 
Mr. Moorhous was a Democrat in his political views until the firing on Fort Sumter, since 
which time he has been an ardent Repul)lican. 

Thojus M. McKee. In the early stages of American history necessity goaded the wits 
of the handful of individuals from which the people of the United States sprung, and 
its imprint has been left upon their descendants in the shape of great mental activity and 
ingenuity, which characterizes them as a race. Among those who are known as representa- 
tive American citizens the name of Thomas M. McKee, an inventor of considerable note, 
takes a prominent place. He was born in Shelby County, Ind., in 1858, and is a son of 
Felix L. and Melissa (Jones) McKee. The father was also a product of Shelby County, 
Ind., born in the year 1822, and is to day the oldest white man living who was born in that 
county. The mother was a native of the Blue-Grass State and was born in the year 1883. 
She died in March, 1893 but the father is still living ami finds a comfortable home with his 
son, our subject. He and wife were the parents of four children, two sons and two daugh 
ters. The daughters died in infancy and the son, Jasper N., now resides in Brightwood, 



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Ind. T. M. McKee came to this county in the fall of 1S87, from Shelbv Countj where, be 
was reared aud educated, and he first engaged in the work of contracting and building. He 
is a cabinet maker br trade and a man of remarkable genius in the way of iuTeuting new 
machinery. Finding the building and contracting business overdone he began inventing a 
cham which be has recently patented and put on the market. His churn is made to run 
like a clock and when the drum is wound up it will mn for one hour and will churn a batch 
of butter every few minutes. A company has been organized and the new chums are to be 
put on the market in large numbers for the next season's trade. In matrimony, as in other 
ventures, he has been very successfuL He was married to Mis? Alfaretta Johnson, at Greens- 
burg, Ind., in ISS". and by Ler has one child, a bright little girl named Elsie May. whose 
birth occurred July 31. ISSI. Mrs. McKee's parents. David L and Sarah (Tucker) John- 
son, were Indiana pveople and are both dead. Mr. McKee is a gentleman of kind disposition 
and pleasant manners and has a host of warm friends. 

Jacob B. Casket, the most efficient engineer on the Bee Line division of the Big Four 
RaUroad is a native of the Bnckeye Stat*, born in Wayne County. September 22, 1845. to 
the union of John and Mar}- ( Young) Caskey. The parents were married in Ohio about 1844 
and still live in Belief outaine. that State. To their union were born five children, three sons 
and two daughters, the subject of this sketch being tbe eldest. The other children were 
named in the order of their births as follows; James married Miss Alice Hinch and became a 
railroad engineer, and was killed in Kansas while acting in that capacity, and his widow now 
resides in Brightwood, Ind. ; John, married Miss Mattie Menici and resides in Bellefontaine, 
Ohio: Maggie, married Edward Slone. and is also a resident of Bellefontaine. Ohio, and 
Laura, married James Powers and makes her home in FindJay. Ohio. Jacob B. Caskey. the 
suliject of this sketch, passed his youthful days in his native county, and there received a 
fair education. In 1861 he enlisted in the Forty-second Ohio Kegiment under Col. James 
A. Garfield, and served until cessation of hostilities. He participated in twenty-seven 
battles and was slightly wounded at Ticksburg on May 22. At the close of the war he 
returned to his native Stat* and engaged in former duties of engineer on the railroad and 
still pulls the throttle on the Bee Line division of the Big Four. In the year- ISGS he was 
married to Miss Emma Bramwell. daughter of John M. and Mary (Dorsev) Bramwell. who 
were among the earliest settlers of Indianapolis. This union has been blessed by the birth 
of six children, three sons and three daughters ; Albert, is now living in Watertown, S. D. . 
and like his father is a railroad engineer, and is married to Miss Laura WOson, of Nichols, 
Iowa: Gracie! married James Ackworth and resides in Brightwood: Walter, single, makes 
his home with his parents and carries on a large dmg store for his father, is an expert 
druggist, and is blessed with excellent business qualifications: Effie. is at home with her 
{>arents: John is also at home, as is the youngest child. SteUa. Mr. Caskey became a 
resident of Indiana in 1866, and has ever since made it his home. For two years he was 
trustee of Brightwood and for the same length of time was president of the board of 
trustees of this place. He is a member in good standing in the G. A. R. , the Brotherhood 
of Locomotive Engineers and of the K. of P. He has always been one of the foremost 
citizens in all matters of public improvement, and is in every way a most worthy and 
respected citizen. 

Edgae M. OinxAXD. ML D. Health is the most precious gift of nature, and how to 
retain it and how to regain it when lost are matters of vital moment. Some obtain health 
in travel, others in physical recreation and both are Ijeneficial but they do not always 
accomplish the object in view. Medical science mnst be resorted to and a good physician 
employed. Indianapolis is especially favored in this respect, for she numbers many excellent 
physicians among her professional men. Prominent among those who have won golden 
laurels in this respect stands the name of Dr. Edgar M. Ontland. He is a product of the 
State, bom in Parke County October 12. 1861. and although young in years has already a 
knowledge of medicine that many older men might envy. His father, John T. Outland. is a 
native of North Carolina and came to Parke County. Ind., with his parents when ten years of 
age. He has been a resident of that county ever since and is one of its most substantial 
farmers. He married Mi--s Mary Newsom. a native of Bartholomew County. Ind., and they 
now reside on tbe homestead in Parke Countv. Dr. Edgar M. Ontland, the only child born 

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to this worthy couple, passed his youthful days in assisting his father on the farm and in 
attending the common schools wliere he secured a good practical education. Later he 
entered Earlham College at Richmond and in 1888 began the study of medicine with Dr. 
Woodard. of Indianapolis. Later he entered the Physio-Medical College of Indiana from 
which he was graduated in 18U0, and he immediately began general practice. Shortly after 
ward he was appointed to the chair of jjhysical diagnosis in the college, and held this until 
the fall of ISU'i when he was promoted to the chair of general and descriptive anatomy. 
This position he tills at the |)re8eut time with credit to himself and to the evident satisfaction 
of the college. He is a member of the American Medical Associatio[i. also the Indiana State 
Association, and has been president of l)otli. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Med- 
ical Societ}' and has been presiding officer of the same. On October '28, 1884, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Tacy J. Allen, a native of Parke County, Ind., and the daughter of Joseph and 
.Mahala (Stalker) Allen, natives of Iniliana and Ohio respectively. Dr. and Mrs. Outlaud are 
the parents of two children : Louverne and Kaymond. He and wife are members of the 
Friend's Church, ami in ])olitics he adheres to the principles of the Republican party. 

Henhv Ddi.lman. Al)ility, when backed by enterprising business measures and progress- 
ive ideas, will acomplish more than any other professional or connnercial requirement. 
An illustration of this may be seen in the career of Henry Dullman, who is one of the most 
successful, and busy contractors and builders of Indianapolis. He was l)orn in Napoleon, 
Ripley County. Ind., December, 1866, a son of Gottleib Dollman, who came from his native 
land of Germany to this country when a young man. He tirst made his home in the city 
of Cincinnati, Ohio, and having learned the carpenter's trade in the old country he worked 
at it as a contractor after locating in Cincinnati. He afterwaid moved to Ripley County, 
Ind.. where he became a contractor and in 1878 became a resident of Indianapolis. Henry 
Dollman was placed in school immediately after his parents arrival in this city, and here he 
obtained a pra(!tical education which well fitted him for the busy life he has led. While 
growing to manhood Henry learned all the details of bis father's business, and afterward 
worked under his competent and painstaking instruction, thus obtaining a knowledge of the 
trade which he could have secured in no other manner. Gottleib Dollman and his son 
Charles were for some time in partnership as contractors and builders, during which time 
they built the Spencer house, the St. Charles block, did the work on the Insane hospital and 
also on many other buildings of note in the city and also the county. Finally Charles Doll- 
man went south to Memphis, Tenn., and Henry Dollman accompanied him and while in 
tliat section ac^ted in the capacity of superintendent for his brother who was doing an excep- 
tionally extensive contracting business. In 189(1 Henry returned to Indianapolis and com 
menced contracting on his own account and being a thoroughly good business man, as well 
as being up in his trade he has pro8[)ered both financially and in reputation. He is a mem- 
ber of the Contractors and Builders Association, and politically has ever been in sympathy 
with the Republican party. His father is still residing in Indianapolis, an honored citizen. 

Richard Senour. This intelligent and substantial citizen was born in Warren Town- 
ship, Marion County, Ind., Octo))er 12, 1837, on the old home place of eighty acres belong- 
ing to his father, Edward Senour. who entered it in 1825. Here Richard was brought up 
and received the principal part of his education in the subscription schools which were in 
vogue at that time, only attending the public schools for a yt'ar or two. He quit attending 
school when about twenty years of age bnt remained with his father and assisteil him on the 
home farm until he was twenty-four years old, then began working at the carpenter's trade 
with his brother, William P. Senour, and for about two years was engaged in contracting. 
He then purchased forty acres of land and went to farmuig, and has followed this 
honorable employment ever since, being now the owner of 100 acres of land. Since about 
1878 he has been raising, buying and selling live stock, which he has found to be quite a 
profitable source of revenue. His land is exceptionally productive, and usually yields about 
twenty bushels of wheat to the acre, and other grains in proportion. Politically he is a 
Democrat, and his tirst vote was cast for Stephen A, Douglas. He and his wife have had seven 
children, two of whom are dead, and the others are named as follows: Mary, Edward, Laura. 
Helen and Elizabeth. The maiden nanu^ of the mother of these children was Eunice Bar 
nard, daughter of Reuben Barnard, her marriage with Mr. Senour lieiug celebrated in 1869. 



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The father of Richard Senonr was Edward Senour, who was born iu Boone County, Ky., in 
1802 and was married there to Cassandra, daughter of Richard WeJls, and about 1827 they 
came to Indiana, entering eighty acres in Warren Township in 1825, and the year after he 
walked to this section from his native State, carrying his axe on his shoulder, and here dead- 
ened a large amount of timber on his entry, then walked back to his native State, and the 
following fall moved thither with his family. He soon afterward entered 160 acres in Boone 
County, lud., which he lield until 1869, then sold. He lived ou his eighty-acre tract until 
his death, in 1873, and there reared eight of the eleven children born to him: Joseph, who 
lives in Texas, married a Miss Powell, and by her has two children, Ira and Charlie; Rich- 
ard, the subject of this sketch: William P., who married Louisa Parrish. by whom he has one 
son, Frank: Mary, who married Luther Easterday. died, leaving three children, Gertrude, 
Walter, and Cozy; Nancy, who first married Leland Smith, by whom she had one child, de- 
ceased, and by her second husband, David Brumley, became the mother of two children, 
Frank and Jessie; Robert married a Mi.ss Robinson and resides in Indianapolis, and James, 
who lives ou the old home place in Marion County, is married to Allie Murphy, and has one 
daughter. The father of these children was always a Democrat and belonged to the Christ- 
ian Church, as did his wife, who now resides with her son-in-law, Mr. Brumley. The 
paternal grandfather, Philip Senoar, was a Virginian, and at an early day emigrated to Ken- 
tucky. He married a Miss Glower, and to them ten children were born as follows: Edward, 
Adam, Timothy, Clara, and Sarah, and five other daughters whose names are unknown. The 
grandfather died about 1852, at about the age of seventy years. 

Noah Weight was born in Randolph County, N. C, August 30, 1784, and in 1808 
became a resident of Indiana, at which time there were only three counties organized in the 
State. He first located at Jeffersonville, where he manufactured brick the first year of his 
residence, then farmed awhile for a man named Holmau, and then served one year on the 
frontier against the Indians, for which service he received a land warrant for 160 acres, 
which, however, he did not receive until nearly forty years later — a short time prior to his 
death. After the close of the Indian war he returned to his former home in North Carolina, but 
only remained one year, then returned to Indiana. He located in Washington County, Ind., 
where he was employed in clearing land, and here he was married July 28. 1814, to Susanna, 
daughter of -\rthur Parr, a native of Rowan County, N. C. He remained in that county 
until 1831, then came to Marion County, where he purchased at different times 640 acres of 
land, and at that time also owned iu Hamilton County 420 acres. He settled on a tract of 
160 acres in Perry Township, uot an acre of which had been cleared and there he lived until 
his death July 11. 1863. Seven children were born to his marriage: Betsey A., who died in 
1860, was the wife of James J. Rooker, and left one son, Hiram W. ; David, died July 2, 
1883, at the age of twenty j-ears; Hiram, born June 18, 1819, and died December 19, 1888, 
having married Ann Hoover who bore him three children, Wintield T., Missouri and Noah; 
Isaac, born January 7, 1824, died January 9, 187t>, having married Helen Martin who bore 
him two children, Alfaretta and Hattie; Polly, born June 22. 1827. died December 21, 
1882, the wife of John M. Wise; Susanna, bo"ru March 17, 1831. died November 29^ 1862, 
the wife of Eli Haverstick (deceased). Ijy whom she had two children, Mary E. and Chris- 
tina, and Jasper N., whose name follows this sketch. The father of these children was an 
old line Whig and afterward a Republican. He was a member of the first Legislature con- 
vened in Indiana and was sheriff of Washington County some five or sis terms. He was uot 
a church member but gave liberally to all denominations. His wife died October 9, 1842. 
His father. Philburd Wright, was born in Maryland in 1750 and became a settler of Indi- 
ana about 1813, taking up his residence in Union County, near Brownsville, where he died 
in 1833. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and was afterward a justice of the peace for 
about forty years in Randolph County, N. C. He was married to Elizaljeth Reagan and to 
them children were born as follows: Joshua, who disappeared at New Orleans in 1815 and 
was never afterward heard from; Delilah, who married John Summey; Joel, who married a 
Miss Birely and became the father of two children, Ensley and Elizabeth; Sarah, who mar- 
ried John Fontz; Noah, the father of the subject of this sketch; Levi, married a Miss Wright 
by whom he had three daughters and four sons; Elizabeth; Eli, resides in Wayne County, 
Ind., is married and has a son, Elmer; Jesse, married Marv Brown and has four children. 



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Sarah, Mary, Eli and Noah; Mary, married John Beard hikI Ims tbrpe children, Isaac, Mary 
and Maliiida; Elizalieth, married James Rains and bas three children, Hiram, Levi and 
Martin; Aaron, married Ruhama Sellers and has tive children, Isaac, .Jesse, Philburd, Nancy 
and Elizabeth. 

Jaspek Newton Wuioht. Amoiiij the thrifty farmers of Marion County, Ind., may be 
mentioned Jasper Newton Wright, who was l)orn in the township in which he now resides 
December 5, 1S34, on the farm belonging to his father, Noah Wright. There he lived until 
the age of twenty-seven, his education being obtained in the subscription schools of that 
period, continuing al)0ut tive sessions, then his father gave him a farm of 160 acres, sixty 
acres of whicli were cleared and on wliich had been erected a house. He at once settled on 
this farm and made his home with the family of John Findlijy, to whom he rented it for 
three years. Daring this time he gave his attention to hauling wood off the farm to town. 
In 1866 he was married to Annie, daughter of Muse G. and Jane Sanford, natives of Vir 
ginia, and at that time residents of Hancock County, Ind., and to their union tive children 
were given as follow.s: Elmer (who married Christina Gennaman), Susanna (who married 
George Kelgrice, by whom she has one son, Ira), Newton, Harrison and Jane. Mr. and Mrs. 
Wright are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and [lolitically he has always been a 
Republican, his first vote having been cast for John C. Fremont. Owing to physical disa- 
l)ility he was not in the service of his country during the (Uvil War, but he was a strong 
Union sympathizer. 

Dr. D.wid H. H.\rold. There is always in the medical profession some individuals who 
liecome eminent and command a large patronage, and among those deserving special recog- 
nition is Dr. David H. Harold, whose face is a familiar one in the home of the sick and 
afHicted. He is a native of Hamilton County, Ind., born February 5, 1844, and the son of 
Nathan Harold who was born in the old North State. The latter came to Indiana when 
eighteen years of age, settled in Wayne County, and was there wedded to Miss Betsey Haw- 
kins, a native of that county. Nathan Harold was a self-made, self educated man. In 
liS83 he moved to Hamilton County, Ind., and was one of the pioneer physicians of that 
county, and carried on an active and general practice for nearly thirty years. Although 
the advantages for an education, medical and otherwise, were poor during his time, he was 
recognizc'd as one of the most eminent physicians of that part of the State and had the rec- 
ord of never losing a patient stricken with typhoid fever. His death occurred April I, 1885. 
His widow survives him and makes her home in Hamiltim County. Dr. David H. Harold 
was reared in Hamilton County and educated in the schools of the same. The early years 
of his life were spent in working on his father's farm and in 1872 be took up Evangelistic 
work and for a long time was recognized as the "young evangelist." He was an arduous 
worker and for about twelve years devoted his entire energy and time to this work, which 
extended over the States of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. During a period of about ten years 
he averaged about 200 converts per year. The best part of his life was spent in this 
good work but the intense strain on the system was too much for him and he was com- 
pelled to abandon it. The study of medicine then attracted his attention but as he had 
studied and read medicine more or less all his life and as it seemed to be second nature to 
him, he graduated from the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis in 1889, two years 
after entering. He immediately began a geueral practice and this he still continues success- 
fully. He has steadily risen in the channels of medical life and is a physician of established 
reputation. He is a member of the State Medical Association and the Indianapolis Medical 
Society. Dr. Harold was married in 1865 to Miss Sarah J. Carey, a native of Hamilton 
Cjuuty, Ind. Her death occurred in the spring of 1874, and in September, 1875, he was 
wedded to Miss Tacy Brown, a native of Boone County, Ind., and the daughter of Isaac and 
Phfebe (Childre) Brown, natives respectively of North Carolina and Belmont County, Ohio. 
Dr. and Mrs. Harold l)ecame the parents of four children, as follows: Roscoe C, died Janu- 
ary 23, 1893; Albert H., Anna W. and Clifford B. By his first marriage the Doctor became 
the father of three children: Frank A., Ora J. and Rosetta. Ora J., who married Dr. A. T. 
Hunt, and now resides at Charlotteville, Ind., is the only one now living. Dr. Harold 
is a prohibitionist in principle and has been a candidate for mayor of Indianapolis on that 
ticket. He and Mrs. Harold are members of the Friend's Church. 



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•Joseph K- English. There is no class of business men who more snrelj rear np 
visible monuments to their indnstry and their enterprise than the painters of the sightly 
structures which become a landmark not only locally but in the historical sense in all onr 
great cities. Among those who have for years devoted their attention to this line of work 
may be mentioned Joseph K. English, who was bom in Frederick County, Md., in 1S24, 
his father being King English, a native of the district of Columbia. The latter wa= reared 
in his native place and in Maryland and after reaching the age of sixteen years he made 
a permanent location in Maryland and turned his attention to tilling the soil, in pursuing 
which he met with reasonable success. He was a member of the militia and assisted in 
the defense of Baltimore when it was attacked by the British during the War of 1S12. In 
1S3" he came west and located on an eighty-acre tract of land now bounded on the south by 
Seventh Street, and on the west by the Lake Erie i Western Baflroad. and all of which 
forms a part of the city of Indianaptolis. and which at that time was covered with quite a 
heavy growth of timber. In the city of Indianapolis he died in IS'64. when seventy-four 
years of age. having been a successful pioneer farmer. He was married in Frederick 
County, Md. . to Miss Mary Brown who also died in Indianapolis in 1S61. at the age of 
sixty-seven years. They were member^ of the English Lutheran Church and for many 
years the father was an elder in the same. He was first a Whig and then became a 
Republican in politics, but never aspired to public position, being content to pursue the 
even tenor of his way independent of the strife and turmoil of political life. Of the 
children bom to himself and wife, the subject of this sketch is the only one now living, 
two members of the family having died in infancy. Joseph K. English received his edu- 
cation in the Old Seminary and from the early days of his youth until he reached the 
age of twenty-four years worked on a farm. He learned his trade under G. D. Statts who 
was probably the oldest painter in the place, and after becc>ming familiar with every 
detail of the business he worked at it alone until ]So2 when he formed a jjartnership with 
his old instructor and the firm of Statts &: English coi. tinned until 1S60. He was elected 
city treasurer in 1S61. a position he held for four years during the war. At the end of 
that time he purchased a farm in C-enter township on Fall creek, on which he remained 
untfl 1S71. when he returned to the city and engaged in the foundry and machine busi- 
ness as a memljer of the firm of Bemer. English <& Over and was associated with the 
last named gentleman tintil 1S76 at which time be once more turned his attention to |>aint- 
ing. in which business he was associated with his son. H. K. Eoglisb. Mr. English was 
married in ]So2 to Elvira, daughter of Henry Colestock, an old pioneer of the section and 
2 stair builder by trade, some of his most important work being -done on the Deaf and Dumb, 
the Blind and the Insane Asylums. Mrs English was bom in Harrisburg. Penn.. in 1S31, 
and has borne her husband five children: H. King and Frank C. who are painters by- 
trade, and their daughters are Mrs. Frank Keegan. the wife of the druggist: Julia, a teacher 
in the public schools of the county, and Josie. who is still at home with her parents. Mr. 
Enarlish and his family are members of the Lutheran Church, and he has been an officer in 
and is now a charter meml>er of Capitol Lodge of the I. O. O. F., in which he passed all 
the chairs many years ago. and also belongs to the K. A- Politicallv he has. like his father, 
affiliated with the Republican p>arty. While residing in the c-cmniy in lS6»i he was a mem- 
ber of the Board of County Commissioners, in which he held the position of president at 
the time the court-house plans were made and built. He was an active member of that 
bc>dy and was a moving spirit in the building of the Iron bridges in Marion County 
across the White River. In 1S5S and 1S59 he was a member of the city council, in fact, 
he has been a wide awake and pu-~hing man of affairs, and is with reason ranked among the 
upright and useful citizens of the county in which he has so long made bis home. For 
many years, in the earliest history of Indianapolis. Mr. English was a member of the volun- 
teer fire dejjartment and president of the Marion Fire Company and of the Fire Associa- 
tion. While a member of the city council he was chairman of the committee on fire 
department which disbanded the volunteer department, and drafted the ordinance replacing 
it with a p>aid steam department which has become one of the best in the country. 

Srsreox Fraziee. The gentlemen whose name heatls this sketch, has always been a pw- 
tential element in the civilization and development of Indiana, and in his veins flow sturdy 



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Kii<:jlish ami St-otcli blooil which he iuhoiited from his worthy father and motlipr, Absalom 
iiiul ("liirissa (Hmuly) Frazior, who wero horn iu North Carolina and New York respectively. 
The paternal grandfather came from the laud of '"thistles and oatmeal"' to this country dur 
ing colonial days and identified himself heart and soul with the interests of his adopted 
country and became one of its most substantial, law abiding and progressive citizens. His 
son, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a mechanic by trade and was a maker of the 
old fashioned spinning wheel, which was extensively used at that time. He came to Indiana 
about the time it was admitted into the Union as a State but died in the State of Illinois in 
ISCio, leaving a large family of children. 

Simeon Frazier, liis son, was born in Clarke county. lud.. May 20, 1S82 and there he 
received such education as could be obtained in the schools then in vogue and obtained a 
thorough and practical knowledge of the ct>mmon branches. His vacations were sj)ent in 
assisting in the tedious and laborious work incident to pioneer life and under these condi- 
tions he grew to honorable manhood, and during his long residence here has seen a great 
deal of the development of the country, and witnessed its transformation from a sparsely 
populated region, rudely cultivated, into a thickly peopled section, dotted with magnificent 
and highly cultivated farms. He was brought up as a miller and lumberman but iu 1852 he 
abandoned this occupation to become a clerk in a treneral store but finding his education some- 
what delicient. he decided to take a commercial course in 1S54 and for this purpose entered 
an institution of Louisville. K} .. from which he graduated. Immediately thereafter he be- 
gan keeping books in a wholesale establishment but in 18r>() took the agency for the Madison 
and Indianapolis Railroad which position he continued to hold until 1864. when he gave up the 
position to become first lieutenant of Company G. , of the One Hundred and Thirty second Regi- 
ment and wasiu the 100 days service, guarding Gen. Sherman's lines of transportation. After 
his term of enlistment had expired be returned to his former occupation at Columbus, Ind., and 
at the end of eighteen months was transferred to Madison, Ind.. where he continued to act as 
agent for seven years, or until the fall of IST^i, when he was transferred to Indianapolis, con t inn 
ing in their employ until 1882. His next move was to Louisville, Ky.. but after residing there 
for live years he resigneil to go to Jacksonville, Fla.. for the benefit of his wife's health, and while 
a resident of that Stateacted in the capacity of agent for the Florida Railway and Navigation 
Company for one year. U)H)n his jeturn to the city of Indianapolis in tlH> summer of 1888 
he was elected secretary and director of Butler University which jiosition he has since re- 
tained, and in the discharge of which he has been remarkably successful, and has won the 
respect and confidence of all interested. He was first elected a director of this institution 
in 1876, and served until 1885. with the exception of three years when be was aljsent from 
the city. He is a member of the George H. Thomas Post of the G. A. R.. and has been an 
Odd Fellow since 1858. In 1862 he was elected jiniior warden of the Grand Encampment 
of Indiana, and senior warden in 1868. He was married in lSr>6, leading to the altar Miss 
Lucy C. Yaughan. by whom he has five children: Mrs, Dill. Ella, Harry E. , Charles L. and 
.Alvin H. Mr. Frazier and bis wife have long been members of the Christian Church, and 
his record as an honorable man of affairs has remained untarnished, and as a citizen he has 
always been public spirited and law abiding. They have reared their children to be an honor 
to them, and in the good graces of their acqnaintances hold a prominent place, as they fully 
deserve to do. 

William H. Fulton. Insurance has come to be a necessity of modern times. One of 
the most destructive elements to life and property since the world began has been fire. By 
the match of the inceudiiuy or the lack of care on the part of peoi)le in charge, millions of 
dollars are sacrificed annually. It is therefore essential that every precaution should be 
taken for the protection of both life and ]iroperfy. Insurance is the most effective means 
that has ever been devised to afford such protection, but it is a well established fact that all 
insurance does not insure: and in placing insurance not only the financial condition and rep- 
utation of insurance companies is to be considered, but the standing and character of those 
controlling the local agencies. The thoroughly reliable insurance agent is as necessary to a 
community as any one of his fellow citizens can possibly be, and Indianapolis has been 
especially fortunate in the character and integrity of its local insurance agents, and none of 
these are more popular than William H. Fulton, who is the State agent of the Fireman's 



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Fimd Insurance Company of California in the city of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana, 
where it has been estaldislied for many years. Mr. Fulton was born near West Liberty, 
Logan County, Ohio, November 5. 1842^ a son of Henry and Catherine (McBeth) Fulton, 
both of whom were born in Pennsylvania and of Scotch-Irish descent, and grandson of Joseph 
Fulton, who was born in the north of Ireland, and came to America in 1708, settling in 
Pennsylvania. He was actMjmpanied by two Ijrothers, who were soldiers in the Revolution, 
serving almost continuously from its commencement until its close. He was also closely 
related to Rol)(ut Fulton, who invented the steanilxjat. He was a farmer throughout life, 
and followed this occupation in Licking and Logan Counties, Ohio, his death occuiring in 
the last named county at the extreme old age of ninety-three years. Henry Fulton was quite 
small when his parents settled in Ohio, but there he was reared, educated and became a 
farmer. His eldest brother, Thomas Fulton, was a Foldier in the War of 1812. After resid- 
ing in Ohio for many years, Henry Fulton removed with his family to Branch County, Mich., 
in 1854, where he made his home until his death, in 18f53, his widow surviving him two years. 
William H. Fulton resided in Ohio until he v/as twelve years old, attending the common schools 
there and in Michigan, and the high schoolof Fremont, Ind. After leaving school he engaged in 
contracting and building in Branch County, Mich., which occupation he carried on success- 
fully for about four years, after which, in June, 1805, he came to Indianapolis, continuing in 
that busiijess eighteen years longer in this city, during which time he gave almost constant 
employment to from five to fifty men, and many of the city's finest residences and business 
blocks were erected liy him. In 1882 he became a lire insurance agent, and for two years 
was an independent adjuster of losses for various companies. He then received a flattering 
offer from the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Indianapolis, and for three and a half 
years was State agent and adjuster for this company, after which he spent one year in the 
same capacity with the Lancashire of England, having the agencies for four States. This 
work he found to be very laborious, and receiving an excellent offer from the Fireman's Fund 
Insurance Company he took service with the same, with which he has since been connected. 
He has been a member of the Indianapolis Association of Underwriters for the past nine 
years, has been its vice-president and at present is chairman of the executive board. In 
1869 Mr. Fulton led to the altar Miss Isabella Wallace, a native of the north of Ireland, and 
a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Walker) Wallace, and their union has resulted in the 
liirth of five children: Bessie and Beatrice, deceased, and William W., Edwin J. and Bella 
D. Mr. Fulton is a meml)er of the R. A., the K. of P. and the Republican party, and he and 
his wife are menil)ers of the Tabernacle Pre.sbyterian Church. 

Thomas M(jii.\x. Brightwood, the thriving suburban town of Indianapolis, can well be 
proud of the amourit of l>rains and energy possessed l)y her representative l)usiness men, 
among whom is Thomas Moran, who has one of the most popular meat maikets of that place. 
In all matters relating to his business Mr. Moran is thoroughly familiar, and ijeing honest 
and reliable, fully merits the confidence that has been Ijestowed upon him. He was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. , January 4, 184;^, and no doubt inherits his push and energy from his Irish 
ancestors, his father and mother, Owen and Margaret (Curley) Moran, having been born on 
the Emerald Isle. In their native country the parents grew to mature years and were 
there married in 1837. Shortly afterward they crossed the ocean to America and located in 
the city of New York. There all their children, four in number, two daughters and two sons, 
were born. They were named as follows: Mary Ann is single and resides in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. ; Thomas, our subject: Elizal)eth married James McCrary and makes her honje in Troy, 
N. Y., and Michael died at the age of twenty years. The mother of these children died 
in 1854 and the father survived her until 1890. The youthful days of our subject were 
passed in his native State and he there learned the trade of spinner which he worked at in 
Seneca Falls, N. Y., for several years and at other ])laces until 1875 when he embarked in 
business for himself. For tlie past twelve years he has been engaged in the meat business 
in Brightwood and gives this large enterprise his peisonal attention. During the Civil War 
he enlisted in the Fifteenth New York Volunteer Engineers for tlie last year of the war, and 
served until cessation of hostilities. He served with the army of the Potomac. Mr. Moran 
is one of the enterprising men who have built up the l)eautiful suburban town of Brightwood 
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in 1871 to Miss JIary Ellen Watkins, ilavitjlittM- of Joel and Barbara (BnrktM Watkins, who 
are natives of the Hoosier State anil now residents of Martinville. Ind. Jlr. and Mrs. Morau 
are the parents of three children, two sons and a daughter, as follows: Thomas Eugene, 
Joel and Mary Agnes, all at home. Mr. Moran's history is an example of what industry, 
frugality and integrity will accomplish. The building in which he carries on his business is 
largo, neatly lifted up. and well stockeil with the choicest meats, poultry, game, tish, oysters, 
etc., and he enjoys a large trade. 

Pmi.ir Keiohwein. This gentleman is not only one of the leading real estate men of 
Indianapolis, but he is one of the most prosperous and suocessfnl (lernian citizens as well, 
and it is worthy to note in the beginning of this all too brief account of his life that he is 
essentially a self-made man. having carved and worked out his own fortune. He was born 
January 12, 1841. in Mezingen, Urach, Kingdom of Wurtemberg. Germany, a sou of John 
P. and Maria A. (Wetzel) Keichwein. also natives of Germany. He came to America with 
his parents, landing in New York city July '25. 1852. Thence he went to EUensville, Ulster 
County. X. Y. , where he remained until March, ISoM, at which time he came to Indianapolis. 
He tirst obtained em|iloyment here with General Elliott, at the American hotel, opposite the 
l^nion depot ou Louisiana Street, and remained with him until 1S5T. He was then emj)loyed 
at the (German Turner Hall, at the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Tennessee Street. In 
ISdU he went to St. Louis, and after remaining one year returned to Indianapolis, where, in 
lSt>4. he was married to Miss Antonette Emmenegger. In 18ti8 he started in business on 
his own account, on the northwest corner of Market and Xoble Streets. Here he remained 
nntil 1876. In the meantime he built the tine block on the southwest corner of Market and 
Xoble Streets, known as ''Reichwein Hall." Mr. Keichwein was elected M. X. G. A. of 
the U. A. O. of D. at Cincinnati in 1875, and installed in Philadelphia in l87ti. and served with 
distinction. In 1882 he was elected supreme treasurer of the same order at Richmond and 
still serves in that capacity, it now being his sixth term. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a 
member of the I. O. O. F. , became a memlier of K. of P. in October, 18fi'.1, of which he has 
served as district deputy for several years, and is now president of the permanent board of 
trustees of the K. of P. Castle Hall Assoc-iation. From 1855 to 18(50 he was a member of 
the Indianapolis Turner Society. He became a member of the city council in 1881 and 
served \tntil January, 1884. He was also elected as one of the commissioners of the fire 
department of Indianapolis, and served as secretary of that body. In Se]itember, 18W, he 
engaged in the real estate and loan business with Thomas F. Quill, umler the firm name of 
Keiohwein & Quill, and has <loue an extensive business. He is a member of the Commercial 
Club, and has been closely identitied with the business enterprises of the city for many years 
and deservedly ranks among the substantial business men. He is a Republican and has 
taken an active part in politics for years. Mr. Reiohwein's father. John P. Reichwein, made 
his home with his son in this city until his death May 22. 18VI3, his wife having died 
December 2ti, 187t\ Mr. Keichwein possesses social and agreeable qualities calculated to 
make him popular with all with whom he has intercourse, and these have had much to do with 
his great prosperity and success in business. He is a public spirited citizen who has the 
best interests of Indianapolis at heart, and is ever ready to do all iu his power to aid in their 
ailvanceuieni. As a real estate man he is excejitionally well informed on values and upon 
all conditions atTeeting them either to advance or depress. He is a careful investor, and 
those who invest in real estate under his advice usually invest to gain. 

Geokhe H. C.^kter. There is nothing more beneficent than an example tif American 
citizenship and the possibilities which surround it under our American institutions. The 
gentleman above named belongs to a most honorable class which he adorns by his member- 
ship, the class familiar to ns as self-ntade men. We often read of such. They are pointed 
out to us iu every assemblage and ou the streets of everv larje city. If we trace their his- 
tory we find that many of them are entitled to be so called, and that very many of them 
are in one or several ways indebted to others, or to fortuitous ciroumstances for the success 
which has come to them but which they have not achieved in a strict sense. But if there is 
in Indiana a man who has been truly, in all things and under all circumstances and condi- 
tions, the architect of his own fortune, that man is George H Carter. Xo legacies have 
desoended to him: no acciileuts have befriended him. His watchword from the tirst has been 



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tbat which is the secret of all the successes the world has witnessed — work. It is a short 
word. Imt it stands for a long road, and one hard to travel, and upon which the weak and 
inefficient hesitate and fall. From his boyhood Mr. Carter has traveled it iioldly and per- 
severiugly. never faltering and never turning into any by paths of ease or unprofitaI)le 
plea.sure. The life of such a man is not interesting simply — it teaches truth. It serves as 
an encouragement to others who hear its story and who, in hours of darkness and doubt, 
have need of just such an example to make them hopeful and brave. The life of Mr. Carter 
has been an exemplification of sterling character and steadfast but unassuming devotion to 
the highest principles of manhood. Born in Kentucky in 1831, before that country had 
scarcely emerged from its pioneer period, he came. to Indianapolis from Fleming County, 
that State, in 1840, at the age of fifteen. The three years succeeding his coming were spent 
by him in acquiring a knowledge of tlie blacksmith's trade in an old and well-rememliered 
shoj) at the corner of Mississippi and Washington Streets. Young Carter can scarcely be 
said to have been seeking an "easy job." In those days, before the introduction of machin- 
ery in the manufacture of so many articles, the work of the l)lacksmith was heavier and more 
laborious than it is now. Everything was made by hand and by the hardest labor, horse- 
shoes, liorseshoe nails, everything that is now made in factories as well as all that is now 
made by hand. Those were years of weary toil for one so young, but they hardened his 
muscles and made him brave and self reliant. In 1849, at the age of eighteen, he went to 
Cincinnati and accepted a position as blacksmith on a steamer plying on the Ohio and Mis- 
sissippi Rivers. The youth showed his qualities so decidedly that within a year he was made 
engineer of the same boat. He had often to repair portions of the engine and had made a 
careful study of its parts, and that he should liave felt himself equal to the task of oper- 
ating it is not strange, especially in view of the fact that he did operate it safely and suc- 
cessfully for two years. In 1852 he fell a victim to the craze known in history as " the Cal- 
ifornia fever." For three or four years, glorious stories of marvelous "finds" of gold 
among the foothills and along the streams of tliat then far away and mysterious country, had 
followed one after another to the East and tilled a large proportion of the enterprising and 
venturesome ones with a desire to put their fortunes to the test beyond the Rockies. In com- 
pany with nine congenial spirits, he started for California from Cincinnati in May. The 
trip is now made in 100 hours. It took Mr. Carter and his companions 144 days. In was 
late in Se|>teruber when they reached their destination. Those were the days of crude 
things. Their roadway was not leveled and iron railed. It had no bridges. Road wagons 
without springs were the only suggestion of Pullman sleepers. Ox teams took the place of 
engines. Their eating stations were their camp-tires and they were their own cooks. They 
got no morning |)apers. spent no money on barbers or Ijoot blacks and none in stores. Mr. 
Carter has stated that on their line of travel churches were about I.-jOO miles ai)art, from 
which it may be inferred that they did not stop by the way to listen to many jiopular divines. 
From the time they started they did not sleep in a house for six months. Yet it was not an 
unpleasant journey, and Mr. Carter has frequently stated that he would be willing to undertake 
it again in the same company. They were a bold and jolly lot, who made the best out of 
what seemed worst and were determined to stand together through all dangers. Occasion- 
ally some adventure would lend zest to the excursion. For instance, in crossing Green 
river. Wyoming, the o.xen became contrary and, wheeling this way and that. u])set the 
wagon, spilling everything in it into the water. They had a brisk time of it rescuing the 
different articles as they began to float away. The saw Indians frequently, but none 
molested them. At times antelope and buffalo were browsing within rifle shot, and now 
and then the party breakfasted on antelope and Buffalo steak. More than once night was 
made hideous by the serenades of large packs of coyotes. Reliance on a more or less 
untrustworthy guide-book which fhey purchased in St. Joseph, Mo., which purported to tell 
just where overland travelers could till their barrels at springs and streams before crossing 
the desert stretches, several times occasioned a scarcity of water among them, and on one 
occasion they were compelled to plod through a long, hot day, without a drop for themselves 
or their cattle. It had been agreed that no man should ride in the wagon and thus add 
to the burden of the cattle except in case of absolute sickness. The poor beasts suffered if 
possible, more than the men. To stop without water was to court sickness and the loss of 



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the oxen, aud they kept goiu"; uutil 11 o'clock at night hopiug to liud what they sought 
ever a little Hheaii At that time they crossed a trail. Mr. Carter followed it to the right, 
and after traveling it two miles found himself close to an Indian camp. Only insupport- 
able thirst could have made him risk going further. He crawled on his hands and knees 
past the camp and reached a spring of pure linhhling water which he rememl)ers gratefully 
to this day as a means of assisting tiie whole i)arty. When they reached Carson Valley. 
at the eastern part of the Sierras, they sold their oxen and wagons and all e(|uii)ment 
except a blanket for each man. a coffee pot and a skillet, chosing to go on foot l''>0 miles 
over Sublette's cut off. rather than to '' wagon " a longer distance art)uud to the south. 
They paid 5^1 a pound for potatoes and onions which were packed for their fare by the 
way. It was a weirisome walk, up. and still up, then down, for days and days; but they 
reached the foothills on the California side and found themselves snugly ensconced in a 
mining camp. Mr. Carter's first work was in the " Long Tom "' mines. The rest of the 
party went further and it is believed that not i)ne of them is now living, leaving Mr. Carter 
the sole survivor. Every minor had need of a partner, ami Mr. Carter found a good one 
in a man named Shannon. Tliey lived together, iloing their own cooking, worked together 
and divided expenses and profits. After a year of gold digging in company with Shannon 
and a millwright named Ludwig, he bought the remains of a burned saw mill and about 
l.tlOtt acres of land which belonged with it. The mill was reconstructed and Mr. Carter 
and Ludwig became partners in its ownersnip and operation, Shannon choosing to continue 
mining. Mr. Carter continued in this l)usine.>is and made money, lueantime adding three 
saw mills to this one. Hut the country did not improve. He loved Indianapolis and yearned 
for its civilization, and in ISliS he disj)Osed of his California interests, and with the proceeds 
returned by a Pacific mail steamship and in due time arrived in Indianapolis. He had by this 
time become so accustomed to the lumber business that he naturally sought an opening in 
it. On his return he bought a partnership interest in a saw-mill. Isaac Long and another 
wei-e interested with him. After a year he purchased the interests of his two partners and 
after managing the enterprise alone for about another year associated with him S. A. Lee. 
The firm of Carter & Lee existed uutil 1S7(), when the mill was sold, Mr. Lee going into a 
boot and shoe business and Mr. Carter temporarily into a stock auction trade in partnership 
with A. Ct. Jackson, which he abandoned in about another twelve months to return to the 
manufacture of lumber. In 1877 he selected a site west of the river, on the belt road, and 
there erecteil another mill. In 1S7S Mr. Carter and Mr. Lee again became partners, and 
the firm of Cuter tf Lee has existed to the present time. Mr. Carter has also a tine farm 
near the city which is the residence of his family. He has. during his long and busy career, 
made so much money that were it not for his open-handed generosity he would now lie quite 
wealthy. All his life long. Mr. Carter has been a stanch and consistent Democrat, and he 
never sought office until, in 18S4. he consented to be the nominee of his party supported by 
a large contingent from other parties to the office of Sheriff of Marion County. He was 
triumphantly elected and served to the end of his term with the greatest credit, declining 
a renomination in the interests of his private business. The affairs of the county were safe 
in his keeping and the people without party distinction were pleased with him as their 
executive otlicer. He is a Mason of forty-years standing, having joined the order while liv- 
ing in California, and is a member of Raper Commaudery of Indianapolis. In all the 
relations of life he is respected. His personal friends are almost as numerous as his ))er- 
soaal acquaintances. His manners are affable and he is at all times most companionable. 
His face and speech indicate that he is a man of earnest purpose. He is most decided in 
his views, yet very liberal minded. " His word is as good as his bond," and it has been 
said of him: ''There are probably as good men in Indiana, but there are none better."' 

Dr. Bes.i.\mix A. Brows is an exceptionally popular and successful physician of Bright- 
wood. He is scholarly and well informed in every branch of his profession, is intelligent 
aud well posted on all matters of public interest and stands well in the community, lioth as 
a citizen and as a professional man. Although still in the dawn of the success which has 
attended his efforts in a professional way, our subject has already given abundant evidence 
of the ability which qualities him for a high place in the medical profession. He is a native 
of the Hoosier State, born in Hancock County April 11, 18t>t>, and is a sou of David an J 



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Rachel (Van Zandt) Brown, natives of Ohio, but early settlers of Hancock County, Ind. 
Young Brown was reared in that county and educated in the public schools of Greenfield and 
Indiana]3olis. After finishing bis education there he began teaching school and after fol- 
lowing that i)rofession for two j'ears, Ijegan the study of medicine under Dr. J. A. Comingor, 
of Indianapolis. This was in 1880, and irj the fall of that year he entered the Medical Col- 
lege of Indiana, from which he graduated in the spring of 1888. Immediately afterward' 
he located at Brightwood and engaged in a general practice which has increased in an unusual 
degree since. He has iJeen county physician for this section, has served and still is health 
officer of the town, and is secretary of the school board, recently established. Truly ambi- 
tious, and with an ambition whose aim is pure and unsullied, there seems no reason why his 
unquestioned ability should not find full scope in relieving the pains to which a suffering 
world is heir. On June 16, 1880, he was married to Miss Minnie Humphries, a native of 
Michigan, but who was reared and educated in Hancock County, Ind. Her parents, John 
anil Linnie (Taylor) Humphries, died when she was but a child. To Dr. and Mrs. Brown 
have been born one child, Lester, whose liirth occurred March 28, 1887. The Doctor is a 
member of the I. O. O. F., the K. of P. the K. of H. & C. F., and has been officially con- 
nected with one and all. At present he is treasurer of the C. F. He and wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Doctor being one of the trustees of the 
same and superintendent of the Sunday school for three years. In politics he is a Republican. 
George Coble, Jr. Pre eminence is a goal most men strive to attain. No matter in 
what Held, whether it be literature, art, science or commerce, the ambition of the true man 
will push him to such endeavor that his success shall stand out with glaring distinctness and 
his position shall be above all others. To reach a high mark of success in almost any calling 
is in these days of rush and activity no easy matter, and when a man reaches a high degree 
of success not only in one calling but in several, as has the subject of this sketch, he is 
regarded with respect and admiration by all. Mr. Coble is a Hoosier by birth, born in 
Marion County, near the present site of the county poor farm, June 20, 1852, and the son 
of David and Margaret (Linconfetter) Coble, natives of Indiana. In that State the parents 
grew to mature years and were there married about 1850. Grandfather Coble was the first 
man in Marion County, Ind., who engaged in the lumber business. He also built and 
operated the first saw-mill in the county, on Crooked Creek, northwest of the city. Grand- 
father Linconfetter was also an eai"l\' settler of the county and helped plaster the old Irish 
State House when it was first erected. David Coble, tlie father of our subject, came to 
Marion County, Ind., with his |)arent8 in 1818. and has been a resident of this county ever 
since. His parents located about three and a half miles northwest of Indianapolis, and here 
he was reared and educated. He is one of the old and highly respected citizens of the county 
and one of the old landmarks now so rapidly passing away. By his marriage he became the 
father of three children of whom our subject is the eldest. Sarah, who was born in 18r,7, 
married John E. Kerr and resided with her husband in Indianapolis until her death when 
thirty-one years of age. She left one child. Oakley, who now makes Lis home with his 
grandmother in Indianapolis. William, the youngest child, born in 1801, married Miss Irene 
Stevens and now resides in Indianapolis. George Coble, Jr., our subject, has |)as)-ed the 
most of his time right in the county where he first saw the light of day and as he was the 
eldest son of a very busy man, he was put to work as a cash boy when but ten years of age. 
After reaching his sixteenth year he started out in business for himself and his early business 
training fitted him in an admirable manner for his subsequent prosperous career. He came 
to Brightwood al)out 1886 and opened a grocery and meat market. This he still carries on 
but he also operates a saloon, a barber shop, a livery stable and a bakery and restaurant. He 
also owns the real estate and buildings where he carries on his various enterprises, and these 
buildings are all in good condition and well tilled with a select stock of goods. He gives his 
personal attention to these various enterprises and his business is constantly increasing. He^ 
has an unlimited amount of pu-sh and energy and with the start he has now made, his future 
prospects are bright indeed. The credit for a large share of the enterprise which helps to 
make Brightwood the flourishing suburb it now is, is due to the energy and perseverance of 
such men as Mr. Coble. Much of his success in life is due to his own industry and good 
management and he fully merits his good fortune. He has been twice married, first, sixteen 



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years ago he wedded Miss Eiuma Trucks, daughter of John and Emma Trucks, natives of 
IiiiJiana. No children were horn to this union and after the death of his first wife he was 
married in August, iSSfi. to Miss Sarah Blum, who was horn in Cincinnati, Ohio, as were her 
parents, John anil Martiia Blum. Mr. and Mrs. (!oble have no children. They are very 
popular in social as well as business circles and are surrounded In- many warm friends. 

J. W. WiiAUTON. One of the most prominent and successful real estate and loan agents 
at Indianapolis is J. W. Wharton, who is also widely known as a politician and enterprising 
citizen. Mr. Wharton was born at Felicity, Ohio, January 18, 184'J, a son of Rev. Joseph 
and Susan (McKenzie) Wharton. When he was three years old his parents removed to Indi- 
ana, liis father having l)een transferred to this field, and, owing to the exigencies of his 
fathei's itineiaiit po>^ition as a minister of the Methodist Church, he had by the time he was 
grown up, lived in many of the towns of southern Indiana and in towns in other parts of 
the State besides. He was graduated iu 1870 from Asl)ury (now DePauw) University and 
located at Terre Haute, where he engaged in the life and tire insnrance business. About a 
year later he came to Indianapolis and soon became a student at the law school at Blooming- 
ton, Ind., remaining at that institution about a y-ear. Late in 1872 he was admitted to the 
bar of Marion County. Immediately thereafter he engaged in the real estate business, in 
which he has been increasingly successful to the present time. He buys and sells property 
on his own account and on commission, negotiates loans on l)ond and mortgage, manages 
estates, collects rents, appraises houses and lands and attends to repairs, taxes and insurance, 
and transacts such other business as may come properly within his line. His superior knowl- 
edge of real estate values and the conditions which affect them, is everywhere recognized, 
and his business methods have always been such as to seciire the fullest confiilenee of all 
with whom he has had dealings. There has been only one Ineak of aliout a year and a half 
iu Mr. Wharton's active, personal devotion to this business, and that was caused by his 
accei)tance of the duties of car accouutaut for the Union Railway Company. In 1874 he 
was appointed deputy city clerk, and afterward, in turn, deputy county clerk, deputy 
county treasurer, deputy county auditor and deputy State auditor under Col. Wolf. In 
lS84-8r> he served as councilman from the third ward in the city council. In all these po- 
sitions he has ilemonst rated that he possesses rare ability for |)ul>lic business, and he has per- 
formed their honorable and responsible dtities with a faithfulness and courtesy which have 
caused him to be regarded as a model oHicial. He has been closely identified with the poli- 
tics of the city and State for many years. He is a stanch and unswerving Republiean and 
was assist;int secretary of the state central committee under Hon. John C. New. He is a 
popular member of the K. of P. and of the Beta Theta Phi society. He was married in 
1874 to Eloise M. Taylor, a native of Worthington, Ind., and daughter of George R. Tay- 
lor. Mr. and Mrs. Wharton are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Chkisti.\n a. HiLoENBERG. This well known real estate, loan and insurance agent, 
whose office is at '21i West Ohio Street, has made such a success in his enterprise and has 
become so popular (personally that he must be included in any list of the prominent business 
men of Indianapolis, and for the same reason any work of the character and scope of this 
that did not include proper biogiaphical mention of such a citizen would lie incomplete. 
This business was estalilished in 1882 by Christoph Hilgenberg. father of the immediate 
subject of this sketch. Mr. Hilgenberg was born in Melsungen, Germany, and came to 
Indiana))olis in 1859. Upon his arrival in this country he was without means, but he was 
honest, industrious and persevering, and when he came to Indianajiolis was enabled to 
engage in the meat trade, in which he continued successfully for about twenty years, includ- 
ing the period from 18t)U to 1874, when he lived at Richmond, Ind. By careful invest- 
ments in business and farm property, he in time accumulated considerable means, and he 
came to be regarded as one of the wealthy and substantial citizens of Indianapolis. His 
busine.ss judgment was good, and though enterprising he was at the same time quite 
conservative, and he was truly a self-made man in the best sense of that much abused 
term. He was a member of the Commercial Club, and iu all things had the best interests 
of the city at heart. He died December 23, 1891. Christian A. Hilgenl)erg was born in 
Ripley County. Ind., March 10, 1862. He was reared and educated princi|)ally in Indianaji- 
olis, though he spent much of his early life on a suburban farm. After completing his English 




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and classical education iu! vvaw for a (iiiie a student in a law hcIiooI. He early imljihed tbe 
careful and conservative spirit of bis father, and learned to aj)piy to all liis buwiuesH trans- 
actions those princifiles of integrity, i)roinptness and fair dealing which made his father 
popular, and he was alniost from boyhood closely identified with his fiitber in tbe latter's 
iiuportiint operations. During the latter years of bis father's life be had entire charge of 
II bis affairs, <ind, having grown up in the business and managed it under bis father's 
dvice, be was well fitted by experience as well as by natural and highly de\'eloped busi- 
ness ability to carry it on successfully after his father's death. He has large pro[)erty inter- 
ests in different parts of the city, and buys and sells city and outside property extensively 
on bis own acccjunt, while at tbe same time doing a commission business handling and 
settling estates, negotiating loans, collecting rents and doing a general real estatf^ business 
in connection with a large and gro.ving insurance business, in which department he repre- 
sents some of tbe most substantial coitipanies in the country. Mr. Hilgerdierg is a mem- 
ber of the Marion Club and is pojuilar in all business and social circles. He is an enthusi- 
astic cyclist and is identified with the League of American Wheelmen. In his business 
trips he prefers the wheel to the buggy, and he is a familiar figure on the street in his 
daily "spins" about the city. In politics he is strongly a Republican, devoted to the prin- 
ciples and interests of his party. He is a member of the Catholic Church, though at the 
same time very liberal in his sectarian views and very tolerant of the opinifjns of others. 

Geokof. a. Johnson. There is hardly a community in the civili/ed world but that recog 
nizes the superior advantages to be <lerived from and the importance of neatly and substantially 
built houses, and to bring about this most desirable state of affairs it is necessary that an 
experienced and competent contractor and builder be employed, and that George A. Johnson 
is recognized as such is at once seen when the nature of and the large number of houses he 
has erected are taken into consideration. This intelligent and wide awake business man was 
born near Jacksonville, III.,. May 23, 1840, his father being Merritt Johnson, a Kentuckian 
by birth and a farmer l)y occu[)ation, and a soldier of the (Confederate army during the great 
Civil War. In the schools of his native State George A. Jobn.son was educated and when 
still a boy he learned the carpenter's trade under his uncle, Wilson Welborn, who was a 
native of the Old North State, and with whom he made his home after he had reached the 
age of four years. In bis uncle's shop much of his time was sf>ent and he also labored on 
the latter's farm, learning lessons of industry and honesty which were his stepping stones to 
his present success. Upon attaining his majority, he began contracting which he continued 
for eighteen years, at the end of which time he came to Indianapolis and since that time has 
continued here in the same occupation, with the exception of a lew years which he spent with 
Nordyke & Marmon, as a master workman in their woodshop. Four years since be com- 
menced contracting on his own account, princi|)ally as a residence builder, and owiui' to the 
admirable character of his work and the dispatch with which he executes all orders, he has a 
wide and constantly increasing patronage. Mr. J(jbiison is .strictly independent of all social 
orders and [)ursues the even tenor of this way, swayeil by no political or social faction, so far 
as his work is concerned. 

Hugo Otto Pantzek, M. D. This is decidedly the day of the specialist in medicine and 
surgery as in about every other department of human endeavor. The most .successful and 
reliable medical specialists are such as have bad their attention directed U) their specialties 
in the course of a general practice. A natural adaptation for certain lines of work, com 
bined with the knowledge growing from the familiarity with it, engenders success and repu- 
tation in it, and eventually the demand for this special service grows to make necessary the 
limitation of practice to special lines. Such is tbe manner in which Dr. Hugo O. Pantzer 
and numerous other specialists became such. Their knowledge of their specialties is supple- 
mented and enhanced by the extensive general knowledge of medicine and surgery acquired 
through the valuable experience of a large general practice of many years duration. Dr. 
Pantzer, as a general practitioner, enjoyed a rare degree of success and patronage, and to 
his numerous friends it will be a gratification to have placed in permanent form some account 
of his life and works. Hugo Otto Pantzer was born at .Sheboygan, Wis.. June 9, 1858, the 
eldest child of John George and Wilia (Koehler) Pantzer, natives of Sulzbach, Oberpfalz, 
and Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany, respectively, whence they emigrated to America owing 



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to (be political troubles of the years 1848-49. Sheboygan at this time was virtuall_v a 
colony of Gorman political fugitives and their sympathizers. It was marked fur its intellect- 
ual and musical accomplishments. John Gr. Pantzer here pursued the life of a tradesman 
with the success ordinary of a man with marked musical talent and propensity. He died in 
1882 leaving a widow and five sons and two daughters who still survive him. Three of 
these, namely, F. Will Pantzer. pro])rietor of the Bates House Pharmacy: John G. Pantzer, » 
Jr. , a commercial collector, and the subject of this sketch, being located at Indianapolis, 
the others continuing at their native town. Hugo O. Pantzer was reared at Shebt)ygan, 
where he attended a German (Lutheran) school two j'ears, and then the public schools. He 
left high school at the age of fourteen before graduation, and went to Davenport, Iowa, 
where he spent one year as a draughtsman, anil attache to the United States Government 
Survey Office at Rock Island and as a pupil of the Bryant & Stratton's Business College of 
Davenport, from which he graduated with honors in 1874. Enticing positions in mercantile 
pursuits at Davenport were rejected. He resumed his literary education at the German- 
English Academy (at present the North American German Normal School) at Milwaukee. 
Later, at the same place, he engaged as a shipping clerk and bookkeeper, utilizing his 
evenings for the attendance at the Normal School for teachers in gymnastics, an institution 
supported bj' the North American Turnerbnnd. The practice of gymnastics equipped him 
with improved physical health, and the calling served to be the stepping stone to his medical 
career. He graduated as a teacher of gymnastics in the year 187(5, and pursued this calling 
during five years, serving as instructor at Sheboygan and Plymouth, Wis., as private tutor in 
the family of a mining superintendent at Frisco. Beaver County, Utah Ter. , and as instructor 
of the social Turnverein at Indianapolis. Meanwhile he utilized his leisure hours to improve 
his education by home study and private lessons. In 1878 his plans to Attend Cornell Uni- 
versity were frustrated by the entire loss of his savings. He felt himself forced to take up 
the study of his choice, namely, medicine, without a complete humanitarian education. He 
read medicine at Sheboygan in 1878 under doctors Carl Muth and Almond Clarke. While 
instructor in gymnastics at Indianapolis during 1879-81, he attended the lectures at the 
Medical College of Indiana, and was the student of Drs. Wm. B. Fletcher and E. F. 
Hodges. During this time he served as census enumerator, and twice as deputy assessor. 
He graduated from the Medical College of Indiana in the spring of 1881. While teacher 
of gymnastics Mr. Pantzer had various honorary appointments within the gift of the North 
American Turnerbund, and was a frequent cotitributor to its oflioial organ. He proposed 
the organization of the teachers of the North American Turnerbund, which organized at 
Indianapolis, in the year 1881. His essay on the prize subject of the year of his graduation 
received meritorious distinction, and his examination papers in the competition for ilispensary 
and hospital positions placed him at the head of the list of competitors. He served one year 
as resident physician to the city dispensary. Since then he has been engaged in private prac- 
tice at Indianapolis, excepting three years and one-half, which were spent in stud}' and travel 
in Europe in 1884 to 1886. 1890 and 1891. He has attended lectures and clinics under many 
of the most distinguished men of this day, notably at Strasburg. Munich, Berlin, Wurzburg 
and Vienna. He was assistant at the surgical clinic at Munich under the direction of Prof. 
Von Nussbaum; has participated in the i)acterio!iigical courses at the Imperial Sani- 
tary Office at Berlin, under the renowned Prof. Koch; was five months hospitant at the lying- 
in wards and women's division of the great "'Allgemeine Frankenhaus"' of Vienna, and was 
assistant at the surgical clinic under Prof. Witzel at Bonn, besides taking many special 
courses in all of the different branches of the medical science. His travels extended over 
(Termany, Austria, Hungary, France, Switzerlanil. England and Italy, and included a pro- 
tracted stay each at Paris and London. While at Munich he prepared himself for acquiring 
the German degrees of doctor of medicine &i\d }iractische arzt, but his application was 
refused on accoiint of having no certificate of his humanitarian education. He is president 
of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, and a member of the judicial council of the Marion 
County Medical Society. He is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, and the International Medical congress, and consulting gynecologist 
to the Indianapolis City Dispensary and the city hospital. He has prepared and read 
numerous papers before various societies, some of which, read before the Marion County 



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Medical Society, were referred to the ludiana State Medical Society, and hare been ordered 
published in the transactioDs of this body. In 18^1. while Dr. Pantzer was preparing his 
change from general to sf>ecial practice, he fonnd it necessary, owing to his exten.'ive prac- 
tice, to procure the aid of an assistant. He was happy in procnring the services of Dr. H. 
Haeberlln, of Zurich. Switzerland, at that time the first assistant to the chair of obstetrics 
and gjnecology at the nniversity of that city, who remained with him until the spring of 
1S9'2. About this time Dr. Pantzer purchased the large and beautiful estate on the north- 
west comer of Michigan and New Jersey Streets (commonly known as the Beaty Home- 
stead) which he had remodeled and enlarged, and which was arranged and e<juipped with all 
the necessities and comforts of a first-class surgical and medical sanitarium. The energy of 
its founder has already made it one of the most successftd private institutions of its kind in 
the State. Since the spring of 1S92 Dr. Pantzer ha.s devoted himself esclusively to the cure 
of melical and surgical diseases of women and all kinds of sur^^ical disea.ses. The Doctors 
operations in surgery have included many successes in diffictdt cases- Among these is 
notable the first successful case of laminectomy (spinal surgery i performed in this State. It 
was reported to the Marion County Medical Society and referred to the State Medical 
Society. It was published in the New York Medical Journal for August, 1893, and it has 
appeared in extract in many home and foreign medical journals. Dr. Pantzer was married 
Jane 23. 1S91. to Miss Emmy Schmidt, a native of Hagen. Westphalia. Germany, the 
daughter of a physician. Mrs. Pantzer is a lady of exceptionally sweet disposition and 
is possessed of many talents and accomplishments. She is a pupil of the Frankfort Con- 
servatory of Music, where she enjoyed the distinction of being elected to the class member- 
ship of Mrs. Clara Schumann. She has borne him one child, a son, named Kurt Frederick 
Pantzer. The Doctor is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He belongs to no 
church. In politics he is a Republican, but is not a strong partisan, owing greatly to the 
exacting demands made upon him of his professional duties. 

.TtvT.s Whitco.>cb Rh-et. the famous Hoosier dialect poet whose verses have .«o pleased 
the public during the past decade, was lx)rn at Greenfield. Hancock County, Ind.. about 
the year 1S52. His scholastic training was not of thehighest order as his youthful proclivity 
seemed to be of the Bohemian order. His father, a lawyer of large practice, induced him to 
Ijecome a disciple of Blackstone, but his career as such was of short duration as he ran away 
aal shortly thereafter was discovered as an adjunct of a patent medicine concert wagon. For 
a nnml>er of years he traveled around the country following various callings, such as sign 
painter, actor, revising and recasting plays, songs, etc. Of keen observation he readily ab- 
sortjed all that was worthy being seen, and hearing all that worthy Ijeing said. Fndonbteclly. 
during this time, he acquired his extensive knowledge of the Hoosier people, their ways and 
their peculiar idiom. When about twenty-three years old he began contributing dialect 
verses for the press. The poet, the author and the artist who have attained distinction and 
won the plaudits of the world, have usually obtained renown by selecting their theme from 
the common walks of life. Mr. Riley, in selecting the homely back woods Hoosier as his 
subject, with his quaint ways and odd characteristics, and snrrotinding his theme with a 
pathos for which his pen is noted, has became a national character. Some of his best known 
productions are: "Neighborly Poems:'" " "Sketches in Prose and Occasional Verse:" '"After- 
whiles;" "Pipes o' Pan:"' ""Rhymes of Childhocd Days:"' ""Old Fashioned R<jses"": and ""An 
Old Sweetheart of Mine.'" His production ""Little Orphant Annie'" has become almost world- 
known as a Ijeautiful nursery rhyme. Mr. Riley is gifted as a public reader, and the popu- 
larity of his verses has increased because off his public rendition of them. His home is in 
the city of Indianapolis. 

Jacob Fraxkel. Life insurance, as a business, has, in the hands of shrewd and original 
men. developed into a profession and has attracted to it during recent years talent that 
would have made itself known in any of the higher walks of life. One of the most accom- 
plished life insurance men of Indianapolis and one perhaps as well known as any other 
throtighout the State, is Jacob Frankel. the State agent of the Michigan Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, of Detroit. Mr. Frankel was torn in Germany, and came to the 
Fuited States when a child and located in old Virginia. Circumstances favored his acquisi- 
tion of a fair education and he was enabled to return to his native land, where he gradn- 



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aled from one of the best educatiimal iustitntions. His home, however, was in America, 
and lie came back and located at Cincinnati, and while still very young located at Union 
County, Ind. He taught school for a while and then engaged in the insurance business, 
with which he has been connected up to the present time with increasing .success. For sev- 
eral years Mr. Frankel represented the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company at Rich- 
mond, Ind., and wet with such success that when a vacancy occurred the State agency was 
offered him. He took charge in 1880, when he removed to Indianapolis. He found the 
business of the company in this State small and very much disorganized, but took hold with 
such vigor that now Indiana ranks fourth in the list. He had, of course, the advantage of 
representing a corporation that had made friends wherever known and whose manner of 
doing Inisiness is especially suitable for western people. Mr. Frankel is very active in 
i>ther enterprises and is very thoroughly devoted to the building up of Indianapolis and all 
its important interests. He was one of the incorporators and vice-president of the Key 
stone Land Company, one of the largest and most wide-awake concerns of its kind in the 
citj', which has laid out and built up some of the finest additions. Mr. Frankel is a veteran 
of Company B, First Regiment Ohio National Guards (Lytle Grays), which in its halcyon 
days won the prize for drill and appearance wherever it went. He is a Mason and memVier 
of other [lopiilar organizations. In politics he is enthusiastically Republican. Social and 
hospitable in an eminent degree, his elegant home is always o])ento a large circle of friends. 
He was married in October, 1881, to Miss Emma Pretzfelder, a native of Mississippi, who 
has borne him three children: Emilie, Albert Lincoln and Columbia. There is probably 
not in Indianapolis a more conspicuous example of the results which follow application of 
tine capacity with a determination to succeed in spite of all obstacles than is furnished by 
the achievements of Mr. Frankel, and he is regarded by the German American element of 
the city's population as in some sense its representative and as manifesting to the public 
that sturdy character which makes these people successful in all walks of life. 

Capt. J. Sti't Neal. As early as the year 1840 Capt. J. Stut Neal's connection with 
river navigation began, at which time he acted in the caj)acity of engineer on the vessel 
"Iris." He was born in Pittsburgh, Peun. , in 1820, a son of Zenas Neal, a native of Conn., 
and his youth was spent in learningthe trade of a machinist, after which heliecanje an expert 
engine builder, which knowledge admirably fitted him for the occupation he afterward pur- 
sued. In 1841 he became part owner and engineer of the "Arcade" and afterward built 
and was part owner of the "Revenue," which vessel he sold to a sea captain and shipped as 
engineer on the "South America." After this he and Capt. Fulton built and owned the 
"Andrew Fulton,'" which sunk near St. Louis, and then built the "Hungarian," which he 
commanded in the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade for some time. He and his brother, 
Capt. Reub. E. Neal, afterward bought the "Falcon" and changed her name to "Queen 
City," plying between Cincinnati and New Orleans. He next built the "Grace Darling," at 
Madison, Ind., and ran her as a packet between New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. The two 
brothers J. S. and R. E. Neal then for some time operated the largest engine shop and foundry 
in Indiana, at Madison, during which time they built the steamer "City of Madison" which 
was lost at Vicksburg, August, 18(53, by the explosion of ordnance stores with which she was 
loaded by the Government, there being at the time 400 Ijarrels of powder on Ijoard. They 
made the machinery for some of the largest and best steamers plying on western waters, 
among which was the famous "David White," "Edward Walsh," "John C. Cline," "Em- 
press," and many others, and during the war they owned the "Hazel Dell," '•Sallie List," 
"Sam Young" and "Universe," all of which were in the Government employ most of the 
time during the war, and without doubt transported more soldiers than ujost of the steamers 
in service. In 18(55 they built and owned the famous "Indiana," at Madison, which was a 
very profitable source of revenue to him, but which he finally sold. In 18(57 they built and 
owned the noted low pressure "Richmond," at Madison, Ind., which was 345 feet long and 
was probably the fastest boat on the river. It cost him $"24(),()00, and plied |)rincipally 
between Louisville and New Orleans, making the trip every two weeks. She had a capacity 
of 2,000 tons, had an elegant full length cabin, with accommodations for 200 passengers. 
Capt. Neal began his career on the river as engineer and finally became commander of his 
own boats. He is a practical machinist, has had an extensive experience in boat building and 



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in the construction of all kinds of iiiaehinery. To these two gentlemen is due the iutroduc- 
tiou of the steamboat whistle, and in 1877 the services of Capt. J. Stnt Neal were engaged 
as assistant superintendent of construction of the building of the Insane Hospital at Indian- 
apolis, to which city he had moved in 1875, to take charge of the work. He was also 
superintendent of construction of the Federal building at New Albany, Ind., and has 
recently received the appointment from President Cleveland as special inspector of customs 
at Indianapolis, subject to orders of the department. When a lad, like Mark Twain, he was 
ambitious to go on the river as an engineer and to this position he finally attained. He 
navigated nearly every tributary of the Mississippi Kiver, and during his long career as 
engineer, captain and clerk, of thirty year's, he had manj' thrilling experiences, especially on 
the Upper Red River in the Indian Territory, before the annexation of Texas. In the bu^^iness 
of building and navigating boats Capt. Neal has made and lost fortunes, but has accumulated 
a sutticiency of this world's goods to keej) him from want and provide him with many of the 
luxuries of life. He is now residing in Indianapolis where he has a host of warm friends 
and is highly esteemed. Politically be is a Democrat and socially he is a member of the 
Hendricks Club. 

Henry W. Laut. The subject of our sketch, Henry W. Latit, is a council man-at-large, 
a contractor on a large scale and a widely known and popular citizen of Indianapolis, who 
has worked his way up to prominence and the respect and the regard of his neighbors by 
the sheer force of his own character and by his geneious and sociable fellowship. His place 
of business is at No. 350 East South Street, and his business is that of a contractor in tin, 
galvanized iron and slate, many of his contracts being of considerable magnitude, and his 
operations aggregate a very large sum every season. Our subject was oorn at Indianapolis, 
December 1, 1850, being the son of Rhiuehart and Louise (Nigael) Laut, natives of Germany, 
who came to America about the year 1848 and located in this city. The father was a farmer 
and followed that pursuit in Marion County, bearing the reputation of a worthy man and a 
good husbandman. He and his wife, who are now dead, jiassing away in Marion County, 
where their remains are buried, were the parents of seven children, six of whom are living, 
namely; Mrs. Wamperner, of Marion County; Mrs. Borneham, Mrs. Bierman, Mrs. Miller, 
of St. Louis; Mrs. Pope and our subject, Henry W., who is the youngest of the family. 
He spent the greater part of his youth upon tiie farm, attending the country schools, and in 
his seventeenth year came to Indianapolis and learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, serving 
a term of four years. His desire for an education that was practical was so strong that he 
attended a night school, suffering nothing to interfere with this, although the labors of the 
day were very fatiguing. Hence, while he was learning a trade thoroughly he n-as tilling 
his mind with useful knowledge, and when he had completed his term of service as a cabinet- 
maker, he had the proud satisfaction of knowing that he was possessed of a good business 
education. It is this kind of young men who succeed in life; for while many other voung 
men were spending their evenings in frivolity or worse, he was fitting himself thoroughly for 
the important duties that awaited him; and the idle and the frivolous and the dissipated 
stood no chance with him in the great arena of life. At the age of twenty-one he engaged 
in the grocery business, and continued the same for a period of nineteen years, being, as 
should be supposed, after such thorough preparation, very successful, indeed. His honest 
and straightforward methods, his enterprise, energy, application and good management com- 
bining to build up a trade that was enduring and one that assured handsome returns to him. 
A few years prior to closing out his grocery business, he began his present enterprise iind 
carried on both for some time, or until 181*2, when the large interests involved in his affairs 
as a contractor, required all of his time, and he closed out the grocery business. Mr. Laut 
employs from ten to twenty men and does a very extensive business. Among the many con- 
tracts he has filled is the tin, galvanized iron and slate work for the Marion County jail; for 
the handsome and imposing Commercial Club building; the German Lutheran Orphans' 
Home; the Tuttle House; the Grubbs House and a number of others, as the Schreber build- 
ing, etc. Mr. Laut is a member of the Builders' Exchange and takes a lively interest in the 
affairs of this most important and influential organization. His religious convictions are very 
strong and he is a sincere member of the German Lutheran Church; is a member of the 
school l)oard of that church and was for eight years a trustee of that body. He was first 

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elected to the city council in 1880 ami lias since been foni- times elected, Laving served con- 
tinuously since that time. His jxipularity in the council is very great, an<] he served at one 
time as ]>resident of the lioard of aldermen. He is everywhere recognized as one of the 
most useful members of the body, and his integrity and honesty, united with his experience 
and his decided intelligence, give him great influence. Our subject was married in 1870 to 
Miss Dora Nienaber, a native of this city, who has borne him six children, namely: Anna, 
William, Henry, Charles, Bertie, and Flora. Mr. Laut is a self-made man and began to 
earn his own living vphen quite a youth, working his way up to his present distinguished 
place by tireless energy and by an intelligent and honorable use of his gifts and talents, 
which he lias never lost an occasion to improve. The fruits of his labors are niany, being 
blessed with much of this world's goods, a happy home with a most interesting family — a 
wife and children whom he dearly loves and in whom he very properly takes pride, and hav 
iug the esteem and the confidence of all who know him. 

William H. Bowser. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch has every reason 
to be classed among the successful and highly respected farmers of Marion County, lud., for 
he not only owns 100 acres of land in Center Township, but this land is exceptionally fer- 
tile, is carefully tilled, has a neat and well kept appearance, and is finely improved with an 
excellent residence, good barn and other buildings, the barn being 40x5S feet in dimensions 
and unicjue as well as vnry convenient in its interior arrangement. Mr. Bowser devotes his 
attention to general farming, and besides raising the usual grain [jioducts. raises a good 
grade of lior.ses, cattle and hogs. Mr. Bowser was born in Warren Township, this county. 
October 13, 1S48, his parents being Henry and Mary Ann (Moore) i3owser. the former of 
whom was born in Pennsylvania in March, ISIO. When but five years of age he was taken 
by his parents to Ohio, where he remained until he was twenty-one yeais of age, but as there 
were no free schools in that day. his educational o])portunities were few and far between. 
However, what he lacked in book lore he made up in solid, practical, natural business quali 
iications, which he jiut to a good use during his struggles to obtain a competency for him- 
self and family. He came to Marion County, lud., in 1831, and settled in the southwest 
portion of Warren Township, where he reared his family, his sons being brought up to a 
thorough and practical knowledge of farm life. The advantages of an educatiousl nature 
which William H. Bowser received were of a very meagre kind, but, like his father, pos- 
sessed sound, common sense and ideas of a very [iractical nature, which he put to a good use 
on his farm. He is independent in financial circumstances, a fact which he owes mainly to 
his own efforts, and in his section his opinion is regarded as authority on all subjects relat- 
ing to agriculture. October 13, 1880, be was united in marriage with Miss Florence L. , 
daughter of Asa N. and Margaret (Smart) Shimer, a sketch of whom appears in this work. 
Mrs. Bowser was born November 2, 1855. in Warren Township, where she was reared and 
educated. She is a woman of excellent traits of character, endowed with a line intellect and 
wholly devoted to her family and home interests. Their children are four in number: Harry 
O. . born November 7, 1882; Maggie A., born September U, 18S5; Asa E., born July 19. 
1887, and Mary Etta, born August 7, 1890, all of whom are bright, attractive and promising 
children. Mrs. B jwser is a member of the Christian Church, and Mr. Bowser is a stanch 
supporter of the princi]iles of the Republican party. 

Smiley Newton Ch.\mbers. Prominent in the ranks of the foremost of the brilliant circle 
of lawyers of the city of Indiana[)olis stands the name of Smiley Newton Chambers, who has 
a most thorough and practical knowledge of the complications of law. He was born in 
Edwardsport, Knox County, Ind., March 18. 1845, in which section the Chamliers family 
has been known ever since the great-grandfather, Alexander Chamliers. emigrated to the 
country shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, l)ringing with him a large family 
of sons and daughters. A location was made upon Mariah Creek in a very fertile section of 
the county, and in the development of this section of the State the grandfather, Joseph 
Chambers, who was a man of unusual intelligence and force of character, became very 
influential and filled a number of important offices with credit and ability. His twelve 
children settled in the immediate vicinity of the old home, and there Alexander, the father 
of the subject of this sketch, was brought up. He was the eldest of his father's family and 
being of an enterprising and energetic disposition settled at the town of Edwardsport, in 



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the early forties, and engaged in the business of sawing Inniber by steam power, the product 
of the mill being raited down the river to southern markets. Notwithstanding bis 
excellent business qualifications this enterprise proved unsuccessful, and in 1S5U he returned 
to the immediate neighborhood of his birth and spent the remainder of his life on a farm, 
his death occurring in lStj6. He was united in marriage with Rachel Keith, who removed 
with her parents to Knox County. Ind.. from Kentucky about 1S30. and as she was a woman 
who f)ossessed in an eminent degree strong and humane qualities of mind and heart, she 
was in every respect a helpmate to her husband, and her death, which occurred in February. 
1866, six months prior to the death of her husband, was a severe blow to him. Two 
daughters and a son survived them. Up to the year 1S63 Smiley X. Chambers spent his life 
upon his father's farm and assisted him in clearing it ready for the plow. In that year he 
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Regiment and remained in the service of 
his country until Atigust, 1865; was in both the infantry and artillery service and was a 
participant in the battle of Nashville. Tenn., in December. 1S64. After the death of his 
parents he entered Shurtliff College at Upper Alton. 111., from which institution he gradu- 
ated with the honors of his class in June, 1870. The following year he read law at St. 
Louis. Mo., and in the spring of 1872 entered upon the practice of his profession in the 
city of Vincennes. Ind. In that year he was nominated by the Republicans of Knox County 
as candidate for the Legislature and with the rest of the ticket was defeated. In 1873 he 
formed a law partnership with William H. De Wolf, a well known lawyer of that city, with 
whom he continued associated until the spring of 1889. when he received the appointment of 
United States attorney for the district of Indiana, which position he held until the expiration 
of President Harrison's term of office. His practice at Vincennes was extensive and lucra- 
tive and he was justly considered one of the leading attorneys of Indiana, he was engaged 
in many widely known and important eases. Although he has never been an aspirant for 
public office he made an extensive canvass of the State for the RepnlJican State ticket in 
1884 and ISSS and has ever been interested in public affairs, both political and otherwise. 
After receiving his apjx)intment as United States attorney he made his home in the city of 
Indianapolis, in the interests of which he has manifested a zeal and interest calculated to 
place him among the leading men of the city. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. , 
is a thirty-second degree Mason, is a prominent and active member of the G. A. R. : and 
for many years was secretary of the Ixjard of trustees of the Vincennes University, to the 
development of which institution of learning he gave much time and attention. May 31. 
1876, he wedded Isadora MeCord, daughter of William R. McCord, a prominent and influ- 
ential citizen of Vincennes, and to their union a family of six children has been given. Mr. 
Chambers possesses all the characteristics which go to make up a model citizen and ha.s the 
unbounded respect of all who know him. 

Arsxrs Flixt Dexxy, a son of Theodore V. and Elizabeth Denny, early residents of this 
county, particulars of whose lives may be found elsewhere in this work, was born July 6. 
1841. At the age of seven years, as the result of an accidental injury, he lost bis right arm. 
After this he pursued the preparatory .studies and took the regular classical course in Butler 
University, graduating with the degree A. B. July 3. 1862. The two years next after leav- 
ing eoUe^e, he taught with J. B. Cameron in the schools of Edinburg. Ind.. sharing with 
that gentleman the directorship and superintendency of those schools. Mr. Denny then be- 
came the sole principal and superintendent of the public .schools of Franklin, in the same 
county. During his engagements in teaching he employed his leisure time in the study of 
law. and in 1866 terminated his career as a teacher that he might devote his whole time to 
legal study. He entered Harvard University and took the regular course in the Dane Law 
School, under the tutelage of those distinguished authors and jurists. Emory Washburn, 
Theophilus Parsons. Joel Parker and Richard H. Dana. Jr. He received from Harvard 
University the degree of LL. B. July 15, 1868. After completing his preparatory course 
in law, Mr. Denny engaged in the active practice of this profe.ssion at Indianapolis, and is 
yet a member of the bar of that city, and in the possession of a respectable practice. He was 
never engaged in the trial of any noted criminal cases, but has had a fair share of civil liti- 
gation, and has conducted to successful results some notable cases containing interesting 
questions of both law and fact. He enjoys the reputation of a safe and valuable counselor 



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and makes the law^of real estate a specialty. Mr. Deuuy was luarrieil J.iiiuaiy 7, 1873, to 
Miss Man' Elizabeth Kechn, a desceudaut of an old and ies]ipcted family of Reading, Penn., 
and an ctlicient iiistnictor in the public schools of Indianapolis. Jlrs. Denny is a lady of 
rare literary taste and ability, and has an imusually wide Unnwledge of English literatuie. 
She is prominent in local literary cluljs and in social ciicies of a similar lient. 

William S. McCormick. It is said that "a man's house is his castle" therefore it 
behooves one to see that his "castle" is well coiistnictod, and if pleasing in appearance so 
much the better. These desirable results are brought about in a great measure by the con- 
tractor and builder, and one who has been especially successful in this line of work is Will- 
iam S. McCormick, who is a representative of one of the oldest families in Iiuiitmapolis. 
His graudiaicle, John McCormick, it is said built the first house in the city, for thither his 
grandfather. Samuel McCormick, a Bajitist minister, came in 1821 and located near what is 
now the Military Park. He was a worthy tiller of the soil but died in Hendricks County, 
Ind. , whither he had moved [irior to the birth of the sul)ject of this sketch. His sou, Will- 
iam Mct'ormick, father of W illiam S. McCormick, was born in Preble County, Oliio, in 1813, 
and died in Marion County, Ind., at what is now Haughville, at which time he was the old- 
est settlor in the county, and shortly before had been awarded a suit of clothes in 1888, by 
the old settlers of Marion and Hendricks Counties, at their meeting. Like his father 
before him, he tilled the soil, but lost heavily during the war. He removed to Hendricks 
County when a young man and there spent many years of his life iu useful and profitable 
labor. He was a Republican and Abolitionist and for many years was a member of the 
Baptist Church. He was married in Hendricks County to Miss Nancy Hardin, a native of 
Rockcastle County, Ky. , her father, William Hardin, having been a Baptist minister of con- 
sideral)le note. She died in Hendricks County, in 1872, at the age of fifty-six years. Her 
union with Mr. McCormick resulted in the birth of nine children, six sons and three daugh- 
ters, of whom five sons and two daughters survive. Four sons were soldiers in the Federal 
Army during the great Civil War, members of Company A., of the Fifty-first Indiana Volun- 
teer Infantry, and served throughout the entire struggle. Two of them were captured near 
Rome, Ga., and w(^ro taken to Belle Island, where they were paroled. William S. McCormick 
was born in Hendricks County, Ind., December 14, 1840, and received his education in his 
native county. In 1803 he left home to enlist in the Union army, joining C'ompany A, of 
the Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, receiving honorable discharg(! in November, 1865, having 
been a ))articipant in the battles of Nashville, Franklin, Dalton, Ga., and others. The latter 
part of his service he was on detail duty in the pay department and at the post headquarters at 
Indianapolis. He returned to his home very much impaired in health and it was not until 
1872 that he began to recover. He then commenced learning the carpenters trade, in addi 
tion to farming, and to that occupatiou has given his attentinn up to the present time. He 
moved to Clermont, lad., about sixteen years ago. and in 1881 came to Indianapolis. After 
remaining in this city a short time he went back to Clerniont and in 1888 took up his lesi- 
dence in Haughville, where he has been ever since esj)ecially engaged in the building of 
residences. He has always been actively interested in the ptilitical affairs of the day and has 
always labored for the success of the Repul)lican jiarty, of which he is an infiueutial mem 
ber. In 18()S he was married to Miss I'ivelyn Day, of Hendricks County, but was left a 
widower three years later and remained so until October 21, 1877, when Miss Savannah Smith 
became his wife. Of eight children born to them, four sons and two daughters are living. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are members of the Christian Church, in which he is a deacon, and 
socially Mr. McCormick belongs to the G. A. R., the K. of P. and the I. O. O. F., in which 
he has passed all the chairs. 

CnRiSTi.\N Fredkrick ScHMiDT, deceased, was one of the esteemed and substantial busi- 
ness men of Marion County, Ind. He was a native of Germany, born in 1831, and there 
ma<le his home until 1849, when he braved Ne]itune's lender mercies and came to America, 
locating first in ('incir.nati, Ohio. He moved from there to Indianapolis in 1858, and soon 
after formed a [lartnership with a Mr. Jaeger in the l)rewery business. Both young men 
were ]roor in purse but ricli in energy, and with tiieir limited capital two lots were purchased 
at the corner of High and Wyoming Streets for 1250, on which a rough building was erected 
for the purpose of a brew house. After about two years the partnership was dissolved liy 



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the retirement of Mr. Jaeger, who feared the active measures inaugurated by Mr. Schmidt 
for the advancement of the btisiness would eventually ruin the firm. Shortly after Mr. 
Schmidt commenced the erection of his famous brewery cellar, which was completed at a 
cost of $'2il.(X)0. He also entered into judicious speculations in town lots, in the neighbor- 
hood of his brewery, which was then in the extreme southern limits of the city, but is now 
in the midst of a thickly populated and improved district. These lots rapidly rose in value 
and aided him in later years to make his business establishment one of the largest and most 
complete in the West. In the year 1865 Mr. Schmidt was elected on the Republican ticket 
to a seat in the common council from the seventh ward and served fonr years. During his 
term of office he was a member of the finance committee and aided materially is rescuing the 
credit of the city, the paper of which then rated at a ruinous discount. Mr. Schmidt was, 
until within two months of his death, which occurred February 3, 1872, a member of the 
CTuttenberg Printing & Publishing Company, and for several years a director in that concern. 
In all his business relations he was an honest, upright mau. of large capabilities, extraor- 
dinary energy and progressive spirit. In his social relations as a citizen, as a neighbor and 
as the head of a family, be was alike respected, esteemed and loved. He was a generous 
aider of religious and charitable organizations and gave freely to the poor and destitute who 
came within his notice. During his residence in Cincinnati he married Miss Caroline Fieber, 
who bore him three sous, as follows: John W.. Edward and Alfred. 

John W. ScffsoDT. Generally age and experience are essential to success and pro- 
motion. Prominent men seldom rise to distinction suddenly. But in the example liefore us, 
we have a man without any special fortnitions circumstances, rising by his own force of 
character, great energy and good judgment to the front ranks as a business man. John W. 
Schmidt is a product of Ohio soU, born in Cincinnati, in 1856. He was brought by his 
parents to Indianapolis in 1858. and later attended the common schools where he received 
the rudiments of an education. Following that he entered the academy at Hoboken, New 
Jersey, remained there two years, and then returned home where he clerked in the old Citi- 
zen's National Bank for a year. After that he traveled on the Continent for eighteen months 
and then returning home, engaged in the brewery business. After the death of the father, 
which occurred in 1872, our subject and his brother, Edward, carried on the brewery until 
October. 18S0, when they sold out to an English syndicate. Since that time our subject has 
simply Looked after his large interests. He is a director in the brewery yet and is a thorough- 
going, wide-awake business man. In religion our subject is a Protestant and in politics a 
Democrat. He selceted his life companion in the person of Miss Lily Schudel, a native of 
Louisville, Ky., who had been adopted by his mother when bitt six years of age, and their 
union was solemnized in the year 1885. Three children were born to this union and named 
in the order of their birlhs as follows: Christian Frederick, Edward and ^Marguerite, all 
bright little children. 

Peter Lieber. This gentleman is regarded as one of the mo.st influential and worthy 
citizens of Marion County, and it is a pleasure to chronicle here the events that mark his life 
as one of usefulness. Material wealth must not exchide the riches of character and ability 
in recounting the virtues which have been brought to this country by its citizens, and among 
its most precious treasurer must be estimated the lives of those citizens who have by their 
intelligence and their eminence in the higher walks of life, assisted in raising the standard 
of life and thought in the communities in which they have settled. No one has probably 
done more in this line than Peter Lieber, who was born in Dnesseldorf. Germany. May 17, 
1832. and was educated in Europe, attending the University at Achen. Later he learned the 
trade of brush maker at Achen. and when eighteen years of age he came to America, locating 
tirst at Cincinnati, where his elder brother, Hermann Lieber. had preceded him a year, and 
where he was in business as a book-binder. Within three weeks after his arrival in Cincin- 
nati our suliject was foreman of a brush factory in Cincinnati, employing 300 hands. In 
this factory he remained several years, and then went to Hamilton. Ohio, where he was in 
the same Ijusiness. Then he. with other Germans in Cincinnati, formed the town of New 
Ulm. Minn., and there Mr. Lieber located, and opened a general store. He also traded for 
furs with the Indians. In this town he was married in 18611 to Miss Sophia Andre, daughter 
of Carl Andre, and here he resided until the breaking out of the Civil War. when he enlisted 



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in the Tweiitv spcond Minnesota Battery as a private, serving as such for al)out two years. 
After that he served as sutler for some time, and then came to Indianapolis, where he acted 
as one of Gen. Morton's secretaries until the war closed. About that time the brewery of 
Gack & Biser at Indianapolis was offered for sale, and our .subject and his brother Hermann 
and Charles F. Myer bought it, and formed the lirm known as P. Lieber & Co., which con- 
tinued lirewing beer until in the seventies, when Mr. Myer retired, our subject buying his 
interest. In 1880 Hermann Lieber sold his interest to William Schrever, a stock company 
was organized, and Mr. Lieber was made president. In 1888 the deal was consummated 
transferring this and other breweries to an English syndicate, now known as the Indian- 
apolis Brewing Company, of which Mr. A. Liebei-, son of our subject, is now manager. 
Peter Lieber is one of the ])rime movers in the organization of the Consumer's Gas Trust 
Company, of Indianapolis. He has lieen one of the most prominent Germans in the State 
for years. In politics he was a Kepublicau up to ISSll, when the Prohibition plank angered 
him, and since then he has voted with the Democratic party. He was a delegate to the 
National Democratic Convention in 1884. In 1893 he was appointed Consul to Duesseldorf, 
Germany, by President Cleveland, and that position he now holds. By his marriage he became 
the father of six children, live of whom are now living: Carrie, who married Frederick 
Francke: Albert, Laura, Rudolph and Emma. 

A. Lieber. At the present day lager beer is rapidly liecoming the national Iteverage 
of the American people. When pure, manufactured only of the best material, and by the 
most improved processes, beer is acknowledged by leading physicians and medical authori- 
ties to have excellent tonic and strengthening properties, while it is also a well known fact, 
that our people are notably less intemperate since the introduction of lager beer. In this 
connection we wish to make prominent mention of A. Lieber, a prominent brewer of Indian 
a|iolis. Mr. Lieber was born in this city, Aiigust, 1863, and here he has passed the most 
of his days. He was educated in the public schools of Indiana]iolis, finished in the high 
school, and then attended Indianapolis Business College. He also studied under private 
tutors. Immediately after completing his studies Mr. Lieber entered the employ of P. 
Lieber & Co. (his father), as an office boy but subsequently was made bookkeeper. When 
the tirm was changed to the P. Lieber Brewing Comjiany, our suliject was made treasurer, 
and held that place until 1888, when the firm sold out to an English syndicate. He was 
then made director, treasurer and manager of the Indianapolis Brewing Company, composed 
of the P. Lieber Brewing Company, the C. F. Schmidt Brewing Company, and C. Mans 
Brewery. In 1889 our subject was made manager of the Schmidt Brewery, and in January, 
1 893, he was made manager of the C. Mans brewer)'. He now acts as manager in all three 
breweries. He is a director in the Indianapolis Chemical Company, of the Commercial 
Club, and on the finance committee of the latter. He is a director in the Indiana Trust 
Company. In politics Mr. Lieber affiliates with the Democratic party and was the messen- 
ger at the last election, taking the electoral vote to Washington, D. C. He was married in 
1887 to Jliss Alice Barrus, daughter of Prof. Carl Barrus, of Indianapolis. Three children 
have been born to them: Edith, Peter, Jr., and Alberta. 

John W. McDonald. There are few men who show as much fitness for theii' avoca 
tion in that they are wide-awake, experienced, reliable and energetic as John W. McDonald, 
who is baggage master on the railroad that runs from Brightwood to St. Louis, Mo. He 
owes his nativity to Ohio, born in Welister, May 8, 1859. and is the son of Mark andSusanah 
(Hidey) McDonald, who were natives also of Ohio, in which State their nuptials were cele- 
brated in the year 1S4'2. Eight children were the fruits of this union, three sons and five 
daughters. Of the sons. Joseph was an attorney and lived at Greenville, Ohio. He was 
twice married, first to Miss Ann Elliott, and afterward to Miss Elizabeth Lavy, who now 
survives him. Aaron married Miss Sevilla Ges^ting and now resides in Galveston, Ind. , and 
John W. . the sul)ject of this sketch. The daughters were named as follows: Margaret, 
born in Ohio, became the wife of Jacob Reck and now resides at Horatio, Ohio: Tas Martha 
became the wife of William Carey and resides at Versailles, Ohio; Mary resides at Douglas, 
Kas., and is the wife of Lyman Foutz, and Sarah married Fernando Mitchel. and is now a 
widow residing at Webster, Ohio. The father of these children died in 1860 and the mother 
p:issr'd avay in 18/3. They were worthy and much esteemed citizens. The youthful days 



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of our subject were passed in his native State, but for man}- years he has been a resident of 
this county. He is a man of good habits, is well versed in all literary matters, and is 
deeply interested in all public enterprises. He was married August 12. 1882, to Miss Celia 
S. Hart, daughter of Amos and Martha ("Cooper) Hart. The prominent physicians, Drs. 
Cooper <k Cooper, of Kokomo, Ind., and Dr. Cooper of Des Moines, Iowa, are uncles of Mrs. 
McDonald. Mr. and 5Irs. McDonald have no children. Mrs. McDonald has been blessed 
with a decided ta.ste for art. and as a crayon artist .stands in the front rank with any in the 
State. Her landscapes are above criticism, and in that line she has no superiors and very 
few equals in the Northwest. She is a natural artist and in her beautiful home may be 
found some fine specimens of her handiwork. 

Hiram Habdes Hall. The older memliers of a community are doubly entitled to the 
respect and esteem of their neighbors when their long lives have been replete with acts of 
kindness, and their whole career marked by integrity and uprightness. The time honored 
and respected gentleman whose name appears at tne head of this sketch, came, originally, 
from the Blue Grass State, born in Bourbon County, near Paris, November 18, 1824, and until 
eight years of age remained on bis father's farm in that State. In 1832 the father moved 
with his family to the "Hoosier State'' and purchased a tract of land comprising 160 acres 
situated in Section 3. Township 14. Range ")eaBt, in Rush County. On this farm the subject 
of this sketch remained with his father, whom he assisted in the work of the farm, and 
attended the district schools in the vicinity of his rural home, in which he obtained a fair 
knowledge of the three R's. The old log school-house he lirst attended had a puncheon 
floor, greased paper for window lights, a mud and stick chimney, slab lienches. in fact, all 
the paraphernalia of the old time pioneer school-house. In 1846 he attended the high school 
at Rushville. where the higher branches were taught and where he made fair progress in his 
studies. March 25. 1852. he led to the altar Miss Isabelle Maze, a native of Kentucky, as 
was also her father, John Maze, who subsequently moved to Rush County. Ind. This union 
resulted in the birth of two children: Isophine and Albert Washington. In 1860 Hiram H. 
Hall moved to Marion County. Ind.. and purchased forty acres of Section 5. Township 14, 
Range 5 east. In 1868 he added forty acres to this tract, and in 1887 eighty acres more, 
thus making a tine farm of 160 acres, worth at least S8tl per acre. On September 6. 1868, 
he was called upon to mourn the death of his faithful wife, who left to his care their two 
children. On April 17. 1878. he took for his second wife Miss Prudence Gertrude Hongham, 
of -lohuson County. Ind.. and to their union two children were born: Pruira Lenore. who 
was born .July 8. T^79. and Thurman Thompson, who was born March 4. 1882. The mother 
of the second cliildren was a graduate of Franklin College in the class of 1877. and for a 
number of years hail been an earnest and consistent member of the Regular Baptist Church, 
in which faith she died Februarv 2. l8iJ2. at the age of fort v two vears. Mr. HalTs daush- 
ter Isophine was united in marriage to John Wilson in 1882, and to them three children 
were given: Otto: Lizzie: and Wilbert Harden, who died March 6, 1S92, at the age of six- 
teen months. Albert Washington was married to Miss Ida Morgan, and by her became the 
father of three children: Ray. Stella and Ida. The latter died at the age of two weeks and 
the mother died when her little daughter was born. August 20. 1889. Mr. Hall has always 
been a public-spirited gentleman, and in the year 1S62 was elected assessor of Franklin 
Township and filled that position capably for ten years. He was subsequently elected to 
the position of trustee of Franklin Township, and succeeded himself to this position, serving 
four years. He is an excellent citizen, a man of practical and intelligent views, and in good 
financial circumstances. 

Hexet iLiTHEws Kemper. It is a pleasure to chronicle the historj- of a man whose life 
has been one of honor and usefulness, and although he has considerably passed the zenith of 
of his career. Mr. Kemper has accumulated a fortune that enables him to enjoy to the 
fullest extent the comforts of a home that is made beautiful by the sweet spirit of kindliness 
and mutual appreciation among the members of the family. He comes of good old Kentucky 
stock, his father. Nimrod Kemper, having been born near Lexington, Fayette Count}-. Ky.. 
in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In 1S32. with the ambition, courage and sturdy 
manhood which have always been distinguished characteristics of American pioneers. Nimrod 
Kemper pushed into Indiana and entered 160 acres of land in Franklin Township, Marion 



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Comity, on the Sbelbyville Eoad. This tract was coverd with ;i dense growtli of green 
timber, and clearing a few acres he hired men to build a log cabin, 18x20 feet. Previous 
to coming to Indiana, Mr. Kemper was married to Miss Polly Mathews, daughter of John 
Mathews, and in the log cabin in Marion County this worthy couple began their career as 
pioneers. The fall t hey moved they rented a farm in the same township, sowed some wheat and 
later pnt in a big crop of corn. The same fall they partially cleared twenty one acres of their 
farm, cutting out trees that whore a foot or so in diameter and burning them. In the spring 
of 18H8, tliey planted twenty-one acres of corn and raised a big crcjp. The mother died the 
fall after they moved to Indiana. She was the mother of eleven children by her union with 
^Ir. Kemper, as follows: John, deceased: Nancy, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Gror; 
Kobecca, deceased, was the wife of Peterson Parr; Peter, deceased; Jackson A., deceased; 
Henry M., our subject; Diana, deceased, was the wife of Walter Wheatley; Nimrod; Polly A., 
wife of Joseph Wheatley; Tiiman, deceased, and Ambrose, deceased. After the death of Mrs. 
Kemper the father selected his second wife in the person of Miss Lucy Sercy, who bore him 
two children, Susan, wife of John Sercy, and Jane, wife of Thomas Waller. The mother of 
these cliihlren still survives. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Tiiman Kemper, was 
born and reared in the grand old mother of States, Virginia. He was a soldier in the Revo- 
lutionary War, and afterward settled in Kentucky, where he passed the remainder of his life 
on the land allowed him in Fayette County. The father of our subject raised a company 
for the War of 1812, but peace was declared Ijefore it was mustered in. Henry Mathews 
Kemper was born in Owen County, Ky., November 15, 1816, and remained on his father's 
farm in that county until sixteen years of qge, attending school only during the winter 
seasons. Sometimes his terms were limited to two weeks. On September D, 1832, he came 
with his parents to Marion County, Ind., and assisted in grubbing and clearing the home 
place. By the time he was twenty years of age he hired out to neighi)oring farmers and 
continued this for two years. After that he began learning the carpenter trade and for about 
fourteen years worked at that, most of his patronage being in Indianajiolis. For over five 
years after this he worked in the peg and last factory in Indianapolis, owned by J. R. 
Osgood. In 1854 he bought eighty-six acres in section 32, Franklin Township, and on the 
sixteen acres already cleared was a log cabin of one room eighteen feet square. Very soon 
Mr. Kem[)er made additions to the cabin and it was very comfortable, but in 1883 he erected 
a nice frame house where he now resides. He was married December 10, 1839, to Miss 
JFary Cliinn, daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (Pegg) Chinn, the father a native of Ken- 
tu<!ky and the mother of Virginia. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Jlrs. Kemper: 
Charles W.. born October 27. 1840, and died March, 15, 1847; Martha A., born August 4, 
1842, married John J. Belles, and they have three children, Julia, Delia and Harry: Samuel 
M., liorn August 30, 1844, married Rachel A. Sweeney, and they have these children, 
Heury F., Martha M., Lulu; John L. , born Decemlier 28, 1846, married Miss Julia 
McMillen, and they have three children, Eldoras B., Marion B., and Roy; Mary E.. born 
June 26, 1849, married John M. Kelly and they have eleven children as follows, Edward, 
George, Levi P., Alfred A., Lily, Mary A., William, Robert, Maude, Clinton and Gertrude; 
Daniel G., born Se])tember 21, 1851, died August 23, 1852; Mahala B., born June 5, 1853, 
married Thomas S. Eaton (see sketch); George S., Ijorn June 5, 1853, is tintnarried, and Laura 
v.. born September 17,1861, died A[)ril 23, 1863. Our subject's son, Samuel enlisted in Com- 
pany D, Sixty-third Regiment, Indiana Infantry in August 1862, and served with that regiment 
until cessation of hostilities. He was in sixteen of the most prominent engagements of the 
war, as follows: Buz/, ird's Roost, Resaca, Burnt Hickory, Keuesaw Mountain, Chatta- 
hooche, Atlanta, Lost Mountain, Jonesboro, Cassville, Columbia, Franklin, Altoona, Nash- 
ville, Fort Anderson, Toon Creek and Willington. In his political views Mr. Kemper was 
reared a Democrat but later became a Whig and finally a Republican, which ticket he votes 
at the present time. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Pleasant Lodge, No. 134, 
and for about fifty year^ has been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he 
held various offices. He has refused numerous requests to serve as justice of the peace, but 
has served as supervisor iti his township. John P. Cliiiui, the father of Mrs. Kemper, was a 
sjldier in the War of IS12, and after ce-isation of ho.-^tilities returned to Kentucky, where 
In m:i',ri«:l Miss Eliz:il)Btl\ Pegg. In 1826, he and his bride came to Indiana, settled in 



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Marion Connty and boaght forty acres of timber land. There they made their home imtil about 
1848. when they moved to Hendricks County. Ind. and there the father died of cholera in 
1851. He was the father of nine children, as follows: Xancy. deceased, was the wife of 
Mathew Suiock: Mary, wife of H. M. Kemper: Eliza J., widow of John P. Childers: Thomas, 
deceased: Martha A., wife of William McFarland: John P.: Elizdbeth A., deceased: Lucy, 
deceased, was the wife of Loring Reynolds, and Zarelda, wife of ^^ . G. Wright. The 
mother of these children died April 0. 1839, aged fifty years. The father was a Democrat 
in politics, and a Baptist in religion. Mrs. Kempers grandfather, Thomas Chinn. came to 
Indiana when an old man and for some time kept tavern on the site of the Old Little Hotel, 
Indianapolis. 

Hexby Shelhoff. Among the very many saceessful, experienced and competent 
contractors and builders of Indianapolis there are none who deserve more honorable men- 
tion than Henrj- SpielhofF. whose place of business is at 181* Coburn Street, for he has 
l>een actively following his trade in this city since 1865. and has pursued it with more than 
ordinary success. He is a native of Prussia, in which country his birth occurred in 1829, 
his father being William .Spielhoff, who lived and died in that coimtry. He was a man of 
much intelligence, was highly educated, and followed the calling of a school teacher, and 
it was under his able instruction that young Henry obtained bis knowledge of the "world of 
books." He finished bis education in the Polytechnic Institute, where he learned the theory 
of the carpenter's trade, and later the practice, while serving a three years" apprenticeship 
in his native land. He showed his intelligence in 1859 l>y coming to the United .States, 
and almost iniuiediately after locating in Indianapolis he cooinienced working at his trade 
and has followed it with satisfactory success up to the present time. While in the old 
country he served his allotted time in the German army, from 1848 to iSol. and from that 
time until his removal to this country he was engaged in contracting, so that upon his 
arrival in this country he was enabled to continue his work uninterrnpledly. He continued 
it alone until 1865. at which time he formed a ])artnership with Fred Prange. of this city, 
liut which partuersiiip was later dissolved. In 1869 he removed to Tell City. Ind.. where 
he was for some time engaged in the manufasttu'e of furniture, and while there he was 
also president of the Cabinet Makers ITnion of that place. At the end of four and a half 
years, or in 187ii. he returned to Indianapolis, and has since Ijeen in business here, a short 
time being associated with Christian Miller. He has for some time past been in business 
alone, and during this time he has erected .some edifices which are greatly to his credit, 
among which may be mentioned the Loraine Block, Turners" Hall and various other large 
business buildings and numerous handsome residences. Mr. Spielhoff is a meml>e;r of the 
Builders" Exchange, was president of the Liederkranz tliree terms, and is now an honorary 
memlier of that order, and socially belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. Ac A. M. Polit- 
ically he has been associated with the Kepublicans. but for the last eight years with the 
Democrats. He was married in 185"2 to Miss Fredericka Helle, a native of Prussia, and to 
their union ten chiMren were given, of whom William who is the only surviving son and the 
eldest member of the family, is foreman for his father. 

Prof. Archibald M. Hall, who has attained considerable prominence in his chosen 
profession — teaching — is a product of the Keystone State, born in Laughlintown. Westmore- 
land Coimty. July 27. 1863. His early scholastic training was received in the common 
schools, and later he attended the normal school, then taught by Prof. I. M. Graham. After 
passing a, county examination he commenced teaching at the age of seventeen and continued 
this for two years in his native county. During the year 1SS2 he acted as principal of the 
school in Laughlintown. but in the spring of the following year he came to Irvington. Ind., 
and graduated from Butler Fniversitv in 18S8. with the degree of A. B. From there he 
went to Winchester. Ind.. as pastor of the Christian Church, but part of the time he was 
principal of the high school in that town. Resigning that position he returned to his alma 
mater and took a post-graduate course. During this time, he, with others of the alumni, 
created a theological department, with Prof. Garvin as the head and moving spirit. Prof. 
Hall began teaching in Butler University in the session of 1S91, his department being 
Hebrew, and in 1893 he had full charge of that department. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Butler University in 1889 and Ph. D. from that institution in the spring of 1892, this 



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being the first degree of Pb. D. ever given by the university on work. The Professor is a 
member of tlie Delta Tan Deltas, and of AVincbester Lodge, No. 91, K. of P. He is also a 
minister of the Christian Church, empowered to solemnize marriages. In his political 
views the Professor affiliates with the Rejniblicrtns, although not an active partisan. His 
|i:ireuts, Roliert and Catherine (Funk) Hall, were natives of Pennsylvania, and the latter 
was the daughter of Rev. Funk, a Dnnkard minister. Ten children were l)orn to Mr. and 
Mrs. Hall, six of whom are now living. One of the sons, Henry, served all through the 
Civil War. Our subject has proven himself worthy of the trust reposed in him and ranks 
among JIarion County's ablest educators. 

Thomas J. JIorse. The difference in the appearance of the buildings of to-day and 
(lio.se of twentv-tive years ago is very marked, for then a three or four-story building was 
considered a marvel in architecture, while to-day in all large cities it is a common occurrence 
to see a ten or twelve-story building while those of even greater height are by no means rare. 
In proportion to the advance made in this respect, the knowledge and skill of contractors and 
builders has increased in like proportion and among the most successful of these in the city 
of Indianapolis is Thomas J. Morse, who possesses a thorough knowledge of all styles of 
ancient and modem architecture and has applied his knowledge in a |)ractical way as can at 
once be proven when any of the many buildings he has erected are pointed out. He is a native 
of the State of Ohio, born in 1838, a son of Learned Morse, who was born in New Jer- 
sey but who died in Ohio when his son, Thomas J., was a child. The latter continued to 
make his home with his widowed mother until he was thirteen years of age, at which time 
he began learning the carpenter's trade in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. A few yeais later 
he went to that city and tinished his trade, but when the alarms of war sounded he dropped 
his saw and plane and enlisted in his country's service in the United States navy, after which 
he was detaile<l for duty on the gun boat "Caromlelet"' which was for two years in the service 
of the Government on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of Yicksburg and on the Yazoo 
River. He was in the bombardment of Yicksburg, Johnson's Landing, AYalnut Ridge, and 
others, and after two years of this active and dangerous service he returned to Cincinnati 
and a few years later came to Indianapolis. Yerv soon after this he engaged in contracting, 
since which he has been one of the most e.xtensive and successful builders of Indianapolis, a 
city well known for its efficient contracts. He erected the grand stand at the State fair 
grounds: the residence of AYilliam Coffin and A. H. Gibson; the wholesale drug bouse of 
Stewart & Berry: the D. L Ervin Dry Goods House; many public buildings throughout the 
State, including the school-houses, court-houses, among the latter the court-house at Wash- 
ington, Ind. : besides numerous other buildings of note too numerous to mention. He has 
given employment, on an average, to about forty men, and be makes a point of emjiloying 
none but the most skillful and experienced workmen, therefore bis work is at all times satis- 
factory. Mr. ]Morse has served two terms in the city council, was chairman of the com- 
mittee on bridges and has served one term as a member of the police board, and has always 
taken an active part in supporting the principles of the Republican party. He is a member 
of the Builders' Exchange and is one of the directors of the organization, is a member of the 
Contractors Association, and has ever been interested in and an active worker for the jirog- 
ress of bis calling. During the extensive strike of several years ago he arbitrated with the 
strikers and through his good judgment, fairness and honesty, the trouble was brought to a 
speedy termination and the matter was settled in a satisfactory manner to both the strikers 
and builders. Mr. Morse is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Raper Com- 
mandery. No. 1., Knights Templar, is also a tbirtv-second degree member of the Scottish 
Rite, of that order, is a member of the famous drill corps of this city that has captured so 
many prizes in the different conclaves held throughout the country, and is thoroughly posted 
on all matters pertaining to his order. In 1865 he was married to ]Miss May E. Pope, a 
daughter of Henry F. Poi>e. a native German and a pioneer of Indianajiolis. and to their 
union two dausbters and one son have been given: Robert P.. now attending the State 
I niversitv of Illinois and is preparing himself to become an architect: Carrie R.. wife of 
William E. Clifford, of this city: Elbe J., who married Albert B. Bowen. of Indianapolis. 
Joseph B. M.ansfieli). The calling of the merchant is one of the oldest as well as one 
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most important factors, and without tliese the public would indeed find themselves in a sad 
plight. Above all it is necessary that the line of goods should be of the best and the mer- 
chant reliable, two features combined in the mercantile career of Joseph B. Mansfield, who 
has carried on this l)nsiness, most of the time in Brightwood, since the war. He is a native 
of Darlie County, Oliio, born October 12, 1837, and the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Payne) 
Mansfield, who were married in that county about 1830. Of the six children born to this 
estimable couple, our subject was the eldest. The others were named as follows: Phcebe 
(married Asa Sockman and resides on the old home farm in Darke County, Ohio), George (is 
now living in the same county, and with his second wife, who was formerly Miss Enjily 
Lambert; his first wife was a Miss Loven), Mahala (married T. I. Sipe, and makes her home 
in I'nion City, Ind.), and John (married Ellen Lamljert, and resides in Oleudower, Va.). 
Inhis native county our subject spent his youthful days, and in 18G2 was married to Miss 
Mary Ann Blizzard, daughter of Jackson and Mary Ann Blizzard, natives of Pennsylvania 
and of German origin. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield and utimed as 
follows: Elizabeth (born in 1863, married Richard Lyman, and resides in Chicago, 111.), 
Alice (lioru on the same day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, married Edward Griffith 
and resides at home), Gilbert (two years younger than the latter, died at the age of fourteen), 
Charles (born in 1869, married Miss Rose Smitli and lives at home), Edward (born about 1871, 
died when three years of age), MolJie (born in 1878, is a bright young Miss of fifteen), and the 
bal)y, Louise (Ijorn in 1881, is attending the home school). During the Civil War Mr. Mans- 
field donned his suit of lalue, shouldered his musket and enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry and served until the close of the war. Returning from army 
life he moved to Union City and was employed as a bridge carpenter on the railroad, now 
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis, assisting in the construction of that road from Union 
City to Logansport. After thi'ee years' service he was then employed on the "Bee Line" 
road, witli whicli he remained fourteen years assisting in the building of all the shops at 
Brightwood. One of the lemarkable features of Mr. Mansfield's career, and which speaks 
volumes in liis favor, is that lie never had a disagreement with his emjiloyers or with the 
employes. He quit railroading to embark in mercantile pursuits, and has continued this 
successfully up to the present time. He was elected marshall of Brightwood and served two 
terms in that capacity. For some time he has been a member of tlie Masonic fraternity, 
and was made Master Mason the evening James A. Garfield died. He is also a member of 
the I. O. O. F., and now ht)lds the office of district deputy, and is a member of Brightwood 
Lodge, No. 915, K. of H. He is an exemplary citizen and foremost in all matters which 
pertain to the welfare of the town of his adoption. 

John Wocher. Among the most enterprising and successful of the representatives of 
great fire insurance comjianies in this city. Mr. John Wocher deserves prominent notice. 
He represents eight of the largest and leading insurance companies, and it is obvious that 
the most implicit confidence can be placed in him, for iiis experience and technical knowledge 
of the business reaches that of an expert. This business, established manj' years ago, was 
one of the original insurance agencies, known as the Franklin Agency, which Mr. Wocher 
succeeded to in 1888. Since that time the Ijusiness has increased in a wonderful manner, 
and is among the leading ones of the city at the present time. Mr. Wocher was born in 
(.'incinnati. Ohio, April 23, 1856. and he is a son of John and Rejina (Feiner) Wocher, 
natives of Wurtemberg. Germany. The parents came to the United States about the year 
1845, and in the year 1865 settled in Indianajiolis where the father followed the trade of 
stone contractor. Tiiere his death occurred in 1886. His wife survives him. The original 
of this notice was aliout nine years of age when he came to Indianapolis and he was reared 
and educated in the ]iublic schools. After finishing liis education he entered a bank as mes- 
senger and was connected with the same ten years, being teller of the same at the time of 
leaving to engage in his present business. Mr. Wocher has served as president of the 
Franklin Fire Insurance Company for three years. He is also engaged quite extensively in 
the real estate I)usines8, and having a wide acquaintance and being well known to capitalists 
and owners of projierty, has built up an excellent clientele in the city and vicinity. He is a 
man of much business acumen and is well and favorably known in financial and business 
circles. Mr. Wocher selected his wife in the j)erson of Miss E. Bertha Bals, a native of 



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Itiiliiinapolis. Intl., and their nuptials were celebrated June 7, 1878. She is a daughter of 
C'liarlesand Christina Bals. natives of Germany. Mr. and Mr. Wocher have onechild living, 
Gertrude, wliose hirtli occurred June 8, 1879. Mr. Wocher has shown his appreciation of 
secret organizations hy becoming a member of the Masonic Fraternity, having attained the 
thirty-second degree of Scottish Kite Masonry and is a member of the ^[ystic Shrine. In 
politics he advocates the principles of the Republican party. 

J.vMEs W. Laxktkee. Among the best known representatives or the most successful 
life insurance organizations, James W. Lanktree, manager for Indiana for the United States 
Life Insurance Company of New York, holds a high place. He was made manager for 
Indiana in 1SS6, having j)revious]y been manager for Missouri and Kansas, with headquar- 
ters at Kansas City. The company has done business in Indiana for many years and is 
classed among the leading life insurance companies. Through the energy and perseveraiice 
of Mr. Lanktree the liusiness has largely increased since he has been in charge at Indian- 
apolis. This gentleman is a native of Huntingdon County, Quebec, born August '27. 1841, 
sou of Barnabas and Sarali (Willis) Lanktree, natives of Ireland, who immigrated to Canada, 
about the year 1S19. There this worthy couple passed the remainder of their days. The 
father followed the occupation of a farmer and with substantial results, acquiring consider- 
able property. At the time of the McKenzie trouble in 1837, he was a member of the 
militia and served on the frontier. He was among the pioneers of Quebec and settled on a 
farm in the foi'est, clearing the same and making a home. His death occurred in 1854, 
when sixty four years of age. His wife survived him until 1871, being in her seventy-sec- 
ond year at (he time of her death. Thirteen children were the fruits of this union, nine of 
whom are living, scattered from Maine to California. Our subject is the twelfth in order 
of birdi. He was reared in his native country and educated in the academy at Malone, 
New York. When young he learned the carpenter's trade at Lowell, Mass., and for four- 
teen years was a successful contractor and builder at Ogdensburg, X. Y'., and Chicago, 
four years of the time being spent at the latter place. In 1876 he came to Indianapolis and 
two years later tngaged in the insurance bu.siness. Mr. Lanktree was married in the 
year ISG'J to Miss Augusta A. Dailey, of Lisbon, N. Y. After the death of his wife he was 
married in 1872 to Miss Maggie A. Dixon, a native of Ogdensburg. N. Y'., who bore him 
one child. Ln Edna, whose birth occurred February 24, 1S74, and who died January 29, 
1890. Mr. Lanktree is a member of the Masonic order, and in politics is an ardent Democrat, 
having always taken a deep interest in political affairs. He owns a handsome residence 
property at 1028 N. Pennsylvania Street, and is one of the city's most stirring, energetic 
business men. 

As.v N. Shimer. Among the many successfid farmers of Warren Township, Marion County. 
Ihd., who is as conspicuous for his outsjioken views in sanctioning that which is just and 
right as in his denunciation of that which he considers unjust and wrong, is he whose name 
heads this sketch. He is an intelligent, able and progressive farmer, takes great pride in 
the cultivation of his tine farm of ICO acres, and it is so admirably tilled and every detail so 
carefully and intelligently looked after that it produces much more than many more preten- 
tious places. Mr. Shimer was ushered into existence August 2, 1832, on the old homestead 
of his parents in Warren Township, Marion County, Ind., was reared on that farm and 
l)ecame inured to toil and hardships, which is attendant on the lives of the early pioneers of 
any country. He became well versed in all the intricacies of farm, life from the date of the 
old wooden mold-board plow and three cornered wood tooth drag and the laborious way to 
both man and beast of ixsing them, up to the present day of easy farming, compared with sixty 
years ago. His education was obtained in the primary schools and at tiie Northwestern 
University (then located in University Square, Indianapolis), and he continued to make his 
home with his father, Flias N. Shimer (a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work), 
until four years after his marriage, and assisted him in the duties of the farm which by this 
time had reached proportions of considerable magnitude, for their landed interests had 
increased many acres and necessitated much more labor and shrewd management. Mr. 
Shimer's mariiage lo Mis-; Margaret Smart has been a happy one. She is the daughter of 
Hezekiah and Margaret Smart, natives of Kentucky, from which State they came to Marion 
County. Ind., about 1S23, and for that reason are classed among the early pioneers of the 



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county. Mrs. Shimei' is uiie of iLi^ iiitio cLildren born lo her parents, hII of whom lived to 
maturity. Their names in the ordei' of their births are as follows: Humphrey, who died of 
cholera; William, who died of tj'phoid fever; David, a resident of California; Martha Ann, 
wife of Archibald Glenn of Marion County; Elizabeth, wife of William Deuuy of Indianapolis; 
Mari^aret (Mrs. Shimer); Hezekiah, of Lawrence Township, this county; Comfort, wife of 
Austin M. Glenn, of Perry Township; Caroline, wife of James Henry, M. D., of Illinois. 
Mrs. Shimer is a woman of unusual intellect and talent, extremely sociable, devoted to hei' 
friends, her husband and her children, of whom three have been born to them, the eldest 
being Eiias N., who was born June 21, ]8r)4; Florence L., born November 2, 1855, and 
Hezekiah, born December 14, 1857. The eldest is married to Dercie, daughter of Rev. 
James McVey, of Dakota. Florence L. is the wife of William H. Bowser, a sketch of whom 
appears herein, and Hezekiah is married to Augusta Tweedeuborg, by whom he has had 
three children: Asa L. (deceased), Florence M. and Frederick Nelson. Elias N. has two 
sons: Asa N. and James M., while Florence L. has two sons and two daughters. Mr. 
Shimer has recently erected a frame residence which is a model of neatness in architecture 
as well as of convenience in its interior. He is member of the K. of H. , as is his son, Elias 
N. , the latter being also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the two other chil- 
dren being connected prominently with the Christian Church. So far as political alfairs 
interest Mr. Shimer and his sous they are active, but for themselves they seek no political 
prominence or notoriety, and usually support Democratic principles, always exercising their 
right to exercise their own judgment, and especially so in local and municipal elections. 
Hezekiah Smart, the father of Mrs. Shimer, came to this State from Kentucky as a single 
man in 1823 and entered 100 acres of land in Perry Township, Marlon County. He cleared 
a small portion and then planted corn and made a garden and built a log house. In 1824 he went 
back to Kentucky, married Miss Margaret Hiukston, a daughter of Capt. John Hinkston, 
who won his title in the War of 1812, their marriage being celebrated August 10, 1824. He 
brought his bride on horseback to his home in Indiana, and here they spent twenty-nine 
years, then sold the farm in 1858 and moved to Missouri, the father dying c)n Christmas 
Day, 1870, and the mother April 8, 1879, her birth having occurred on July (J, 1801. The 
Great grandfather Smart, was born in London, England, while the grandfather was a native 
of the Keystone State. Mrs. Smart was a grand daughter of Col. John Hinkston, a soldier 
of the Revolution. 

Thom.\s H. Nelson. In a young and rapidly developing city like Haughville, situated 
as it is in the best grain and stock-raising section of Indiana, the business of dealing in real 
estate is necessarily a very important one, and especially so, because, in addition to town 
property, there is a very large amount of farm property continually changing hiinds, the 
greater part of which is handled by Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, who is well and favorably known 
throughout the county. He was born in Illinois, Bond County, August 25, 1845, and is a son 
of Thomas and Sarah (Bates) Nelson, natives of Tennessee. The father was a school teacher 
when young and at an early day settled in Illinois where he made his home for one year. 
From there he moved to Delaware County, Indiana, thence to Huntington County and there 
his death occurred when sixty- live years of age. The original of this notice was left an orphan 
when quite small and he was reared by relatives, in Delaware and Huntington Counties. His 
opportunities for getting an education were limited for as soon as old enough he was obliged 
to work to gain a livelihood. Until about twenty years of age he continued tilling the soil 
after which he began travt^ling, selling patent light territory which he continued successfully 
for two years. After this he engaged in the live stock business m Indiana for about live 
years and at the time gas was found at Muncie, he took live shares in the first well. Later 
lie embarked in the real estate business there but in 1888 came to Haughville where he has 
since been engaged in the same, being unusually successful. Mr. Nelson is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity and Red men. In the year 1874 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Jones, 
a native of Indianapolis and the daughter of John and Julia (Marvel) Jones. Three children 
were the fruits of this union, Ada C, Julia T. and Mata E. Mr. Nelson and family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are universally respected. He is dee])ly 
interested in his business and is an instrument for thel)uilding up of the country and making 
the wilderness to blossom as the rose, figuratively speaking. In his political predilections he 
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Peter C Hansen. Aiuoug tlie nuiuerous tirins of real estate dealers wliose combined 
operations have given snch a wonderful impetus to the realty market of Haughville, a prom- 
inent place iu the foremost rank is due that of Nelson & Hansen. Both are gentlemen of 
excellent business training, and bring to bear a perfect knowledge of values, present and 
prospective, of real estate not alone in Haughville and vicinity, but throughout the whole 
county. They carry on a general real estate business in all its branches, selling, exchanging, 
leasing and letting all kinds t>f property for business, residential, farming or purely specula- 
tive jinrposes. of which they have at all times long lists on their books. Mr. Hansen is a 
native of Denmark, born September Itj, I85t), and his parents, Hans Peterson and Karen 
Cornelius, were natives of the same country where thej- reside at the present time. Peter C. 
Hansen grew to manhood and received his education in his native country. When twent_v- 
tive years of age he came to America and direct to Indianapolis, Ind., where he resided for a 
year. He then came to Haughville and there he has since resided. He began his career iu 
the latter place as an employe in the Malleable Iron Works, later engaged as painter and 
contractor. After this he owned and operated a meat market for four years when he sold the 
same and emliarked in his present business. He has l)een earful, industrious and econom- 
ical and owns property in North Indiauiipolis and Haugiiville. He is keen and shrewd in 
l>usiness and is well and favorably known in the town. Mr. Hansen was married shortly 
after coming to this country to Miss Christina Gorgenson who died four years later. His 
second marriage was to Miss Caroline Hnber, a native of Ohio, but who was reared and edu- 
cated in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen are members of the Danish Lutheran Church, and 
in poHtics he supports the principles of the Republican party. Mr. Hansen is a self-made 
man and deserves much credit for his perseverance and energy. He was obliged to begin 
the battle of life for himself at the tender age of thirteen, and before he came to America, 
worked for an extensive dairy which employed several hundred hands. Through faithful 
performance of duty he became an overseer of this extensive enterprise and continueil in that 
capacity until coining to .\merica. At the time of coming to this country he was unable to 
speak a word of English and when he landed in Haughville his entire possessions did not 
exceed moi'e than §0. Ttie industrious aud energetic qualities were inherent in him and he 
soon secured a good situation and came to the front, educating himself in the English lau- 
guage. He has been unusually successful and it is alone due to his persevering and indi- 
vidual efforts. In a comparatively few years he has accumulated property valued at al>out 
S8,0(1(), and he stands well in the community iu which he lives. 

S.\MrEi. H.\Nw.\Y Teneyck. The exi>au tless pages of history fail to disclose an older or 
more honoral)le calling than that of the druggist, a profession variously designated under 
the titles of chemist aud apothecary. The science of preventing and curing disease is a 
noble one, and one which enlists the aid of the druggist to a wide degree. A well kept 
establishment of the kind is that owned and operated by Samuel H. Teueyck, at the corner 
of Illinois and Thirtieth Streets, Mapleton, Ind. Mr. Teneyck is a native of Indianapolis, his 
birth occurring here August 25, 1870, his parents being Edward and Martha (Hanway) 
Teueyck. the latter of whom is a daughter of Samuel Hanway, ex-county treasurer of Marion 
County. The subject of this sketch was the eldest of his parents' two children, aud his 
In-other Edward was liorn in 1877. Almost from the time he left his cradle Samuel H. 
Teneyck was trained for the life of a business man, and was given a practical education in 
the public schools of the city. After reaching manhcod he was for many years a partner in 
the large contracting firm of Hanway A Lancaster, but about one year ago, as the contracting 
business was light, he turned liis attention to other pursuits, and is now conducting his well 
stocked and artistically arranged drug store at Mapleton. He was married January 1, 18S7, 
to .Miss Dovie C. Lancaster, daughter of George W. and Hattie (Blue) Lancaster, who were 
among the early settlers of Indiana, their parents locating here when the State was iu its 
infancy. They at once took and held a prominent position iu the State, and are justly con- 
sidered among its most honorable and eminent citizens. Mr. and Jlrs. Teneyck have a 
pleasant and comfortable residence at the corner of Marion and Thirtieth Streets, where they 
are carefully rearing the two bright little children that have been given them — George Lan- 
caster, born July 28, 1888, and Clyde Hanway, born February 18, 1890. Mr. Teneyck's 
father came from Ohio to this region, and his grandfather was the first grocer in ludianap- 



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olis. Edward leanietl iLe calling ol a railroad eiigimn'r in early life aud ban fullowi/d tbat 
calliuf,' evt^r since. He and bis wife reside in Indianapolis, of wbicb city Ibey are influential 
and uprigbt inbabitants. George W. Lancaster, Mrs. Teneyck's fatber, baa always been 
closely iilentitied witb tbe ])ublic affairs of Marion County, and for two feims was trustee of 
Wasbin^'ton Townsbip, and in many otber ways bas belped to guide tbe pujjlic alfaiis of bis 
section successfully. Wben tbe great Civil War broke out be enlisted as captain of Com- 
pany K, of tbe Forty third Indiana Volunteers, and served tbrougbout tbe entire war, bis 
position as a soldier lieing as prominent as bis i)osition as a citizen. M'itli ^ucb influences 
on bis wife's side and all bis business training, together witb as fine a record on bis father's 
side as any young man ever bad and bis fixed habits of sobriety and industry, there is no 
reason to believe that such an enterprising young business man as Samuel H. Teneyck should 
be left in tbe race for wealth and fame. 

WiLL.ARD G. Gordon. Few, if any, among those engaged in tbe real estate business in 
Indiana])olis maintain a higher rej)utation for integrity and relialtility than Mr. Willard 
G. (Tonlon. He buys, sells, rents, leases and exchanges all classes of improved and iniim- 
proved reality, is thoroughly experienced in these matters and bas qiuckly established him 
self in popular favor and patronage, numbering among bis clients many of tbe solid and 
wealthy citizens of this community. He possesses an intimate knowledge of the best resi- 
dential and l)usiuess properties in tbe city and bas upon bis books some of tbe choicest 
property to be found anywhere in Indianapolis and vicinity. He is notary public, and in 
connection with bis immense real-estate business is engaged in insuring, making quite as 
much of a success in that as in tbe real-estate business. Like many of the prominent men 
of tbe county, he is a native of tbe " Buckeye '' State, born in Butler County, December 1 1, 
1857, and bis parents, Riley and Elizal)etb (Jones) Gordon, were natives of the same 
county. The father was a lawyer of consideral)le prominence and in 1809 he moved bis 
family to Indiana, settling in Morgantown, Brown County, wbere be practiced bis profes- 
sion for many years. There the family resides at tbe present time. Tbe paternal grand- 
|)arents of our subject were pioneers of Butler County, Ohio, and much esteemed citizens. 
The maternal grandparents were natives of Wales. Our subject took the ordinary public 
school education in Brown County, and after engaging in various enterprises began the study 
of law, being admitted to tbe bar at Martinsville in 1884. After practicing law for a num- 
ber of years he came to Haugbville, Marion County, Ind., in 189(1, and after a residence 
of al)oiit a year at Mount Jackson be embarked in his present business, wbicb bebas since carried 
on successfully. He is secretary and treasurer of the local board of tbe German American 
Building & Loan Association, and bas quite an extensive business in this line. Aside from 
this he is also president of tbe Haugbville School Board, a member of the I. O. O. F., 
being treasurer of Puritan Lodge, No. 078, and is also a member of the K. of P. On 
September 9, 1891, he married Miss Leonora Norris, whose birth occurred in Marion 
County, Ind., and who is a daughter of Martin V. and Sarah J. (Brown) Norris. One child, 
Harry V., has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, bis birth occurring August 12, 1892. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are consistent members of tbe Presbyterian Tabernacle Church of 
Indianapolis. Mr. Gordon is a Democrat in politics. 

Stanton W. Hawkey. There is no more important business in a community or one 
in which its exponents are in greater demand than tbe brick contractor, for the majority 
of buildings at the present day are made of this material, and it requires a man of 
uudoul)ted intelligence, as well as experience, to make a success of this line of work. 
Such a man is Stanton ^V. Hawkey, who bas been a contractor and builder of prominence 
tor a numl)er of years past. He was born in Sidney, Ohio, in 1848, being a son of William 
Hawkey, a native of tbe Old Dominion, who, after bis removal to Ohio, settled in Shelby 
County, of which section he was one of the early pioneers, and where tbe remamder of 
his days were spent. He was quite an extensive contractor of brick and erected many 
imposing buildings. He was a man of keen disceriuuent and excellent business judgment, 
aiul he succeeded in accumulating a considerable amount of this world's goods. Stanton 
W. Hawkey received bis education in the schools of Sidney and bis native county, and 
when still a boy commenced working at his trade, at which he finished his apprenticeship 
in tbe State of his birth. In 1871 he came to Indianapolis and worked as a journeyman 



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until 1S7G, when lie returned to OLio ami remained two years. He then came back to 
this city and with the exception of two years which he spent with Henry Cook he has 
been in business by himself. He erecteil the Indianapolis Chair Company Works, but has 
devoted most of his attention to residence work, in which he has done exceptionally well. 
He was at one time a director of the J5uilders" Fxchange, anil is still a member of that 
body and an active worker for its success and welfare. His business is sufficiently exten 
sive to necessitate the employment of about twenty live men throughout the year, and as 
he employs none but those who thoroughly understand their business and himself person- 
ally superintends them, his work is strictly first class, and this is a fact that has long 
since come to be recognized. Mr. Hawkey was married in Sidney, Ohio, in 1870, to Miss 
Clara Lenox, of Shelby County, by whom he has one daughter. He and his wife are mem 
bers of the Seventh Presbyterian Church and move in the most refined social circles. 

C.vLKB Johnson. This genlleniau is one of the oldest settlers of Marion ('ounty, Ind., 
and is now a resident of Decatur Townshii). He was born in Wayne County, Ind., April S, 
ISl'.t, in which county he was brought U]> and where he received a somewhat limited educa- 
tion in the old log school-houses of that day, which were cotiducted on the subscription plan. 
He attended irregularly for about three months of the year up to the age of seventeen, at 
which time his schooling ceased and his time was then given to assisting his father on the 
farm and in aiding the various farmers in the vicinity. His seventeenth year was spent in 
laboring m a saw mill for Nathan Compton, for which he received SlOO, and the following 
summer he assisted hi.s father. About this time his grandfather loaned him SldO, and with 
that sum and with what he had saved he entered eighty acres of land in Randolph, County, 
Ind., at .11.25 per acre. In September, 18H8, he married Miss Lydia, daughter of Willis 
and Rebecca Whitson, natives of the Carolinas, and for one year after his marriage he lived 
in Wayne ('ounty, and farmed on rented land. In the fall of 1839 he came to Marion 
County, Ind. , his wife being the owner of eighty acres in Decatur Township, which land 
was entered by lier mother in the name of her daughter {Mrs. Johnson) some eight or ten 
years prior. On this tract ten acres of timber had been (.leadened, but the underbrush had 
grown up very rank and made it almost as difficult to clear as if it had been covered with 
timber. Here Mr. Johnson settled and at once commenced the erection of a log cabin. He 
hired two or three men and he put up what was then considered a good hewed log house, 
18x20 feet. It was a one-story building, with a dirt chimney and plank door, and clap- 
boards covered the tloor in the loft. The beds he nuide himself, boring holes in the logs for 
the cross pieces, and the floor was of loose planks and the roof was also clap-boards. When 
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson moved into this house it had no door, but this he soon remedied, and 
his table and most of his chairs were also homemade. That winter be cleared eight acres and 
the following spring planted it to corn. Here he lived about seven years, and then he put 
up an old style frame 18x40 feet, one story in height, in which he lived until 1879, when he 
put up the handsome two-storj' building he now occupies. In 1847 Mr. Johnson added 
twenty five acres to his land, and in 1S51 forty acres more. In 1855 he purchased eighty 
acres, for which he paid $25 per acre. In 181)5 he bnught eighty acres for $45 per acre, and 
in 1S7I added forty acres more, for which he fjaid $2,200. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson chil- 
dren have been born as follows: Ann, who died in 1881, was the wife of Amos Doan ; 
Willis, who married Sarah J. Edwards, has two children, William A. and Ora A., both of 
whom are married; Mary died in infancy; Silas married Martha A. Gossett and has a 
daughter, Ella A., who is married; Henry died in infancy; Rebecca, who married William 
Jackson, has two children, Lydia A. and Alida, the former of whom is married, and John W., 
who is married to Dinah Ferguson, by whom he has one daughter, Sarah L. Mr. Johnson 
has given each of his children real estate when they started out in life for themselves, but 
still retains a good farm of IGO acres, the income from which is amply sufficient for his 
wants. He has cleared 10<) acres of land in Marion County, and is in every way a practical 
and thrifty farmer. He is a member of the Friends' Church, in politics was formerly a 
Whig, liiter a Republican, and is now a stanch supporter of the Prohibition party. His 
father was Charles Johnson, who was born in Guilford County, N. C in 1797, and lived 
there until about 1812, at which time he came with his father, James Johnson, to Indiana, 
locating in Wayne County, near Richmond. There he spent the principal part of his life as a 



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farmer. He died in 1872, at the residence of bis son, Dr. Abijah Johnson, in Earlbam. 
Iowa. He was a Quaker, as was his father before him, and was twice married, first in ISly 
to Mary, daughter of Robert and Martha Comer, natives of North Carolina, and to their 
union four cliildren were given: Caleb (the subject of this sketch); Martha, who married 
Ezra Bishop and became the mother of three children, Angebne, Pbfebe and Rebecca; Betsy 
A., widow of Enoch Marhall, resides in New Paris. Ohio, and has these children: James C, 
Mary, Ethelinda and Samuel, and Mary (deceased) was tirst married to James Smith, by 
whom she has one child, Albina J. , and by her second husband, John Jeffrey, had three 
children, Job. Alpheus and ilartha. For his second wife Charles Johnson took Nancy 
Beeson, and eight children were born to them: Charles A. ; Isaac K. ; Sarah J., who mar- 
ried Charles Kennedy: Jesse: Eliza, who first married Harvey Lyon and after his death a 
Mr. HoUingsworth: Dr. Abijah: Eli. and Rhoda, who married Wesley Mendenhall. Tlie 
mother of the suliject of this sketch died about l!S27. The paternal grandfather, James 
Johnson, was born in 1751 in North Carolina and came to Indiana about 1812, settling in 
Wayne County, where he followed the calling of a farmer and died in 1838. He was also 
twice married, his tirst wife being Elizabeth Mills and his second Miriam Jones. By his 
first wife his children were: Elizabeth (Morgan), Sarah (Jonesj, Judith (Russell). Josiah, 
Hannah ( Roberts). Charles and Pnidence (Cook). The paternal great grandfather was 
born in England and was an emigi'ant to this country early in the sixteenth century. 

Jesse Wright, well and favorably known throughout Marion County, and particularly 
in Wayne Township, of which he served as trustee from 1876 to 1S78, is a native born Marion 
County Indianiau, his birth occurring April 7. 1S3(>. He was reared to man's estate in the 
county of his birth, secured such schooling as the limited facilities of that day afforded and 
his. general employment was that of clearing.grubbing. planting, reaping and the usual occupa- 
tion of farming. August 22, l8o3, occurred his marriage with Sophronia C. Sinks, an estimable 
lady, and to their union seven children were born only the following named now living: 
Belle; Albert A., who married Mariah Hoover and is the father of three daughters and two 
sons; Owen S. . married Eva Malone who has borne him one daughter, and Lillie M. . who 
wedded Charles Shaffer and has one son. Owen and Lillie reside in Haughville, and Albert 
on his father's farm west of Indianapolis. Jesse Wright is an intelligent and progressive 
citizen, was a Democrat until the foes of the Union tired upon Fort Sumter, when, like 
thousands of others of our best people, he became a Republican and has ever since affiliated 
with that party. He is a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His eldest 
brother, Isaac N., was born October 11. 1828, served in the Fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry 
ill the Mexican War, re-enlisted in the United States Mounted Rifiemeu, was orderly-ser- 
geant, served over four and a half years and was killed by Mexicans. Philburd S., youngest 
brother of Jesse Wright, was born July 19, 1831. was in the service of his countiy under 
three enlistments and died at Baton Rouge. La. The two sisters of Jesse Wright are 
Nancy, born December 26. 1833, married Jesse Smith and resides in California, and Eliza- 
beth, bom July 5, 1835. married John Doty, resides at Greencastle, Ind., and is the mother 
of one son, Isaac A. Doty, who is a teacher of High School No. 1 of Indianapolis. 

NrcHOL.'VS McC.\RTY. (decea.sed). The life narrative of the head of a family is interesting, 
not only to his posterity, but also to the citizens of the section in which he has resided, and 
this truth is doubh' true when such a man has established for himself and his children a rep- 
utation for integrity, character and ability, and has been of value in the development of that 
portion of the country which was his home. Such a narrative do we have in the .sketch of 
Nicholas McCarty, whose active life has ceased on earth but whose influence extends 
still and will continue to extend among all who knew him. He was one of the pioneers of 
Indianapolis and contrilnited more to the growth, development and best interests of the city 
than almost any other man. He was a native of the town of Mooretield. Harding County. 
W. Va.. born among the Alleghanies September 26. 1795. His father dying when he was 
very young, his mother removed to Pittsburgh, Penn. , where he remained until nearing man- 
hood with little opj)ortunity for obtaining an education. While still under twenty he left for 
Newark, Ohio, where, as a boy, he won the favor of Mr. Buckingham (at that time a leading 
merchant of Ohio), by the sterling qualities that in later years won him the respect of every 
honorable man to whom he was known. He speedily made himself master of the mercantile 



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business, so faT as it was develojied witbiu his range, and liis ciuiilDyer \v;is not slow in recog- 
niziug his abilit}', making him superintendent of one of the branch houses near Newark. 
His success was as marked and conspicuous here as in a lower position and in a few years 
he had acquired lioth the experience and means to enter into business for himself. His trade 
was large and j)rosperons from the Ijeginning. Here his career gave the keynote to his 
character — a sensitiveness of honor that felt a reproach like a stab; a strength of gratitude 
that counted no sacrifice a loss in returning the good will he had received. Finding that 
his business was growing at the expense of his benefactor, when he had counted confidently 
on business as sufficient for l)oth, he sold out. and he came from Newark to Indianapolis 
in the fall of 18'-i3, when twenty eight years of age. He established himself in a building 
on the southwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania Streets, known for more than thirty 
years as " McCarty's Corner," and south of this building built an iuipcsing brick residence 
a number of years later, the home of the family for many years. He was the first merchant 
in ludianapolis educated to business and who conducted it systematically. He began on 
a more extensive scale, too, than others, and his success was proportionate. He established 
branch stores at La Porte, Greenfield, Covington, Cumberland and Waverly, and trained 
several young men who were afterward conspicuous in the business affairs of this city and 
State, iml)uing them all with his scrupulous and resolute integrit}'. It was reserved for the 
great crisis of liis life to exhibit his best qualities at their best. When the financial panic 
of 1837 and the subsei|uant hard times had made his great resources — largely in real estate — 
Muavailaljle, he became involved and made a settlement with his creditors upon such terms 
as to enable them to realize njore than the ])rincipal and interest of his oliiigations. James 
Blake had come to Indianapolis in 18'2i, under the advice of some Philadelphia friends, with 
an eye to the preparation of ginseng — a profuse growth of woods all about the settlement at that 
time — for shipping the protluct from Philadelphia to China, where it sells at high tigiires, its 
use being as universal now as it was then. He estal)lished n drying and purifying apparatus 
in a little cabin south of the creek, on the present East Delaware Street, and here, at his 
branch store and elsewhere, by agents, collected the roots from farmers and their families, 
who frequently helped out a short corn crop with what they called "sang." A small hoe 
was used for that purpose called the " sang hoe," obsolete for tifty years or more. The extent 
of his business in a place of less than l!,()()0 people, may be judged Ijy the fact that the 
freezing of the Ohio Kiver, in 18'29, compelled him to haul in wagons his entire season's 
stock from Philadelphia, requiring sixteen six horse Conestoga wagons to do it. The freight 
of ginseng on the return trip made the audacious enterprise possible, and even profitable, 
an illustration of his l)usiness perception and prompt decision, for the cold weather froze 
the Ohio River just as his goods reached Pittsburgh to take steam passage to Madison. 
Besides his ordinary mercantile business he took large contracts for Indian supplies and 
made himself quite familiar with the dialects of two or three of the tribes on the Miami 
reservation. His enterprise appeared repeatedly in attempts to introduce new industries or 
develop new resources. He was largely interested in an effort to establish silk growing 
about the year 1835, and went with characteristic energy in the |iropagation of the plant. 
A few years later, al)out 1840, he began one of the most important enteiprises of his life, 
though the distress of the country was too great and general to permit the success it 
probably would have achieved a few years later. This was the cultivation and manufacture of 
hemp on his " bayou farm," now West Indianapolis, a suburb of several thousand houses, 
where is also located the union stock yards, car works and other industries of equal imjior- 
tauce. The liber was rotted, broken and cleaned in vats an<l mills on the bluff bank of 
the creek, just l)elow the present line of Ray Street, at Church, Carloss and Wilkin Streets. 
Proving unprofitable the enterprise was abandoned in two or three years. Mr. McCarty's per- 
sonal popularity was so great that the Whigs, who had been placed under the cloud of hard 
times from 1843 onward, thought it possible to save a seat in Congress by him, and nomi- 
nated him against Judge Wick, in 1847. It was his first experience as a politician, but 
his native shrewdness served him better than many an older politician's more devious 
ways. He made no pretense of oratory and for that reason made a stronger impression 
by his solid sense and effective humor than his opponent, who was really a good s])eaker 
when he chose to be. However, the Whigs were not strong enough to win, even with a 



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man stronger thau the party. A few years later be was a candidate for the State Senate in 
the county, and was elected, serving three years, the last three under the old constitution 
in ISO much against his mclmation. he was unanimouslv nominated bv the dvintr ^yhi^ 
party for the lirst gubernatorial term, under the new constitution. He made an admirable 
canvass agamst Gov Joseph A. Wright, considered one of the best political canvassers 
and stump speakers of the country. The Democrats, however, were greaTlv in the majority 
and he was defeated. Mr. ilcCarty was married in Boone Count v.^Kv., ".July '^7 18 -'8 to 
Miss ^rgaret. daughter of Rev. .Jameson Hawkins, one of the" earliest of th^ Baptist 
preachers of the county. His death occurred May 17. 1854. Mrs. McCartv died Februarv 
hU i; ,■ Vf ^''^^^y ^^= ^ «^Pl^ of Christian purity, integritv and charitv during 
h^who e hte. He was generous to a fault, tolerant of offenses that affected onlv'himself 
peaceable frank and honorable. Xo man that ever lived in Indianapolis was more" sincere]; 
or generally loved and honored, and certainly none ever deserved the affection of the peopfe 
more than he. He was always prompt in his aid of benevolent efforts and one of the 
most active in urging the estabHshmeut of the orphan's home. These children survive 
hina. Margaret Ruth (now Mrs. John C. S. Harrison^ Nicholas and Frances Jane. The 
eldest daughter. Susannah, who became the wife of Rev. Henry Dav. died Aucmst 3i> 1873 
JoH>- Mabtlv. The building interests of IndianapoUs form th^ back-bone of her '.rreat- 
est industrial enterprises. Not aJone is the interest of the contractor directly involved, but 
all branches of trade incumbent thereto are thus goaded into active success. " Trade profits 
every time a building is devised, and the avenues of enterprise thus opened afford va-^t 
opportunity for profit. The vast amount of capital invested here and seeking proper field 
of operations at this point, has led to the erection of magnificent edifices without numl^r. 
and St mulated all the other branches of vocation that form a part thereof. One of the sue 
cessful biulders and contractors of the city is John Martin who has without doubt built more 
brick buildings in Indianapolis than any other one man residing there. He was born in 
Preston, Lancashire, England. April 26, 1828, a son of Thomas Martin, who was alscXrn 
there. The latter came with his family to the Tnited States in 1848 and finally settled in 
Jennings County. Ind.. wnere he died in 1869, having for some timeljeen a resident of Cin 
cinnati after coming to this country. He first foUowed the calling of a merchant and after- 
ward gave his attention to farming, which business he was successfully pursuing at the time 
of his death. The rudiments of the builder's art were learned by John Martin in Lanca.hfre 
before coniing to this country and while pursuing the paths of labor learned to read ^ and 
write in a busings way. that is, it was his duty in the factory in which he worked, to read 
the names of cards and tags to a clerk, and thus his first lessons were received He was a 
very ambitious youth and often after working twelve hours a dav he would attend ni^ht 
school, his tuition being paid in money which he. himself, had eanJed. Durin.. this time°he 
also paid his parents for his board, according to the wages he received and "as h"is =alarv 
increased he paid for his board in proportion, not because his father or mother demanded it' 
but because he was original and independent in all his ideas and did so bv his own desire 
from the time he was ten years of age (at which time he began working forhimself. until his 
marriage. During the three years that he lived in Cincinnati, he worked at his trade and 
upon commg to Indianapolis in 1849. secured the contract for putting on the slate roof on 
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, John Wilson being the original contractor and Mr Martin the 
sulx;ontractor, having learned the art of slating in England. In 1854 he began making his 
permanent home in Indianapolis and soon after secnretl employment with Mr Tavlor the 
father of V B. Taylor, but only continued as a journeyman for ten weeks. Hi-, fi'rst work 
here as a laborer was on the building now occupied by the Su.. newspaper and the residence 
of Mrs. Hendricks, the widow of ex-Gov. Hendricks. Some of the buildings which 
stand as monuments to his skill are the new Insane Hospital: the Reformatory forVomen- 
the Butler rn.vers.ty: city court-house: the new jail: the new Librar.- Buildincr: the 
chapel at Crown H.U: St. Vincent Hospital: the Fir^t Presbyterian Church: the Tabe'rnacle 
r,? r "i Avenue the Christian Church on Fort Wayne Avenue: the Bank of Commerce- 
the Grand Opera House, the Deuison: in fact he has built hundreds of buildincr^ in the citv 
and there IS not a spot where he cannot point out some of his handiwork. He has also done 
work m different parts of the State and every year for many years past has built a church of 



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some denoiniuation. He gives employment to from -00 to -i>0 iik»ii iliiriiig the busy season, 
and is what may l)e termed an artist in bis line and understands the business details of his 
calling in every particular. He came to the city with the determination of making a suc- 
cess, the extent and solidity of which should warrant a permanency, and how well he haspros 
pered may be plainly seen in the high class of his custom and the excellent chanicter of his 
work. In employing men he iuis always paid them what they earned and has therefore 
alwavs had men who were skilled mechanics and practical and experienced workmen. In 
the building of the Insane Hospital his efforts were conspicuous for rapidity and etWciency, 
and in one season he manufactured the brick and Imilt the building complete, including the 
smoke stack which is 175 feet high. He is a Scottish Rite .Masnn, is a Knight Teuiplar in 
Raper Lodge, No. 1, and is a member of the famous Indianapolis Drill Cor])s that has taken 
a prize wherever they have gone. When the new State house was built lie liought the ma- 
terial of the old one and with it built the barn owned by Mrs. Hendricks. He has long 
manufactured his own lirick and manufactured that which was used in the Insane Asylum. 
He built the old New York store, also the new one, and the old glas-s works. He is in every 
sen.se of the word a self made man, for he started in life with nothing Inif his clothes and a 
small amount nf change, and althongh he has never been rich, he might have been, for out 
of the kindness of his heart he has given away a fortune, to those destitute an 1 heljiless 
beings always to be found in large cities. John ]Martiu has never had trouble with striking 
workmen for he alwjiys paid his men promptly and gave them their full due. and has had 
had th? happy faculty of winning them for his friends. Among some of the other buildings 
worthy of mention which he has erected are the Fair Block, the John Smith residence, the 
market house, the high school on Peiuisylvania and Michigan streets, besides many other 
school buildings, the JIalleable Iron Works and the Brown & Ketcham Iron Works. In 
1850 he was united in marriage with Mary W. Hudson, a native of Marion County, Ind.. 
bv whom he is the f^'.ther of six children, two sons and four daughters. Both his sous, Rob- 
ert and John, are connected with him in business and are intelligent and jiromising young 
men. Jlr. Martin is the only man in the State who has owned the State house. 

Hkxkv \V. Lanoenbkuh. It cannot l>e expected in a work of this kind, where but brief 
biographical sketches of prominent citizens of the couhty are given, that justice can be done 
to this much esteemed and honored citizen, and yet he has been identified with the county 
from his birth, and his name is so familiar to all, that it is only just to dwell upon his career, 
not as empty words of praise, but as the plain statement of a still plainer truth. He was 
born in Indianapolis, October 29. ISo-t. His father, the late Henry Langenberg, was an old 
and substantial German citizen and one of the [)ioueers of that nationality in this section, 
for he took U]) his residence in Indianapolis in 1S4S. He was born in Hanover, (Termany. 
was reared, educated and married there, his union being with ^liss Minnie Lindemeier. who 
came with him to America in 1S4<), and for about two years thereafter they resided on a farm 
in Michigan. Upon the arrival of the family in Indianapolis the father engaged in mercantile 
pursuits, and conducted an establishment of his own for about thirty years, winning many 
friends during that time by his upright and businesslike conduct, and a large and paying 
patronage. He was twice honored with the nomination for city treasurer by his party, at a 
time, however, when it was in the minority — much too small to allow even his popularity to 
carry him through at the polls. His death occurred March 17, 18S0, at which time he left 
a comfortable property to his widow, who resides in Indianapolis, and his children. Henry 
\V. Langenberg was educated in the common schools of the city, attending until he attained 
his twelfth year when he became an employe of Dury & Hawk, dealers in boots and shoes, 
with which tirm he remained for over six years. He then went into the timber business on 
his own account, and l)ought, cut and hauled mill timber with gratifying financial success 
until 1^77. when he became an extensive livestock purchaser throughout the country, an 
occupation which received a great deal of his attention until 1884. At this time he accepted 
the appointment of deputy under sheriff George Carter, his duty being to serve warrants and 
to make arrests in criminal cases, a position not only requiring considerable nerve but also 
one of much responsibility. In the spring of ISilO as a reward for faithful service, he was 
nominated In- the Democratic party for sheriff. There were three strong and popular candi- 
dates pitted against him for the nomination, yet he was successful on the first ballot, receiving 



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447 votes, 357 being necessary for a choice. He was elected by over 3,160 votes, the largest 
majority ever received by any sheriff of the county. He is one of the youngest men that 
ever filled this responsible position but his administration proved to be one of the best in the 
history of the county, which was in a great measure owing to the fact that he was an 
energetic, tireless and conscientious worker and in all respects a man of the people and 
devoted to their best interests. During his administration he had some noted criminal cases 
to contend with and at one time successfully repelled a mob of 150 men which had gathered 
about the jail to mob a prisoner named Bisso, at which time he and his deputy were the only 
ones in the building. He retired from the office with an excellent record and the good will 
and esteem of all concerned. Since then he has been extensively engaged in the buying and 
selling of horses and in conducting this biisiuess as well as in his official life, he has exercised 
great prudence, sound judgment and undeviating energy. Socially he is a member of the 
K. of P., of all the city Democratic clubs, the Mauerchor club and the Indianapolis Shooting 
Club. He has been married since March, 1878, to Miss Lucy Stille, a native of Decatur 
County, Ind., and a daughter of Ernest and Henriette Stille. Mr. and Mrs. Langenberg 
have one child, Bertlia, born December, 1879. In 1880 Mr. Langenberg became a bonds- 
man for a contractor in the construction of the Indianapolis Shooting Club buildings but was 
unfortunate in being obliged to carry out the contract for an absconded contractor. Although 
his early literary advantages were limited, he received a most thorough, if severe training, 
in tlie hard school of experience, and his enterprises met with almost universal success, a 
fact which speaks eloqiieutly as to his good judgment and discernment. 

Rev. M.'iTTHEw McCl.us (deceased). This gentleman was born on February 15. 1806, 
in a small, rude cabin of logs, with a floor made of slabs of timber and the door oi clap- 
boards. This cabin stood on his grandfather's farm, located on the waters of Beech Creek, 
now in Spencer County, Ky. . about sixteen miles from Shelby ville, within about a half mile 
of where now stands the village of Mount Eden. His paternal great grandfather was a 
native of Ireland, having emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War and settled 
in the State of Pennsylvania. He afterward moved to the State of Kentucky and made his 
home with his son, Alexander McClain, in Shelby County, until his death, at which time he 
was ninety-eight years of age. His grandmother came from Germany, out of the work- 
house, to the United States, and was sold to pay her passage across the ocean, which was 
the law then for those too pooi to pay their fare in money. She departed this life in the 
year 1843, at the age of eighty four years. The grandfather w-as born in America and died 
in Pennsylvania, leaving three children — two boys and one girl — destitute orphans, the 
mother having died previously. The little girl died while young and the boys were bound 
out, one to a tanner and the other to a wheelwright. The last mentioned was the father of 
the subject of this sketch. At the age of twenty-one he left Pennsylvania and went to 
Kentucky, where he tarried awhile with his uncle and finally married a Miss Spencer, of 
Shelby County, aljout a year after which she died, leaving him with a little daughter to care 
for. He afterward became accjuainted with and married Barbara Miller, who was born 
August 17, 1780, after which he l>uilt tiie cal)in on her father's farm, in which the subject 
of this sketch was born. When he was about two years of age they removed to about seven 
miles south of Shelby ville, on the waters of Guesses Creek, where they made their home 
until 1820, when they removed to Indiana and settled on a piece of land which his father 
had entered of the Government, located in Scott County. Here the father died in 18'24. 
leaving a family with Matthew McClain as their mainstay. Here they toiled for years and 
were prosperous, and after deliberating whether to satisfy the inclination of his mind to 
travel over the world or to settle down in life, he finally concluded it would be better to 
have a home of his own. and accordingly, on July 21, 1829, he married Emily A. Swincher, 
daughter of John Swincher, of Jefferson County, Ind.. and went to housekeeping in a cabin 
near the old home. B_v hard work early and late and by strict economy they had at the end 
of three years saved enough money to pay for their eighty acres of ground on which they 
were living. This land was Ijought by him of the Government, at the land office, Jefferson- 
ville. Early in life Mr. McClain began his ministerial duties and many and varied were 
the experiences he went through. The Baptist Church at Bethany, in Jefferson County, of 
which he was a member, at their meeting of business, the third Saturday in March, 1841, by 



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u uuaiiiiMoiis Mile i^nve liim licoiise to sing, pray and preach wliercvor the Lord might call 
him. and with inncli timiditv, (Muliarras-aineiit and fear of doing an injury to the canse of 
religion he embarked in tlie great ministerial cause. l):iltling with manv discouragements and 
o|>positions. preaciiing s(>Tnetimes on Sunday and working hard through the week for the 
support of his family and for the advancement and education of his children and also those 
of his ueiglibors, l)eing opposed on all sides in every attempt to increase the public inter- 
est in enlightenment, education and Christianity. He was determined, however, to educate 
his own children, and iu the face of every opposition, and iu so doing made enemies for 
himself and family and was much envied by tlie lower class. He founded and almost sup- 
ported alone the tirst .schools tiiat were taught in their neighborhood and served as the first 
treasurer and trustee for six years in succession and alter a little, rest served again for a 
short time. He has gone time and again upon his crutches and upon his knees, not being 
able to walk from Iniving cut his foot, to get wood and make tires for the school, wearing 
leather caps on his knees for protection. He introduced and organized the tirst Sabbath- 
school in the neighborhood with considerable interest and success among the vouni' people 
and great opposition by some of the older ones. Though his life was not wholly devoted to 
the ministry it was as much so as domestic duties and obligations would permit. His 
family was supported and educated and started on the broad road of life not under par by 
the sweat of his brow. He was thrown from the ears in 5[ay. 1S()8, and si>fitained great 
injuries,which caused him extreme pain and sullering. and had so far recovered that he was able 
to get about with the aid of a crutch, when, on March 2t), ISOfi, came a still more deplora- 
ble misfortune; upon entering his baru, one of iiis horses being loose and very mischievous, 
rushed past him, kicking him in the face and breaking his cheek bone and "upper jaw till 
the broken bones grated together. His nose was broken and the bones had to be raised 
and removed, as did also ])ieces of the skull, leaving the brain bare in one place. His 
left eyeball burst and wasted away, while the right one was turned. The optic nerve 
was totally ])aralyzed, and consequently his vision was destroyed, and from that time until 
his death the earth was a blank to him. Though it seemed to be a miraculous power that 
baffled the enemy death, yet it was more wonderfully strange that his rationalitv was pre 
served, yet it was so, and as his attention could no "more be attracted by vision" his mind 
became constantly engaged in meditation and studying, and thus his mind became stronger 
and memory better, i>erhaps, than it had ever been, and continued so until the time of his 
.h'ath. which occurre.l .May 'Jfi, 1S9;1 After his great affliction he dictated the story of his 
life to his son. \V. Thomas .\rct'lain, which was (inblished several vears before his death and 
is a very interesting volume. An elaborate obituary was pnblisho"d by several Indianapolis 
papers and copied by others, iu which he was mentioned as "The bli"nd preacher and pio- 
neer of Indiana." The loss of his eyes did not stop his ministerial work; he preached many 
impressive sermons while blind, until old age and general debilitv made such work for him 
impracticable. His sufferings were many, his faith in eternal reward steadfast. His last 
rejoicing on earth was when told of his granddaughter— child of W. T. McCiain— profess 
mg Christ. His last words were of heaven and of that companion who had been the closest 
and dearest to him in life, whose meeting smile wooed him across death's dark river into 
the land of everlasting bliss. 

W iLi.i.\M T. MiCl.\ix. a man's life work is the measure of his success, and he is truly 
the most successful man who, turning his powers into the channel of an honorable purpose, 
accomplishes the object of his endeavor. He who weds himself to a great principle, lavs the 
foundation of a successful life. In the study of everv man's life we find some maiuspriucr of 
action— something that he lives for. In William T. McClaiu it .seems to be an ambitioif to 
make the best use of his native ami accpiired powers, and to develop in him.self a true man 
hood. A native of Scott County, Ind., he was born on Slav 31, 1845, a son and voun>rest 
child of Hev. Matthew and Emily A. (Swincher) :^rcClain, and his earlv life was p"assed"on 
his father s farm. I pon attaining a suitable age he was placed in school and was kept there, 
when sessions were being held, by his wise and far-seeing father, until he was about seven- 
teen years of age at which time he entered an academy at Madison, where his school davs 
^^ruit-d. with the e.xeeption of a commercial course which he took in a busine.ss collecre of In- 
vliauRpolis. He remained in Scott County until he was about twenty one vears oUrwhen he 



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came witb liis parents to Marion County, and in 1865 settled on a farm in Pike Township 
wliere he has since lived and carried on fanning very successfully. Besides some valuable 
property in the city of Indian;ipolis, be bas a magnificent farm of eigbty-six acres, so care- 
fully and skillfully tilled that it yields a uincb larger income tban does many more pre- 
tentious places, and it is also exceptionally well improved vi'itb buildings of all descriptions, 
hia residence, wbicb was erected in 1800, being exceptionally handsome, conveniently arranged 
and homelike in its ajipointments. A large portion of this farm is drained and tiled, is 
devoted to general farming and Mr. McClain is proud of the fact that be has one of the most 
productive farms and one of the most comfortable homes in Pike Township. His place is 
known far and wide as "Halcyon Grange,"' and it is an appropriate title. His industrious 
and methodical habits and personal attention to details enable bim to secure desired 
results where others fail, and be is in every respect deserving the hospitality wbicb bas attended 
bis footsteps. He was the editor of a volume of 232 pages, treating of the life of bis father. 
Rev. Matthew McClain, and of the McClain family, which manuscript was dictated by the 
father. Mr. McClain's religious belief is not sectarian in its nature, but is based on the 
principles of reverence and obedience to bis Maker, justice to mankind, one to another, sub- 
ject to the behests of Christ and heaven's high will. Greater proof being required to' sub- 
stantiate a written identity in the Lamb's Book of Life than merely the entry of bis name in 
some church register. Mr. McClain has always been a Democrat "in politics, and although 
by no means an active politician he has held some minor positions and for four years was 
deputy county and city treasurer, two years under Hiram AV. Miller, bis efficiency being 
recognized by Mr. Miller's successor, Sample Loftin, witb whom he was also deputy. Mr. 
McClain was married February 6, 1867, to Miss Frances A. Case, a native of Pike Township 
and a daughter of Jonas and Mary (Smock) Case. Their children are Berniee F , born 
July 10, 1872; Edith O., born March 21, 1879, and Royal L. W.. born January 3,' 1883. 
Berniee F. is an accomplished and intelligent young lady and has been a teacher for three 
years in Pike Township. She has a decided taste for literature, is well posted on all sub- 
jects, and bas been a successful teacher since her seventeenth year. She is now married but 
still maker, her home with her parents. 

\ViNFiELD Scott M,\nn was born in Morgan County, Ind., November 1, 1847, on a farm 
occupied by his grandfathei'. Here he remained until fourteen years of age, receiving his 
education in the common schools, wbicb he attended during the winter sessions. In 1860 
he went to Martinsville, entered the blacksmith shop of R. Elliott, and remained there two 
years, when be went to Shelbyville. While there he was in the employ of Judge 
Glessner, his uncle, for a year, and then went to Morgan County, where be worked for Mrs. 
John Cox, on a farm, for about four years. From there he came to Marion County, and 
for two years after this worked on the farm of Jackson Landers, in Decatur Township. 
Later he went to Indianapolis and ran a buzz saw in the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine 
factory, thereby losing a liuger. and then located in West Newton, Decatur Township, where 
he remained a year. In 1873 he celebrated his nuptials with Miss Sallie Wilson, daugh- 
ter of Elijah and Catherine (Johnson) Wilson, and for the first year after his marriage 
farmed for his father-in-law on shares. The following year he bought thirty-three and^a 
third acres of Wesley Brown, and moved on the tract, where he lived until 1884, niid has 
added more to it from time to time, after which he and his wife moved on the old home 
place of Mr. Wilson. There they have remained ever since. Mr. Maun is a member of 
the Baptist Church. In politics he is a Repidilican, though inclined to be independent. 
He has .served as supervisor of Decatur Township and has held other local positions, dis- 
charging the duties of all in a very satisfactory manner. His marriage was blessed by the 
birth of seven children, live of whom survive as follows: Frank, Lucy, Nettie, Mvrtle and 
Charley. Those dead are Flora and Dollie, aged five and three years. William Mann, 
father of our subject, was a native Ohioan. Init came to Indiana iii earlv manhood, locat- 
ing in Morgan County. He was a miller all his life. His wife was Miss Eliza Glessner, 
and to them were liorn two children as follows: Winfield S. (our su!)ject) and Morris, who 
married Miss Elizabeth :\rcCreery, and they have four children. The father of these" chil- 
dren served in the Black Hawk War. He died when Winlield was but a boy, and the mother 
subsequently niarried Asa Cox, by whom she had two children: Oliver, Vvho married Ada 



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Myers (deceased), who bore birn two children, Ethel, aud Charley (deceased), and Oscar 
(deceased), married, but had no childreu. The mother of oar subject is still living. Mrs. 
\V. S. ManiTs father, Elijah Wilson, was born in New Jersey, in 1811, and made his home 
there until 1854. He was married in 1837 to Miss Catherine Johnson, and in 1854 thej' 
came t(j the Hoosier State, locating in Marion County, Where Mr. Wilson bought 147 acres 
of land. To this he added fmm time to time, until at the date of his death, which 
occurred March 10, ISSH. he was the owner of nearly 243 acres. His wife passed away 
two years later. Of the eight ehildien born to this estimal)le couple four died young, as 
follows: Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary A. and one unnamed. The others are named as follows: 
Henry. Rebecca (died at the age of nineteen), John and Sallie. The eldest, Henry, first 
married Nancy J. Sawyer, Ijy whom he had five childreu as follows: Flora, John, Lida, 
William and Jesse. His second marriage was with Miss Elizabeth E. Edwards: and John 
(deceased), served in the Civil War, in Bracken's Indejiendent Company, for three years, 
and participated in many prominent engagements. Sallie married our subject. Mrs. 
Mann's paternal grandparents were Samuel Wilson and Rebecca (Price) Wilson. Mr. 
Wilson's grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution. Grandfather Wilson died about 
1812. He was of English descent. 

Joel Mills. A noble class of men have l)uilt up the agricultural interests of Decatur 
Township, Marion County, Ind., and have made it a garden spot in the great commonwealth 
of the State. Among those who have been active and efficient in the work is he whose name 
stands at the head of this sketch. He has Ijeen identified with the farming interests of the 
county for many years, and in every walk of life has conducted himself in an honorable, 
upright manner. Mr. Mills was born in Decatur Township. Marion County, August 23, 1S35, 
on a farm of 160 acres belonging to his father, Mark Mills. He became familiar with the 
duties of the farm at an early age and received a fail education in the schools of Decatur 
Township, commencing to attend when seven years of age aud continuing until twenty. 
Until twenty-two years of age he remained with his father, and on October 7, 1857, he 
was married to Miss Maria, daughter of -Joel and Mary A. (Reed) George, both natives of 
the Old Dominion. One son was born to our subject and wife, Levi R., whose birth occurred 
July 28, 1S58, and who died August 6, 1884, unmarried. In his political views Mr. Mills 
is a Republican, and his first vote was for John C. Fremont. That ticket he has voted ever 
since. He is a member of the Friends' Church and has lieen clerk of the same. Mark 
Mills, the father of our subject, was a native of South Carolina, born September 25, 1804, 
and when sis monthsold he was taken by his parents to Ohio. Mark's parents had had their 
property destroyed by fire and they thought to Vietter their condition by removing to the 
Buckeye State. The fatlier of Mark made the trip on foot, but the wife rode a hor.se and 
carried her two childreu, William and Mark, in her arms. Arriving in Ohio they located in 
U'arren County, where the lad, Mark, grew to manhood on the farm owned by his father. In 
lS2()he was married to Miss Charity Sanders, daughter of William and Amy (Williams) 
Sanders, and in 1833 he and family emigrated to Indiana, locating in Decatur Township, 
Marion County, where he had previously entered IfiO acres. On this his death occurred in 
lS7b. He added eighty acres to the original tract and had a good farm of 240 acres. He 
was a hard- working, industrious man, and cleared about 160 acres from the green timber, 
representing an immense amount of lal)or. He received a fair education for his time, and 
was a man well posted on all the current topics of the day. In politics he was originally a 
Whig, but upon the formation of the Repul)lican party he affiliated with that. In religion 
lie was a Quaker. His marriage resulted in the birth of seven cliildren, as follows: Daniel, 
Amos, Amy, Joe (our subject), Willis and Charity. Daniel, the eldest, married Eliza Epper- 
son, who bore him nine children: Amanda. William A. , Mark. Julia A., Lewis, Charity, 
Cordelia, Gurney and James Oscar. Amos Mills (deceased) married Miss Mary E. Cook, and 
they have two living children: Samue'. C. and Edwin S. Amv married Alfred Kelluni, and 
si.x children were born to them: Noah M., William L., Ella J. ," Ida, Charles E. and Annetta. 
Willis married Miss Mary Hawkins, and five children were born to them: Rolena A., Arthur 
L., Cora, Chester and Lessie. (Charity married Dayton R. Hodson. and they have three 
children: Orpha L., Eiva A. and Florence A. The mother of our subject died in 1841, and 
the father married for his second wife Mrs. Jessup, daughter of Noah Kellum and widow of 



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William L. Jessup. One child was Ijorn to this anion, Asenath, who married Reazin Keagan. 
The mother of this child died December 31, 1S91. John Mills, the paternal grandfather of 
oar subject, was a native of the Palmetto State. Iwm in 177^. and he resided there until 
1SM5. when he moved to Ohio. There he made his home until about 1S35, when he came to 
Indiana and bjught I'lO acres in Decatur Township. There he died in 1841. He was a 
Quaker in his religious belief, and an honorable, upright citizen. He married Miss Phcebe 
McDonald in South Carolina, and they had six children as follows: William. Mark, Mary, 
Rachel. Amos and Lydia. The grandfather died in 1S64, aged eighty three years. Onr 
subject's great-grandfather, John Mills, was the son of John Mills, who was a Quaker, and 
of English descent. 

Hexky MiLHor.s. Among the sons of Ohio who brought with them to the Hoosier State 
the enterprise and thrift which have ever distinguished the native Ohioan. we are gratified to 
be able to name Mr. Milhous. who was born in Clinton County, that State, February 19, 
1830. The Milhous family came originally from Ireland, and there the great-grandfather 
of our snijject, Henry Milhous, was born May 1, 173fi. in the parish of Timahoe, County 
Kildare. The latter married Miss Rebecca, daughter of Isaac and Mary Cook, and they 
had several children, among whom were the following: Robert, grandfather of subject; 
Mary, who married David Whitson: Rebecca, who married Amos Compton: Sarah, who 
married M. Spray: Ann, who married Amos Hawkins: Henry, died unmarried, and Dinah, 
who married Stephen Compton. The father of these children died in Ireland, and his sons, 
Rol>ert and Henry, came to .\merica in their early manhood. Robert landed at Charleston, 
S. C. but the other two settled in Philadelphia, where all trace of the one whose name is 
not given was lost. Henry, one of the brothers, died young, and it is supposed that he was 
a single man. Robert, the grandfather of our subject, was the one who settled in the Pal- 
metto State. The latter came to Ohio early in the nineteenth century and located in Clin- 
ton County. About 183*3 he came to Indiana and located in Hendricks County, where his 
death occurred in 1841. He married Miss Sallie Compton. and seven children were given 
them: Henry. Samuel, John, Rebecca. Elizal3eth, Ann and Roljert. The grandfather was 
drafted into the Revolutionary War. but being a Quaker did not serve. Samuel Milhous, 
son of the above and father of onr subject, was born in South Carolina, January 23. 1796, 
and early in life came with his parents to the Buckeye State. He was mairied in Clinton 
County. May 14. Is29, to Mrs. Sarah Scott, widow of William Scott and daughter of Will- 
iam and Amy Sanders. Sis children were the fruits of this union: Henry and Mary (twins), 
the latter deceased: Charity, Amos and Robert, deceased, and Elizabeth. In 1835 Mr. 
Milhous moved to Indiana and located in Decatur Township, where he bought IfiO acres of 
Jesse Jones and five acres of Joshua Compton. There he passed the remainder of his days, 
<lying in 1843. He was a Quaker iu religious belief. His wife survived until 1886. Henry 
Afilhous, their eldest child and the subject of this sketch, grew to mature years in Decatur 
Township. Marion County, and there received his scholastic training. He was first married 
to Miss Beulah. daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Jessup) Carson, in l8-">4. One daughter, 
Maria E.. wa< born to this union. She married Henry Williams, and they have one son 
named Wayne. Henry Milhous selected his second wife in the person of Mrs. Rachel (Sum- 
neri Ritter, daughter of Caleb and Rel.iecca (Harold) Sumner and widow of John Ritter. 
Three children were born to the second union, one of whom died in infancy. Tho.se living 
are: Charles R., who mamed Ella Jones and became the father of one child, Sibby. 
Charles' .second marriage was with Miss Mary T.. sister of bis first wife, and they have one 
daughter. Cecily, and Amos E . who married Miss Addie M. Dickenson, and became the 
father of two children. Thnrlow and Glada D. Henry Milhaus was married the third time 
in 1S72 to Mrs. Eliza J. i Williamsi Harvey, daughter of Isaac and Sibby (Carter) Williams, 
and widi)W of El wood Harvev. bv whom she has one child living, C. D. . who married Laura 
Rariden. 

Herman C. Holle. It is a pleasure to record the character and enterprise of men of 
Vtnsiness, who, on account of their long tenure and extensive operations comprise almost 
a history of the business in which they are engaged. Of such men it is unnecessary 
to speak in words of colored praise. Their very existence is emphatic evidence of the hon- 
orable position that they occupy and the long course of jast dealings that they have pursued. 



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Such a gentleman is Herman C. Holle, stone contractor, who is a native of Germany, in 
which country he was born in the year 1840. His father, (t. F. Holle. who was also a stone 
luason, came to the United States in ISHG and located on South East Street. Indianapolis, 
where he died when about eighty-three years of age. When a lad of about fourteen years of 
age Herman commenced to learn the stone mason and stone cutter's trade and when fifteen 
years of age came to the United States and at once settled in the town of Indianapoliw. almost 
immediately securing employment with a Mr. Duncan and later with Henry Helm, being 
enii)loyed by the latter as journeyman, then as a partner. These two gentlemen put up some 
of the most imposing edifices of the city among which was the Odd Fellows' Hall, the How- 
ard Block, both handsome and imposing structures. At a later period Mr. Holle engaged in 
business for himself and since that time he has erected a new steel rail mill and some of the 
mo'^t elegant residences in the city, among them being that of Col. Downing on North Mer- 
idian Street, which will long endure as a monument to his skillful workmanship. Mr. Holle 
came to this country laboring under the disadvantages of extreme youth, a very imperfect 
knowledge of the English language and a scarcity of friends, but lieing a youth of much 
energy and ambition he continued to gradually climb higher and higher on the ladder of 
success until he now occupies an enviable position in business circles. He has passed all the 
chairs in the I. O. O. F. lodge and is a member of the Grand Lodge. He is a married man, 
his wife having been a Cincinnati lady. 

Jesse Allen Reynolds. Many of the farmers of Marion County. Ind., lead such quiet, 
unol)trusive lives as to be seldom heard of outside of their own township. They are doing 
line work in their own community, l)ut do not care to mingle in the more public matters of 
political life, and devote all their time and energies to the cultivation of their farms, and the 
development of the resources of their vicinity. Such men deserve more mention than they 
ordinarily receive, and we are glad to here present one of them in the person of Jesse Allen 
Reynolds, who has a good home in Decatur Township, this county. He was born in Brown 
Township, Morgan County, Ind., November 22, 1830, on his father's farm of eighty acres, 
and there made his home until eighteen years of age. His schooling was limited, for he 
attended not over two months in a year, and left school altogether when fifteen years of age. 
When in his seventeenth year he went to Guilford Township. Hendricks County, Ind., and 
there entered the blacksmith shopof Verlin Jones, his brother in-law, with whom he remained 
for eighteen months. After four months' work on a farm in Iowa, our subject returned to 
Jones' shop, and remained with him foi- nine months. After this he worked for a farmer 
named Z. L. Jackson, who owned a blacksmith sho|). for about two years. On December 24. 
1853, he was married to Miss Puilina Stone, daughter of Gabriel and Isabel (Long) Stone, 
and on March 13, 1854, he located in West Newton, Decatur Township, Marion County, 
Ind.. and opened a blacksmith shop which he carried on for nine years. After this he Viought 
160 acres of laud, and made his home. on the same from 1863 to 1874, and then bought IfiO 
acres of David George on which he resides at the pres-ent time. Mr. Reynolds has cleared 
1 IS acres of the land he now owns, and has sixty five acres in timber. He raises wheat, corn, 
hay, etc., and is a thrifty, thorough going farmer. In 1876 he engaged in the dairy busi- 
ness, and now owns 54 head of cows, and six months of the year he sends to Indianapolis 
from 100 to 140 gallons of milk per day. During the winter he ships 50 to 60 gallons of 
milk. He makes no butter. In his political views Mr. Reynolds is a Democrat. At (uie 
time he was a Mason, and he also belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church a number of 
j'ears ago. To his marriage was born thirteen children, eleven of whom reached mature 
years as follows: Noah, born September 7, 1854, and died September 19. 1883, unmarried; 
Mary, married Aaron Stanton, and they have two children, Orjiha and Clarence; George, 
who married Jane Holman, and they have six children, Nona, Mamie. Jesse, Pearl, Edna and 

; Charles married Susan Horton. and they have three children, Orlando, Ora and 

Dora; Eli married Emma Yager, and they have four children as follows: Levi, Sophia, 
William J. and Mary; Elizabeth married Andrew J. Petty, and they have three children : 
Wallace, Nellie and Henrietta; Martha married Lewis Monday, and" is the mother of three 

children, Ethel, Charles and ; Eliza J., single; Emeline, single; Louie married Charles 

F. Yager, and has two children, Berty and Mamie, and Henry, unmarried. Mr. Reynolds' 
parents, Henry and Mary (Jones) Reynolds, were natives of North Carolina, the father born 



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in Surry County in ITS". He was reared in that county, and there married to Miss Jones 
in 1812. She was a daughter of Isaiah and Martha (East) Jones. After marriage Henry 
Reynolds and family emigrated to middle Tennessee, remained there for a year or two. and 
then in 18'23 came to Indiana, locating tirsl in Wayne County, where he remained one sea- 
son. and then settled in Hendricks County, where he made his home for aljout two years. 
From there he moved to Morgan County, and entered eighty acres of laud on which he passed 
the remainder of his days, his death occurring in 1851. He had nearly all of his land cleared 
up at the time of his death. In polities he was a Whig, and in religion a Christian. He was 
the father of fifteen children: Elizabeth, died, unmarried: Mary, deceased, married Jona- 
than Wilson: Bethania. deceased, married Joshua Stokesbury; Mahala, deceased, man-ied 
John W. Stokesbury: James, deceased, married Mary Barnett; Martha, deceased, married 
Jeremiah Garrett; Caleb E.. married Eliza J. Garrett; Joseph A. married Marian McDaniel; 
Sarah, died, immarried; Isaac married Lovina Castiue; Purlina E. married, first Berlin 
Jones, and afterward John Kellum: Jesse A., our subject; Adeline, unmarried; Euth A., 
deceased, married William Jessup. and Henry, deceased, married Barbara A. McCreery' 
The mother of these children died in 1S44, aged forty-nine years. William Reynolds, grand- 
father of our .subject, was a native of the Old North" State.'born in 1765. He had one son 
killed in the War of 1812. Our subject's father-in-law. Gabriel Stone, was a native Ken- 
tuekian. born in 1796. and he was married in that State. In 1834 he came to Indiana, and 
located in Morgan_County, where his death occurred in 1841. His wife, who was born in 
1 199. died in 1887. They were the parents of twelve children: Nancy, deceased, married 
John Francis; John married Fannie Ray: Amelia, who married Alexander Tansy: James, 
who married, first Mary Scott, and afterward Mary Murray; William, who died unmarried; 
Albert, who married Melinda Munford: Sarah, who married John Stevenson: Eli. who mar- 
ried Martha Cox: Purlina. who married Jesse A. Reynolds: Harvey, who married Eliza 
Arnold: Rebecca, married Esau Kent, and Eliza, who died unmarried. Mrs. Reynolds' 
grandfather, Nimrod Stone, was born in Kentucky about 1771, and served in the War of 
1812. 

Frank B. Dearinger. This gentleman, who is one of the wide-awake business men of 
Indianapolis. lud.. is a member of the firm of Dearinger & Niemier. artificial stone contract- 
ors at No. 313 East Georgia Street. Theirs is one of the most extensive concerns of the 
kind in the city and has been established for a period of eight years, during which time they 
have made both reputation and fortune for themselves. They make a specialty of lithogen 
floors for warehouses, cellars, machine shops, sidewalks, curbing, steps, etc., also cisterns, 
vats and concrete foundations, The senior member of this well known firm, Mr. Dearinger, 
was born on March 24, 1855, in the city in which he now lives and is doing business.^his 
father being Simeon Dearinger. The wife of Simeon has been dead quite a number of 
years. There were born to their marriage two children: Frank B.. and Joseph, who is a 
successful business man engaged in the sale of wall paper at Evansville, Ind. Frank B. 
Dearinger was educated in the schools of Indianapolis. He gradually worked himself up 
in the business and the firm of Dearinger & Niemier is to-day one of the most extensive in 
the city. They executed the work on the Commercial Club Building, the new jail, and have 
done a great deal of important street work. 

James W. Hudson. The proper paving of the streets of a large city is of the greatest 
importance, for it not only facilitates labor greatly but it adds much to the enjoyment of 
those citizens who have horses and carriages, and greatly augments the appearance of a 
place. The business of street contracting has been that of James W. Hudson, since 1867, 
and he is one of the most extensive and trustworthy in the citv. He was born at Ft. Ball, 
(now Tiffin). Ohio, in 182fi. a son of George M. Hudson, a native of the city of "Brotherly 
Love."" The latter removed to Ohio when a young man and worked at his trade, that of 
cooper, in Chillicothe, until 1S32 or 1833, when he went to Cincinnati, and there success- 
fully conducted a bakery, finding an able assistant in his wife, whom he had married in 
Chillicothe. In politics he always supported the Whig party. James W. Hudson was 
eduL-ated in the schools of Cincinnati but when he had reached' the age of twelve years he 
went on the river between Cincinnati and New Orleans and held the position of " steward 
until his marriage when he took up his residence in Cincinnati, and turned his attention to 



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the paving of streets as ;i contractor. In August, 1862, he became a member of Company 
B, Eighty-tbird Ohio Infantry, with the rank of corporal, and was present at the first attack 
on Yicksl)urg. I^ator he was at Arkansas Post, where lie received a very severe wound by 
a gun shot, losing his upper jaw. He was given u|) for dead l)Ut after a long period 
recovered although he was also for a long time sick with typhoid fever, tlie result of expo- 
sure, and was finally honorably discharged from the service. 

John W.ackeb, All tiie successful Ijusiness men of the West are self-made men. From 
povertj' and obscurity thej' have fought their wa^' in life's battle to prominence and honor. 
Not only this; they have stamped upon the industries and institutions of their section their 
own characteristics, an<l have thus given permanency to every enter[irise. In their lives and 
success is found demonstrated 

Tlie rank is but the guinea's stamp - 
Tlic man's the man for a' tliat. 

A volume of the successful business men of Indianapolis would be incomplete imless 
mention were made of John Wacker, who has been one of the public-spirited citizens of 
Haughville since about 1885. He is a native of Germany — that land that has sent to this 
country some of her worthiest citizens — born May 16, 1851, a son of Philip and Anna (Hol- 
ley) Wacker, also Germans by birth, where they lived and died. The father was the owner 
of an e.\tensive vineyard and manufactured a great deal of wine. He was for three years a 
member of the (ierraan Army under William I, and died in his native land in February, 
1888. To him and his wife three sons and two daughters were born: Carl. August, John, 
Nannie (deceased), and Sophia (deceased). The subject of this sketch was the youngest 
son, and in the section in which he was born he resided until he was fifteen years of age, 
securing in the meantime, a good practical education in the common schools. He then 
began learning the trade of a butcher, and followed this occupation in the principal cities of 
Germany until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time he decided to come to America, 
and shortly after his arrival in this country in April. 1873, he came to Indianapolis and 
worked at his trade for about a year and a half thereafter. He then opened a meat market 
of his own on Kentucky Avenue, where he remained about six months, then moved the same 
to Davidson Street and there conducted a successful trade for about two years. He contin- 
ued this occupation at different points in Indianapolis until ISST), then came to Haughville 
and in FeV)ruary of that year opened the first meat market in the place in a small temporary 
Imilding erected on property which he had purcliased there. During the summer of 1885 
lie erected a handsome two-story brick building, the first building of the kind to l)e erected 
in the place, it being 36x48 feet in dimensions, but this was afterward found to be inade- 
<|uate for his purpose and he i)ut on an addition of twenty-five feet in the rear. For about one 
year, in addition to his meat maiket. he kept a stock of groceries also, then sold his stock of 
groceries and a short time after his meat market, as well. Since then he has devoteil much 
attention to tlie building uj) and improvement of Haughville and has made it one of the most 
flourishing places of Marion County. He has been an extensive dealer in real estate, a suc- 
cessful ])urchaser of acre property, and has recently laid out an addition of twenty-three 
acres to the town, which he has himself improved in the way of trees, the grading of the 
streets, the laying of natural gas pipes, etc. Mr. AV acker universal!}' commands the respect 
of his fellow men even though he has attained no high [lolitical or other ])referment, and his 
whole course through life is one deserving of emulation and well worthy of preservation. 
Besides the addition referred to above he has other large real estate interests and is the 
owner of twelve aoresadjoining the town which is not yet laid out. He has Imilt fifteen houses 
whicii he rents to twenty -one tenants, and he ako has a tine graded spot of seven and a half, 
acres which is finely improved with walks, frees, etc. In fact, Mr. Wacker has been the 
leading spirit and factor in the development of Haughville, for when lie liist purchased the 
land at that point it was iu)thing but a corn-field but now has a ])opulation of about 3,500 
people, a state of affairs largely l)rought about through his efforts. He is a stanch Demo- 
crat, takes an active interest in the success of his party, in the interests of which he wields 
a wide influence throughout his section. He is a member of the K. of P., the Butchers' 
Protective Association and the Ancient Order of Druids. On July 29, 1875, he was united in 



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marriage to Miss Eiuma E. Lahiuau, a nalivc of Indiauapolis, and a daugliter of Frederick 
and Elizabeth (Dipple) Labman, tlie foimer of whom was horn in Prussia and the latter in 
Hessian, German}'. They were brought to the United States when children, were reared and 
married in this country and became early settlers of Indianapolis, at which time it was but a 
village. Mr. Labman was a shoemaker by trade and during the Civil War in this country 
he had charge of a shoe lirm"s interest at Camp Morton. After the war he opened a grocery 
store and for many years pursued the calling of a merchant in Indianapolis. He died in 1880 bnt 
is survived by bis widow who is a resident of Indianapolis. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Wacker 
has resulted in the birth of the following cliildren: Emma, Edwanl, and Florence. The 
entire family are members of the Zion German Evangelical Church in Indianapolis. In 
1883 the demand for a German cburcii in Haughville was met with and Miss Emma Wacker 
has proved a potent factor in its organization and continuance. Being an accomplished 
musician she has served as organist and is a member of the choir. She also lakes an active 
interest in the reading room recently established in Haughville, in fact, is an intelligent and 
indefatigable worker in all causes in which women are usually interested. 

John P. LePaoe. The business in which Mr. LeJ^age is engaged is a most important 
one and requires a degree of proficiency which is not acquired by all who aspire to success 
in this line of work. Mr. Le Page is a remarkably successful marble cutter and monument 
builder, aud near the gates of Crown Hill Cemetery lie has carried on an extensive business 
for the past sixteen years, and during this time has erected some of the finest monuments 
in that most beautiful resting place of the dead. He is, with reason, considered one of the 
finest and most artistic workers in marble in the State, and his services have been called into 
requisition on many of the largest, most beautiful and elaborate monuments within the 
borders of Indiana. He is a native of Belgium, where he was born on March 29, 1849, to 
Albert and Catherine (Ballion) Le Page, both of whom were born in Belgium and were there 
reared and married. In 1855 they sought a home in the New World aud here they reared 
their family of seven children, whose names are given in the order of their birth : John P. ; Mar- 
guerite, who was born in 1853, and is now living in Floyd Knobs, Ind. , the wife of John 
Shoeman; Josephine, who resides in the same place, the wife of John Erb; Emily also resides 
there and is the wife of Koon Navale; Kosie is a resident of New Albany, Ind., and is the 
wife of William Smith, and the two youngest children died in infancy. John Le Page was 
reared on a farm until he was al)out sixteen years of age, at which time he began working at 
his present trade of marble cutting, which he has followed successfully ever since. His 
father was a fresco painter and gave his son many valuable lessons aud hints in the art of 
drawing, which proved very valuable to him in his present business. On November 22, 1874, 
he led to the altar Miss Louisa Kinzie, who comes of excellent German stock, her parents 
lieiiig still residents of the Old Country. To his union four children living have been given, 
and were named as follows: John, born Septemlier 3, 1881; Emma, Charley and Elmer, all 
of whom are pursuing their studies in the public schools. Six children are deceased. No 
man in the community stands higher than does Mr. Le Page. Socially he is a member of 
the K. of P., the A. F. & A. M., the Druids, the Red Men, the Chosen Friends, the K. of L. 
and the K. of H. , and is also an earnest and consistent member of the church. 

NuERGE & Reinking. This is one of the best known building and contracting firms of 
the State of Indiana, and has been in existence since 1872, although prior to its formation 
each gentleman was engaged in building and contracting on his own responsibility. The 
senior member of the tirm, Charles Nueige, was brjrn in Adams County, Ind., in 1850, a 
son of Charles A. Nuerge, a native of Germany, who came to the United States when a 
young man and took up his residence in Adams County, Ind., where he became extensively 
and successfully engaged in farming. In the schools of his native county Charles Nuerge 
obtained a practical common-school education and assisted his father on the farm. After a 
time he began working at the carpenter's trade and learned all the details of this business 
even to hewing the timber for frames. In lS70hecame to Indianapolis and eutered the 
employ of George Hoereth, in whose employ he remained seven years, and in 1878 com- 
menced contracting for himself. He was very soon after engaged by Henry C. Wilson to 
do some work for him and this, which was his maiden effort, was his start in his present 
business. He first formed a partnership with Frank Mowwe and finally, in 1883, became 



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iissociHted in business with Henry E. Reinking and togetber tliey have erected some of the 
following buildings: the Jamison & Malott buildings, the rebuilding of Progress House, the 
Arcade Clothing House, the residence of John \V. Schmidt, which was the finest in the 
State at that time, the A. C. Harris residence on North Meridian Street, the school-house on 
Noble and North Streets, the Fishliack house on North Delaware Street, the Snow's resi- 
dence. Home Brewing Company, and others, also a great deal of work oi: St. Mary's in the 
Woods, at Terre Haute, and just com])leted the Starch Works in Des Moines, Iowa, for which 
he was paid #13(X(M)0. In 1S78 he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Scliildmeyer, 
of this city, who died leaving hi ui with two children and he took for his second wife Mrs. Lizzie 
Pierson, who has also borne him two children. Mr. Nuerge is a member of the Builders' 
Exchange and the Contractors Association and for some time has been a member in good 
standing of the Lutheran Church. He is an affable and agreeable gentleman and very suc- 
cessful. 

Henky E. Reinkino, the junior member of the above mentioned tirm, was born in 
.\dams County, Ind., July 'Jl, 1851, a son of Conrad Reinking, who was born in Germany 
and who, after coming to the United States, located in New Orleans, where he joined the 
United States army and went to Me.xico. during the war with that country, where he was 
engaged in the principal Ijattles fought. After that war ended he came to Indiana and 
commenced farming in Adams County an occupation which still receives his attention 
to some extent, although he is now over seventy years of age. Henry E. attended the 
schools of Adams County, and partially learned his trade there, and in company with 
Charles Nuerge, his present partner, with whom he had gone to school and associated 
with as a boy and young man, he came to Indianapolis and together they entered the 
employ of George Hoereth, l)ut afterward worked for other parties and shortly after com- 
menced taking contracts for himself. In 1SS8 he formed his present partnership and 
together these two gentlemen have made a success of their undertaking. In 1S73 he was 
united marriage with the daughter of Fred Schildmeyer, of this city, and their union has 
resulted in the birth of six sous. Mr. Reinking is a prominent member of the Builders 
Exchange, the Contractors Association and the German Lutheran Church. In his political 
views he has always supported the principles of the Democrat party, but so far as himself 
is concerned he has not been an aspirant for office. 

Robert Fckxas. The career of this venerable and venerated gentleman of whom it is 
our pleasure and privilege to here attempt a short sketch, is connected with Oliio and Indi- 
ana, his l)irth occurring in the former State Oclolier 22, 1812. He received such education 
as the subscription schools of those days afforded, going on an average about two months in 
the year, and leaving school at the age of thirteen. In the fall of 1864 he came to Indiana, 
and located in Decatur Township where he bought 820 acres of land. In 1883 he bought 
forty acres more and about the same year he bought eighty acres in Hendricks County, Ind. 
Half of his home farm of 320 acres was cleared when Mr. Furnas bought it and he has 
cleared fifty acres since. He is a wide-awake, enterprising farmer and he thoroughly under- 
stands all the details of farm life. He is a member of the Friend's Church and a lil)eral 
contributor to the same. Originally he aftlliated with the Whig party but on the formation 
of the Republican party he joined its ranks and of late years he has been a Prohibitionist. 
His tirst vote was cast for Henry Clay. IMr. Furnas has l)een married three limes. His first 
marriage was in 1838, to Miss Phcebe, daughter of Samuel and Barbara (Sanders) Whitson. 
No children of this union survive. His second marriage occurred in 1847 to Miss Anna 
Hollingsworth, daughter of Abraham Hollingsworth, but no children were born to their 
union. In 1859 he was married to Aclisa Newby, daughter of William and Ruth (Cox) 
Newby, and five children were the fruits of this union, l)ut one died in infancy. The others 
were: John R., a resident of Hendricks County, married Rachel Lewis who bore him two 
children, Robert and Edgar; Aima, married Lincoln R. Jessup, sou of Jesse and iNIary (Bray) 
Jessup and they have these children, Ethel and IVIabel; Wilson, married A.ldie Albertson, 
daughter of Phineas and Aseneth (Wilson) Albertson, and Charles W.. who married Addie 
Tincher. Robert Furnas, father of our subject, was born in the Palmetto State, June 27, 
1772, and in that State he reached mature years. He was married at Cain Creek, S. C, 
February 11, 17U0, to Miss Hannah Wilson," daughter of John and Dinah (Cook) Wil.son, and 



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in 1803 they Ciiine to wliat in iiuvv Wuiroii County, Ohio, uear WayiieHvillc H*' settled on a 
farm of 210 acres, tbe land warrant of which he hought of a revolutiouary soldier, and there 
his death occurred Feljruary 15, 1803. He was a Quaker in his religious views and a Whijr 
in politics. Eleven children were born to his marriage and named as follows: Mary (deceased), 
Esther (deceased), John (deceased), Seth (deceased), Joseph (deceased), Isaac (deceased), 
Dinah (deceased), Robert (our subject). Rebecca (deceased), Hannah, and Sarah (deceased) All 
these children married and reared families. John Furnas, the grandfather of our subject, 
was born at Standing Stone. Cumberland, England, March 5, 1730, and was married there 
March 24, 1 702, to Miss Mary Wilkerson who was Ijoru at Wigton, Cumberland, England, Sep- 
tember 19, 17-12. They were the parents of the following children: Joseph, Rebecca, 
John, Esther, Thomas \V., Robert and William. Soon after his marriage the grandparents 
came to America and the grandfather died in South Carolina about 1780. 

Fk.\xcis M. Lawler, master mechanic of Chicago, Indianapolis & White Water Division 
shops of the Big Four Railroad, is a jjrodiict of the Granite State, born in Concord, April 21, 
1848, and is a son of Martin and Hannah (Brown) Lawler, the former a native of Ireland, 
and the latter of Nova Scotia. Both father and mother came to the United states with their 
parents when children and were here married. The father was a stone contractor in rail- 
road work in the East for many years and accumulated considerable means. In IX'/jthe 
family came west and located at Springfield, 111., where the father entered the emjiloy of 
the Wabash road. He died in Springfield in October, 1870. The mother is still living and 
makes her home in St. Louis. Francis M. Lawler was but a small boy when his parents 
moved to Illinois, and he grew to manhood and received his scholastic training in Spring- 
field. In March, 1804, he left home with a number of soldiers and went to Point. Miss., 
where he enlisted in Company L, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, and served a little over a year, 
when he was transferred to Company L, Fourth Miss<juri Cavalry, with which he remained 
until cessation of hostilities, being discharged September 1(J, 180D. While fighting for the 
old flag he followed Gen. Forrest for the most part and was in Guntown raid after Gen. Price 
through Missouri. He was also on the Wilson raid through Georgia. On account of age he 
enlisted as a bugler but subsequently served as a private. When he left home his parents 
knew nothing about his enlisting, for he went on the spur of the moment while the soldiers 
were at the depot to take the train. After the war he returned to Springfield and entered 
the Wabash shops as apprentice to tbe trade of machinist, serving three and a half years. 
After that he became fireman on the road for a short time and later secured employment in 
the Iron Mountain shops at Carondolet. Six months later he secured a position in the St. 
Charles. Mo., shops for four mouths, and then went to Omaha to work in the shops there 
under a master mechanic, serving an apprenticeship. He fitted up a couple of engines and ran 
one while the new bridge was under construction. He then returned east on account of his 
mother and occupied a position in the shops at Indianapolis, St. Louis and Mattoon as 
machinist, and has been with this company ever since. In 1880 he was made gang foreman; 
five years later he was promoted foreman in the shops at Mattoon. and in 1889 lie was made 
assistant master mechanic. In January of the following year he was made master mechanic 
of the division and on June 1, 1892, he was promoted master mechanic of the Chicago, 
Indianapolis &, White Water divisions, with headquarters at Indianapolis, and this position 
he still holds. Mr. Lawler was married in 1872 to Miss Fernanda M. Cyphers, a native of 
Gallion, Ohio, and five children have been given them, May, William, Gracie, Frank and 
Daisy. Mr. Lawler is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a member of the Commandery, 
and was master of Blue Lodge, No. 200, Mattoon, also high priest of the chapter six 
years. In politics he is a stanch Democrat. Our subject occupies a most responsible position, 
over 1,300 men being under his supervision. His natural ability and thorough knowledge 
of machinery, acquired from years of practical experience, is ajjpreciated by the company 
which repose the utmost confidence in his al)ility and judgment. The position is one that 
requires close application and attention to all the details of an immense ijusiness. It also 
demands a great deal of study and research in keeping abreast of the times in the strides 
and improvements that daily take place through the inventive genius of advanced civilization. 
Mr. Lawler has proven himself entirely capable and worthy at all times to fill the position 
he now occupies. He is a pleasant, social gentleman, characteristics which usually predomi- 



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uate among railroad men, ami is popular auci well liked among the employes with whom he 
comes in daily contact. 

Benjamin F. Davii>. Among those who have fought the battle of life bravely and are 
now living retired from tiie strife and turmoil of active life, is Benjamin F. David, who is a 
product of Harrison County, Ky., born November 20, 1828, on a farm, but who, at the age 
of nine months, was brought by his parents to Indiana, who located on a farm of 200 acres, 
in Marion County, eighty acres of which had been purchased a year or so prior to their re 
moval here and the remainder afterward. On this farm Benjamin F. was brought up, his 
education being acquired in the subscription schools which were in vogue at that time and 
whicli were held in the proverbial ]iioneerlog .school -house. He attended about two months 
out of the year up to his tifleenth year, after which he remained at home and assisted his 
father on tlie home farm until he was twenty-five years of age. During this time he learned 
the blacksmith's trade at Danville, lud. , and at the end of about a year he came to Bridge- 
port, Marion County, and worked with Henry Mattein. a blacksmith, for nearly three years. 
At the end of that time he returned to his father's farm, where he made his home up to 1891, 
when he moved to west Indianapolis, where he now lives. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal ('hnrch, is a Republican jiolitically, and has served as supervisor of his township. 
In 1857 he led to the altar Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and ilehecca( Tucker) Whitson, and 
to them were born live children : Sarah E. , who marrie<l Charles Mattern, resides in Hendricks 
County, Ind., and has one daughter, (irace; William T., who married Martha E. Chamber- 
lain had one daughter, Frankie, who died in infancy;- Oliver W., who married Ella A, 
Johnson; tJilmoie (deceased), and Rebecca Blanche, who married John L. Sanders and has 
one son, Paul Whitely D. The father of Benjamin F. , was William David, born in Virginia, in 
1800, and who was brought up in Mason and Harrison Counties, Ky. , where his parents moved 
when he was about live years old. He was married in Harrison County, in 1820, and eight 
years later came to Indiana as above stated. To himself and wife these children were given, 
as follows: ^Nlary, widow of John Hiatt; Benjamin F. ; Milton (deceased); Hiram (deceased): 
Martha, widow of Henry B. Wright, has live children; Sarah E., who married Benjamin Mizz- 
ner, and has three children; John W., who married Sarah E. Gamble, and has three chil- 
dren — Mable, Dile (deceased) and Fred; Oscar, who married Hattie O'Neals and has one 
daughter — Mary Pauline; Louise, who married George Post; Susana (deceased); Ann, wife 
of Joseph Kenworthy; Elizabeth (deceased); John (deceased), and Emily (deceased). The 
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Jacob David, was born in Germany, in 
1770, and in early manhood came to America and located first in Virginia, and then in Ken- 
tucky. He was married twice, his first wife being the grandmother of Benjamin F. David. 
She bore him six children, as follows: Thomas; Henry, who was a soldier in the War of 1812; 
William, father of the subject of this sketch; Mary, who married John Mauck; Katharine, 
who married William Cox, and Sallie, who married Henry Spears. The father of these chil- 
dren died in 1827. His first wife was Mary Wiseman, and his second. Mary Davis, by whom 
he had two children: David, who died unmarried, and Simon, who first married Nancy 
Brown, by whom he had two children. Elizabeth and Mary, and for his second wife, took 
Mary Martindale, who also bore him two children. Lucinda and James K. 

Jacob F. Schweikle. The business of carriage and wagon maiuifacturing has developed 
enormously in the past twenty-five years, and the large factories all over the country turn 
out carriages an<l wagons by machinery, and which are in so many instances unreliable, that it 
is a comfort to know that there are still some of the old trustworthy firms in existence. 
Such a representative firm is that of Schweikle & Prauge. which was established on East 
Washington Street, Indianapolis, in 1S73, on leased property, and which has been continued 
successfully by the same firm ever since. In February, 1893, this firm purchased the valu- 
able property at the southeast corner of Davidson & Market Streets, and erected a building 
thereon 40x100 feet, and two stories high. A general manufacturing business is done, 
wagons and carriages and general blacksmithing. From seven to ten expert and skillful 
workmen are constantly employed and turn out first class work. Messrs. Schweikle & 
Prange give their personal supervision and attention to the work at all times, and there is 
nothing better made in the way of carriages and wagons than they turn out. Mr. Schweikle 
was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, December 6, 1837, and is a son of Jacob ami Margaret 



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(Klein) Schweikle, uatives also of the old couatrv, where they passed their entire lives. 
The father was a linen weaver by occupation. Our subject came to America in 1857 and 
although he had learned the linen weavers trade of his father, after coming to America he 
learned carriage and wagon making at Conuorsville, Ind.. and followed that in that citv 
until 1S70. He then came to Indianaixjlis and three years later engaged in business for 
himself under the present firm name. Mr. Schweikle was married in January. 1861, to 
Miss Kate Hunnehagen, a native of Germany, who came to America in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. 
Schweikle have one child. Mary. Our subject is a memljer of the I. O. O. F. and is con- 
nected with two building associations, being a director in Tradonian No. 4 and Xational. 
He and family are members of the Second German Reformed Church and for fourteen years 
he was an official in various capacities, secretary', treasurer, deacon, etc. 

Feed. W. Pbaxge was bom in Germany, December 1, 18-33, to the union of Fred, 
and Sophia (Thine) Prange, also uatives of that country. Young Prange was not quite 
a year old when he came to America with his parents, who came direct to Indianapolis, and 
in that city he was reared and educated, his scholastic training being received in the German 
Lutheran schools. When sixteen years of age he began blacksmithing and also learned 
carriage and wagon making, which he has followed since. In 1875 he engaged in business 
for himself under the present tirm name of Schweikle k. Prange. Mr. Prange was married 
in 1881 to Miss Minnie Klinsick. a native of Logansport, Ind., and daughter of Henrv- and 
Minnie Klinsick, natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Prange are the parents of two children, 
Mamie and Elmer. Mr. Prange has stock in Tradonia Building and Loan Association, and 
is a prominent business man of the city. He is a Democrat in politics and he and wife are 
earnest members of the German Lutheran Church. 

Yalextixx Hei.stz. One of the prominent brick contractors of the city is Valentine 
Heintz. who is a native German, bom in 18-19, but who came to the fnited States in 1864. 
In Columbus, Ohio, he learned his trade under his ancle. Jacob Schneider, who was an 
experienced and competent brick layer, and after serving an apprenticeship of four vears he 
began working as a journeyman, and in 1874 came to Tudiauaptolis. Here he worked for 
different persons on numerous buildings for a long while, then began contracting on his own 
account and was soon engaged to build the tunnel on South Illinois Street under the Union 
Station tracks, which work he accomplished sncces-sfully. Some other evidences of his 
handiwork may be seen on the Cerealine Works, the McCormack building, which was the 
lirst six-story house in the city, besides nnmerou? fine residences throughout the city and 
suburbs. The Klee & Coleman block, the Frank Dill business block and the Sacred Heart 
Church were also erected by him: in fact, go where you will in the city you will find that he 
has also been there and that his name is a familar one to the real estate men and house- 
holders. He suf)erintended the brick work on the State house, which occupied alx)ut eight 
years, then superintended the work on the custom house in Louisville, Ky. When he com- 
menced working for himself his principal capital was a good constitution and a thorough 
knowledge of his calling, coupled with energy and ambition, and these essential qualities 
have led to his success. He is a member of the Builders' Exchange. Lodge Xo. 56. K. of P., 
Lodge No. 2634, EL of H., and is a member and leader of the Concordia Social Club. On 
February 26, 1885, he was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Schmuck, of this city, and 
has three children. 

Jajies p. BEU'rE. While the idea of having public bake shops originated with the Eng- 
lish, the industry has become a most extensive one in America, and thousands of persons and 
vast sums of capital are employed. A house which is doing a successful business, thanks to 
the excellent quality of the goods sent out as well as to the tindoubted integrity of the pro- 
prietor, is that owned and conducted by James P. Bruce, who is a wide-awake gentleman 
imbued with the proper amount of enterprise to enlist success, and his business enterprises 
have been widely sati.sfactory. He is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born Novem- 
ber 30, 1851, a son of Alexander and Jane (Beid) Bruce, both of whom were bom in Scotland 
and who, shortly after their arrival in America, settled in Cincinnati. Alexander Bruce set- 
tled first in America at Quebec in June. 1843. and later in October of the same year, in New 
York. He worked at his trade of baker in Brooklyn and there wedded Jane Laurie Reid, a 
native of Peterhead. Scotland, September 2<i. 18-14. In February. 1845. he settled at Cin- 



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cinnati iiiul in August of the same yen r hegau woikiug at liis trade, coiitinuiug until 1861. 
In lSt)3 he uioved to ImiiBna. and in April, iSTTi, to Iiidiaiiapolis, engaging again at his 
trade with James P. Bruce at 7)',>H Virginia Avenue wliich continued until ISSU, since which 
time James P. has l)eeu sole owner of the business. The father at present resides with his 
son in Indianapolis, retired from the active duties of life. The mother died in March, 1S81. 
James P. Bruce was reared in Cincinnati, and there received the advantages of the puljlic 
schools. In the fall of 1871 he came to Indianapolis and entered the employ of P. F. Bryce, 
a baker of the place, but now of the Bryce Baking Company of Chicago, continuing with 
liim until Ai^ril, ISTiJ, wiieu he engaged in business for himself on Virginia Avenue, in a 
onestory frame house and on a small scale. By hard work and close attention to business 
he gradually began to accumulate means and when practical)le lie enlarged his business, and 
he is now doing a business of about !?20,(X)0 a year in a subitantial two story Ijrick l)uilding 
57x37 feet in dimensions which he erected in 1893 at a cost of i-6,tKHt. He keeps constantly 
on hand a line line of all kinds of bread stuffs, cakes, pies, etc.. and supplies on short notice 
tirst-class wedding and ornamental cakes which he guarantees to be fresh. His stock is daily 
replenished and his patrons come from a class who are very particular about the quality of 
their breadstuffs. He has every facility for baking, in<;luding two excellent ovens, and em- 
ploys none but skilled workmen. Mr. Bruce was married .June, 1878, to Louise Baker, a 
native of Cincinnati, liy whom he has a family of seven children: .llliert G., James (iartield 
(deceased), Uol)ert S., Charles, Ralph, Adah and Nettie. 

Chkistian F. VVishmever, whose name heads this sketch, is a native of ^\ estphalia, 
Prussia, born August 22, 1822, and in his native land \yas reared and educated, attending 
school from the tiine he was six until he was fourteen years of age. On May 5, 1843, he 
and his parents sailed from Bremen and landed at Baltimoie, Md , June 8, and from that 
place they at once proceeded to Marion County, Ind., whither an uncle, Anthony Wish- 
meyer, had come in 1834, and a brother, Charles F. Wishtneyer, in 1840. Upon his arrival 
the father purchased forty acres of land in Warren Township, on which he settled and 
lived until the fall of 1853, when he was killed by runaway horses. In 1843 Christian F. 
had settled in Indianapolis, and he at once began working at the carpenter's trade, which 
he had learned in the old country, his first employers Ijeing Fred Diekman and Charles 
Wishmier, with whom he remained two yeais. He then worked at his trade in Lafayette 
for one year, after which he returned to this city and formeil a partnership with John F. 
Eamsey (deceased), in the cabinet and chair manufacturing business, with whom he re- 
mained associated for about two and a half years. He then commenced contracting in the 
carpenter's business, which he carried on until 1855, after which he devoted his time to 
saw-milling, having erected a mill in 1858, on Pogue's Run, near National Road, which he con- 
ducted in connection with a lumber yard until 1872. In 1863 he purchased 240 acres of 
land in one tract and eighty acres in another, and onto this farm he moved with his family 
in 1873, erecting thereon a handsome two story brick residence with a slate roof, contain- 
ing over twenty rooms. In 1886 he added eighty acres to his estate, about 115 acres of 
wliich he devotes to the raising of corn and wheat annually, his best wheat average being 
twenty-seven bushels to the acre. Politically he has always been a Democrat, and his tirst 
presidential vote was cast for Franklin Pierce, but he has taken little interest in political 
affairs since the Douglas campaign, and although once elected a niemlier of the city council 
of Indianapolis declined to serve. He was married in 1847 to Wilhelmina Fehling, and 
by her became the father of live children: Mary, who married Henry Niemann, and has 
five children, Bertha, William, Emma, Frank and Carl; Martha, who married Lewis Smith 
and has two children, Minnie and Charley; Amelia, who married Albert Schower and has 
two chihlren, Ella and Mabel; Charles, who married Ella Barton; and George, who died 
in 1889, at the age of thirtj^-four years. Charles Wishmeyer, the father of Christian 
F., was a Prussian, born in 1787, and was a carjienter by trade. He was married twice 
in Prussia, and by his tirst wife became the father of three children: Christina (deceased), 
who married Chris Reosener, of Hancock County, Ind.. had four children, Sophia (Schill- 
ing), Christian, Christina (Buchorn) and Charles; Charles, who is a resident of Indianapo- 
lis, is married to Christina Reosener and has four children. Christian, William, Emma 
(Fehling) and :Matilda (Nieman); and Charles F., the father of Christian F., the subject of 



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this sketch. For his second wife he raarrie<l Christina Xieman, and l)y her had the follow- 
ing children: Anthony; Elenora. wife of William F. Piel, of Indianapolis: Louisa (de- 
ceased), who married Ernest H. Piel: Sophia (deceased), who married Fred Cruger; Jlarr. 
who first married Charles Wyland. and after his death a Mr. Deder. and Henry. The 
paternal grandfather, Charles Wishmeyer, lived and died in Prussia, having followed 
the calling of a teacher. Anthony Wishmeyer, the half brother of the subject of this 
sketch, was a soldier in the Mexican War and in the war of the Rebellion. 

William L.\sdmeiee. The manufacture of brick in the United States has assumed verv 
large proportions, owing to the numerous uses to which they are put and the erection of 
thousands of large structures in all large cities annuallr, and in this important branch of 
human endeavor William Landmeier is very extensively engaged and is doing a paying 
annual business. He was lx)rn in Germany in 1861 to Henry Landmeier and by his father 
was brought to the United States in 1S67 and a location was at once made in the city of 
Indianapolis. The father was a successful brick maker and like the majority of boys Will- 
iam followed in his father's footsteps when it came time for him to choose an occupation for 
himself, and also became a brick manufacturer. In the private schools of Indianapolis, 
William obtained his knowledge of the world of books and at the age of fourteen years com- 
menced to learn his trade under the competent instruction of his father, who is still a resi- 
dent of the city of Indianapolis and is yet interested in his former occupation. After com- 
pleting his knowledge of the manufacture of brick William began learning the brick mason's 
trade under B. W. Hartley, with whom he labored one year, then he became a partner of 
that gentleman, who is an old-time brick contractor of the city. Four years ago Mr. Land- 
meier commenced manufacturing brick on his own account, in which venture he and a 
brother were associated, but William also carried on contracting for one season, since which 
time he has given his exclusive attention to the manufacture of brick, his yards being located 
on the Perkins Pike, southeast of the city. In 1877. when still quite a young man. Mr. Land 
meier went to Denver, Colo., where he remained for a time, succeeding which he was the 
manager of a brick yard for other parties. Following this he was in Camp Rice, Tex., 
where he employed Mexicans while engaged in the manufacture of brick for the Government 
building at that place. He was quite a traveler in those days and was in all parts of the 
West, sight-seeing and looking for a business location. In 188'^. he led to the altar Miss 
Sarah C, daughter of William Fenneman (deceased), who was also a brick manufacturer of 
this city. Mr. Landmeier is a member of the German Reformed Church, is a man of excel- 
lent principles, thoroughly understands his business and is deserving the wide patronage 
which he now has. 

Hexet Rach. The business in which Henry Rauh is engaged is one of the utmost 
importance and he is enabled to jwint back over an unsullied record. He was bom in Ger- 
many March 21, 1852, a son of Elias and Hannah ('Samuels) Rauh, who were also natives of 
Germany and came to America in 1804. locating at Dayton, Ohio, where the father estab- 
lished himself in an extensive hide and fertilizing business, which business he carried on 
successfully for a number of years. In 1872 they established a branch house at Indianapo- 
lis, and although the founder of the business — Elias Rauh — died in 1SS7, the house is still 
in existence and is carried on under the firm name of E. Rauh i Sons. Mr. Rauh l>ecame 
one of the prominent business men of Dayton for many years and conducted a most success- 
ful business. He was public spirited, enterprising and honest, a man of considerable force 
of character and one who won many friends by his straightforward walk through life. His 
wife's death occurred two years' prior to his own. In the public schools of Dayton Henry 
Rauh was educated and he may be said to have been brought up in the establishment of 
which his father was the proprietor, so that upon reaching his twentieth year he was emi- 
nently fitted to become his father's associate in business. In 1874 he came to Indianapolis 
and became as.sociated in a business way with his younger brother, Samuel E.. in condncting 
a hide and fertilizing business, which they have conducted ever since, disposing of their 
commodity at wholesale and doing a business of from -?1,5<XJ,00<> to •?2,lHlO,CM»tl annually. 
This enterprise has been most prosperous and has increased to enormous proportions, which 
desirable state of affairs has been brought about through the enterprise, push, determina- 
tion and honesty of the brothers, whose thoroughly methodical business arrangements, wide 



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experience and excellent judgment entitle them to the tiue reputation tluit they enjoy in the 
commercial world. Henry Rauh is also interested in other enterprises, beins vice-president 
of the Indianapolis Abattoir Company, interested in the Mooie Packing Company, the 
Union Trust Company, the Independent Hair Company and others. Mr. Rauh is one of 
the best-known citizens of Indianapolis, and in the fall of 1893 lie was Drevailed upon to 
become a candidate for councilman at large on the Itepubliean ticket, and although in a city 
of 2,600 Democratic majority, was elected by a majority of over 8 300 votes, which speaks 
for itself as to his standing. He has been elected chairman of the tinance committee bj' 
the council, in which capacity he has shown much good judgment and undoubted ability. 
He is an active member of the Commercial Club, and socially is a memlier of the Columliia 
Club, the American Club, and is one of the wide awake men of the city, interested in every- 
thing tending to her benelit. April C, 1881, he was married to Miss .Marie Sterne, a native 
of Peru, Ind., by whom he has two children: Eugenia and Marie, but on September 4, 
1889, was left a widower, and has since remained unmarried. 

William Hexry H.\rrison Phillips. Among the industries always in ilemand. and 
daily growing more so by reason of the rapid growth of cities and towns, is that of contract- 
ing and building. A single glance about us is all that is required to gain a conception of the 
number of builders required in the construction of a city. One of the prominent men 
engaged in this line of business is William H. H. Phillips, who is a native of Hoosierdom, 
born in Marion Cjnnty in 18-tO. His father, Ben M. Phillips, was born in Virginia. When 
a young man the latter went to Henry County, Ky., and located near New Castle, where he 
remained until 1827, when he came to the village of Indianapolis. Marion County, Ind. He 
was a stone mason by trade and followed that for many years, but during the latter part of 
ills life followed farming. His death occurred in 1863 when eighty four years of age. In 
politics he was at one time a Whig but afterward a Democrat. His farm was located six 
miles from the court house near New Bethel, between Churchman Pike and Shelbyville Road. 
He was sergeant major of the Fourth Kentucky Militia and was under (ieu. Harrison for 
seven years, participating in the battle at Fort Tippecanoe. At one time he was taken 
prisoner by Indians but manage<l to make his escape, and he was at one time slightly 
wounded. He cleared up his farm of nearly J63 acres in this county and was. one of the 
prominent pioneer settlers. His wife died January 7, 1890, when eighty-tive years of age. 
They were worthy members of the Piner Baptist Church for many years, and Mr. Phillips 
was moderator until his death. Ten daughters and two sons were born to this union, Will- 
iam Henry Harrison Phillips being seventh in order of birth. He was named in honor of 
his father's old commander. His education was received in the city and at the academy in 
Marshall, 111., and when the Civil War broke out he volunteered in the tirst company 
organized in the State, Company E, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, three months' service. 
Afterward he joined Company B, Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry as tirst duty sergeant, 
and continued with the same until discharged May 12. 1S65. At the battle of Stone River 
he was taken prisoner and retaineil at Libby Prison nine months, experiencing during that 
time all the hardships and unpleasant features of prison life, besides having the measles. He 
participated in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, was on the road 
from Knoxville to D.ilton, and then to Atlanta, where he was severely wounded, being dis- 
abled for two years. This wound troubles him at the present time, and was the result of a 
minie ball in the leg. Gangrene set in and it is a wonder to the physicians that he is now 
living. After the war Mr. Phillips passed two jears on the farm and then opened a grocery 
store at the corner of Market and Noble Streets. The same year he (juit business and went 
to Kentucky, where he began to work at his trade, carpentering, which he had learned before 
the war. He assisted in building the Insane Hospital at Hopkinsville, Kj'., in r867, 
but the following year he returned to Indianapolis, where he was with the Grover & Baker 
Machine Company for live years. For two years after this he was with the Pan Handle 
Railroad, after which he was elected city sealer, serving in that capacity two years, and one 
year on the police force. Again he returned to contracting, but soon after received the 
appointment as postal clerk by President Grant, holding the route from Cincinnati to Chicago 
live years. After this he was a bridge builder until 1889 and was with Massilion Bridge 
Company, all over the county as the superintendent. For four years he had charge of the 



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ohv hridse department, and then for two years was weigh master. Since then he has 
etLn a to Eacting and building and Enjoys an enviable reputahon for -t.sfac tory 
work O. November 8, 1869, he was married to Miss Gul.a E. Bray, daughter of John S. 
Brav of Mo-gan Count;. Ind. To this union nine children were born, three o whom are 
Hv'nV Harry B., ClaVence F. and Claude S. Mr. Ph.lhps as a member of the Third 
Christian Church and in politics is a Republican. Socially he is a Mason^ «^, '°«'"^«f f 
Centre Lodge! No. 23. OHve branch Lollge No. 2. K. of V.. and George H. Thomas Post, 
G A R., Camp 80 Veteran Legion. . , t -,- i- t j 

Lee Nixon occupies the responsible position of clerk of the city of Indianapolis, Ind^ 
He was born in Carthage. Rush County, Ind., February 27^ 1866, a son of Benjamin and 
Sarah (Risk) Nixon, the former of whom was born in the Old Nortli Statue in Perquimans 
Countv June 10. 1819, and the latter in Virginia, September 12, 1824. The parents came 
to Indiana in an earlv day by wagon and settled at Carthage, of which place they were 
amoncr the very earli'est Residents. The father was for twenty-four years a Justice of the 
peace^in that section and by occupation was a contractor and builder, carrying on this busi- 
ness with good success for" a long period. In addition to tl^^^^^^^'f >' ! p,''"*''^\^,''.^'"l^: 
tared to the spiritual wants of his fellows, as a local minister of the Wesleyan Methodist 
Episcopal Church for some years. He was called from life at Rushville. Ind. . in December. 
{883 his wife having paid the last debt of nature in May. 1877. having borne him en ch ih 
dren three of whom\;e living: Charles O.. Lucius and Lee. In '^^ P^^^ "t°trf ih^i 
„ati^; town Lee Nixon was educated, successfully graduating from the b'^t school of that 
lace When nineteen years old he removed to Rushville, and entered the office of the 
Rushville Republican to'learn the printer's trade, and after serving an apprenticeship he 
becar^ethe editor of the Rushville Graphic. In 1886 he came o Indianapolis and this 
place has since continued to be his home, during which time he ''^^ ''f" connected with 
d fferent printing establishments in the city, and for the past four years has b-" "^^^-^ tf 
wUh the Indianapolis Journal In the fall of 1893 he became the nominee of the Repub- 
lican party for the position of citv clerk, receiving bis nomination by accamation at tne con- 
vention' and after one of the hottest and most notable campaigns in the history of city poU 
[tics he WHS elected bv a majority of 3.246 votes, overcoming a Democratic major. ty of two 
year's previous of 2,790. Mr Nixon is a member of Indianapolis Typographical Union No. 
a so of the International Typographical Union, to which he was elected a <1eleg» ^ ,n 
March, 1893. by the largest majority ever given a candidate for that office from the city of 
Indianapolis, there being sis candidates in the field. , . ^, , t i i, f.,ifiii^/i 

.I.MEs THOM..S Harbin. Among the noble men of Marion CounU-. Ind.. who fultilled 
their destiny and are now no more, may be mentioned James Thomas Hardin who was born 
n V vne Township, this countv, July 23. 1828, a son of Isaac Hardm^ His -fk through 
life was characterized by the most honorable business methods, by bis devotion to his fara^ 
y and by the interesthe took in the welfare of his fellow maiK His death which occurred 
December 14. 1891, was not onlv a severe blow to hisown family.but to thecommunit> at la.ge^ 
MrHardin was reared upon his father's farm to hard work, and owing to he indifferent old 
fashioned subscription schools, his instruclion consisted of -^out two months per year durmg 
his early boyhood days. November 17. 1846. when not yet nineteen years old 1^^ ^air led 
Frances Stout, and shortly after this event the young couple moved to a farm of -^1> .v - - 
which had been given them l,y their fathers, situated about two and a half ^"l- ea t o tl^e 
home place This, their first home, was a round log cabin and furnished with two beds six 
chai s'one table, one set of dishes, one skillet, one oven and one ^^ ke.tle. and the^cooking 
was done in the fireplace. About two years later they moved *« f "f ?^^'?^^ "^f ^ ^h;, 
Hardin was engaged in the grocery trade about a year. He then sold his inte.e>t in the 
lie and their^fann of eighty acres, and bought a 160.acre farm m ^ --J-"^^,p whe e 
he remained about five years, then sold out and purchased another l'^^'^^,««;;%^^«^^|. °^T, ^"^'^ 
place where he resided until bis death. Mr. Hardin was a member of the Methodist Epis^ 
copal Church, an Odd Fellow and a Democrat. He and wife were the parents of eleven 
Sren- Joanna, who married William Traiib by whom she had t^o children, Henrietta 
ShafeiVand Emma F. (Brewer); Rebecca, who "^-'^ - i"^-^.-. T^-dore M deceased) 
who married Alice Berg; Ellen, married Alpheus Smith and bore him one daughter, Lillian. 



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Charles I,, manioil Maiy Maiiies and lias one son, J. Fraiikliu; Laura ((It^cpascd); Indiana, 
w.'diled William Cartel- and has otic son. Harry; George D., married Anna Robertson and is 
the father of four cbildren, James, .Joseph, Kaymond and Francis; Noah, who married Agues 
Hart am) has two children, Lewis and Grace; Joseph, selected Rosa Hasselberg as his wife 
aud is the father of one son, Joseph; and (3ora E., who became the wife, of J. Orlando Dunn 
and the mother of one sou, Ovid Hardin Dunu. Mrs. F. Hardin's father, David Stout, was 
born in Butler County, Penn., January 2'2, 1801, and was there married to Joanna Hurd, 
formerly of New Jersey. Mrs. J. T. Hardin's father, Isaac Hardin, aud his wife were among 
the earliest pioneers of Marion County. He was. born in 1804, married Rebecca Jackson in 
l8'Jf5, aud coming to tiiis county purchased a farm of IfiO acres where they resided until his 
death. J. T. Hardin became the owner of a 'iSll-acre farm in Marion County, eighty acres 
in Hendricks (Jouiity and eighty acres in Illinois. He was an enterjjrising man and his death 
was a loss to the community in wliicli he resided. 

GeoiktE W. Combs, M. D. The standing of every profession is marked by the char- 
acter of the mau who represents it. Deplorable as it is, it is nevertheless true, that the 
inducements offered by the medical profession for the gratification of personal ambition and 
the accomplishment of selfish ends, have drawn into it men whose influence has been only to 
degrade tlie profession. When, therefore, we find a man of true worth and genuine ability 
giving his energies to the elevation of the profession, it is but just that lie should receive the 
eulogies of men. Such an one is Dr. George W. Combs, who was lioru in Oakland. Marion 
County, Ind., March 10, 18">9, his parents being John W. aud Emma (Cole) Combs, early 
settlers of Marion County. The paternal grandfather, Jesse Combs, took up his residence 
at Indianapolis in the early twenties, and at one time owned a great deal of property, where 
many of the most substantial business blocks of the city now stand. The public schools of 
his native county afforded Dr. George W. Combs his early education, but about the age of 
twelve years he was placed in the high school, where he remained until he was al)out seven- 
teen years of age. He then began the battle of life for himself as a " Hoosier School- 
master," which occupation he followed very successfully in Lawrence Township for live 
years. During one year of this time he was principal of the gra<led school of Lawrence, and 
his last two years as a pedagogue were spent as principal of the Oakland schools. From 
early boyhooil he had had a great desire to become a physician, and his leisure hours, while 
teaching the "young idea" were devoted to the study of this science, to which his kindly 
nature seemed to instinctively turn. After serving his native township and county as a 
teacher in its schools he entered the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, where he gave esjiecial 
attention to the study of medicine. In the spring of 1880 he came to Indianapolis for the 
purpose of completing his medical studies, and for some time lie pursued his investigations 
under the able directions of Drs. P. H. & H. Jameson. He then entered the Medical Col- 
lege of Indiuua, and after a thorough course of three years graduated with honors in 1SS3. 
Upon taking the competitive e.\amination for the interne to the city disjiensary he was suc- 
cessful, and soon after received his appointment to that position, which he tilled with ability 
for one year. At the end of this time the ixiard of aldermen of Indianapolis changed the 
time of service of internes to the dispensary from one to two years, and recognizing the valu 
able services of Dr. Combs, they reappointed him for another term,. at the expiration of which 
term he was tendered the superinteiidency of the dispensaiy, which he accepted and tilled 
for one term of two years. During the timethat the Doctor had charge of the dispensary great 
good was accomplished by him, and the standard of the institution for usefulness and 
efficiency was l)rought uj) to a high mark. He wisely introduced various ajijiliances, iustru 
inents, etc., for the prosecution of surgical work, and many of the details and )ilans of work 
introduced by him are still followed to the letter, and the standard of exellence which obtains 
at the present time is in no small degree the result of his labor. The Doctor is a member 
of the American iMedical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association and Marion 
( oiinty ^ledical Society. He has served as assistant to the chair of obstetrics and diseases 
of children, and principles and practices of medicine in his alma mater — the Medical Col- 
lege of Indiana. The Doctoi- is a thirty-second degree Mason. Indianapolis has practi- 
cally been the Doctor's home all his life, for he was Ixnn but a few miles from it. and he has 
ever been closely ideutitied with its best interests, and has always been ready to aid in every 



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good project. He is a niemljer of tbe Commercial aad Columbia Clubs, aod in his social 
relations he is very pleasant and agreeable, an entertaining companion, a warm friend and, 
during the lifetime of his wife, was a devoted husband. He led to the hymeneal altar Miss 
Carrie Kregelo, granddaughter of David Kregelo, February 15, 1888, a native of Indian- 
apolis, but after a few short years of wedded happiness he was called upon to mourn the 
death of his wife, which occurred February 4, 1892, of that dread disease — consumption, 
after an illness of nineteen months. Dr. Combs is a renowned physician and surgeon in 
Indiana, and his clearness of perception, accuracy of diagnosis and boldness of operation 
have won for him many admirers. He is in the enjoyment of good health, and is ever found 
ready to perform the arduous duties of his calling, which is the most wearing on brain and 
body of any in the tieldof science. The Doctor has always supported Republican principles, 
but has never been an aspirant for political favors, the honorous duties of his profession fully 
occupying his heart and mind. 

John A. Lang. The first purchase of real estate named in the Bible was made by 
Abraham, from Ephron, of tbe cave and field or Machpelali, consideration four hundred 
shekels of silver, aud the instrument of transfer reads much like the modern guarantee 
deed. Land has been bought and sold among all nations: but the business reaches its 
climax in the United States, where general distribution of realty and spirit of speculation, 
incised l)y advancing values, combine to give great activity. Indianapolis, like all live 
American cities, does a large real estate business, and among the large number of influential 
men who turn their attention to this business is John A. Lang, a member of the tirm of 
Lang & Shaw, who also do an insurance and pension agency business. Mr. Lang was born 
in Indianapolis, November, 1854, to Daniel A. and Grace (Stevenson) Lang, both of whom 
were born in Scotland and were there reared and married. They came to America about 
the year 1849, locating at Pittsl)urgh, Penn., later residing successively in Madison aud 
Howard Counties, Ind., in each of which Mr. Lang was engaged in operating saw and grist- 
mills and carrying on a successful lumber buhiness. In 1861 the family came to Indianapolis 
where Mr. Langf became a contractor and builder, which business he cairied on for several 
years, his office and shop being located where the new county jail now stands. The subject 
of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Indianapolis, but when still a 
youth began working at the carpenter's trade, which he continued until he was twenty 
years old, then was an employe in tbe service of the Adams Express Company for three 
years. Following this he established a grocery store of his own in 1870, carrying on a 
prosperous retail trade until 1883, when he disposed of his establishment, and from that 
time until 1880 was superintendent of police, .succeeding Maj. Robins. Since that time he 
devoted his attention to his present business and it may be said of him that there are few, if 
any, better judges of real estate in the city. He gives his close and prompt attention to all 
orders and special commissions and may be implicitly trusted in all business transactions. 
This fact must be appreciated by a large number of the residents of the city and owners of 
farm property throughout Marion County, as he has a large list of patrons in the territory 
mentioned. In 1880 he was elected to the position of councilman from the twenty-fourth 
ward'on the Democratic ticket aud served one term. He is a member of and State president 
of the P. O. S. of A. November 30, 1882, he was married to Miss Amanda Gregory, a native 
of Boone County and a daughter of Thomas Gregory. They have two children, Rajmond 
G. and Grace. 

Robert Gilbreath. The steady growth of Indianapolis and the rapid increase in popu- 
lation have opened iip a wide and important field of enterprise in the line of building and 
contracting. Many prominent citizens are engaged in this line of business. Among those 
well known in this city, and among those who have won a first-class reputation for reliable 
work is Robert Gilbreath, contractor and builder. Mr. Gilbreath was born in Guilford 
County, N. C, in 1844, and is a son of Jesse Gibreath, who was also born in Guilford 
County, of the Old North State. The latter was a wagon maker by trade and remained in 
his native State, following his trade, until 1851, when he came to Indiana. He located in 
Greensboro, Henrj' County, but died in Marion County while on a visit, when sixty-two 
years of age. Robert Gilbreath received a good practical education in Greeusboro and Car- 
thage. Rush Countv', and when the tocsin of war sounded he was filled with a jiatriotic desire 



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to tight for the old flag. In November, 18fi3. he eulisted in the Ninth Indiana Cavalry. 
Coiupanj- E, and served until August, ]S()5. He participated in the battle of Nashville, 
Franklin, was in many skirmishes with Forrest and Hood, and although never wounded, was 
taken prisoner December 1, 1804, and confined in Cahaba. He was in prison five months 
and during that t me was nearly starved to death. Although on board the fated " Sultana,'" 
when it blew up. he was one of the few who escaped without injury, and floated on staging 
to Memphis in ice cold water from 2 o'clock until daylight, after which he returned to 
HiMiry (\)unty, lud.. and assisted his father in the lumber business and in a saw-mill in 
Knightstown. He learned his trade and worked at it for some time in Knightstown; 
then branched out for himself, moving to Indianapolis and working at his trade until 
1S75; he engaged in farming in Kush County for four years, after which he returned (o 
Indianapolis and has been engaged in contracting, principally by himself, although he was 
associated for a time with William Bowman and William Maul, and was with the Indian- 
apolis Tile Koofing Company and with the cabinet works for a few months. He has had a 
number of narrow escap-s from the "Grim Reaper"' during the time he has followed his 
trade, falling twice from high buildings. Imt his time had not come. Politically he is a 
Republican, and socially a member of George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R. In l8f)9 he 
was married to Miss Emily White, of Carthage, and they have an interesting family of three 
children, two .sons and a daughter. 

Ch.\rles Meadows. Many of the successful businessmen of America received their early 
education in the institutions of Europe and among them was Charles Meadows who is now a 
prominent boot and shoe dealer of Brightwood, Ind. He was born in England in 1847 and 
when but sixteen years of age came to the " land of the free," and settled in the city of 
Brotherly Love. In 1881 he came to Brightwood, Ind., where he has been in lousiness ever 
since. He first branched out as a shoemaker, but getting tired of the bench, he invested his 
frugal savings in a stock of boots and shoes in 1889 and since then has been doing a very 
good business. He is a man whose business career is a decidedly interesting one showing 
the comjietency that can soon l)e attained liy the natives of other lands. He is an honorable, 
reliable business man and his store has become very popular with all. Mr. Meadows is a son 
of George and Emily (Arnold) Meadows, natives of England where they were married in 
1834. Ten children were born to the parents, five sons and five daughters, as follows: 
Emma E. married Samuel Page and resides in England: George died in England when 
twenty-five years of age; Leticliia Meadows, and all the others are deceased except our sub- 
ject. The mother of these children died in England in 1858 but the father is still living and 
makes his home in his native country. The original of this notice was married in 1873 to 
Miss Mary E. Lathberry, daughter of John and Pluelje Lathberry, who were among the old 
settlers of Bridgeton. N. J., and native born Americans. Thev had but two children. Mrs. 
Meadows and a son. To our subject and his wife have been born eight children, six of whom 
are now living: Emily A., born Felnuary 10, 1874, is now at home with her parents and 
assists her father in the store; George W. , born May 13, 1879, is at home as are the re- 
mainder of the children; Willie, born December 16. 1882; Alice, born April 24. 1884; May, 
born August 18, 1886, and Charley, born July 6, 1889. The other children died in infancy. 
Mr. Meadows is an active member of the K. A: L. of H. and is at present treasurer of the lat- 
ter society. He is an honoral)le. trustworthy citizen and well respected by his large circle of 
friends. In religious and educational matters as well as in all other worthy enterprises he 
takes a deep interest and contributes liberally to all. 

Orville L. H.\h.\. Brightwooil can well be proud of the amount of brains and energy 
possessed by her representative business men, for, taken as whole, there are none brighter, 
more intelligent, or with more ability and push in any direction, and among the number is 
Orville L. Hahn. Those who deal with him find him a very pleasant gentleman, courteous 
and affable, and in every respect of the term, a true man of business, a man whose experi- 
ence and thorough knowledge of his work have placed him among the leading merchants of 
this thriving suburb. He is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Jonesboro. September 
9. 1863. son of Ezra and Sarah Jane (Dever) Hahn who were married at Sidney. Ohio, in 
T^6I. The father was a native of Maryland his l)irth occurring in 1821. and came from 
Philidelphia to Indiana in 18r>,">. His wife was an Ohio lady, and shortly after lier marriage 



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accompanied her bnsband to Indiana. The fraits of their union were four children, all 
sons: Archie V., born February 15, lSi52, married Miss Laura Stevens and now resides in 
Marion. Indiana: Orville, L., subject: Jean M. , a school teacher and single, resides in Cali- 
fornia: and Ezra Clyde was killed by a horse when but fourteen years of age. The subject 
of this sketch has passed his entire life in his native State and on January 22. 1S91. he was 
married to Miss May Keener of Indianapolis. Ind. She was the daughter of ¥. L. Keener 
and Elizabeth ( Coppersmith i Keener, both born in America and married in Indiana. 
Mr. Uahn learned the wood turner's trade when young and worked at this until 1*^90, when 
he invested his savings in dry goods and started out on his career as a merchant iu Bright- 
wood. Ind. He has now one of the most complete dry goods stores in the city and has the 
best selected stock of goods in his line in this part of the county. He is careful and pains- 
taking and he and his estimable wife attend to the store in aU its details. He is upright and 
honorable in all his dealings and has the esteem and confidence of the entire community. 
His store is near the depot, is located in the finest block in town and has a metropolitan 
appearance alx)nt it. His mother died in 1871 but the father is still living and enjoys com- 
parativelv good health. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn have but one child. Ezra Vernon, a bright 
little fellow' lx)ru October 23. 1891. 

Cakl vox Hake. To her noble, pushing, hardworking business men is due the great 
prosperity, wealth and advancement of Indianapolis. To their zeal, energy and integrity 
will its future greatness be indebted, as it has been in the past, and among those names 
prominent in the promotion of successful business enterpri.ses in this city, none will stand 
higher or occupy the position more justly than does that of the subject of this sketch. Carl 
von Hake was born in Canada December S. 1S55. and when but a child was taken to Kala- 
mazoo. Mich., by his parents. There he received his education and completed the high 
school course in 1860. Later he took a position with a whip socket factory in Westfield. 
Ma.ss.. as superintendent of the factory, and held that position for three years. Leaving 
that city he came to Marion County. Ind., in 1873. and bought a farm, which he tilled suc- 
cessfully for ten years. After this for three years he was out of business, but from 1888 to 
189U he was in the retail shoe business, the firm name being Camplin &, Von Hake. In the 
fall of 1890. the Indianapolis Coffin Company was organized and our .snbject was made 
president, which position he holds at the present time. The capital stock is •*45.0(K) and 
they do au annual business of about $12(i.i^iO. Mr. Von Hake has always been one of the 
most public spirited men of Indianapolis and is an excellent business man. prompt, ener- 
getic and strictly upright. In politics he supports the measures and principles of the Demo- 
cratic party. In the year ls73 he was married to Miss Sarah Richardson, daughter of 
AVilliam Richardson of Xew York. Three children have been bom to this marriage and are 
named in the order of their births as follows: Carlesta. Alberta and Norma. Our subject's 
father. Oscar Von Hake, was a native of Papitz. Germany, but growing restive he bade adieu 
to friends and scenes long loved and when a young man came to Canada. Later he came to 
Kalamazoo. Mich , and there his death occurred in 1869. He saw service in the army in the 
old country. His marriage to Miss Johanna Wilson resulted in the birth of one child besides 
our subject, Pauline, who became the wife of Frank Vonnegut, of Indianapolis. Ind. The 
mother passed away in 1872. 

G. B. Maktix. D. D. S.. was bom iu Chiawassee County, Mich.. May 20, 1850, a son of 
M. B. and Mary A. (Beach i Martin, the former of whom was born in Johnstown, N. T.. and 
the latter in Hartford. Conn. They were early settlers of Chiawassee County, Mich., where 
they located in 1836. The father was a farmer but for many years lived in retirement from 
the workaday world. The Martin and Beach families became prominent in political 
affairs. E. T. Throop. uncle of M. B. Martin, was at at one time Governor of the State of 
New York and held several very important foreign official positions. Dr. G. B. Martin was 
reared in his native county and received the advantages of the public schools and the train- 
ing to be derived from life on a fann. After starting out in life for himself he devoted some 
time to agricultural pursuits, then engaged in business in New York and later at several dif- 
fereDt points in the South. After giviog his attention to the study of dentistry for some 
time he practicetl successfully for several years at Lansing. Mich. In 1887 he came to Indi- 
anapolis and entered the Indiana Dental College, from which he graduated in 1889, having 



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taught dentistry for several years, aud lie was afterward elected to the chair of prosthetic 
dentistry. At the present time the Doctor has charge of the mechanical laboratory and o'ives 
instruction in crown, bridge and continuous gum work. He was the originator aud jnomi 
nent in the organization of the Indianapolis Post Graduate School of Prosthetic Dentistry, 
wliich was incorjxirated in 1890, and has been ]n-esidenl uf the same since its organization 
lie has been decidedly successful in his practice and ranks amcjiig the leading dentists. Dr. 
^Faitiu was married in 1877 to Miss Mary Case, a native of Indiana, but who was reared and 
ediKwited in Michigan, where they met and eventually married. 

Jajiks C.\rter, M. D. However well compensated a jihysician may be for his services, 
and the cases are very numerous in which he neither asks nor receives compensation, his 
irofrssion must over be regarded as the noblest and most benelicial to mankind. Dr. Carter 
is a dignitied but kindly gentleman, of pleasing manners, with a very large circle of friends, 
who hold him in high esteem. Of a cheerful disposition himself, he has the faculty of 
imparting courage to those who are despondent from illness, and his skill in tlie diagnosis 
and treatment of diseases is the cause of the success he has won in his profession. He is a 
product of Union County, Ind., where he was born February 14, 1843. his father, Benjamin F. 
Carter, l)eing a native of Huckiugham County, N. C, where he was born in 1>^ 12, and reared 
to manhood. About the year 1841 he came ("o Indiana and settled in Fayette County, where 
he resided some two years. In 1842 he removed to Union County, Ind., where he married 
Susannah Chenault, a native of that county, born in 1812, and a daughter of Abner and 
Mary Chenault. who were natives of North Carolina and early pioneers of Union County, 
where they settled in 1811'. theu the country was a wilderness, infested by Indians, and for 
a long time were compelled to reside in a fort for protection. Benjamin F. Carter was a 
resident of Union ('ounty for about seven years, at the end of whicli time be removed with 
his family to Fayette County, where he made his home until his death, which occurred in 
1'^'iS. He was a pros|ierous farmer by occupation, and some four or five years previous to 
his death he was ordained as a minister to the Baptist Church. His widow survives him at 
the advanced age of eighty-one years. Dr. James Carter was the eldest of their eight 
children, and is now the only surviving member of the family. He was about six years of 
age when his parents removed to Fayette County, Ind., and there he attained to man's estate. 
On account of the ill health of his father aud from the fact that he was the only son and the 
eldest of the family, he was deprived of the advantages of an education, for all the cares and 
work of the farm fell upon his shoulders. He was very industrious and faithful to his 
l>areiits' interests, labored early and late, and was the mainstay of the family for a number 
of years. He continued life as a farmer until the spring of 1875, when he engaged in the 
drug business at Fayetteville, Ind., which he continued to follow with reasonably satisfactory 
results until the spring of 1880. when he sold the same and removed to Freeport, Shelby 
County, Ind., and turned his attention to the practice of medicine. During the years that 
he was engaged in the drug business he took iip the study of medicine, and in the fall of 
1878 he entered the Medical College of Indiana, where he pursued his medical researches 
for some time. For a period of four years he practiced medicine in Freeport, Morristown and 
Gwynneville, but since the month of December, 1884, became to Indianapolis and followed his 
|irofession for nearly two years. At the end of that time he returned to Gwynneville, Shelby 
( ounty, where he reside<l six years, but on November 21, 1892, once more came to Indian- 
apolis, and has taken up his jiermanent residence here, having purchased him a ccmfoi table 
home. He has a practice which is in every way satisfacton', and a wide circle of friends, 
and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Naomi A. Morris, and whom he married iu 
1862, move in the best circles of society. She was born in Rush County, Ind., her parents. 
Houston and Melehi Morris, having been early pioneers of that section, where they entered 
considerable land and followed farming all their lives. The father was a native of the 
''Tveystone State."' was a man of niuch intelligence, was highly respected in his section, and 
through his good management and industry accumulated a goodly piojierty, Dr. Carter is 
a member of the honorable order of F. & A. M., and in politics is a pronounced Demociat, 
his^efforts at all times being in behalf of this party, although he was at the October election, 
187(5 (while in the drug business), elected and served one term as township trustee, refusing 
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Fkascis J. Bergmanx. It has beeu said, and said truly, that "cleanliness is next to 
godliness." and this is true in every particular when soap can be had at such reasonable 
figures, made of the purest and best materials as is that manufactured l)_v Francis J. Berg- 
mann. He learned the business of soap making from his father, who followed that line of 
human endeavor all his life, having learned it in his native land of Germany. Francis is a 
product of Logansport, Ind.. where he first saw the light of day, March 11, 1862, his parents 
being Francis and Caroline (Boltzl Bergmanu who. although native Germans, have long 
been residents of the "land of the free and the home of the brave."' The father was born 
October 6, 1S23, came to America about the year 1845 and in connective order resided in 
Pennsylvania, Cambridge City, Ind.. Fort Wayne, Wabash, Logansport (three of his chil- 
dren having been born at this place) and Indianapolis. Mrs. Bergmann was Ijorn in Germany, 
August 2, 1837. and in 1863 came to Indianapolis with her parents who purchased the laud 
on which now stands the estaljlishmeut now operated by Francis J. Bergmann. The mar- 
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Bergmann was celebrated in Fort Wayne. Ind.. August 6. ISoT, result- 
ing in the birth of ten children, those living as follows: Clementine, born in 1858. who is a 
resident of Indianapolis aud is the wife of Henry J. Kissel: Charles E.. liorn in 18*i0. who is a 
resident of Chicago. 111., and is married to Ada Leekly, and is following the calling of a 
commission merchant: Francis J., the suliject of this sketch: Louisa, born in 1867. who is 
residing in Indianapolis and is the wife of Stephen Sharp: Emma, born in 1873, who also 
resides in this city, is the wife of Osborn Magill. and Henry, born in 1880, who is pursuing 
his studies in the public schools of Indianapolis. The father of these children opened an 
establishment in 1863 on the same ground where his son is now doing Ijusiness. Soon after 
this he purchased two acres of land in a corn field, which is the same land that is still in 
possession of the family at the corner of West aud Morris Streets. At this time all the land 
that was not seeded to corn was covered with a heavy growth of timber but during the 
progress of time he has seen it converted from this condition to beautifully paved streets of 
a great city. A short time after embarking in business for himself he became a member of 
the firm of Bergmann & Birk, who conducted a rendering establishment, in addition to which 
Mr. Bergmann was also conducting a like Ijusiness in Pendleton, Ind., at the time of his 
death. When he was called upon to pay the last debt of nature, in 1891, his son Francis J., 
the siil)ject of this sketch, was managing the business in Pendleton. Soon after this, how- 
ever, the business at that ]ilace was closed and Francis J. has since been successfully carrying 
on a fairly lucrative Inisiness in Indianapolis. Not only does he manufacture a fine grade of 
soaps but also sal soda, and deals in alkalies aud soap stocks. He manufactures an especially 
fine line of laundry soaps: in fact, all the goods he turns out are strictly first class and he is 
in every way deserving the patronage which he commands. He is honorable and upright in 
his business methods, is unmarried and has a wide circle of friends aud acquaintances. 

SAMrEL C. Edex. One of the most important industries carried on in the city of Indian- 
apolis is that of contracting and building, aud among the representative citizens engaged in 
this line of l)asiuess. and thoroughly familiar with it in its every detail is Samuel C. Eden. 
He is a product of the Blue-Grass soil of Kentucky, born in Scott County, November 30, 
1X41. aud the son of Henry Eden, a brick mason and manufacturer. The latter resided in 
Woodford County. Ky. . many years, aud the family was a pioneer one of that State. He 
was an extensive contractor in his day, and an enterprising, thorough-going citizen. Samuel 
C Eden, the youngest of ten children, received his scholastic training in Lexington. Ky. , 
and at the Old Northwestern Christian University. Indianapolis. Then, after his marriage, he 
took a course at Purdy's Commercial College. Previous to this, when only fifteen years of 
age, be started to learn his trade under his brother, Charlton Eden, and after finishing the 
same, worked for his brother for several years. Later he became foreman in the Builders 
and Manufacturers Association and when that organization sold out he went back to work at 
his trade. One year later he formed a partnership with his brother Charlton and they erected 
some of the finest buildings in the city. Sometime afterward they dissolved partnership and 
he was superintendent for his brother for some time. After that he commenced contracting 
for himself and is now engaged in that business and is meeting with well deserved success. 
He has Ijeen a Republican since that party came into existence and is an active worker in the 
interests of the same. On October 3, 1801, he was married to Miss Mary A. Berry who was 



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born in Marion County, Intl., and three sons and four daughters have been the result of this 
union. The whole family, with the exception of the two youngest chihlren, are members of 
the Oiiristimi Church. Mr. Eden joined when a young man and recently assisted in estab- 
lishing the Hillside Christian Church. He is president of the board of trustees of that 
organization, is a teacher in the Sunday-school, and one of the city's most worthy and influ- 
ential citizens, and his wife, Mary A. Eden, is one of the officers of the Ladies' Aid Society 
and a worker in the same church and visits the sick and distressed wherever she finds them. 

Peter C. Weyenberg. By a most thorough knowledge of his trade, gained step liy step, 
Peter C. Weyenberg has Ijiiilt up a wide re]>utation as a contractor in all kinds of brickwork 
find has a patronage of very satisfactory projtortions. He is a native of Littleshute, Wis., 
where he was born on April 3, 1863, his father, Henry Weyenberg, !)eiug a resident of Glen- 
ville, Chiy Count}', Neb. He is successfully engaged in tilling the soil there but was for- 
merly a contractor and made a specialty of bridge work, erecting many bridges across the 
Fox River in Wisconsin. He has been a resident of Nebraska for the past sixteen years, 
having moved there when the country was sparsely settled, and is now a well-to do citizen 
of sixty-three years. From the time he first commenced voting he has been a Democrat, 
but has by no means l)een an ofiice-seeker. The early education of Peter C. Weyenberg was 
received in his native county and in Clay County, Neb., whither he moved with his parents, 
and there he continued to make his home until his eighteenth year, at which time he began 
learning tiie brick-mason's trade and that of a plasterer, also becoming familiar with cement 
work, in Denver, Colo., to which place he went during its " boom." He followed his trade 
all over the West and after a time arrived in Hastings, Neb., where he began contracting as 
a ])lasterer and brick-mason, during which time he made both money and a good reputation. 
For the past six years he has been a resident of Indianapolis and at once began doing con- 
tract work, in the fulfillment of which he won such hearty approval for the meritorious 
character of his work that he has since had all the business he could properly attend to. He 
did the work on the Eaglefield Planing Mill, some fine residence work on Meridian Street, 
the work on the Yan Camp Packing Company's building, the school house on Ben Davis 
Street, and many other pieces of excellent work. Like so many of the prosperous business 
men of the day he started in life with nothing l)ut a good constitution and a thorough 
knowledge of his trade, and these, combined with energy, perseverance and a wise and pru- 
dent economy, have placed him on a sound financial footing. On November 17, 1888, he led 
to the hymeneal altar Miss Katie Schleicher, of Indianapolis, but a native of Lawrenceburg, 
and their union has resulted in the birth of one son. Mr. Weyenberg is a member of St. 
Joseph's Catholic Church, and politically is a Democrat. 

Gerhard Ittenb,\ch. Sitice the tide of immigration first set toward America perhaps 
no class of people who have found homes upon her shores has done more to build up her 
interests or contribute more to her commercial importance and national prosperity than the 
sturdy, honest hearted and industrious Germans, who have come here to enjoy the fieedom 
of thought and independence of action denied them in the Fatherland, and no class in 
Indianapolis is more indebted for the present proud position and future promise than to 
that of which the suiiject of our sketch is a worthy and honored representative. Gerhard 
Ittenbach was l)orn in Prussia, Germany, March 28, 1828, and was educated in the schools 
there. He learned the stone cutter's trade in that country, but love of adventure and a 
desire to try his fortune in the new world induced him to leave home and friends and in 1848 
he landed in New York City with about $12 in his pocket. Meeting a friend in that city 
who was without means our subject paid his fare to Philadelphia and went to that city him- 
self Two days later he went to Cinncinnati. and not being able to get work at his trade, he 
worked at any lionorable employment he could find for about three months. From there he 
went to Wheeling, W. Va., where he secured work at his trade on the suspension bridge and 
worked there three months. The river getting low he returned to Cincinnati and obtain^^d 
work on the House of Correction, then building, and remained there until the sjiring of 
1849. From there he went to Madison, Ind., where he worked on the new jail and 
made his home there two years. In 1851 he went to Indianapolis to put up the steps for 
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, but after finishing that work he returned to Madison, where he 
remained for a month. Again he returned to Indianapolis and worked on the Bates House, 



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the Blind Asylum and Lhti old Muhouic Hall. From tliLre he went to Madison again, but find- 
ing no work there he went to Cincinnati, where he had employment for six weeks. About 
that time his old employer, James Muerson, of Indianapolis, came to Cincinnati and jne- 
vailed upon him to return to Indianapolis. He worked for Mr. Muerson until 1800, after 
which he bought him out and formed a partnership with his brother, Frank Ittenbach, and 
J. C. Schmid, the firm being known as Schmid, Ittenbach & Co., cut stone contractors, with 
stone yard on South Delaware Street. After a two years' business of sawing stone by hand, 
and, owing to increase of business, they moved their yard to the corner of Pennsylvania 
Street and Madison Avenue in 1862, where they put in horse power for sawing stone. The 
following year they bought their engine, and after using it three years with success and 
increase of Ijusiness, and with the idea of still further increasing their splendid business, they 
bought the present location in ISOC) and put up a new six-gang mill, and engine, boilers, 
rubbing bed, derrick and railroad switch. After a successful business of seventeen years 
this tirm dissolved partnership, Mr. J. C. Schmid retiring, and Gerhard and Frank Itten- 
liach assuming control. They continued together under the name of G. Ittenbach & Co. 
until 1880, when the brother, Frank, died. After that Gerhard Ittenbach assumed sole con- 
trol and carried on the business under the same name, G. Ittenbach & Co. Since then, 
from time to time, he has added the latest and most improved stone working machinery, 
until to daj' it is the most complete stone yard in the State. Not only is it known in Indi- 
ana l)ut all through the United States, and Mr. Ittenbach may well feel proud of a business 
that has been the result of much hard work on his part. Satistied that he had done his 
share of toiling and labor, he retired from this gigantic business enterprise in 1S93, his 
three sans, John, Frank and Gerhard, carrying on the business under the same title. Ow- 
ing to his ill health of late years he has traveled a great deal through the United States and 
Europe. Mr. Ittenbach is a man of sterling integrity and solid social qualities, a devoted 
husljand and a kind father, and a citizen who enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know 
him. He has put up nearly all the stone work in the city of Indianapolis, notably Fletcher's 
Bank, Vance Block, Martindale Block, Clifford's Block, Eastman, Schleicher & Lee Block, 
Commercial Club Building, the Public Lilirary, the new jail, the Ingall's Block, Roberts 
Park Church, the Methodist Episco]ial Church, and numerous other churches in other parts 
of the city, as well as St. Mary's Church near Terre Haute, Ind. He has also erected some 
elegant private residences, including Judge E. B. Martindale's, Harvey Bates', John W. 
Schmidt's two buildings in Indianapolis, besides the First National Bank and De Pauw 
University at Greencastle, Ind., as well as the First National Bank and jail at Connorsville, 
and the Wolf & Wilson Bank Building at Marion, Ind. In his political principles Mr. Itten- 
l)ach is a Democrat, but never souglit office. Once when nominated for councilman he 
positively declined. He holds membership in the Roman Catholic Church, and takes a deep 
interest in its work. He was married in Indianapolis in 1853 to Miss Frances Schumacher, 
a native of Germany, where her father, Michael Schumacher, was also born. The latter 
[)assed his entire life in his native country, but the daughter, Frances, came to America 
about five years after our subject, whom she had known there. To this marriage were born 
six children, as follows: Mary, wife of Jacob Dux, of Indianapolis; Josephine, wife of 
George Wilt, who is now (1893) township assessor; Frank, Gerhard L., John, and Frances, 
who is the wife of Joseph Bauer, who is deputy sheriff of Indianapolis. All the children 
are married, the sons as follows: Frank married Miss Bertha Monninger, Gerhard married 
Miss Lena Rickenbach, and John married Miss Mary Siersdorfei-. The father of these chil- 
dren has twenty grandchildren. His father, Gotfried Ittenbach, spent his entire life in the 
old country. He was a soldier in the French War, and died in 1841. The maiden name of 
our subject's mother was Mary Fleichsman. They were the parents of six children, live of 
whom grew to mature years, but only two survive at the present time, Gertrude, wife of 
Jacob Nickoli, and our subject, who was the youngest of the children. The mother died in 
1858. 

James Hyland, contractor with premises at 882 North Mississippi Street, was born in 
Ireland December 12, 1834, and there received a common-school education. He also par- 
tially learned the mason trade. In 1850 he came to the United States and located in New 
York city where he learned the details of his trade. On November 17, 1853, he went to 



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Aiuherstliiiig, Cnnaila, to cut stoue for the S;inlt St.e. M.irie Caual Cotupany, and afior a short 
staj- there he went to Marblelieail, Ohio, to work for the same company. In April, l.sr)4, he 
left there for Chica<i;o, where he worked at bricklaying for some time, and then went to St. 
Louis, thence to New Orleans, from there to Vicksburg, then to Jackson, Miss., then Mem- 
phis, Tenu., and from there to Louisville, Ky., where he worked until July, 1855. After 
that lie went to Nazareth. Nelson County, Ky., where he l)uilt an addition to the academy 
under the superintendence of William Keely, architect. In Feln-uary. 1850, he came to 
Indianapolis and began working with his brother Michael. Business lieing dull he went to 
work for Robert Taylor, George Durham, and then for Robert Tarkington. In 1857 he built 
the Protestant Episcopal Church in partner.ship with his brother, and in 1859 he worked as 
foreman for Contractor Costigau during the building of the United States postolHce. In 
18()() he and his brother worked on a residence for Henry Probases at Clifton (a suburb of 
Cincinnati), also built the pastor's residence and a sister's school at St. Vincents, Shelby 
Count)', Ind., in 1861, and since then he has built St. John's Church and school-house, St. 
Patrick's Church and brother's Residence, St. Mary's School-house, Academy of Music, Sec- 
ond Ward School-house, First Baptist Church, Second Presbyterian Church, Meridian, 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, church at Franklin, Ind., church at Greenwood. 
Ind., church at St. Vincent, Ind., and church at Washington, Ind. He also built the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Cleveland Block, Kiugaii iS; Company Packing House, St. Charles Block, 
the Ryan Block, etc. Mr. Hyland's two sons are associated with him in business. He is a 
member of the Builders' Exchange. In religion he is a Catholic. 

Jonathan Gray. A prominent brick contractor of Indianapolis, whose place of business 
is at 123 Hill Avenue, is Jonathan Gra^-, who owes his nativity to Washington County, Ind., 
where he was born October 5, 1833. His father, Columlius Gray, was a native of the State 
of New York, born in New York city, and in after years became a pilot on the Hudson, Ohio 
and Mississippi Rivers. Mauj' years ago he located in the State of Indiana, his son Chaun- 
cey l)eing the first white child born in Madison, now over seventy years ago. Coliimbus 
(iray. with his father, was in numerous lights with the Indians in Indiana and they had 
many narrow escapes from being killed. Hosea Gray, the grandfather, was a native of the 
State of Vermont. Columbus Gray died when a middle-aged man. He was married in 
Indiana to Lavina Hosey, a native of the Green Mountain State, and in the faith of the 
Baptist Church they reared their nine children, the father bringing up his son to believe in 
the principles of the Whig party al.so. Jonathan Gray ol)tained a good eilucation in a 
Catholic school of Cincinnati, Ohio, attending St. John's school until he was twelve years of 
age, during which time he l)ecame cjuife proficient in the German language. In 185'2 he 
came to Indianapolis with his mother and began learning the brick mason's trade with the 
well known Christopher Wysong, with whom he served an apprenticeship of three years, 
after which he began working as a journeyman but at the time of his enlistment in the Union 
army in August, 1862, he was in the employ of Springsteen & Theodore. He became a mem- 
ber of Company E, Seventieth Indiana Infantry (Gen. Harrison's Regiment) and remained in 
the service for fifteen months, being a participant in a number of engagements. Upon his 
return to Indianapolis he was a member of the police force for about eighteen months, after 
which he commenced contracting on his own account and has since giveii his attention to 
this business. He has erected the National Hotel, the business house of C. Vonegnt, the 
Denuison Hotel, the Bates House and numerous other buildings of importance throughout 
the city. To him belongs the honor of having laid the first pressed lii'ick in the State. He 
has been remarkably successful in his business and during the long term of years that he has 
devotinl to brick contracting he has been associated witli the folk)wing gentlemen: Sam 
Wallace, eleven years, Isaac Lyons, William Amos and Al. Wallace, but is now associated in 
Imsiuess with his four sons, all of whom are practical and experienced brick-layers. Theii' 
mother was Rebecca Baker of Martinsville. Mr. Gray has always been interested in the 
success of the Rejmlilican party and socially is a member of the Red Men and the G A. R. 
He has been married thirty years to his second wife whose maiden name was Sarah E. 
Johnston and they have seven living children, six sous and one daughter, and he has one sou 
by his tirst wife, all of this city. 



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Dr. Alembert Winthkop JJuavton, of Iu(liana.)olih, lu.l., was born in Avon N Y 
March 3, 1848. a sou of Elijah and Helen P. Bravton, also of the State of New York at 
present residents of Chicago. The family is of Scotch descent, and like all those in whose 
veins course that blood, possesses fine order of intellect and is of a religious nature. During 
his early life Dr. Brayton's father was a lumberman in the Lake George region and later 
was engaged in milling in Pike, Wyoming County. N. Y. His wife. Helen Parker, was of 
Jinglish descent and a native of Vermont. The early schooling of the subject of this sketch 
was accjuired at his mother's knee, and he does not remember when he could not read In 
order that lie and lus brothers might have l)etter educational advantages and be brought up 
to a life of usefulness, rather than the enforced idleness which so often characterizes village 
life, the father removed westward and settled on a farm on the prairies of Kankakee County 
11., about fifty miles south of Chicago, where he put his boys to work following the furrow' 
planting "sod corn" and harrowing in spring grain. These years were useful and hapi.v 
ones, and lessons of morality and industry were learned which ever afterward remained with 
them At odd times they attended the district school in the vicinity of their prairie home 
and this, with the sunday school books, which thev obtained at the Manteuo Methodist 
Church and such literary works as the farmers of the vicinity had in their possession, con- 
stituted the educational opportunities and material. Horace Greelev's Weekly Tribune the 
Neir 1 ork Christian Advocate and Journal, the Ladies' Repository and the Atlantic 
Monthly also found a place in their home. In 1863 the family moved to Blue Island, a few 
miles south of Chicago, and this growing city was thereafter a considerable factor 'in the 
experience and education of its members. After attending the Blue Island HiHi School for 
three years. Dr. Brayton and his brothers entered the Cook County Normal School located 
at Englewood, 111., and so came under the daily instruction of thatmo.st fascinating and suc- 
cessful educator. President Daniel S. W.-ntworth, of Chicago. From this school Dr Brayton 
graduated in 18/9, and immediately after became principal of the Glencoe schools Cook 
County, but the following year was elected professor of natural science in the Normal 
School. However, he decided to first take a course in Cornell University, Ithaca, N Y but 
owing to the great Chicago lire, he left the university at the completion of the sophomore 
year, and took uj) the work of biological teaching in the Normal School. In January 1877 
being earnestly solicited by David S. Jordan, now president of Leland Stanford University' 
but then professor of natural sciences in Butler University and a clafi-mute of the Doctor's 
in Cornell University, Dr. Brayton moved with his family to Indianapolis, and at once 
interested himself in zoological researches with Prof. JoVdan. He there completed his 
university course, taking the degree of bachelor of science at Butler University, the de<^ree 
of master of science being afterward conferred upon him by the State University at Blo^om 
ington, Ind., and by Purdue University at Lafayette, Ind., on account of the meritorious 
work lie had accomplished in zoology. In company with Prof. Jordan and Charles Gilbert 
and some college students he, in 1877, visited the southern Alleghany Mountain recrion in 
the interests of ichthyological science. Many rivers and streams of the South were seined the 
result being that some twenty new specimens of lish were discovered and were described' and 
published by Prof.Jordan and Dr. Brayton in Bulletin No. 12 of the United States National 
Museum. The following summer was also spent in these researches in the Alleo-hanies at 
Beaufort, N. C. an.l the Smithsonian Institution. In 1.S79 Dr. Brayton contributed a list with 
scientific and literary notes upon the "Birds of Indiana," which was published in the annual 
report of that year of the Indiana Horticultural Society. In 1882 the Doctor published a 
"Report on the Mammals of Ohio," which occupied 175 pages of Volume IV of the Geoloo-ical 
Survey of that State. Dr. Brayton began his medical studies in Chicago, resumed them in 
Indianapolis, and in 18/9 took the degree of doctor of medicine from the Medical College 
of Indiana. The following autumn he was elected professor of chemistry, toxicolocry and 
medical jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis "giving 
two full cour.ses of eighty hours each term, and doing considerable expert work in criminal 
toxicology and allied cases in medical jurisprudence. In the fall of 1881 he was elected to 
the same position in the Medical College of Indiana. After four years of exactincr work in 
chemistry he was elected to the chair of physiology in the same institution, and two years 
later to the chair of pathology, clinical medicine and dermatology, which he still holds" He 



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has beeu on the consiiltiug, clinical and teaching staff of tlie Iixliauapolis City Hospital and 
Dispensary since commencing the practice of medicine, and has devoted himself particularly 
to diseases of the skin. The result has beeu that in these charities skin diseases have 
received the attention of an expert. Some extremely unusual cases have have been met with 
iu his dermatological practice and have received widespread attention by the medical journals 
of the country. Dr. Braytou has had a large consultation business in t^iis department of 
medicine, to which he has devoted much thorough work and painstaking investigation. He 
has been a faithful attendant of the Marion County Medical Society, to which he has con- 
tributed numerous papers and discussions, and of which he has been both president and 
secretary. He also Ijelongs to the Indiana State Medical Society, the proceedings and 
transactions of which he has edited for the past four years. Since the establishment of the 
Iiiilhuia Medical .JdiiriKil, September, 1892, Dr. Brayton has been almost continuously a 
member of its editorial .statt', and when the journal came into possession of a stock company, 
in April, IS9'2, Dr. Braytou was unanimously elected its editor-in-chief, a |)osition he still 
holds, and for which he is admirably adapted. Under his management the journal has 
greatl}' increased its range and usefulness, and has become the recognized organ of the 
medical profession in Indiana, and now is one of the leading State journals of the West. 
Dr. Brayton was on the editorial staff of the Indianapolis Daily Journal for six years, his 
writings being limited to medical, educational and scientific sul)jects. He has always taken 
a great interest in the scientific education of young men. and has urged them to take a full 
collegiate course. He has been a member of the Gentlemen's Literary Club and the Con- 
temporary Club of Indianapolis, and of other organizations devoted to the advancement of 
the social and intellectual life of his community. His wife, Jessie M. Dewey, is a native of 
Chicago, a graduate of the Chicago Normal School, an ardent student of ornithology, and is of 
artistic tastes and literary habits. They were married in Chicago June 24, 1874, and have 
seven children, the two elder of w^hom. May and Nelson, are in the junior year of Butler 
University. 

Joseph A. Hink. One of the most successful and progressive enterprises in Indian- 
apolis is that conducted by Mr. Joseph A. Rink, dealer in cloaks, furs, etc., and who is one 
of the thorough-going business men of the city. He is. a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind., 
born April 15, 1858, and the son of Michael and Ruffina (Spades) Rink. Our subject was 
reared in his native town until twelve years of age. and while yet a boj* laid the foundation 
for his subsequent prosperoiis career, having the agency and route for sale of all news- 
papers in that place. When he had reached the above mentioned age, the family removed 
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where young Rink received a limited education in the Catholic schools. 
In 1874 he came to Indianapolis with his parents, and shortly afterward entered the employ 
of M. H. Spades, retail dry goods merchant, in the lowest position of the store. He con- 
tinued in the emjiloy of Mr. Spades until 18SS, and during that time was promoted to the 
highest position, being manager and buyer. This establishment was known as the Boston 
Store and was the largest retail enterprise in the city at that time. By economy and care- 
ful management Mr. Rink had accumulated some means, and in 1888 he embarked in busi- 
ness for himself on a small scale, his cash capital being $1,000. His stock of cloaks was 
in au up stairs room, 20x40 feet, and he was the originator of the exclusively cloak 
house in the west. He met with unusual success in his venture and prospered from the 
start. Although he has been but five years in the business he has one of the finest estab- 
lishments in the country, carrying a .stock of goods valued at from §40,000 to $50,000. He 
deals exclusively in cloaks and furs in his salesroom which is 50x150 feet, on the ground 
floor, and fitted up in modern styl<> during the past year at a cost of $15.00(1. and considered 
one of the finest stores of its size in the United States. In addition to this Mr. Rink estab- 
lished a dry goods store in 1891, as Rink & Co., M. H. Spades being his partner. The 
latter retired in 1892, and Mr. Rink has since carried on the business and carries a stock of 
everything to be found in a first-class dry goods store. He carries goods valued at from 
$15,000 to $18,000, and the store is known as the Bee Hive. In addition to these vast 
enterprises Mr. Rink manufactures all seal and fine fur garments, working summer and 
winter in this branch, there not being another manufacturing concern of this kind in Indian- 
apolis, The cloak room and manufacturing department give employment to forty five hands, 



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being now in its infancy, l)ut next yeai' tlinip will l)p 100 hands einpl()ye<l, anil eventually 
several hundred. Mr. Kink also owns valuable real estate in Indianapolis, the Kosevelt 
House belonging to him. It is a four story brick situated on Ohio Street, in the central 
part of the city, and is very valuable. He also owns considerable handsome residence prop- 
erty in North Meridian and some in this city. The garments manufactured by Mr. Rink 
have no superior in the American market for quality of materials, fashionable elegance and 
finish, and are equal in every respect to those imported from the most noted European 
houses. Mr. Rink is a keen, intelligent lousiness man, thoroughly conversant with all the 
requirements of his various enterprises, and eminently popular in meeting all its demands. 
On September 2U, 1891, our subject was married to Miss Carrie Pfau. daughter of the 
wholesale liquor mercliant, George Pfau. Mr. and Mrs. Rink are the parents of one child, 
Loretta, who was born November 2, 1892. They are members of the Catholic Church, and 
in politics Mr. Rink is a Democrat. 

George H. Roberts. The practice of veterinary surgery is even more intricate than 
that of medicine as applied to the human family, demanding in addition to a perfect knowl- 
edge of the anatomy of the horse and a thorough practical knowledge of drugs and medi- 
cines, also an intimate knowledge of equine habits under varying conditions, coupled with a 
quick, intuitive perception to grasp the seat and nature of the disease — since the patient can 
never tell their symptoms. The possession of these qualifications and endowments in a high 
state of development, satisfactorily accounts for the success of George H. Roberts, the well 
known veterinary surgeon of Indianapolis. He is a native of New York, born in Alabama, 
Genesee County, November 1, 1864, and is a son of Horace and Mary (Easton) Roberts, the 
former a native of York State, and the latter of England. At the present time the father is 
a prosperous farmer of his native State, and has filled many res|5onsible positions in his 
county. Our subject was but six months old when his parents removed from Genesee 
County, N. Y. , to Orleans County, that State, and he there became familiar with the ardu 
ous duties of the farm, and received his early education in the district schools. When four- 
teen years of age he entered the Genesee Wesleyau Seminary at Lima, N. Y. , and there com- 
pleted his literary education. AVhen seventeen years of age he began the study of meilicine, 
and when twenty he entered the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, from which 
institution he graduated March 14, 1888. He established himself at Akron, N. Y., in 1887, 
having previously graduated from the school of Comparative Medicine at New York, and at 
that time he also took a full laboratory course at Bellevue Hospital. Until the spring of 
1890 he carried on a successful business in Akron. N. Y., and then moved to Indianapolis, 
where he ranks among the foremost veterinary surgeons of the city. Socially he is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. OF., and politically he is a Republican. He has the best and most com- 
plete facilities for the treatment of sick and lame animals, and his building, 60xl('0 feet, will 
accomodate thirty horses. In connection with the veterinary business the Doctor has a 
livery and boarding stable. He also pays special attention to the treatment of dogs, and is 
veterinarian of the Illindio Kennel CIulj. The infirmarv is located at 276 East AVashington 
Street. 

Robert Zener. This gentleman, who alone composes the firm of Robert Zener & Co. 
of this city, came from Chicago to Indianapolis in September, 1885. He is a native of this 
State, however, and was born in Newport, Vermillion County, April 23, 1841, his parents 
being among the earliest settlers of that county. His father was possessed of valuable 
estates in and al)out Newport which was the county seat. As was the custom in those days 
the subject of this sketch, with his brothers, was required at an early age to assist in the 
operation of his father's mills and the farm of several hundred acres which adjoined the 
town, relying mainly on the winter terms of the public schools for his education. After 
reaching his majority ]\Ir. Zener began the study of medicine in the oflfice of Dr. Clark 
Leavitt, then of Newport and now living in Danville, 111. Finishing his course of studies at 
the University of Michigan he began the practice of medicine at Clinton, Vermillion County 
in March, 1865, about one month before the close of the Civil War. His success was far 
l)eyond his expectations but he remained in Clinton until October of that year only when in 
company with his two elder brothers he emigrated to western Missouri, locating at Clinton, 
the county seat of Henry County. The brothers mentioned had passed through this portion 



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of Missouri with Geii. Curtis' divisiou of the Western army iu 18()1 anil beiiij^ pleased with 
the appearance of the country resolved to make it their home after the war was over, Mr. 
Zeaer remained in Missouri, latterly at Sedalia, for eleven years then, in 187*), he removed 
with his family to Bloomingtou, 111, and thence to Chicago. Prior to leaving Missouri ho 
had connected himself with the Springtield Fire and ISIarine Insurance Company of ]\Iassa- 
chusetts, as their special agent and adjuster, which position he held until January ], 1887, 
when he resigned. In the year 1885, having taken charge of his company's interests in 
Indiana and Ohio he removed to Indianapolis and a year later, in July, 1886, he purchased 
the local agency of ('leaveland & Brown of this city, but did not sever his connection with 
his comj)aiiy until six months later. The agency which he purchased had on its books at the 
time about .^^'iT.OOO in premiums. Under Mr. Zener's management the business increased 
ra{)idly and in 1892, over .?r20,000 in premiums was written. The building up of this 
immense business in so short a time was made possil)le only l)y Mr. Zener's thoiough 
understanding of the science of underwriting and his habit of close attention to minutest 
details. In his profession Mr. Zener has taken high rank and his patrons have learned to 
have the utmost confidence in his integrity, and in his ability to take care of their interests. 
Five years ago the general agency for Indiana and Kentucky of the Employers Liability 
Assurance Corporation (limited) of Loudon, England, was placed in Mr. Zener's oilice with- 
out solicitation and during the year of 1892 he wrote in [)remiunis for that corporatinn alone 
over S4l),0(l(). This company was the tirst to introduce into this country what is known as 
employers liability insurance which insures emploj'ers of labor against liability for accidents 
to their employes. This form of insurance has become very popular and as Mr. Zener set- 
tles and pays all claims from his office he has been enabled to build up for the coiporation a 
large business in his field. To conduct such a business requires not only system liut a 
superior grade of help to take charge of the different departments. In November, 18()'.l, Mr. 
Zener was married at Clinton, Mo. to Miss Catharine F. Dodge, then of Clinton, but for- 
merly of Brooklyn, N. Y. There are three children and the family home at 3U) College 
Avenue is one of the most desirable on that street of beautiful residences. The eldest son, 
Clarence M. Zener, graduated from the grammar school in Chicago and from the high school 
in this city, in both cases at the bead of his classes, and in June of this year received his 
diploma from Wabash College in this State. He is now in his father's office and will no 
doubt make his mark in the business. Mr. Zener, while in love with and devoted to his 
business, has not forgotten that one of the results nought after is the " laying up of something 
for a rainy day." In addition to his Indianapolis property he has large interests iu the 
State of Kansas which require all the time of his youngest brother to look after for him. 

John H.^rdacre. In a work which has for its object a comprehensive review of the 
leading industries of Indianapolis, it is highly important that special attention should be 
given to those great artisans whose skill and labor have l)een utilized in the construction of 
her buildings aiul public institutions. Foremost among this number is John Hardacre, 
who is one of the prominent builders and contractors of the city. Like many of the rep- 
resentative citizens of Marion County, Ind , Mr. Hardacre is a native of the Buckeye 
State, born in Dayton, Montgomery County, in 1834. His father, Joseph Hardacre, was a 
native of West Virginia, and remained in that State until a young man. He then went to 
Ohio, and located in Dayton, where he was engaged as a carriage manufacturer for some 
time. Later, he moved to Miami County, that State, and there passed the closing scenes of 
his life. Our subject received a good practical education in the common schools of Miami 
County, and subsequently learned the trade of carriage aiul wagon making from his father. 
The latter gave him his time after nineteen years of age, and young Hardacre commenced 
learning the carpenter's trade, serving an apprenticeship at the same. From there he went 
to Greenfield, Hancock County, Ind., and worked at his trade there until 1S71, when he 
came to this city as journeyman carpenter. One year latei' he was engaged in contracting 
in partnership with Joseph Taylor, with whom he continued one year, and since that time 
he has been contracting alone. In August, 18<)2, he enlisted in Company B, Seventy-ninth 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the battle of Missionary Ridge, when he was 
severely wounded by a bursting shell, in the head and back. After this he was transferred 
to the Invalid Corps. Previous to this he was wounded at Chiekamauga, but was never 



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taken prisonfir. He was discharged in 1865, lacking jnst thirteen (lays of lieiiig three 
years from the time be enlisted. He was in many prominent engagements and skirmishes, 
and was a brave and loyal soldier. In politics he has ever advocated the cause of the 
Republican party, and is deeply interested in its welfare. He is a member of the Murphy 
Lodge and a member of the Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1857 he was 
united in marriage to Miss Lovina Rocky, who also holds membership .in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

Sylvester S. Gorby. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is State geologist 
of Indiana, and is unquestionably one of the ablest and best posted men on that subject in 
the State. He came originally from the Buckeye State, which has contributed so much of 
population and intelligence to his adopted State: and from a parentage marked by strength 
of character and by a certain hospitality and largeness of nature. Born in Morgan County 
(now Xoble County), February 5, 1S4S, he is the son of Thomas Grorby, who was a Virginian 
by birth. The elder Gorby left his native State after reaching mature years, became a 
prominent lawyer, and died in Kentucky in 1879. He was colonel of a Missouri regiment in 
the Confederate army during the Civil War but was captured and held a prisoner for two 
years. He married Miss Mary E. Deau, a native also of the Old Dominion and our subject 
is the only surviving child of two children born to them. She was his second wife and died 
in 1854. Mr. Gorby was of Scotch-English descent and his ancestors came to this country 
and settled tirst in New Jersey, but later in Virginia. While a resident of Iowa he was 
elected circuit judge in 1856, and in 18'50 was elected judge in Missouri, but served only a 
few months. When three years of age he accompanied his parents to Iowa, and 
remained there until 1858, when they removed to Knox County, Mo. There he was edu- 
cated by a private tutor, and titled for the State University at Columbia, Mo., from which he 
graduated in 1867. After finishing his education he went west in the employ of the Govern- 
ment as civil engineer, locating roads, surveying lands, establishing section lines, etc., in 
Montana. Washington, Idaho and Utah. For years he was located in the West, and then 
returned to his father's home, near Lafayette (now New York^, Ky. , whither the latter had 
moved in 1865. Two or three months after his return home oui' subject located in Orange 
County, Ind., where he taught school and wrote for various papers, contracted, etc., until 
1878. when he located at Lawrenceburg, Ind. There he taught school but at the same time 
edited the Americrin Home Monthly, a magazine at that time published in Cincinnati. He 
wrote •■ Saddle, Camp and Trail or Feu-pictures of the West, "'which was afterward published 
in book form and many thousands sold. Mr. Gorby was connected with this monthly maga- 
zine for two years, or uutil 1876. During his residence in Lawrenceburg he also wrote 
sketches for various eastern journals, and some articles for scientific journals. In April. 
1891, he moved to Franklin, Ind., where he has made his home. He presented to the 
college there his magnificent geological collection, called the " "Gorby Cabinet," and this 
is placed in a large room by itself, being worth man}- thousand dollars. This collection was 
acquired during the last twenty-five years in the United States and Europe. He has 
traveled as an expert in the employ of various mining companies, all over the United States, 
Canada and Mexico. In 1887 Mr. Gorby was appointed by Gov. Gray to fill out the unex- 
pired term caused by the resignation of Maurice Thompson, whose assistant otu- suljject was 
at that time. During the session of the Legislature in 1889, Mr. Gorby was elected director 
of the ■■ Department of Geology and Natural Resources,'" and in 1890 was re-elected to the 
same office by the people for a term of four years. He was also a member of the Indiana 
Board of World' s Fair Managers. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in his 
religious views is a Baptist. 

Charles F. Haktm.ojs. If the old world had not contributed to the population of the 
new Indiana would not have reached its present high state of development. Germany has 
furnished her full quota of vigorous, energetic men, but she has contributed none more 
worthy of mention than Charles F. Hartmann, who is a resident of Marion County and one 
of its most substantial citizens. He was Ijorn December '3), 1825, in the village of Frille, 
in Prussia, Minden. on the Weser River, one of the largest navigable rivers in Germanj^, 
and was the son of Charles and Louisa (Faulkaning) Hartmann, both natives of the old 
country. The father was a farmer and considered a wealthy one, for he owned 105 acres of 



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land. The grandfather, Johauuas Conrad, was also a lineal descendant of estates of the 
family of Hartmann. The father of our subject was an only son and had but one sister, 
Christina, who married Frederick Faulkaning. She and her husband settled in Prussia, 
Minden, and became the owners of 128 acres on the river. On this land to-diiy stands the 
railroad depot of the place. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkaning became the parents of two children; 
one son inherited the old place, but died after becoming heir to his jiroperty. The other 
son, Charles Faulkaning, now resides near Five Points, on (he Michigan road, in Warren 
Township, this county. The mother of our subject was tl](> daughter of Fiederick Faulka- 
ning, who was a member of an old, aristocratic and wealthy family of the (ierman empire. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann began farming in the old country and Mr. Hart- 
mann became one of the wealthiest men in his section. He was a soldier in Bonaparte's 
army, and although their was a law in the old country that a widow can have one son exempt 
from the army, he was obliged to go, and in going (listinguished himself. This was during 
the reign of William III. To his marriage were born six children, two of whom died 
in childhood. Christina, the first born, married Herman Fahring. by whom she had nine 
children. Her death occurred in her native country in 1887. Three of her children are in 
America and two in Germany. The remainder are deceased. The remainder of the chihiren 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann are deceased, except our subject and Louisa, who married 
John Fishback and resides in Terre Haute, Tnd. The mother of these children died in the 
old country in 1836. She was a worthy and consistent member of the Lutheran Evangelical 
Church and her husband held membership in the same. After his wife's death Mr. Hart- 
mann sold his possessions, came to America, and subsequently married Miss Louisa Stein- 
muer, also a native of Prussia, who bore him three children: Antony, Henry and Mary. 
The last two are deceased and Antony resides in Warren Township, this connty, where he 
is engaged as a carpenter. The subject of this sketch attended school in Germany until 
twelve years of age, having six years of schooling and only two studies — Latin and German. 
After coming to America he received only four months schooling and his first teacher was 
Elias N. Shimer. He remained at home with his father until the latter' s death and assisted 
in clearing the farm of eighty acres, then an unbroken wilderness, except a few acres, upon 
which stood a log cabin. This was the only improvement and the father paid $'2,200 for 
the farm, including four head of horses, four head of cattle, eight hogs and the household 
furniture. The money was paid in gold. At that time deer, bear and wolves were plenti 
ful and Indians, although numerous, were friendly. Our subject delighted in hunting and 
often killed from fifteen to twenty squirrels an hour. When fourteen years of age young 
Hartmann commenced drawing grain to Cincinnati and other large cities, also heavy grocer- 
ies for the merchants, receiving $1 per hundred pounds. He made a trip once a week. 
On November 25, 1848, he married Miss Katrina Henrietta Ruschhaupt, who was born in 
Germany March 25, 1829. Her parents came from Burgholtzhauser. Germany, and first 
settled in Marion County, Ind., but later settled in Hancock County, where they passed the 
remainder of their days. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann, all of whom 
grew to manhood and womanhood: Katrina Marie, born September 19, 1849; Louisa 
Charlotte, born November 2, 1851; William C born November 18. 1853; August William, 
born November 29, 1855, and Charles F. , born November 15, 1858. Katrina Marie married 
Frederick Bremer and now resides on the Michigan road; Charlotte died May 19, 1885; 
Charles F., died July 20, 1884 (he was educated and had started studying law); William C. 
married Miss Frances Hubert, an amiable joung lady, who was born and reared in Warren 
Township, this county (they have had two children; one died in infancy; the other child, 
Charles F., was named after his Grandfather Hartmann); August E. married Miss Alice 
Thompson and has one child, Clara, a bright little girl of seven years (the mother of this 
child died in August, 1892); Mrs. Hartmann, wife of our subject, died November 25, 1858, 
leaving an infant son, ten days old. This son grew to mature years and died of lung dis- 
ease at the age of twenty-seven. Mr. Hartmann's second marriage was with Mrs. Louise 
Katherine Ruschhaupt, a widowed sister of his first wife, and their nuptials were celebrated 
June 7, 1860. One son has been born to this union, Albert E., whose birth occurred 
November 10, 1865. He died at the age of three months and seven days. Mrs. Hartmann 
had four children by her former marriage: Mary, Louise, Eda and William. Mary mar- 



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ried a Mr. Hunter aud died leaving an infant. Mrs. Hartmann has been an invalid for 
thirty-two yfars. She is quite accomplished and a fine singer. Mr. Hartmann cleared up a 
farm of 100 acres and gave his son William forty acres. He is a Democrat of the solid 
kind, is pul)lic spirited aud progressive and although he has been offered many local posi- 
tious he has seen fit to refuse all. Socially he is an Odd Fellow, a charter member of Ger- 
mania Lodge, No. Till, of Indianapolis. He has always been in good standing and would 
never receive benefit. He is also a member of Germania Encampment and a member of 
the Ziou Church, as are all his children. He has erected his own buildings aud was his 
own architect, being a natural mechanic. His barn cost 14,000 and he has ¥1,500 bushels 
of grain in it. For many years he acted as interpreter for the courts, also acted as guide in 
locating land for settlers when he came in after his father's death. In 1867 he was the 
originator of the Germania Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Hartmann is one of those 
strictly honorable and upright German citizens for which Marion County has become so 
well known, aud possesses all the characteristics for which those of his nationality have 
become well kuown — unbounded energy, sterling honesty and much public spirit. 

Conrad B.^ker was born in Franklin County, Penn., February 12, 1817. He was edu- 
cated at Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, and afterward studied law in the office of 
Stevens & Smyser, of that city, his preceptors being the late Thaddeus Stevens and Judge 
Daniel M. Smyser. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1839, at Gettysburg, and 
practiced law at that place for two years. He emigrated west, and settled at Evansville in 
1S41, and resided there until, having been elected lieutenant-governor, the office of governor 
devolved upon him by the election of Gov. Morton to the United States Senate in Janu- 
ary, 1867, since which time he resided at Indianapolis. In 1845 he was elected to represent 
Vanderburg County in the general assembly, and served one term. In 1852 he was elected 
judge of the court of common pleas for the district comprising the countries of "Warrick and 
Vanderburg, and served about eighteen months, when he resigned. In 1856 he was nomi- 
nated for lieutenant-governor by the Republican party, without his knowledge and without 
having sought the nomination, on the ticket with Oliver P. Morton as a candidate for gov- 
ernor, and they were defeated. In 1861 Mr. Baker was commissioned colonel of the First 
Cavalry, Twenty-eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and served as such for over three 
j'ears. From August, 1861, to April, 1863, he commanded either his own regiment or a 
brigade in the Held in Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi. In April, 1863, an order from 
the secretary of war reached him by telegraph at Helena, Ark., requiring him to pro- 
ceed forthwith to Indianapolis, Ind., and report to the provost-marshal-general. He obeyed 
the instructions, and, on his arrival at Indiana]iolis, he received an order detailing him to act 
as assistant-provost marshal-general for the State of Indiana, and as such to organize the 
provost-marshal general's bureau in Indiana. He performed the duties of provost-marshal- 
general, superintendent of volunteer reciuiting. and chief mustering oificer until August, ' 
1864, when, his term of military service having expired, he was relieved at his own request, 
and a few weeks afterward was mustered out of service with his regiment. The Republican 
convention which met in 1864 nominated Gov. Morton for re-election, and presented 
Gen. Nathan Kimball, who was in the field for the office of lieutenant-governor. Gen. Kim- 
ball declined the nomination, and thereupon the Republican State committee, without Mr. 
Baker being a candidate or applicant for the po.'ition, unanimously tendered him the nomi- 
nation for lieutenant-governor. In 1865 Gov. Morton convened the general assembly in 
special session, and immediately after the delivery of his message started for Europe in quest 
of health, leaving the lieutenant-governor in charge of the administration of the executive 
department of the State. Gov. Morton was absent for five months, during which time the 
duties of the executive olfice were performed by LieutGov. Baker. In February, 
1867, Gov. Morton was elected to the Senate of the United States, and the duties of gover- 
nor again devolved upon Gov. Baker. He was unanimously nominated by the Republican 
convention of 1868 for governor and was elected over the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks by a 
majority of 961 votes. He retired from the executive chair in 1873 and at once resumed the 
practice of law, becoming a member of the firm of Baker, Hord & Hendricks, of which firm 
he was a member at the time of his death. In the memorial adopted liy his associates of tlie 
Indiana bar, the character of Gov. Baker is discussed in the following language: ''The 



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death of Gov. Baker deprives Indiana of one of its worthiest and most eminent citizens On 
.ts dead-roll of sold.ers and civilians there is not any name that occupies a more honorable or 
consp.cnous place han h,s. Tts history would l,e ^rosslv incomple e witho^ aiTv mention 
of h,s life and prabl.c services. His name is written in th^ records^,f its courts a " aTwver 
o it e.V" ^'^ ; " T *'" J^"".'"'' °f '^^ Legislature: it mav be found among tl e a chive 
f .ts execune department, and ,t has an important place in its military annals Wherever 

he hi. I °°' d'shonorable act ; whose owner always and everywhere wore upon hif teast 
polite' disUrtion^rrr^ The liercelight which beats upon every 'candidate for 

a IfLn? ' >s<- osed no spot upon his character: .slander was disarmed by his purity 

bat toZ T "'V"^"' ^""^'^ ^^^'•■'""'■•^- "'*^^«'"'-^ "•'"""^''^ >» benevolent falsilication' 

no rai ed'inTl ; c """ '" r' "°f;'- '"' ''''''' °' ''''^- ^l^e most sensitive conscience is 
It vonfd be i . ■,ir'r"'°''"'r.°^ '"; "'!""' "■" ^'•^' '^^ ^«'^«««I'^ent of any shortcomings. 
Jt won d ] e imposs lie to overrate him. for the highest eulogv is the simple tnith In every 

m n1?:s,ed"a: thev r ' ""! T'^'"' ''^ "'^ ^'"f^''^'*-^" ""^^ goodness If his nature 7ere 
man.Rsted. as the> were revealed m every lineament of his singularly beni<.nant features 

fa thf Ur;he'ire::?"n *"'r' I-instaking and industriouS, a s'afe and JudiciTs conn or. 
ta.thlul to he interests of his clients, and regardful of his own duties to he court He had 
he implicit contjdence of the couwts. because they knew he would not consciously mfslea 
eZe-r' ^.'■*^"Vr•'"f'^^^■ ^^^ forensic -triumphs were due to Te s ncerhy an 

The b.' of Indianr'"' ^\ ?''1"'- ^"W""^' ^' '"'^^^'g*"'' « "f"'^' «"^1 '^'""«'o- contempt. 

distin " lishilir; r'' .r T^ •""'■" '"■'"'^'"^ '^^•"''^'•^^- •'"* i^ '^^^•^'- ^"'^ one more justlv 
clistiuguished for the depth and accuracy of his professional learning. His brief period o> 

had he c osen r "*^°'''^ '° "omistakable earnest of subsequent distinction as a judge 

Its aS'irs than wbde."" " T' ^°^''"' l^' ""''''' ^""^ ^ ^^'^^^ ^'^ l^^"-' a^^-i^istration of 

nd ele at J. .S f ''"'. '*'. TY^"'- ^e gave to the administration of them a dignity 

and eleNation of character which had its source in himself. In the field and at the head Jf 

i de^'n";of he :^!^''^7'l' ^T'^"^ "T"^'. ""'^ " '''''' ^°^''*"'^^ ^^-^ neve; des:rt'd him 
a Tct o?h s wbilir ' T''- '^ l''^'"- '""^•'•«'i«" -^-f t'lese .,ualities is afforded by 

an act of his wl i e he was provost-marshal general at Indianapolis. An unruly and bellic; 
erent mob of soldiers was threatening with destruction the office of a neJ paper wh ch ^1^^^^^^ 

' osc • ; ive a-1^'- i ^"'"' ^'' -"'•''"'" '''"" """ ^'"'°" ■^^■^tin^^nt ^'as intense and 

Els foliate furvl^ ■"^'•^7^"<-.« "^ ^'^I'alf of « newspaper that had l,ecome the object of its 
pasMonate fu v was simply heroic. His sense of justice could not be subjugated b' v zonular 
clamor and i was broad enough to include those who were regarded by lis assoSa es and 

himTs rcUiz n ZT'r "' ''r°"°^'-^'- J'^^ ^'^*^'"*'^'" ^"-^'^ --"^^ '■- « -tli^ractL ' 
t,V if ti!' T' ^ , '"', ^^'^f^*^"'"""'«J '"fo mere partisanship. In his social and domes- 
The ' honor'w' 7 r ""''1 '" P-f--"-! a-^ P"Wic career had their counterpart 
Ihe honoi. ove, obedience and troops of friends " which, according to the poet 'should 
accompany old age.' have followed him to the edge of the grave, and attest the uniy;rsal and 
heartfelt esteem ,n which he was held. He has left a fragrant memory a id the precious 
legacy of a good example which, through many years that ?re yet unborn, will stiiuu ate and 
encourage the virtuous efforts of those who have known and s.n-vived him. Wha" Anthony 
said of the dead Brutus ,s ap,>licable to Conrad Baker: " His life was ^eiitle: and the ele 
ments so mixed in h.m that Nature might stand up and say to all the ^orld. ' This was a 



Albert B.«er. Among the well-known lawyers of Indianapolis is Albert Baker a man 
o um.uestioned integrity, an.l competent in his profession. To a thorough know ;d.rof 

leading. Skill ul lu the presentation of the most involved or intricate facts, forcible in his 
manner of d.:.l,ng with difficult and entangling subjects, accurate in his perceptions of 

ioni;"n \'"r"° "^ r'"V'^. '^^'' ^" ^'^^'"'^l^ P-i*-- «-'"« f- more promineid piaCi 
tioners of lQlian:ipoIis. He is a native of Evansville, Ind., born November 22, 1851 whei^ 



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he ma.le bis home nutil February, 18f57, attending the public schools of that city. He then 
came with hiB parents to Indianapolis, Ind., and prepared for college at the City Academy, 
2oin<. from that institution in November, 1S6S, to Wabash College, where he graduated m 
1874" Duriucr that period he spent one year in Kansas upon a ranch. Leaving college he 
became a law'student with Baker, Herd & Hendricks, of Indianapolis, and was admitted to 
thebiriu 1S76 and in 1881 entered into partnership with Edward Daniels. Afterward in 
January 1883, his firm was merged into the tirm of Hord, Baker & Hendricks. Mr. Baker 
holds meml)ership in the Presbyterian Church and is an honored, upright and useful citizen. 
He selected his wife in the person of Miss Anna S. Campbell, daughter of Prof. John L. 
Campbell, of Wabash College, CrawfordsviUe, Ind., and their nuptials were celebrated Octo- 
ber 19 I87fi Four interesting children have been born to them: Ellen S., Conrad C, Ger- 
trude J. and Rosemary, the three daughters being still living. Prof. Campbell was the origi- 
nator and secretary of the Centennial celebration. 

Dr Kichakd Frknch Stone. He whose name heads this sketch was born near bharps- 
burcr Bath County, Ky., April 1, 1844, and is of English, Scotch and Irish lineage. His 
mother whose maiden name was Sally Lane, is still living at about the age of eighty 
years and retains to a remarkable degree her intellectual vigor and rare conversational 
powers She was the youngest daughter of Col. Jnmes H. Lane and a sister of the late 
Hon Henrv S Lane, United States senator and first llepublicau governor of Indiana, and 
a man conspicuous in the affairs of his country. On his father's side Dr. Stone is descended 
in the fourth generation from Josiah Stone, a native of England, who m the early part of 
the last centurv came to America as a cabin boy, and was left in Prince William County, Va , 
while the capt'ain of the vessel made another voyage, but the ship was lost at sea and all 
onboard perished, thus Josiah was left alone in the world when a mere lad. He was 
apprenticed to a Mrs. Magaw, who reared him to manhood and bequeathed to him a 
considerable fortune. He married a Miss Coleman, who bore him three sons and four daugh- 
ters iiut this family afterward became scattered, .some continuing their residence ip Vir- 
ginia others moving to Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas, and distinguishing 
themselves in nearly every avocation of life. Valentine Stone, the third son was a soldier 
of the Kevolutiou, was married twice and became the father of live sons and five daughters^ 
His second wife was the daughter of William French, of Virginia, the grandfather of 
Jud^^e Richard French, the famous orator of Kentucky, for whom the subject of this sketch 
was^'named Valentine Stone was noted for his strength, being broad shouldered and 
muscular, and many anecdotes are told of his physical prowess in old Virginia. In 1 i,W 
he removed to Boonsboro, Ky. , and became an associate of Daniel Boone. He acpiired the 
title for '> OOO acres of land lying on Bald Eagle Creek, which is to day perhaps as rich a 
body of I'and as can be found within the borders of Kentucky. His patent was signed 
with the name of Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia. He settled on this land in ITyy, 
when his son Samuel was but two years old. The latter received such education as was to 
be had in his youth, and early became interested in political affairs, being frequently elected 
to office by the Democrat party, serving many terms as representative in the Legislature, 
his first election taking place in 1824. He was also connected with the State Militia for 
about thirty years, and was promoted from an ensign to the rank of brigadier-general. He 
possessed a tine physique, like his progenitor, iiad a line, courteous and soldierly bearing, 
and in his politicarspeeches was able, convincing and impressive. He was a man of gen- 
erous impulses and sympathetic nature, enjoyed a good story, and was, himself, an excellent 
raconteur He was a prominent slave holder, his slaves were well cared for, and he main- 
tained that he had a moral and constitutional right to own them, but he believed that his 
sons would be more likely to acquire habits of industry and self-reliance m an anti-slayery 
State and for that reason he removed to Putnam County, Ind., in 18ol, where he lived 
the retired life of the farmer until the oi)ening of the Civil War. As many of his relatives 
in the South among them Gen. John B. Hood, had enlisted in the cause of secession, he 
was a strong Southern sympathizer and often engaged in heated discussions with his neigh- 
bors of opposite views. Although he was himself too old to engage in active service, thi-ee 
of bis six sons entered the service of the Union army, one being the late Maj. Valentine H. 
Stone of the Fifth United States Artillery, who was twice promoted by the personal recom- 



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iiieuilation of Gen. Grant, for giallant conduct in the field, and who had tlie imnie(1iate 
charLTf of Jefferson Davis wiiile a prisoner of war at Fortress Monroe. He died of yellow 
fever during the epideruic of 18t)7, at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. Anotlier son, Hon. 
H. L. Stone, a prominent hiwyer of Louisville, Ky., served in the Confederate army, and 
was witli Gen. Morj^an on his famous raid. The father died near Bainbridge lud., January 
1 1, 1878, and was buried with Masonic honors, liaviny l)een a member of that order for more 
than tift\' years. Dr. R. French Stone was eight years of age at the time of his parents' 
removal to Indiana, and his early days were spent in attending the common schools and 
Bainbridge Academy and laboring on the farm. He supplemented his education by home 
study and instruction under private teachers, and thus acquired some knowledge of the 
languages and sciences. He selected the "liealing art" as his future calling in life, and in 
order to defray the expenses of a medical education he began teaching school, and although 
the district in which he began his pedagogic- lal)ors was said to be one of the worst and 
most refractory in the county, he met the unruly leaders with their own wea]ions, and was 
socm the perfect master of the situation, although he was at that time but sixteen years of 
age. Four years were devoted to this (lursuit and the study of medicine, under the instruc- 
tion of Dr. J. B. Cross, and in 1S(33 he entered Rush Medical College, and while there 
made several efforts to call upon his brother, who was a Confederate prisoner in Camp 
Douglas, but was unsuccessful, and this news coming to the ears of his brother, the latter 
scaled the prison walls one dark night and made the call on his own accoiint. He disguised 
himself, went to the medical college and made himself known to his brother. They went 
to a hotel, took a meal together, viewed the city throughout the day, and then bade each 
other an affectionate farewell and met no more until the war was over. During the follow- 
ing spring Dr. Stone tendered his services to the United States Government, and after 
being examiniul was appointed a medical cadet in the United States army. In May, 1S(34, 
he was assigned duty at the United States General hospital, at Madison, Ind., and was 
afterward assigned to one of the large military hospitals at Philadelphia, and while there 
attended the University of Penn!9ylvania and received the degree of M. D. during the one- 
hundredth anniversary of the foundation of that institution, at which time he was not quite 
twenty one years of age, being the youngest in a class of 117 graduates. He wa.s later 
apjjoirded acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, and when an appeal came 
from Key West, Fla. , foi' medical aid during the yellow fever epidemic among the Union 
soldiers stationed there, Dr. Stone, though entirely unacclimated, bravely offered his serv- 
ices and faced the pestilence on that panic stricken island. He had a serious attack of that 
malady, but remained there until the epidemic had subsided, after which he was ordered to 
Cedar Keys, near the mouth of Suwanee River, Florida, and was later placed in charge of 
the First and Second Florida (Javalry, being the youngest man in the medical department 
to hold positions of such responsibility. He afterward had charge of the post hospital at 
Monticello, Fla., and remained with the Department of the Gulf until IbJtiti. At his own 
re(|uest he was released from duty, and in 1867 estalilished hinjself at New All)any, Ind., 
but shortly after removed to the village in which his childhood had been passed and tiiere 
spent two years. He then resided in Bainbridge until 1SS0, then came to Indianapolis, 
and u])on the establishment of the (Jentral College of Physicians and Surgeons he was 
made professor of materia niedica, therapeutics and clinical medicine. This chair he held 
until 188(), in which position he won eminent distinction. His didactic lectures were noted 
for their clear, concise and practical character. Many years' experience in the general prac- 
tice of his profession had not only made him familiar with disease in its varied forms, but 
gave him a just conce[)tion of the jiowers of nature, an abiding faith in the resources of 
medical art, and a well-defined knowledge of the u.ses, effects and capabilities of remedies 
suggested for its cure. He was thus enabled to reject as useless that which was speculative 
in therapeutics, as well as to speak with authority of all that was valuable in that dejiart- 
ment of medical science. Having lieen a close and almost constant stmlent of medical 
literature for many years, having also studied disease in the great book of Nature, at the 
bedside in private practice, and in the wards in civil and military hospitals in various parts 
of the United States, from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic seaboard, and from the 
northern lakes to the inter-tropical regions, there was no lack of material to illustrate the 



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subject-matter of his clinical teachiiij^. These circuiustances eual)led him to foim opinions 
of his own, and these opinions he ditl not hesitate to express throuj,'hont liis lectures with 
reference to many controversial points of pathological and therapeutical importance. He 
recognized the fact that to be a skillful physician involves not only a thorough understand- 
ing of diseases, but the application of the right remedies at the right time and in the right 
manner. Therefore the typical features of a given malady, its pathological history and 
phenomena, its diagnosis — general and ditferential, as well as indications for treatment, 
were presented with such accuracy and force that the student saw before him all that was 
distinctive and important in the case, while the principles of treatment were expressed 
before his classes with a clearness and precision that warranted its intelligent management 
in the future. Since lS8'i he has been a member of the consulting and clinical staff of 
the Indianapolis City Hospital and City Dispensary, and Las been for years a member of 
the Medical Board of Examiners of physicians aspiring to positions in these institutions. 
In 18S3 he was appointed visiting physician to the Indiana Institute for the Blind, and held 
that position seven years. In IScSo he was appointed United States examining surgeon of 
the Pension Bureau at Indianapolis, and in ISS'J was re appointed to the same position by 
President Harrison. He is a memlier of the G. A. R., and for several years has been 
surgeon of Maj. Kobert Anderson Post. He was formerly visiting physician to the Marion 
County Asylum, has been medical examiner for several life and accident insurance compa- 
nies, and is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association. March 23, 1893. lie was apiiointid by (lov. 
Claude Matthews a member of his staff, with a commission and rank of colonel, and was 
made surgeon-general of the military forces of Indiana, a position he now holds. He has 
contributed many valiial)le articles to medical literature and is the author of the well known 
reference book, "Elements of Modern Medicine," which work includes the jirinciples of 
pathology and therapeutics, and has met with an extensive sale. He has now in preparation 
a new publication, entitled "Biography of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons," 
which is being puVilished at Indiaiiajiolis and which will without doubt prove a literary ven- 
ture of extraortlinary merit and success. It may be said that the jnofessional career of Dr. 
Stone has been that of an all-round practitioner. He has performed many important surgical 
operations in a skillful manner, and as an obstetrician he has the remarkable record of 
never having lost a mother in all the many hundreds of cases of childbirth that be has 
attended, including nearly every variety of complications and instrumental deliveries. At 
the present time he gives much of his attention to gastrointestinal and rectal diseases and 
consultation juactice. Althongh a Democratic adherent he is not a partisan in any sense of 
the term, and has never aspired to any office, persistently refusing to hold any position not 
ill the line of his chosen profession. November 24, 1869, he married Matilda C. Long, 
daughter of the late Dr. William Long, a noted pioneer physician of Maysville, Iiid., and 
one living child is the result of this union, Donald L. Stone, born October Ifi, 188'), a proiu- 
ising and handsome lad who is now in school. 

Gen. AliEL D. Strek;ht (deceased). The sketch here given is a tribute paid to the 
memory of a man whose uolile and honorable life was an example to all, and althongh marked 
liy hard and iiudeviating labor, demonstrated sterling qualities that characterized his career. 
For many years his name was iii^eparal)ly linked with the progress and development of 
Marion County, Ind., whose annals bear testimony to the integrity of his character and the 
l)rightnes8 of his intellect. He was born in Wheeler, Steuben County. N. Y., June 17, 
1828, and his boyhood and youth were passed upon a farm, where he had before him exam- 
ples of industry and perseverance. Like the average country boy he had the advantages of 
a common-school education and at the age of seventeen he purchased from his father his 
time until twenty one, paying §00 per year for the same. Having a taste for mechanics he 
readily learned the carpenter's trade without instruction, and before attaining his nineteenth 
year he had taken the contract for the erection of a large mill, which he successfully com- 
))leted. At this early period he also owned a saw-mill, acquired by his own labor, and he 
then engaged in the lumber business at Wheeler, N. Y. , where he remained until he moved 
to Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1858, The following year found him a resident of Indianapolis, 
where he became a publisher, continuing this business until the beginning of the Kebelliou. 



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It, was at tbis crisis tliat the patriotisiii, earnestness and indomitable purpose of Gen. Streight 
was l)roiijj;lit into prominent notice and marked him as a man of foresight, possessing all the 
<|iiHlities of a successful leader. Realizing the importance of prompt and energetic meas- 
ures for the preservation of the I'nion, he pnl)lished an exhaustive pam])hlet in which he 
cli-arly embodied the cause of the Nation's calamity and indicated the measures necessary 
to insure the snj)remacy of the law, the integrity of the constitution and the necessity for the 
preservation of the Union. He believed compromise with the enemies of the Government 
to be a mistake and advocated forcible means, if necessary, to compel obedience to the laws. 
He proved conclusively the fallacy of a temporary pacificatiou policy, and by voluminous 
(piotations from letters written from the founders of the Government, demonstrated, it to be 
a (lovernmenl of the people collectively and not of the States. In defense of the Union, 
wiiose integrity he so earnestly defended with his pen, he entered the service on September 
4. IStil, as colonel of the Fifty-tirst Indiana Infantry, and rendered effective service until 
March 18. iNfit"), wiien he retired with the lirevet rank of brigadier general, having partici- 
(wted in the battles, Sliiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Day's Gap, Crooked Creek, Blount's 
Farm, engagements with Wheeler's Cavalry at Daltou and Shoal Creek, near Florence, Ala., 
in which he commanded five brigades; Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, and again at Colum- 
i)ia, in which he forced the passage of Duck River. On May 3, 186;}, he was taken prisoner 
and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., until February 9, 1864, when, with 108 of 
his fellow prisoners, be escaped by a tunnel excavated from the prison walls to the street. In 
tbis connection, and as a matter of history, it is well to state that Gen. Streight planned the 
tunnel under the walls of the notorious Libby Prison, through which he and his companions 
crawled to liberty, notwithstanding some other writers to the contrary. No one can know 
the anxiety of the participants of tbis famous event, and the name of A. D. Streight will be 
remembered through generations to come as the hero of the occasion. After an interval of 
rest be re-entered the service. In prison Gen. Streight was like the shadow of some great 
rock in the de.sert. Men instinctively gathered around him. He was their counselor, friend 
and champion. In him they re])Osed all confidence, intrusting to him their money and laying 
before liini their grievances, and sharing with him their every thought. It was Gen. Streight 
who detiantly wrote the rebel secretary of war, compelling an increase of rations and more 
humane treatment. While the enemj' hated bim, yet they feared him, and if recaptured his 
life would have paid the forfeit of his daring and patriotism. On returning to civil life he 
resumed the business of a publisher, in connection with the cultivation of a farm in the 
suburl)s of the city, where his widow now resides. In 1865 he embarked in the lumber bus- 
iness, making a specialty of walnut and bard wood lumber, to which was subsequently added 
chair manufacturing on an extensive scale. He was successful and prosjierous in business 
att'airs and contributed much to the development and welfare of Indiana]>olis. He always 
manifested a keen interest in politics and as a Republican participated in many of the cam- 
paigns. In ISTt) he was elected to the State Senate, and as an evidence of his popularity 
and standing ran more than 1,000 votes ahead of his ticket. Here he was conceded to be 
one of the leaders of the party. Among the measures supported by bim wa^ the introduction 
of a bill providing for the erection of a new State house building, the principal provisions 
of which were adopted. In 1S80 he was one of the Republican candidates for the nomina- 
tion of governor, and although an unsuccessful aspirant for gubernatorial honors, press and 
people were unanimous in their endorsement of his irreproachable honesty, iron will, unusual 
intelligence and thorough patriotism. Gen. Streight was married January 14, 1S4'J. to Miss 
Lovina McCarty, a native of Bath township, Steuben C'ounty, N. Y., and daughter of Mrs. 
McCarty, a native of Sussex, N. J., who came to Seneca County, N. Y. , and after- 
ward, when Mrs. Streight was eight years of age, to Steuben County, that State. Mrs. 
Streight's father was a farmer. By his marriage to Miss Mary Abbott Mr. McCarty became 
the father of eight children, seven daughters and one son, all of whom grew to mature 
years except one: Elizabeth, widow of John Fairfield, who resides at Green Hill, Steuben 
County, N. y. : Emeline, widow of William Rogers, resides in Michigan: Reuben married 
Miss Emily Briggs, and is now deceased, his death occurring June 30, 1890: Lovina, w^idow 
of Gen. Streight; Delilah, widow of William Hughes, resides in Idaho: Marv married John 
Goodsell, in 1854 and died in 1857; Cordelia, wife of John Ingersoll, died ' July 16, 1892, 



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and Samantha J., who died at the age of nineteen months. Gen. Streight had but one son, 
John, who now resides in Cincinnati. The latter married Miss Rosa, daughter of David 
Shipnian, of Knightstown. Ind. She died July 20, 1892. The Greneral was never a mem- 
ber of any of the secret organizatious. but belonged to the society of the Anny of the 
Cumberland, and to the G. A. K. of Indianapolis. Although he was a member of 
no church he was always liberal and tolerant in his views, and when questioned by 
Rev. Sharpee, his regimental chaplain, during his last sickness, said: "I was placed 
here by a just God. who, when my mission here is done, will take care of me." Gen. 
Streight died ilay 27. 1892. at 4 o'clock a. m. He had never Vjeeu well after his incarcera- 
tion in Libby Prison, but had attended to his business, nevertheless. During the last two 
years of his life he was a great sufferer, having the grip three times, the last time suffer- 
ing live weeks with it. This, together with camp diarrhaa. and Bright's disease, carried 
him off. He attended to business up to two weeks before his death. A month previous to 
that sad event he called his wife to his side and told her that he desired that after his death 
his body be placed in the yard of the home. There he had lived with his devoted wife 
since the fall of 1864 and there to-day lies all that is mortal of Gen. A. D. Streight, 
the patriot and citizen, who needs no costly um to perpetuate the memon,- of his gallant 
deeds. Every Decoration Day the veterans of the war cover the tomli of their dead comrade 
with dowers. 

Clements A Gbeexleaf. Who has not heard of the Greenleaf turntables and their 
famous inventor? Truly it is not always that "circumstances make the man" for Mr. Green- 
leaf is a shining example to the contrary: and there is no one who envies the success he has 
achieved because his indefatigable toil and hours of patient thought and study have brought 
about a just reward. He is a direct descendant of Samuel Greenleaf who made the first 
carriage in the United States, the factory having been started in Belleville, Mass., in 
1792. Our subject was born September 26, 1838 and has been a resident of Indianapolis 
for the past forty-three years. He is a son of Edward and Mary Jane (Allen) Greenleaf, 
both of whom were natives of Bangor, Me., where they were reared and married. In ISoC 
Edward Greenleaf came to Indianapolis from Cincinnati, Ohio, where for many years he was 
superintendent of the famous Anthony Harkness, and Moore A: Richards Locomotive works. 
After locating in Indianapolis Mr. Greenleaf l)ecame a partner with AVatson. Vorhis Ai Co., 
in the Washington Foundry which afterward became the Eagle Machine Works. A few 
years later Mr. Greenleaf. in company with Capt. Vorhis, founded the City Foundry and 
Machine Works, in which R. R. ITnderhill was and W. W. Robinson subsequently became 
interested. On the death of W. W. Robinson the tirm business was settled up and the City 
Foundry and Machine Works some years later became the Sinker. Davis Company, of this 
city. In 1864 Mr. Greenleaf founded the Greenleaf Machine Works which is now the Green- 
leaf Turntable Manufacturing Co. To Edward Greenleaf and wife were born eleven children, 
Frances Elizalieth (now Lancaster). Mary Jane (now Phipps), William A. and Clements A., 
yet living. The original of this notice. Clements A. Greenleaf. passed his youthful days in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and there received his scholastic training. At an early age he evinced a 
strong liking and taste for mechanics, and in 1857 he Ijecame master mechanic of the Mem- 
phis k Little Rock Railroad. When the war broke out he was running an engine on the 
Memphis <& Charleston Railroad but he came north in May. 1861. and enlisted in the Eleventh 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Gen. Lew Wallace, serving over three years in the ord- 
nance department of the Gulf. During that time he had charge of the ordnance of the Thir- 
enth Army Corps and the stores for one year. On the sixth of August. 1862, be was married 
in Indianapolis, to Miss Frances Caroline Phipps, daughter of John B. and Rebecca (Snell) 
Phipps. natives of Virginia and Massachusetts respectively. Mr. Greenleaf and wife became 
the parents of ten childi-en: Edward Timothy, born August 27, 1865, married Miss Jennie 
Boor of Sandusky, Ohio, and is now residing in Lima. Ohio, where he is superintendent of 
the drafting rooms and supply department of the Lima Locomotive i; Machine Works: Clem- 
ents .\. . born August 19. 1867. married Miss Elizabeth Bertie Wilfley, of Mexico, Mo., and 
now resides in this city: the next two children were twins, John L. and Harry, born July 
3(1. 1869 (the former is single and resides in this city but the latter died at birth): Mary, 
born January 14, 1872, is single and at home; Helen M., lx)rn April 12, 1874, is single and 



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at Iioiub; Frances Jane, l)i)ru Decemljer 5, 1S77, died when four years of age: the next two 
chikiren were twins, Grace and May, l)orn May Ifi, 18S1, now at liome; and Paul, horn March 
25. 1SS4, is also at home. Our subject is a mechanical engineer and for the past twenty 
years has been engaged in manufacturing the famous Greeuleaf Turntables in this city. His 
invention is used by railroads in turning their cars and engines, they are in use on most of 
the railroads in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the large factory in Indianapolis 
is now engaged in manufacturing turntables alone. There is no part of his life work to which 
Mr. Greenleaf refers with more pride than to the mission work he has done in this city. 
He is a strong churcli man and believes that every individual should interest iiimself in this 
work. He delights in assisting and relieving the poor and opfiressed and no one has done 
more for th;il class of peo))le than he. For years he has carried on this good work and is 
to-day as active in its support as in former years. In 1872, Mr. Greenleaf organized a 
company to consist of l">t) stock holders, each holding an e([ual amount of stock for the 
])urpose of establishing a co operative industry ,4bout one half of the stock was sub- 
scribed, the works were built, a farm was purchased, each stock holder was deeiled one 
acre of land, and by-laws made so that no stock holder could accumulate more than an 
equal share of the property, (any stock holder wishing to withdraw could do so by selling to 
the corporation and the stock to be cancelled). The enterprise failed, principally because so 
many could not be of one mind, and because of the jianic of 1873, Mr. Greenleaf was forced 
to go into bankruptcy. The works that he built are now the principal building of the Cleve- 
land, Cinciuiuiti, Chicago & St. Louis Shops, and the farm he bought is now the suburban 
town of Brightwooil. Mr. Greenleaf was the first one to inaugurate the sale of town lots in 
Indianapolis, on terms at which the poorest laborers could become owners of their own homes. 
He selected a small subdivision in Oak Hill with which to try the experiment, found about 
thirty families that were distressed, and induced them to purchase lots at .1125 each, by pay- 
ing $10 cash, and the balance f 5 per mouth, giving possession on the receipt of $10. Many of 
these houses, at first, would have been called shanties, but they have been gradually improved 
until now most of thenj are neat cottages, and best of all is, that the real estate owners who 
refused at first to sell without a cash payment large enough to pay expenses of foreclosure 
are most all now ready to sell on terms as described; there is no necessity of making a deed 
until the full [jayment of ground has l>een received. The secret of the success is that the 
rent applies as purchase money. Mr. Greenleaf has built three factories, tirst one the "Green- 
leaf Machine Works." corner Tennessee and Merril Streets; second, '"Greetdeaf Manufacturing 
Company," at Brightwood; third one, thepresent "Greenleaf Turntable Manufactuiing Com- 
pany," corner Bloyd and Pai'ker Avenues, also fourteen cottages in Brightwood, and eight in 
the city limits. Oak Hill. He has assisted in building three Presbyterian churches, "Second,"' 
corner of Pennsylvania and Vermont Streets; Ninth, corner "North" and Penn Avenues; and 
"Memorial," corner of Christian Avenue and Ash Street. To the last named he gave more 
time and cash than any other one, paying cash, lo.fiOO into the building fund. Mr. Green- 
leaf does not believe in sects, but does believe that the Christian religion, is to l)elieve and 
hold to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the real Church, is his body, purchased 
with his own Blood, and that it should have one mind with all members holding to Jesus as 
Head, with the Holy Spirit the Guide, and the Bible the rule of our lives here. 

John A. Sutclikfe, M. D., of Indianapolis, Ind., was born in Fayette County, Iud.,in 1845. 
His [lareuts were Joseph M. and Cynthia A. Sutcliffe. He was educated at Brookville Col- 
lege and Asbury University, and graduated from the first named institution in 18(59. He 
afterward received the degree of Master of Arts from Moore's Hill College. His medical 
education was acquired at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, and at Bellevne Hospital 
Medical College, New York, where he com[)leted his course and received his medical degree 
in 1872. He was assistant surgeon in Bellevue Disi)en8ary diiring the same year, an honor 
only conferred upon the most proficient graduates. On the expiiation of his term of serv- 
ice in that capacity he began the general practice of his profession, but for the past six 
years he has confined himself exclusively to surgery and genitourinary diseases. Since the 
date of his graduation Dr. Sutcliffe has supplemented his education and training by taking 
two courses in surgery and genito urinary diseases in Bellevue Hospital, and also two similar 
courses in the New York Polyclinic. In 1888 he went to Europe, visiting the large hospi- 



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tals of London. Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Edinburgh, where he remained for nearly a year, 
taking additional courses in the same branches of his profession, in order to better prepare 
himself for the practice of his specialty. Dr. Sutcliffe has filled the chair of anatomy and 
genito urinary diseases in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. Indianapolis, for 
several years, and for the past seven years, that of principles and practice of surgery and 
genitourinary disea.ses in the same institution, and is treasurer of the faculty. Dr. Sutcliffe 
is surgeon to the Cincinnati, Hamilton Ac Dayton Railroad, consulting surgeon to the citv 
dispensary, and clinical lecturer at the city hospital and St. Vincent's Infirmary, Indianapo- 
lis. He is an active memljer of the Marion County Medical, the Indianapolis Surgical, and 
the Indiana State Medical Societies, and of the Mississippi Valley and the American Medical 
Associations. Dr. Sutcliffe was a member of the Indianapolis Board of Health for four 
years, and president of the same for two years. He was married in 1876 to Miss Laura K. 
Jones. 

John W. Holtzmax. Ever since society was organized its enemies have lived, and to 
enact laws calculated to protect mankind from the doers of evil has always been a serious d\i(y 
of legislators. The philosopher and the social reformer may indulge in speculations as to 
the causes of vice and lawlessness, and the sentimentalists may be apologists for the criminals 
and outlaws of .society; but, dealing with these grave social problems in a practical as well 
as a beneficent spirit, it has been the aim of our law-makers to devise such measures as will 
punish the individual law-breaker as well as deter his fellows from like wrong-doing. But 
the fruits of legislative skill and wisdom as displayed in our criminal code and practice would 
be futile — the body of laws designed for the suppression of vice and crime would be inert, 
but for the public sentiment that imparts vitality, and the vigilance of the prosecuting attor- 
ney, who faithfully discharges his duties, and suffers no guilty man to escape. The office of 
public prosecutor is one of honor and dignity. Xo other place within the gift of the people 
is more conspicuous and important. The office should be filled hy a lawyer of unquestione<l 
ability as well as sterling integrity. In the election of John W. Holtzman as prosecuting 
attorney of this judicial circuit the people have secured an energetic as well as a faithful 
oflScer. John W. Holtzman is a terror to wrong-doers, not only because it is his duty to be 
so, but because he has no sympathy with crime or ci'iminal. 

This able lawyer and successful prosecutor comes of a family of worthy people. He was 
lx>rn in Berks County. Penn., April 23, 1858. being the son of Jonathan and Katherine 
(Moyer) Holtzman, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction. The ancestors of 
our subject came to America about the year 175(1, and settling in Berks County, became pros- 
perous farmers. They felled the virgin forests, and suffered all the hardships incident to the 
settlement of a new country. In the life and death struggle of the colonies in the war with 
Great Britian their hearls were fired with a love of liberty. These sturdy pioneers of old 
Berks shouldered their guns and fought bravely for the cause of freedom. The father of our 
subject was a farmer. He came to Indiana about the year 1864, and purchased a farm in 
White County. A few years thereafter he settled in Tippecanoe County; but, soon tiring of 
the change, he returned to White County, where he lived the remainder of his days. He died 
in 1883, his wife having passed away twelve years before. They were the parents of three 
sons and one daughter, of whom only two are living; Lee and our subject. When the latter 
came to this State with his parents he was six years old. His youth was spent upon the 
farm, and differed l^ut little from that of other country lads. He attended the country 
school until he was fourteen years old, and since then, with the same sturdy self-reliance 
which how marks his character, he has made his own way, and has slowly but surely come 
to the front. Among the various occupations of his youth and early manhood was that of 
teaching, a calling that proved most congenial. Upon his twenty-first birthday he received 
as a present a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries; and with no thought of becoming a law- 
yer, but merely to gain information, he perused the pages of this learned work with deep 
interest. The study of this book gave bias to his future life; for, while he did not at once 
enter upon the work of preparing himself for the legal profession, it is certain that the 
perusal of this copy of Blackstoue turned his thoughts in that direction, and finally led him 
into the ranks of the lawyers of Indiana. In the year 1883 he did begin the study of law, 
and iu the following year was admitted to practice. He was in 1SS5 the Democratic candi- 



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date for tlie cit}' council of Indianapolis for the twelfth ward, and, although a very vonng 
man, he made so vigorous a light that he was defeated by only fort-j'-four votes in a ward 
that was largely Republican. In the following year he was apjwinted by the Marion County 
Commissioners attorney for the poor. His able defense of Samuel Marley, who was charged 
with the murder of John A. Lyon, and the acquittal of his client, added to his growing 
reputation as a lawyer. This position he resigned in the month of November, ISStJ, to 
accept the position of chief assistant prosecuting attorney under Maj. James L. Mitchell. Mr. 
Holtzman served in that capacity until November, ISlltl. when he was elected prosecuting 
attorney over his opponent, Maj. Charles L. Holstein, by a larger majority than was ever 
before given to any Marion County candidate. He was re-elected in 1892, when he again 
led his ticket. Mr. Holtzman has always taken an active and prominent part in politics. 
He is an eflScieut organizer, and a forcible speaker. His allegiance to the faith and princi- 
ples of the Democratic party has been constant and enthusiastic. But, although a consist 
ent and aggressive Democrat, Mr. Holtzman is too liberal and progressive to be a narrow 
partisan. Mr. Holtzman is a prominent Scottish Rite Mason, and a K. of P. Still a young 
man the future is before him bright and promising. Greater honors no doulit await him. 

John E. HE.\n. In the person of John E. Head is found a scion of Kentucky who is a 
successful and enterprising agriculturist of Marion County, Ind. He was born in Daviess 
County, Ky., November 23, ISIO, where his parents, J. A. and Louisa (Payne) Head, still 
reside, being among the leading farmers of that section. To them a family of four sons 
and two daughters were given: George A., John E., Eugene, O-scar. Susie and Anna Belle, 
the latter becoming the wife of Elisha Adams, of Daviess County. Mr. Head. Sr., and his 
entire family are devout Catholics, and the head of the family is a supporter of Democratic 
principles, liut is not an aspirant for political prominence. Mr. Head wisely gave his chil- 
dren good educational advantages, and John E. received a sutHcient amount of schooling to 
tit him for the practical duties of life. He is a man of tine physi<|ue, is a fluent and inter- 
esting conversationalist, and having lieen quite an extensive traveler, and a wide, yet dis- 
criminating reader, he makes a pleasant and entertaining companion. After visiting many 
sections of the country he decided to locate in Marion County, Ind., and in 1884 commenced 
his labors in a clothing store in Indianapolis, styled the "Model." Previous to this he had 
been activel}' and successfully engaged in school teaching, but on account of ill health he 
gave up this calling, and for the same reason left the mercantile arena, and engaged in the 
more healthful and invigorating occupation of farming, his experience in this line being 
gained as a farm laborer for a Mr. Rowuey for one summer, during which time he wooed 
and won for his wife Miss Mar}' Bowser, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Bowser, a notice 
of whom is given in this volume. Their marriage was celebrated October IS, 1887. Mrs. 
Head was born Septemlier 11, 1851, and was reared on the farm on which she is now living, 
her education being obtained in the neighboring schools. She is a woman of line mental 
powers, interesting and entertaining in her conversation and attractive and agreeable in 
manners. (For further notice of the Bowser family see sketch of E. T. Bowser.) To Mr. 
and Mrs. Head a son has been given, William H.. who was born September 13, 1892, but 
who ord}' lived three mouths, dying a victim of pneumonia December 18, 1892. The farm 
of Mr. and Mrs. Head is located four miles east of Indianapolis on Section 15, and consists 
of eighty-one acres of line land well ada[>ted to general farming and stock raising, to which 
uses Mr. Head puts it. He is a wide awake and progressive agriculturist, keeps pace with 
all improved methods in his operations, and is a useful citizen of his section. He belongs 
to no fraternal or chiu-ch organizations but says: ' 'I am a Democrat by birth and occupation.'" 
However, he is conservative in this respect and is by no means an aspirant for political 
honors, his highest aspiration being to be a useful and law abiding citizen, to which he has 
without doubt attained. 

A. Lincoln Leathermax, M. D. Nothing is more true than that men grow from accre- 
tions from without and that association of kindred minds results in the expansion of ideas 
and enlargement of the horizon. This being true, what a maguilicent tield is afforded the 
physician in Indianapolis, where is gathered so large a number of men eminent in the pro- 
fession. This city is celebrated for the loyalty of the brethren to the traditions of the pro- 
fession and at the same time for the progressiveness of the members in the noble science. 



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Amon^ those whose skill is destined to make his name a popular household word, may be men- 
tioned Dr. A. Lincoln Laatherman. who was birn at Versailles, Ohio, September 30, 1864, a 
son of Godfrey and Emily (Atwoud) Leatherman, the former a native of Maryland and the 
latter of England. The father followed the callings of a farmer, architect, contractor, and 
builder and was a man of many noble attributes of heart and head. He was reared to man- 
hood in tlie State of his birth, but about 1853 became a resident of Ohio, where he wooed 
and married his wife. He is still a resident of Versailles. The maternal grandfather of 
the subject of this sketch, Edwin Atwood, was an engine builder by profession, and was a 
member of the old Atwood family of England. Several of his brothers were military men, 
and one brother, Eli Atwood, was vice admiral and commanded a fleet of vessels for Great 
Britain in the War of 1812, being stationed at Halifax. Edwin Atwood, in 1848, sold his 
engine plant in England and with his family started for Springfield, 111., but upon reaching 
the city of New Orleans he sickened and lingering until they reached Memphis there died of 
yellow fever. After his death his widow took up her residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, where 
she purchased .some fine property, which is now known as Walnut Hills, but she afterward 
sold this property and located in Covington, Ohio, where sLemade her home until her death. 
The early life of Dr. A. Lincoln Leatherman, was spent on a farm in Ohio, and in the public 
schools of his native county he was prepared for college, and in 1881 entered the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, in which he took a live years' classical and scientitic course. He then 
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia Col- 
lege of the city of New York in 1888 and was graduated in 1893, after having taken a 
thorough course of four years. Dr. Leatherman is essentially a self-educatetl and self-made 
man in every particular, and has spent fully S17,(HKI in securing an eilucation, every cent of 
which he e.irned himself during his vacations by teaching school and acting as salesman for 
various business houses; in fact he was not too fastidious to turn to labor at any honorable 
employment that offered a compensation. Previous to graduating in medicine and during 
his course there his ability was recognized by the faculty of Columbia College and he was 
made prosector of anatomy to Prof. Huntington for three years and also assisted Dr. Dela- 
field, professor of the practice of medicine for two j'ears. He also was an assistant to Dr. 
Starr, professor of nervous diseases. At the time of his graduation as a reward of merit, he 
was accorded a trip to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, at the expense of the college. 
He immediately afterward came to Indianapolis, opened an ofSce, and entered upon the 
practice of his profession, where he gives every promise of making Ijoth fame and fortune for 
himself. He is a member of the Indiana State and Marion County Medical Societies and 
Mississippi Valley Medical Association and the American Medical Association. July 27, 
1893, he was married to Miss Dora L. Harter, the only child of Dr. Jacob H. Harter, of 
Anderson, Ind. Dr. Leatherman is also a member of the K. of P. and in politics is a Re- 
publican. The Atwood family of England were Episcopalians in religious belief, but in 
this country they all became Methodists, of which church the Doctor and his wife are regu- 
lar attendants and members. A brother of the Doctor, Rev. W. H. Leatherman. is a minis- 
ter of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Central Ohio Conference, and is a young 
divine of great brilliance and prominence, destined to make his mark in the religious world. 
Charles E. Cox, the worthy deputy prosecuting attorney of Marion County, Ind., is 
yet quite a young man but this is neither a crime or misdemeanor and when it goes hand in 
hand with great natural ability polished to an unusual degree by wide reading and close 
observation, it is as worth}' of acknowledged respect as is the head covered with the crown 
of gray. This representative young attorney first saw the light of day on a farm in Hamil- 
ton County, Ind., February 21, 1860, and when six years of age he moved with his parents 
to Noblesville, Ind., when he first attended school. Upon their removal to Tipton, six years 
later, he was a student in the schools of that town for four years. W^ith a brain always 
active and a perception always clear he made very rapid progress in his books and when 
onlv fifteen years of age mastered the curriculum of the Tipton High School. A year later 
he was emjjloyed as deputy auditor of Tipton County, and tilled that position very credit- 
ably for one year. After that he went to the Sunflower State and worked his father's farm 
for two years. In 1879 he returned to Indiana and began the study of law in Indianapolis. 
Soon afterward he became assistant law librarian of the State Law Librarv and con- 



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tinned in tliat position until Sfptenil)»»r. 1SS3. wlien lio was H|)pointp(l librarian In' the 
judges of the Supreme Court, in recoi^nition of his services and his well deiuonstriited fitness 
for the office. He filled tliat iwsitiou in a very satisfactory manner until Se])teujl)er, 1889, 
when, for political reasons, he was displaced. In November of that year he began practic- 
ing law in Indiaiinpolis, and in September, 18U1, he was appointed deputy pro.secuting 
attorney. Although still in the dawn of the success which has attended his efforts in a pro- 
fessional way, Mr. Cox has already given abundant evidence of the ability which qualifies 
him for a high place in the legal profession. Thoroughly master of liimself, with au inti 
mate knowledge of his case, of (juick perceptive faculties, ready to take advantage of any 
error, master of any jirinciple of the law involved in the case, an accurate reader of human 
character, of inexhaustible resources, he is a formidable antagonist. On June 1(1, 1S84, he 
married Jliss Kuima M (!ooIey, of Indianapolis, and they have two interesting children: 
Nellie, aged six years and Samuel L. , aged three years. 

Hknuv Bristow is one of the oldest native l)orn residents of Marion County, Ind., and 
a member of a family wliose history was identified with the State in days of earlier and 
simpler style of living. He was born in Perry Township, within a quarter of a mile of 
where he now lives, February 28, 182;"), on a farm of IfJO acres that was entered by his father, 
Peyton Bristow, in 1821, and occupied b}' the latter in 1S22. When the tract was entered it 
was all in green timber, not a l)ush having been cut down. The father was a native Vir- 
ginian, born August 29, 1778, and when about eleven years of age be with his widowed 
mother moved to Kentucky, maUing the entire tiip on horseback and carrying all their 
worldly belongings in the same manner. The niothei- settled on Green River and there 
young I'eyton Bristow grew to mature years. On September Ki, 1802, he was married to 
Miss Mary Price and about two years later he emigrated to Eaton. Ohio, where he worked 
at the shoemaker's trade and in a store until 1S22. He then came to Indiana where he 
entered 100 acres in Perry Township, Marion County, and there passed the remainder of his 
days, his death occurring on February lit, 1869. He enlisted in the War of 1812 from 
Eaton, Ohio, served all through the war and was granted a land warrant for his services. 
He was a Democrat in polities and cast his first vote in 1799. For many years he was jus- 
tice of the peace in Perry Towushi]i. and was postmaster at Olive (now abandoned) for about 
live years. In his religious views he was a Universalist. To his marriage were born thirteen 
children and what is most unusual is the fact that all of them grew to mature years and mar- 
ried, despite the unlucky number. They were named as follows: William H. . born 1N08, 
deceased; James, deceased, was born in 1805; Lucy, deceased, born in 1800: Margaret E., 
born 1808, deceased; Evans, deceased, born in 1810; Sarah, deceased, born in 1812; Cor- 
nelius v., born 1814; Marv P., deceased, l)orn in 1817; Eliza B., born 1819; Peyton P., 
born 1S21; Martha, born 1823; Henry, our subject, and Alfred H., deceased, born in 1828. 
The mother of these children died January 23, 187(t. Their paternal gramlfather. Powell 
Bristow, was probably born in Wales about 1748 and was brought to America by his parents 
soon afterward. Henry Bristow grew to manhood on his father's farm in Perry Township 
and his scholastic training was received in the ])riraitive log school-house of those early days. 
Most of the farm was cleared by the time our subject was old enough to assist in such work 
and he only assisted in clearing about six acres. He was married in 184C) to Miss Sarah 
Sinks, daughter of Noah Sinks, a native of Ohio, and nine children were born to them, seven 
of whom reached manhood and womanhood, as follows: Nancy A., deceased, married Charles 
Harrier: Mary Adeline married Charles Sharpless; David H. . married Clara (^otton. and they 
have two children. Nettie and Pearl; Noah C. married Alice Landfair and they have three 
liviug children, Clarence. Carl, and Hattie: Anthony Peyton Bristow married Hester Fowler; 
Emily, deceased, married Simon Grube and th(>y have one child. Ona: Harriet J. married 
John Copsey and they have two children. Jessie and tirace; Frances E. Bristow married 
William Webb and thev have three children, .\eues B.. Richard T. and Virgil; and Susan 
B. . who married AUiert List and is the mother of four children, Walter H. , Wilbur. Harry 
and Homer. Our subject was married the second time in 1881, to Mrs. Margaret K. Pogue, 
daughter of James Little, and two children were the fruits of this union, Maud A. and Mel- 
ford M. Our siibject has served as school director in Perry Township for a number of years 
and for eight years was supervisor of roads in that township. Like his father he is a stanch 



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Democrat. His first presidential vote was cast for James K. Polk in 1S4S and lie has not 
missed voting for a Demjcratic presidentiHl candidate since. He attends the Metliodist 
Episcopal Church but is not a member and he does not belong to any secret organizations. 
His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Bristow was one of three 
children born to her parents, James and Betsey (Rosier) Little. These children were named 
in the order of their Ijirths. as follows: John married Maiy E. Walls and both died leaving 
two children, James, deceased, and Hattie, who married Manuel Landfair and became the 
mother of three children. Florence. Lawrence and Edith: Charles Little died in infancy; 
and Margaret K., wife of subject. Mr. Little was born in Virginia but of Irish parentage. 
He was a successful tiller of the soil and followed that occupation until his death in 1851, 
when forty-five years of age. His wife died in 1S48 and after her death he married Hester 
Crunk, who is also deceased. 

Hon. William Hackee, (now deceased), one of the prominent and pronounced Free 
Masons of Indiana, was born December '•. ISlt*. near Urbana. Ohio. He was brought to Indiana 
by his parents, John and Susanna (Smith; Hacker, when the country was yet an unbroken 
forest filled with Indians and wild animals, and under the discouraging circumstances attend- 
ant to backwood's life, he was reared and educated. His early life was passed in working 
at his trade, farming and merchandising. Failing health caused him to abandon active 
business pursuits, and for years he was engaged at different periods as secretary of a rail- 
road company, justice of the peace. Masonic lecturer and organizer of different lodges of the 
Masonic order. In 1832 he became a Master Mason, a Royal Arch degree Mason in 1840. and 
the same vear became a council dpffree member. In 1848 he took his commanderv degrees, 
and in 1860. at Indianapolis, the Scottish Rite branch of Masonry, making in all a total of 
forty degrees. During this time Mr. Hacker held some of the most important official posi- 
tions of the order, among them being gi'and master and grand secretary of the Grand Lodge; 
grand high priest and grand secretary of the Grand Chapter: for twelve years was an officer of 
the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States, attaining the exalted 
station of general grand king; was grand recorder, and for six years the first presiding officer 
of the Grand Council of the State: helped organize the grand commanderv of the State in 
which he served as grand recorder and grand commander. Mr. Hacker was also one of the 
leading Odd Fellows of the State, having served as conductor in the Grand Lodge, and 
junior warden in the Grand Encampment. Hel)eloiiged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
was an ardent advocate of the temperance cause, and after the disruption of the Whig party 
became a Republican. Mr. Hacker has served as mayor of the city of Sbelbyviile, was 
happily married, and blessed with a fine family. 

Theodore Lovett Sewall was bom in Germantown, Ohio, September 20, 1853. His 
mother, Louise K. Lovett, Ijelongs to the old and substantial Lovett family, of Beverly, 
Mass. His father. Edmund Quincy Sewall, Jr., belongs to a family that has been distin- 
guished in Massachusetts annals for two centuries and a half, including in its direct line. 
Chief Justice Samuel Sewell. the Diarist (died 1730), Rev. Joseph Sewall of the Old South 
Church. Boston (died 1796). and a second Chief Justice Samuel Sewall (died 1814). The 
family is of English stock. Mr. Sewall received his early education in a private school at 
Wilmington. Del. He entered Harvard College in 187(1. and graduated in 1874, being the 
seventh Sewell in a direct line to receive his education and his degree from this institution. 
Mr. SewaU remained in Cambridge two years longer taking the course in the Harvard Law 
School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1876. .Spending the summer of 1876 in Indi- 
anapolis, Ind. , he was invited by prominent citizens of that place to open a preparatory 
school for boys, which he did in September. 1870. naming it the Indianapolis Classical Schixil. 
In 1880 Mr. Sewall married May Wright Thompson, a lady descended from the Wright and 
Braekett families of New England, and who is well known for ability in educational anil 
reform movements, especially, such as affect women tsee May Wright Sewall). In 1882 
Mr. and Mrs. Sewall opened a Girls' Classical School, with a course of study conforming to 
the Harvard requirements for admission. These schools were among the first private schools 
in the West, to meet fully the highest collegiate requirements for admission, including 
Greek and mathematics for girls; and to introduce the .systematic work of the gymnasium, 
under competent teachers, in connection with the other school work. A girls' boarding 



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departmeut was opened in 1880. Both inslitutiouH have had more than a local influence. 
The girls' school, especially, draws pupils from all sections of the country, and has gradu- 
ates in all the prominent woman's colleges in the country. In 1889 Mr. Sewall transferred 
the boys' school to other hands, and Mr. anil Mrs. Sewall have since then devoted their 
entire time to the school for girls. Mr. Sewall received the degree of A. IM. from the Indi- 
ana University, in 1SS7. He has done considerable literary work, and has lectured fre- 
quently on social and literary subjects. For ten years he was the secretary, and, later, the 
president, of the Indianapolis Literary Club. Mr. and Mrs. Sewall have spent four sum- 
mers traveling in Europe. 

*Mrs. M.\y Wri(;ut Sewall, the chairman of the comniitlee on a World's Congress of 
Representative Women, convened under the auspices of the World's Congress Auxiliary of 
the World's Columbian Exposition, is a native of Wisconsin; her parents, however, were 
lioth from old New England families. After graduating from the Northwestern University 
at Evanston, 111., Mrs. Sewall taught public schools in Michigan and was soon made the 
principal of the high school in Plainwell, in that State. She became, later, the principal of 
the high school in Franklin, lud., and teacher of English and German in the high school 
of Indianapolis. From this position she resigned in 1880, upon her marriage with Mr. 
Theodore L. Sewall, principal of a private .'•chool for boys in that city. In 1882 Mr. and 
Mrs. Sewall opened a private school for girls, known as the Girls' Classical School, which 
was immediately successful and has become widely known. Mrs. Sewall's profession is thus 
that of a teacher, her specialty being English literature; her school duties occupy the first 
and highest place in her attention and demand and receive a large share of her time. From 
her infancy Mrs. Sewall was trained to a strong l)elief in the right of women to wider oppor- 
tunities for education and to a fuller share in the honors and the piotits of business, pro- 
fessional and industrial activity than they have hitherto enjoyetl. Her energies were 
enlisted in these reforms soon after reaching womanhood and for twenty years she has been 
a strong ally of every cause that promoted the advancement of women. She was first act- 
ively connected with National Woman Suffrage Association, in which her power was imme- 
diately recognized and in which she held for many years the arduous and responsible office 
of chairman of the executive committee. She was one of the promoters of the International 
Council of Women, which convened in Washington in 1888, and conceived the idea of per- 
petuating its influence through permanent international and national councils of women. 
In the organization of both of these bodies she subsequently aided. Mrs. Sewall was one of 
the committee that formulated the ]ilan for the general federation of women's clubs. She 
is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Women, an honorary member of the 
Union Internationale des Sciences et des Arts, of Paris; a member of the American Histor- 
ical Association, of Sorosis, etc. In her own home Mrs. Sewall has played a most active 
part in the work of organization for social reform and other purposes. Thus she was one of 
the founders of the Indianapolis Woman's Club, of the Indiana])olis Art Association, of the 
Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, of the Indiana State Suffiage Society, of the Indian- 
apolis Ramabai Circle, of the Indiana branch of the Association of Collegiate AlumiicP, of 
the university extension work in Indianapolis under the auspices of this latter society, of 
the Indianapolis Local Council of Women; of the Indianai)olis Woman's Exchange, and of 
the Indianapolis Contemporary Club. She also originated the plan of the Indianapolis 
Propyheum, an incorporated joint stock company of women, which has erected a handsome 
building for social and educational purposes. Mrs. Sewall was appointed by Gov. Hovey a 
member at large of the Board of World's Fair Managers for Indiana, and is chairman of 
the committee on women's work and a member of the committee on education in that 
body. Being president of the National Council of Women and accjuainted with many of the 
leading women of Europe from several summers spent in England, France, Germany and 
Italy, Mrs. Sewall was made the chairman of the committee on a World's Congress of Rep- 
resentative Women, to the success of which she has devoted her energies and her time for 
the past twelve months, spending the summer in Europe for the purpose of explaining to 
foreign women its importance and its scope. In Berlin Mrs. Sewall held many conferences 



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with small groups of |)roininent women, ami later visited Hombnrg liy appointment wiih iho 
Empress Frederick, who granted her an hour's interview and who was dee|)ly interested in 
the work as outlined by Mrs. Sewall. lu Brussels Mrs. Sewall addressed the Woman's 
League of Belgium and in Paris she gave an address in the Mairie St. Sulpice before a 
large company of leading men and women. This address was widely noticed in the press of 
Russia, France, England and Italy, and the leading facts of the congress were thus widely 
disseminated. Mrs. Sewall devoted two weeks in Paris to conferences with individuals and 
organizations in the interest of the congress. Mrs. Sewall's public work is thus, it will be 
seen, devoted to the furtherance of organization among women. She has always labored 
with a broad view, careless of the letter if the spirit can be secured. Her work is all done 
above the plane of personalities and she care.s little for the honors that it brings her in com- 
parison with the good of the cause. She has worked steadily for harmony and consolida 
tion among conflicting interests, with an eye single to the permanent good. She labored 
earnestly and successfully, with others, to accomplish the union of the American and the 
National Suffrage Associations and of the eastern and the western branches of the Asso- 
ciation of Collegiate Alumnir. She is widely known as a warm friend, a generous and fair 
opponent, sympathetic with all workers for the good of humanity and especially of women. 
Mrs. Sewall has man}' lectures on social, educational and reform topics and her services as 
a lecturer are widely sought for. She is perhaps at her best as an extemporaneous speaker, 
her style being clear, cogent and eloquent, with full command of her subject. As a pre- 
siding officer she is uniformly successful, being dignitied, clear-headed, impartial and quick 
to seize a point. Mrs. Sewall is also a prolific writer, but her work is not of a character to 
be easily catalogued, consisting chiefly of newspaper editorials and coiresjiondence, consti- 
tutions, programs, reports and addresses on educational, reform and social subjects. To 
the various activities outlines above Mrs. Sewall adds those of a housekeeper who oversees 
all the affairs of her household in minute detail. She is widely known as an entertainer 
and plays her full part in the social and even the fashionable life of Indianapolis, her 
Wednesday afternoon receptions being a feature of the intellectual and social life of the 
city. Among prominent western women of to-day few, if any, take a higher rank than Mrs. 
May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis, Ind. She has gained this prominence, and national 
recognition as well, through her remarkable and rare executive ability. So sure footed is 
she in all of her efforts that her name in connection with any undertaking is regarded 
almost as a talisman of success. She is one of those in whom action l)ecomes unconsciously 
a synonym of leadership, and by instinct and by choice her attention has been turned 
largely to public matters, in which the interests of numbers are involved. This has made 
her a marked figure in nearly all public movements in her home city, in her State and in 
the nation. Yet the time she gives to those things is what for another woman would be her 
leisure hours. The usual working hours of each day she devotes conscientiously to her 
model school for girls. Mrs. Sewall is by birth and by her most noticeable characteristics 
and special sympathies a western woman. She was born in Milwaukee, Wis., then a fron- 
tier settlement, whence her parents had come from New England. She received her early 
education in the district schools; later she spent two years in a private academy. She was 
afterward for a time under the care of private tutors, who prepared her to enter, at an early 
age, the Northwestern University of Evanston, 111., where she was graduated with the 
degree A. B. in 1867. The degree A. M. was conferred upon her three years later. She 
served her apprenticeship as an educator by taking private pupils and by teaching in differ- 
ent graded schools of Michigan. She was soon called to more advanced work and tilled 
with success the position of principal successively in the high schools of Plainwell, Mich., 
and Franklin, Ind. In 1874 she became instructor in German in the high school at Indian- 
apolis. In 1880 she became the wife of Theodore L. Sewall, a prominent educator of 
Indianapolis, and for several years gave her chief attention to home and social duties. 
Domestic duties were then a comparatively unknown tield to Mrs. Sewall, but with her 
characteristic energy and determination to master whatever work might be set before her 
she fitted herself for a 'model housekeeper by doing all of her own work until she had 
learned thoroughly all branches of housekeeping. As a result of this training lier domestic 
affairs, to which she still gives her personal supervision, run like clock-work and her servants 



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are exampleeof faithfulness andefSciency. la J888 Mr. and Mrs. Sewall opened the Classical 
School for Girls in Indianapolis. To this school Mrs. Sewall gives her life work and the 
fairest fruit of her genius. In its brief existence it has become hirge and flonrisliing and 
the cherished plan of its ))rincip8ls, of making it a school complete and thorough in every 
department from the lowest primary to the collegiate, has been carried out. It provides 
everything except a college course, to which its senior class is a stepping stone. Mrs. Sew- 
all is prob;d)ly more widely connected in an active way vvith local and national organizations 
than any other woman in the country. She is interested tirst of all in the advancement and 
higher education of women. She was one of the founders and a most enthusiastic member 
of the Woman's Club, an influential literary club of Indianapolis. She has been a moving 
spirit in the Indianapolis Ramabai Circle, in the Indianapolis Suffrage Society and in (he 
Propyhi'um, an organization which deserves much more than a [)assiug notice. It is a 
woman's stock company, organized in 1SS8, which has recently carried out i(8 chief purpose, 
the erecting of a handsome club bailding for club meetings and pul)lie entertainments, which 
is not only a useful and ornamental structuie but promises to be a profitable investment for 
the stockholders. Mrs. Sewall is and has been from its beginning the president of the 
organization and its success is largely due to her business tact and skillful management. 
Mrs. Sewall is an enthusiastic member of the Indianapolis Art Association, which 
holds yearly exhibitions, and is exercising a wide influence in cultivating artistic taste. 
And last, but by no means least, in her connection with local affairs she was the first 
president of the Contemporary Club, a literary club organized a year ago, whose large 
membership includes lioth men and women prominent in her city and State. Mrs. Sewall 
is a warm advocate of the political rights of women, and has been for a number of years 
prominent in the work of the Indiana and the National Equal Suffrage Societies. She is 
president of the National Council of Women, vice-president of the National Federation of 
Woman's Clubs, and one of the vice-presidents of the Association of Collegiate Alumna'. 
She is a member of Sorosis, of the Association for the Advancement of Women, of the 
American Historical Society, and of the International Council of Women. In 1889 she was 
a delegate to the Woman's Congre.^s in Paris, and made an address in French which 
received praise for its elo(|uence from M. Jules Simon and others. Mrs. Sewall has since 
been made an honorary memljer of the Uiiioii. Iiileruationale dex Sciences et dcs Arts, Paris. 
The latest public honor clo'ie to Mrs. Sewall is her appointment iiy Governor Hovey 
to a place on the Board of Commissioners for the World's I'^air. If we add that Mrs. 
Sewall is in frequent demand as a lecturer on literary, education and reform subjects, her 
almost phenomenal capacity for public work may be more fully estimated. But this is 
not all of her achievements. Her versatility of talent and tireless energy have enabled her 
to do also a great deal of literary work. Her contribution on the education of women in 
the Western States to the recently published "Woman's Work in America" is one of the 
most interesting chapters in that wholly interesting and valuable work. Mrs. Sewall is 
still a young and youthful looking woman. She is fond of society and of social life, and 
has exerted a wide and good social influence in Indianapolis. She presides over an elegant 
and hospital)le home, where her friends are frequently entertained, and where many stran- 
gers also, men and women of note who visit Indianapolis, are made welcome. Her weekly 
informal Wednesday afternoon receptions are always largely attended, and have bt come a 
prominent feature in the social life of Indianapolis. Probably no woman in America so 
completely represents the life of modern woman with its marvelous round of occupations 
and duties. Mrs. Sewall is a fine embodiment of the practical ideas of the day. Her 
unvarying success is due largely to the system and thoroughness underlying her smallest 
as well as her greatest undertakings, and to the religious care she takes of her bodily health. 
A worker, a thinker, a writer, of virile ability, Mrs. Sewall is withal a most womanly 
woman, loving pretty dresses, pictures, books, and perhaps most of all, tine china. She 
has a l)eautiful collection, gifts of friends and souvenirs, whose history she delights to relate 
to sympathetica listeners. A large number of contril)utions to the press, on varied subjects, 
historical, literary, reform; in particular contributions, editorial and other, to the Woman's 
Journal, Boston; the AjHericoo Woman' s Journal, New York; the Indianapolis Journal; 
the Woman's Trihinie; Dress; Journal of Speculative Philosnpliy ; the Woman's Maqazine ; 



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the Are««,- the Cycle : the Union Signal : the Indianapolis Times; the Boston Traveler; 
the Woman's Penny Paper (Liondon, ¥ing\and). A large numlier of pamphlets and mono- 
graphs, principally on educational and reform topics, in particular relating to organization 
and work among women. Among these may be mentioned: Disinherited Childhood (pub- 
lished bj' the Moral Education Society, of Washington, D. C, 1881); Report on the Position of 
Women in Industry and liducation in the State of Indiana (prepared for the New Orleans 
Exposition, at the request of the Commissioners for Indiana, 1885); Women as Educators (an 
address before the Association for the Advancement of Women, New York, October, 1887); 
The Domestic and Social Effects of the Higher Education of Women (an address read before 
the We-itern Association of Collegiate Alumnre, Ann Arl)or, December, 10, 1887); Report on 
the Higher Education for Women in the United Slates (read at the session of the Interna- 
tional Council of Women, March 2fi, 1888; printed in the Report of the proceedings); The 
Industrial Relations of Women to the State (an address prepared for the Indiana Board of 
Agriculture); Woman's Work in America (the chapter on the Education of Women in the 
West; Holt &Co., 181*1); Exposition Day in the Schools (prepared at therequestof the Com- 
mittee on Education of the Indiana Board of World's Fair Commissioners, Indianapolis, 
1891; Preliminary Address for the World's Congress of Representative Women, Chicago, 
1892; Form of Constitution of Local Councils of Women, Indianapolis, 189'2; Pamphlet out- 
lining the work of the Committee on Woman's Work of the Indiana Board of World's Fair 
Commissioners, 1892; History of the Indianapolis Art Association (Vouga's Art Folio, March, 
1892; The General Federation of Women's Clubs (in the Arena, August, 1892); Intro- 
duction to a Symposium on Woman's Dress (in the Arena, September, 1892). 

Hon. Will E. English, ex-Representative in Congress from the Seventh Congressional 
District of Indiana. The subject of this sketch, Hon. Will E. English, is a prominent 
Indiauian, and is the only son of the Hon. William H. English, Democratic candidate for 
vice president of the United States on the ticket with Gen. Hancock. He was born at Lex- 
ington, Scott County, Ind., but removed to Indianapolis at an early age, where he has since 
resided. He studied law and graduated in the law department of the Northwestern Chris- 
tian University, and entered practice with the Hon. John R. Wilson, under the firm name of 
English & Wilson. He retired from the firm at the end of five years in order to devote par- 
ticular attention to the new and magnificent structure, known as English's Opera House, of 
which he was proprietor and manager. At the end of six years he leased the opera house, 
and arranging his business enter[)rises traveled extensively abroad for some three years, 
visiting every country iti Europe from Norway to Greece, and various portions of Asia, 
Africa, Mexico. Cuba, South America, etc. Mr. English is a graceful and ready writer, well 
informed and well read, and during his various foreign tours he wrote a series of letters, 
which appeared in the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, and attracted general attention, evidenc- 
ing marked literary ability. His letters from the Holy Land, North Africa, Turkey, Egypt, 
etc., were so favorably commented upon that they will shortly appear in l)0ok form. Al- 
though the son of a distinguished father and a member of one of the most prominent fami- 
lies of the State, Mr. English is an unspoiled child of good fortune. Wealth, power and 
adulation could never make him other than he is, a man who is of the people, not above 
them, possessing as he does the instincts of democracy to such a degree that they are a sec- 
ond nature tcj him, and his universal and exceptional popularity with all classes is the best 
evidence of that fact. Pleasant, genial, talented and attractive, with always a pleasant 
word for all, high or low, rich or poor, it is not strange that he should be so general a favor- 
ite. As a natural result of these social characteristics he is connected with various social 
and benevolent organizations, has been the worshipful master of Center Lodge of Masons 
of Indianapolis, past grand ruler of the B. O. of E. for the Ignited States, and past presi- 
dent of the Indiana Society Sons of the American Revolution, besides being a member of 
the Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Humane Society, Indianapolis Commercial Club, etc. 
Mr. English has for years been an active politician and one of the leaders of the Indian- 
apolis Democracy, and has repeatedly represented them in delegate capacity in conventions 
of every character and description — municipal, township, county, State and national. He 
began active participation in politics some years previous to his majority, and has been an 
oflScer in every organization of the Young Democracy of Indianapolis since that time. He 



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was treasurer of tlie Greeley Clnb of 1872, president of the Tilden Campaigu Clul) of 1876, 
president of the Hendricks Club in 1870-77, and president of the Young Men's Democratic 
Club in 1878. In 1875 he was the Democratic nominee for council in the eleventh ward of 
Indianapolis, but declined. In 1882 be was elected chairman of the Center Township 
Democratic convention. In 1885 he was elected chairman of the Indianapolis City Demo- 
cratic convention. In 1890 he was elected chairman of the Marion County Democratic con- 
vention, and again in 1891 was elected chairman of the Indianapolis City Democratic con- 
vention. At the national convention of Democratic Clubs, held in New York. October 4, 
1892, Mr. English was elected vice president of the organization and a membei- of the 
national committee for the State of Indiana for the ensuing four years. 

Mr. English has been a member of the Democratic County Committee of Marion County, 
for over fifteen years continuously, and has for years lieen a memlier of the Democratic City 
Committee, of Indianapolis also, and in 1878 was elected chairman of the city committee. 
In that capacity he so satisfactorily conducted the affairs of the city campaign at the spring 
election of 1878, that in recognition of his ability as a political organizer and manager, be 
shortly after was also unanimously chosen to the position of chairman of the Marion County 
committee, and given the general management there, during the exciting State campaign of 
187S. It was while holding these two im]iortant jiositions that he was unanimously nomi- 
nated by the Democrats of Marion and Shelby Counties, as their candidate for Joint Repre- 
sentative, notwithstanding there were several worthy and talented competitors for the nomi- 
nation. His canvass for this office attracted general attention throughout the State, and 
although the district was carried by the Republican party two years liefore by a majority of 
nearly 700, and at this election, on the general ticket li}- over 200, Mr. English was elected 
leading his ticket nearly 5()0 votes. He had the honor of being the youngest meml^er of the 
House of Representatives, although representing the then largest district in the State, and of 
being the third of his immediate family to hold a seat in that body, his father and grand- 
father both having previously been meml)ers of the House of Representatives. He served 
with distinction during both the regular and extra sessions, and was a recognized leader of 
his party. He was considered one of the best parliamentarians in the bod}-, and Speaker 
Cauthorne frecpiently called iipon him to preside over the deliberations of the House. The 
Speaker appointed him to the chairmanship of the standing committee, on the affairs of the 
city of Indianapolis, and a member of the committee to reapportion the State for congres- 
si(mal and legislative purposes. His bill upon congressional ap))ortionment — "House Bill 
No. 486"- passed both Houses, and l)ecame the law, after one of the most Ijitter partisan 
struggles ever witnessed in the State Legislature. Mr. English was also author of the popu- 
lar law limiting the indebtedness of Marion County, and various other bills and resolu- 
tions of like importance were proposed by him. Among them were the lirst bill providing 
for a reduction of oQScial fees and salaries, the bill abolishing the unnecessary offices of city 
treasurer and assessor, the bill providing for a ; eappraisement of real estate and the reduction 
of taxation thereon, and the original bill providingfor a Metropolitan police system in Indian- 
apolis. Mr. English was prominently spoken of as a candidate for Congress at the expiration 
of his legislative term in 1880, but declined to allow the use of his name before the convention 
of that year. However, at the succeeding election two years later, there was a general desire 
among his party friends that he should become the Democratic candidate in his district, and 
although several prominent and able gentlemen were candidates for the position, Mr. English 
was unanimously nominated at the convention held at Shelbyyille. May 8. 1882. The Re- 
publican candidate against him had the advantage of being a candidate for re election, 
having been elected two years before by nearly 1,000 majority. But in the face of this 
large majority to overcome. Mr. English entered upon a vigorous campaign, making a thor- 
ough personal canvass, besides speaking in every township in the district. His aliility as a 
canvasser being well known, his nomination alarmed the opposition, notwithstanding their 
previous majorities in the district, and every effort was made to insure his defeat. The 
extreme Prohibitionists were particularly aroused against him. liecause of his decided and 
])ronounced |iositiou upon that question, and while, as before, he received a number of Re- 
publican votes among the younger men. he was largely scratched by the ultra-Prohibition 
element and lost some votes therel\v that were otherwise given to his party ticket. He, 



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however, was ahead of his party vote upou the local eouutj' tickets, and notwithstanding the 
majority to overcome, and the exceptional fight made against him, he carried the district and 
was elected after one of the hottest political campaigns ever known in the State. 

During his Congressional term at Washington Mr. English, in the language of the 
Washington Cronicle, made " a useful, capable and attentive Representative," always in 
attendance upon the sessions of the House and ever watchful of the interests of his constit- 
uents. Among other important bills introduced by him while in Congress were those pro- 
viding for an international copyright law, the issuance of silver certificates of small denomi- 
nations and the increase of the pensions of crippled soldiers and sailors. His comprehensive 
report on the proposed alcoholic liquor traffic commission from the committee of which he 
was chairman was adopted by the House and attracted general attention and much favorable 
comment. At the close of his official term it was the general desire of his Democratic constit- 
uents that he accept a renomination, but influenced by personal considerations he positively 
declined to be a candidate. His declination was received by the Democracy with regret and 
the Congressional convention upon assembling at Indianapolis, August 31, 1884, to nomi- 
nate his successor, unanimously adopted the following resolution in reference thereto: 
"Resolved that we herewith regret Mr. English's w'ish and determination not to be a candi- 
date for re-election and we untjualitiedly express our confidence in him as a Democrat and a 
faithful representative." To quote the words of the //id/ai/«po?/s Daily Democrat of the 
following day, this was '' a high and well deserved compliment. The Convention would not 
listen to any declination and came very near nominating him in spite of all his protests. 
It was a splendid endorsement given in a splendid manner.'' Mr. English was not only 
thus warmly approved by his Democratic friends but his course in Congress received 
endorsement from manj' of his Republican constituents as well. One of the leading Repub- 
lican papers of the State at that time, the Indianapolis Daily Times said: "He is fair and 
lilieial toward his political opponents and always ready to do a favor. He won the repu- 
tation of being a working and successful member of the Indiana Legislature and we 
are glad to find him on the same line in Congress." The able Republican organ of Han- 
cock County the Greenfield Republican ssi\d: " He makes a faithful and efficient represent- 
ative and in his official duties does not discriminate against those who differ from him polit- 
ically. As a business representative he is now, as when a member of the Indiana Assembly, 
far above the average, and entitled to the confidence of his constituents.'' Thus Mr. 
English left official position with kindly woids from both political friend and foe, after 
never having suffered defeat in convention or at the polls. In the language of the Witshing- 
toii. Free Press at the close of the Congressional session, " Mr. English came into the House 
of Representatives the youngest member of that body, going out with the good will and 
respect of the entire House and with as many personal friends as the most popular mem- 
bers. Although frequently spoken of in that connection Mr. English has declined to be a 
candidate for election to any office since that time, but has continued as ever an active, 
zealous worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. In the Presidential campaign of 
1892, he was an active and prominent participant both before and after the Presidential 
nominations. In the heated preliminary contest within the Democratic ranks between the 
friends of the various aspirants for the Presidency, Mr. English was one of the leaders in 
Indiana of the Cleveland following, and as a result thereof was selected by his fellow 
Democrats of the Indianapolis district as a delegate to the national Democratic convention 
at Chicago over several well-known and active competitors. He was one of the most prom- 
inent members of that body, having been chosen in the organization as chairman of the 
important " Committee on Rules and Order of Business " for the government of the conven- 
tion and having lieen later unanimously selected by the Indiana delegation to make the 
speech to the convention on liehalf of the State of Indiana seconding the nomination of 
Grover Cleveland for the office of President of the United States. 

In the performance of this distinguished duly he accpiitted himself with great credit 
and honor, his speech being generally pronounced by press and public to be, in the language 
of the Daily Nen-s, "one of the best oratorical efforts," delivered before that magnificent 
assemblage. The Associated Press declared it '"eloquently" rendered, and the Indianapolis 
Daily Sentinel's telegraphic special from Chicago voiced the general verdict in the state- 



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luent '"TbHt it was generally conceded that Mr. English made tlie best seconding speech of 
t lie convention.'' Mr. English is a young man of line appearance, and of great personal 
popularity, a quick and ready debater, a forcible speaker and an excellent presiding officer, 
and when occasion requires and he is called to preside over or address public meetings 
or conventions his capacity is made most manifest and his abilities show to their best 
advantage. 

Hon. Samuel H. Boskirk (deceased), was a representative of one of the best known 
families of Indiana, one brother being Judge Edward C. Buskirk, of Indianapolis, another 
the late Judge (ieorge A. Buskirk, of Bloomington, and himself having served on the 
supreme bench of the State. He was Iwrn January 19, 1S'2(I, at New Albany, Ind., receiving 
his collegiate education at the State University at Bloomington, and graduating from the 
law department of that institution in 1841. He early displayed ability of a high order in 
his chosen jirofession, but having a strong liking for politics his professional and political 
career became hopelessly mixed. In 1848-52 and 1854, he served by election in the legis- 
lative assemblies of Indiana: was a candidate for elector on the Democratic ticket in 1856, 
and in 1862~(i5, was again elected a memlier of the Legislature, serving two terms as speaker 
of the House. In ISTOhe was elected a Supreme Court judge, served one full term of six 
years, and during that time prepared and published '' Buskirk's Practice," a standard work 
of practice in the Supreme Court. At the time of his death, which occurred very suddenly 
April i\. 187U, he was a resident of the city of Indianapolis, and actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of law. Judge Buskirk ranked exeejitionally high as a lawyer and jurist: was a man 
of unexceptionable character, and was the jjossessor of the respect of all classes regardless 
of religious creed or political conviction. 

Gen. John Cobdrn. Among the prominent and able lawyers of the State, noted for his 
skill in handling cases, is Gen. John Coburn, who possesses far more than the share of 
ability with which the average man is endowed. He has won his enviable position in the legal 
profession by the exercise of the talent with which nature endowed him, allied to great 
application, and few can conscientiously accept the praise which he so well merits. He was 
l)orn on West Ohit) Street in what was then the village of Indianapolis. October 27, 1825, 
his parents being Henry P. and Sarah Coburn, who settled there in the latter part of 1S24. 
His education was obtained in the old Count}- Seminary on Universitj' square, and at Wabash 
College, Crawfordsville, from which he graduated with signal honors in 1846. For some 
time thereafter he assisted his father as deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the State, 
after which he studied law in his father's office, receiving his license to practice in 1849. 
He served one term as a representative in the Legislature in 1850 and 1851, from Marion 
County. He soon after formed a partnership with Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, and was later 
thus associated with Gov. David Wallace. His ability as an able advocate soon became 
recognized and he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court for the district composed 
of the counties of Marion, Hendricks and Boone, in which capacity he served with distinction 
until September, 1S6I, when he resigned and was appointed colonel of the Thirty-third 
Regiment of Indiana Volunteers and at once took command, going with his regiment into 
Kentucky, as a part of the army of the Ohio, afterward known as the army of the Cum\)er- 
land. His was the first regiment in that army to engage in battle, which was on October 
21, 1861. With his regiment he participated in all the arduous services of the field, the 
marches, battles and sieges and was once cajitured with a portion of his brigade, and for a 
short time was a captive in Libby Prison. His record as a soldier is without rejjroach and 
his last service as such was in the Atlanta campaign, which city surrendered to him. 
He commanded a brigade during the most of his service in the field, and was breveted a 
Brigadier-general for meritorious and gallant conduct throughout the war. Ui>on his return 
home he resumed the {)ractice of his profession and in the fall of the same year was elected 
judge of the circuit comi)osed of Marion, Hendricks and Johnson Counties in which capacity 
he served with great credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the public in general until 
August, 1866, at which time be resigned. In October of the same year he was elected a 
member of Congress and was honored with a re election tliree times, and served in all eight 
years, his career as a Congressman being a brilliant and honorable one. He was a faithful 
and conscientious worker in the House. He served four vears on the committee on banking 



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and currency and for four years was chairman of the committee on military affairs, and so 
deep and thorougli was bis knowledge in this line that be was considered by many to l)e 
a most suitable person to till the responsible and honorable position of Secretary of ^^ ar. 
after Secretary Belknap had resigned. His greatest and most successful laliors. in Congress 
were those in which he struggled against the attempted contraction of the currency by the 
retirement of the greenbacks: and in various reforms in the laws governing the army. He 
was the author of the measiire providing for the publication of the Rebellion Records and of 
the law providing headstones for deceased soldiers, also of the law establishing the military 
prison at Forth Leavenworth. In his jiolitical proclivities he was a Whig, then became an 
advocate of the principles of the Republican party, which he has earnestly supported up to 
the pre.seut time. When the great Civil War seemed inevitable and men were found waver- 
ing, he was enthusiastic in his support of the Tnion, and bis powerful and fiery eloipieiice 
on the public platform did much to arouse the people to a true sense of the critical state of 
affairs. He has always been noted as a forcible and elocjuent writer, as well as public 
speaker, and has written numerous able articles for the press, as well as addressed the puljlic 
on all matters of general interest. His speeches in Congress on the various great subjects 
of debate would fill a volume: among which are those upon the currency, the tariff, the 
impeachment of President Johu.son, army reform, reconstruction, the Kuklux law, and 
national election laws. He reported in the winter of 1875 the bill to secure honest and fair 
elections, commonly called the Force Bill, which after long tillibustering. passed the House 
in February, but failed in the Senate. He led the Repnljlicau side and Mr. Randall the 
Democratic. In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes one of the Commissioners to 
settle the vexed questions of land titles at Hot Springs, in Arkansas. This occupied the 
commission two years, and resulted in giving the settlers there — more than 1,000 — the 
right to purchase the lots improved and claimed by them against the few men, three or four 
speculators, who asserted their right to the entire tract, which was of enormous value. This 
ended satisfactorily many bitter and bloody controversies. In February, 1884, he was 
appointed by President Arthur one of the supreme judges of Montana territory. He held 
the ofKce about two years when he was removed by President Cleveland for offensive partisan 
ship. The fact was," that he was in Indiana a short time, in the fall of 1884, and made a few- 
speeches in favor of Mr. Blaine for president. His malicious political enemies in Indiana 
were instrumental in securing his removal. Judge Coburn performed his labors satisfacto- 
rily to the people of Montana, doing a vast amount of business, holding court night and day. 
He at once returned to Indianapolis, and to the jsractice of his profession. Local as well 
as general politics have interested him greatly and he has wielded a wide influence, and that 
for good, among the citizens of the city in which his life has been spent. His standing 
among its people is of an envialjle character; having taken great pride in its prosperity and 
progress, which he has seen grow from an obscure village to a beautifid and prosperous 
city. He is a believer in truth, justice and right, advocates these principles on all occasions 
and in his long and useful walk through life he has followed them in esam])le as well as by 
precept. Nothing could better illustrate his faith in humanity and in the radical and 
thorough improvement of his fellow men than the firm stand he took when the new city 
charter of Indianapolis was adopted in 1891, taking away self-government and creating a 
despotism in the office of mayor. He denounced it as unworthy an intelligent people, an 
al)andonment liy them of the right to do their own thinking upon their own public affairs 
and as a confession of their inability to act for themselves in their municipal capacity. But 
he said that this infatuation would soon vanish as an ugly dream and the better sense of the 
people would soon reclaim the powers of self-government and independent action, and that 
he had unwavering confidence in the ability of the people to govern themselves whether in 
the city. State or the nation; and that the only safe municipal government must rest upon 
the well-paid representatives of the peo])le elected to act as councilmen and aldermen, and 
openly discuss every matter of business. He has taken a very active part in the matter 
of the State soldier's monument, and in lS7r» made a long report, which was printed exten- 
sively in favor of a Memorial Hall. This committee was composed of members from every 
Congressional district in the State. And in a similar line he has devoted much time in secur- 
ing the improvement of Garfield Park in his native city. He was soon after the close of the 



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war Olio of a committee of citizens who organized the Soldier's Home, collected funds and 
purchased the present site at Knighlstown. After this the State assumed the charge and 
iiumiigemeiit by an act of the Legislature which he drafted and the institution was delievered 
into the hands of State officers. Ultimately the soldiers were taken to the National 
Home at Dayton, and tiie Orphan's Home, a grand institution, was established under the law. 
He has had a hand in many matters for the [)ublic welfare and continues with energy and 
irood will in all of his old lines of life. He is an oj)tiinist and strives for the coming of the 
lielter day for all men. 

J. P. McCoNNELL. In writing a review of the industries of Indianapolis, there is no sub- 
ject more worthy of attention than the city's carpenter trade. It constitutes an important 
factor in the city's advancement, and no man has done more in this particular branch than 
has J. P. McConnell whose carpenter and job shop is located at 27 Ea.st Georgia Street. 
He gives special attention to store and ofliee fixtures and how well he lias prospered may be 
seen in the high class of his custom and the e.xcellent character of his work. He has built 
up a good patronage and has proven himself a gentleman of unswerving integrity. Mr. 
McConnell is a product of Indiana soil, born in Fayette County, August 8, 1841, anil is ason- 
of Ellis D. and Nancy (Hodkins) McConnell, natives respectively of Ohio and Kentuekv. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather, Capt. Thomas McConnell, was a Virginian who served as 
captain in the War of 1812. Ellis D. McConnell moved from his native State to Fayette 
County, Ind. , in 1825, or about that time, and located on a farm where he met with unusual 
success. Formerly a Whig in politics he joined the ranks of the Republican party upon its 
organization, and took a dee|) interest in politics. For many years he was a worthy member 
of the Christian Church. His death occurred February \\), 1887, on his eighty fifth birth- 
day. His wife died May 30, 1882. Nine of their twelve children grew to manhood and 
womanhood. J. P. McCuiinell, our sul)ject, secured a fair education in the schools of his 
native county and partially learned his trade before the war. On December 6, ISfi], he 
enlisted in Company (t. Fifty-second Indiana, as musician and participated in the battle of 
Fort Donelson after which he was discharged from the service on account of general disabil- 
ity. Although exempt from further service he afterward joined the lOt) days' service and w as 
a faithful and trusty soldier. He had graduated from Bryant & Spencer's Commercial Col 
lege ;ind after the war lie engaged in various kinds of work for some time. He was a con- 
tractor on the I. & V. Railroad, where he lost money and he was subsequently engaged in 
the patent right l)usiness all over Illinuis and Missouri. After this he was in Arkansas, Miss- 
issippi, Tennessee and other parts of the South for one year. About 1872 he came to Indian- 
apolis and turned his attei;tion to building. In 1875 he went South for about one year; was in 
('hicago in 1S8I and 1883, then came to Indianapolis. In learning his trade Mr. McConnell 
had instilled into his mind the principle to do good work, l)Ut after he had followed this for 
some time he found it was no longer profitable in building houses, so he turned his attention 
to office and store fixtures which he makes a specialty. He has met with the best of success 
iu this line of business and gives the best of satisfaction. In the year 18<)'J he married Miss 
.\nga Staats, of Fortville, this State, but this happy union terminated in her death A|)ril 14, 
1874. One daughter, now deceased, was born to this union. On April lo, 1871), Mr. 
McConnell married Miss Lilly Ferguson, of Edinburg. Although a Republican he is not a 
strict partisan but is rather independent in his ideas. 

Geoeoe W. Bailey. Tlie development of the real estate market of Indianapolis has 
been upon a scale commensurate with the importance and rapid growth iu wealth and popu- 
lation, equal in proportion, to any city in the Union, while much of the credit attaching 
thereto is due to the intelligent efforts and honorable policy of our leading and representa- 
tive real estate agents. Prominent among the number referred to is Mr. tieorge W. Bailey, 
well known in real estate circles and senior member of the tinn of Bailey & Bailey, dealers in 
real estate, rents and loans. He is a recognized accurate authority on the present and pros- 
pective values of real estate Ihroughout all sections of the city and vicinity, so that the utmost 
reliance can be placed upon his judgment and advice by intended investors. He is a gentle- 
man of large experience, sound judgment and marked ability. Mr. Bailey was born in 
Madison County, Ind, near Anderson, August 4, 1841, son of Lewis J. and Mary (Miller) 
Bailey, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of the Old North State. When 



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about sixteen years of age the father removed with his parents to Indiana and there grew 
to manhood, becoming a substantial farmer of Madison County. For years he was justice 
of the peace, trustee, etc.. discharging the duties of all in a manner reflecting credit upon 
himself and his constituents. lu February, 1861, he came to Marion County, and settled 
on a farm north of Indianapolis, where he passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1868. 
The paternal grandfather of our subject, George W. Bailey (after whom our subject was 
named), was a veteran of the War of 1812, and the Mexican War. He was a native of the 
grand old State of Virginia. The original of this notice was reared on a farm in Madison 
County and there remained until twenty years of age, receiving his education in the common 
schools. He came with the family to Indianapolis, February 3, 1861, and after remaining 
with his father on the farm for about three years learned the painters and grainer's trade 
which he followed for nearly sixteen years. During the latter part of the years he was 
engaged in this business; he did nothing in his line but imitating wood and marble. After 
engaging in mercantile and other pursuits for some time, in 1876, he embarked in the real 
estate business which he has followed almost uninterruptedly ever since. He has met with 
unusual success in this occupation and has acquired considerable property. During the 
Rebellion he was on duty for al^out a year in what was known as the city regiment. Four 
of his wife's brothers and one of his own entered the army, three of the former never return- 
ing, two having died in Andersonville prison. Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss 
Elizaljeth Jliiler. in January, 1865. and they now have a pleasant and comfortable home in 
Iudiana]H)lis. She was born in Madison County, Ind. . and was the daughter of John 
and Mary Miller. In politics Mr. Bailey is Independent, voting for the man instead of for 
party. Independent in religion as to creeds, he is a firm believer in redemption as taught 
in scriptures. 

IvY E. Wright, M. D. Few, perhaps none, save those who have trod the arduous paths 
of the profession, can picture to themselves the array of attributes, physical, mental and 
moral, and the host of minor qualities essential to the making of a truly successful physician. 
His constitution needs must l)e the hardiest to withstand the constant shock of wind and 
weather, the wearing loss of sleep and rest, the ever gathering load of care, the insidious ap- 
proach of every form of fell disease to which his daily round of duties momentarily expose 
him. The above is but a few necessary'remarks introducing Dr. Ivy E. Wright, who for 
years past has practiced his profession in Indiana, and who has ever met with gratifying suc- 
cess. He is a product of Indiana, born in Morgan County November 7, 183t), and is the son 
of William P. and Jane (Stout) Wright, both natives of Morgan County, Ind., the Wright 
family being pioneers of that county. The father of our subject was a druggist and mer- 
chant of Monrovia. Ind., for many years, but his death occurred in Pulaski County. The 
original of this notice attended the public schools of his native county until about sixteen 
years of age, when he entered Asbury University, and took a three years" scientific course. 
In 1861, on leaving the university, he began the study of medicine with Prof. C. H. Cleve- 
land, and continued with him for three years. In 1866 he graduated from tie Eclectic 
Medical College of Pennsvlvania at Philadelphia. Prior to this, in 1863. he began practic- 
ing in Rockville. Parke County, Ind., before graduating as was the custom in those days. 
During the war the Doctor was assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana 
Infantry, and was in the Army of the Cumberland doing both hospital and field service in the 
regions in and about Knoxville, remaining in the service a year. He was mustered out at 
Lafayette. Ind.. in the latter part of 1864. and soon after located in Hancock County, where 
he practiced medicine and surgery successfully for twenty years. In 1888 he came to Indian- 
apolis, and located in the western part of the city, where he has a good practice, ranking 
among the leading physicians of the city. Miss Emma Parker, who became his wife in 1861, 
was a native of Hendricks County, Ind., and the daughter of Dr. Parker, of Danville. Nine 
children have been born to Doctor and Mrs. W^rigrht: Vevia, Minnie, Grace, Xellie. Fred. 
Charles, Ivy and Robbie. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., of which he has served 
as noble grand: he is also a member of the G. A. K. Politically he is a Republican. 

WiLLi.\M GiEZESD.\NSER, a retired business man, was lx)rn in Switzerland, January 1, 
184.J. a son of John and Anna (Mettler) Giezendanner. who were also natives of Switzerland. 
The father was a baker by trade and carried on that business on an extensive scale in his 



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native land, being also a large manufacturer of soap and muric acid. He was very successful 
ill business, for lie was ;i man of keen discernment and of great energy, and at the time of 
his deatli in the year 1850, he was possessed of a handsome property, to which his children 
fell heir which they also did to the honorable name which he left behind him. He was 
married twice, and l)y his first wife became the father of three children, and b}' his second 
wife eight. William Giezeudaniier was about five years old when his father died, and in 
18()(l he came to this country with his mother and went with her at once to Louisville, Ky., 
and after a short sojourn there came to Indianapolis, where William has since made liis 
home. He iind learned the baker's trade previous to coming to this country, and upon bis 
arrival in Indianapolis he entered the employ of Alex and Jacob Metzger, proprietors of the 
largest and only steam bakery in the city at that time, in whose employ he remained about 
one year. He then became an employe in a Government bakery for some time, and still 
later was in the service of John Weinberger nearly five years. He next worked in the Cali- 
fornia House for some time, finally entering the employ of George Haas at the corner of 
Mississippi and Vermont Streets, jiurchasing about three months later the Imsiness in company 
with Charley Hespelt. This was in 186S, and the partnership continued for aliout two and a 
half years, at which time Mr. Giezendanner became sole jiroprietor of the liusiiiess and con 
ducted the same with great success until he retired, May 1, 1S92, his son succeeding him in 
the business. In 187(5 he erected a handsome brick block on his business propeity, three 
stories high, 42x08 feet, at a cost of over |l 2,000, and there conducted one of the leading 
and best appointed bakeries in the city. He also built a two-story dwelling adjoining in 
1889, at a cost of $3,500, but at the time of his retirement from business he purchased a tine 
residence property at HIO Bellefontaine Street. During seven or eight years of his business 
career ho carried on a large dry goods business successfully. He has ever been the soul of 
honor in all his transactions, enterprising, to be relied upon on all occasions, and an expert 
in his line of work. He has been a credit to the city of Indianapolis and an honor to the 
name he bears, and in the social circles of the place he is highly regarded and commands 
the utmost respect. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and theK. of H., besides the Indian 
apolis Shooting Society, being a director and stockholder and the present treasurer in the 
latter society. Mr. Giezendanner was married in 1808 to Miss Maggie Hofmann, a native 
of Wurtemberg, Germany, and a daughter of Geofge and Hannali (Haynley) Hofmann, who 
were also from the old country. To Mr. and Mrs. Giezendanner a family of seven children 
were given, five of whom are living: George, William, Charley, Harry and Walter. Those 
dee-eased are Maggie and Albert, and they also had an adojited child, Mary, who was a 
daughter of one of Mr. Giezendanner's brothers, and who died in childhood. Mr. Giez 
endanner and his family are members of the First German Reformed CJhureh, and in poli- 
tics he is H stanch Democrat, although he is liy no means a politician. 

Indian.\polis Basket Company. The evolutions in the industrial world, the improved 
modes of manufacturing things, have been marvelous in the past half century and scarcely 
an industry e.xists that has been left untouched of the spirit of reform. This is in every 
essential true in regard to the making of baskets, and the vast importance of this industry 
is seen at a glance when the various uses to which they are put are taken into consideration. 
The city of Indianajiolis is especially fitted for this industry, for it is not only the capital 
and largest city in the State, but it is centrally located in the center of the famous "Hard- 
wood Timber Belt;'' has a magnificent railroad system, and the Indianajiolis Basket Com- 
pany has specially fine shipping facilities, there being a switch track on each side of the 
factory. This company was incorporated January 1, 1893, with a capital stock of $]4,t)C0, 
fully jiaid up. This extensive enterprise gives employment to about 100 hands, the pay-roll 
amounting to $50O per week. During the busy season GOO dozen baskets are made daily, 
supplying the markets throughout the United States, the annual business amounting to about 
$00,000. The officeis are: Isaac Springer, president ; H. C. Tanner, general manager and 
treasurer. The business was originally estal)lished in 1887 on a small scale, but by judi- 
cious management continued to increase in size until it has now reached goodly pro- 
portions, which desirable state of affairs has been in great measure brought about through 
the energy and good judgment of Mr. Sjiringer, the president, as well as to the valuable 
services rendered by his daughter. Miss Lulu M. Springer. Mr. Springer also attributes 



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bis success in no small degree to his inventive genius in getting niacbines ailmiraiily adapted 
to the prosecution of first-class work, many of which in use, are those of his own invention. 
At the present time they manufacture a full line of splint and bamboo baskets, berry boxes 
and fruit packages. Mr. Springer was born in Marion County, Ind., December 18, 1845, a 
son of Emanuel and Malinda (Staley) Springer, the former of whom was born in Pennsyl- 
vania and the latter in Virginia. The father came to Marion County, Ind., from Ohio, and 
in 1829 settled in Warren Township, where he entered eighty acres of woodland, which he 
eventually succeeded in clearing, although he and his family had to undergo many priva- 
tions and hardships while he was doing so. In addition to looking after his farm he fol- 
lowed the calling of a blacksmith, doing work for his neighbors. His death occurred in 
1871, his widow still surviving him at the age of seventy-six years. The old log cabin which 
he erected in 1829 still stands on the old homestead and is one of the oldest buildings in the 
county. Isaac Springer was reared on this farm, and in the common schools of the vicinity 
he received his education. When the war opened, although but sixteen years of age, he was 
one of the first to respond to his country's call and became a member of Company K, Fifty 
second Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, on November 29. He participated in the following 
engagement: Fort Donelson, Nashville, Corinth, Tupelo and Canton, Miss., not to mention 
numerous skirmishes, some of which were quite spirited. For sixteen months his regiment 
was stationed at Fort Pillow and did scouting duty. With the exception of three months' 
sickness he was in active service all the time, and was mustered out September 10, 1865. 
After the war he worked on a farm for about two ^-ears, then married and engaged in farm- 
ing for himself for five years. In 1871 he came to Indianapolis and for several years worked 
in various factories. In the fall of 1882 he became a member of the box factorj" firm of 
Brunson i Springer and continued thus connected until January 1, 1S88, when he retired 
from the firm and established the basket factory, now known as the Indianapolis Basket 
Factory, which is one of the best known establii^hmeuts of the kind in the State. Mr. 
Springer was married January 2, 1867, to Miss Ruth M. Gallon, a native of Marion County 
and a daughter of William and Ruth Callon, the former of whom was bom in Ohio, of 
Irish parents, and the latter in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Springer have three children: 
Nora J., born October 28, 1867, and died at the age of twelve years; Lulu M. , lx)i-n 
August 26, 1870, and Edgar, born in June, 1S77. Mr. Springer is a member of the 
I. O. O. F. and the Chosen Friends, and for many years has been a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, having been on the board of trustees ever since its organi- 
zation twelve years ago. He is also a member of the G. A. R., and in politics is a stanch 
Republican. In the two secret orders with which he is connected he has passed through all 
the chairs. 

Harry C Tanner, the general manager and treasurer of the above company, was 
born in Lafayette, Ind., November 24, 1866, a son of Ford and Mary A. (Battles) Tanner, 
the former of whom was born in Stevenstown, N. Y. , and the latter in Boston, Mass. The 
father operated a basket factory in Lafayette for a number of years, but in 1872 moved to 
Chicago and at the present time is traveling salesman for the Indianapolis Basket Company. 
Harry C. Tanner may be said to have been brought up in this business, and he is therefore 
the thorough master of it in every particular. For eight years he was traveling salesman 
for a basket manufactor_v. covering a territory from Massachusetts to California, aud from 
the Gulf of Mexico to the great lakes. His literary education was obtained in the public 
schools of Chicago. After residing in Indianapolis for a few years, he, January- 1, 1893, 
purchased an interest in the Indianapolis Basket Company, of which he was made general 
manager and treasurer. He was married July 9, 1890, to Miss Ida May Haswell, a native 
of New York but reared and educated at Eagle, Wis., a daughter of Nathaniel J. and Lydia 
(Barton) Haswell. and to their union one child has been given, W. Raymond, born April 16, 
1892. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner are members of the Tabernacle Church, aud in politics he is a 
Republican. 

Joseph A. McGuibe. There is nothing which adds so much to the assurance and security 
of the people of a town or city as well lighted streets. Those meditating crime generally seek 
darkness for its accomplishment, and in a well lighted street much less of it is done. 
Indianapolis is well supplied in this respect, and has reason to be proud of her illuminated 



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streets, on which one feels aliiio.-Nt as safe as in bioad dav light. Among those who had been 
iustniinental iu bringing this city to its jnesent well lighted condition is Mr. Joseph A. 
McGuiie, who is now the eiticient manager of the Vapor Street Light Company. This 
worthy young man was born in Rochester, N. Y., February 14, 1861, and is a son of Thomas 
and Margaret (Spoon) McGuire, both of whom are now deceased. The father was a native 
of the Emerald Isle, but emigrated to this country and died in the Empire State. The 
mother was born in the Kej'stone State. Of the two children born to them only our subject 
is now living. He attained his growth in his native city and was thoroughly educated in the 
public schools of the same. When only about seven years of age he was left an orpliau and 
liad to buffet the world without aid. Possessed of much native intelligence and ability for 
his years, and a high degree of integrity, he went actively to work at any honest employ- 
ment that would bring him in a dollar, and for some time was a newsboy iu New York eitj'. 
Later he drifted into the Buckeye State, where he was engaged in the show business for 
about two years. In 1884 he started with the Snn Vapor Light & Stove Company, now the 
Sun Vapor Street Light Company, as salesman, and in 1887 came to Indianapolis as man- 
ager of this ofilice. Here he has made his home since, and in that time has won many 
warm friends by his ])leasant, agreeable manner and his fund of good common sense. He 
has charge of all the company's contract work and is on the road a considerable portion of 
his time. Left to fight his own way in life at an early age his career furnishes food for 
retlection, showing, as it does, what may be achieved by perseverance. Politically he is a 
Republican, and advocates the princi])les of that party at all times. 

Willis Smither is one of the old settlers of Marion County, lud., and is now 
passing the sunset of his life in a comfortable and attractive home within its jjorders. 
Honorable and upright in every walk of life, his long career has been without a blot or 
blemish to mar its whiteness. Although eighty-six years have passed over his head and 
have left their impress in his white hair and lined features the man himself is richer and 
nobler and grander for the experience that each decade has brought him. He is a native 
Kentuckian, born in Franklin. County July 23, 1807, to the union of James and Nancy 
(O'Neal) Smither, l)oth natives of the Old Dominion, the father born about 1776. The lat- 
ter came to Kentucky with his parents when a boy and settled in Franklin County, where 
he was married in ]79t) to Miss O'Neal. Ten children were born to them, as follows: Rob- 
ert (deceased), William (deceased), Sarah (deceased, was married three times; first to a 
man named \Yilson, then to Dorsey and afterward to Taylor), Lewis, James, Ezekiel, John, 
Willis (sul)jeet), Wyatt and Coleman, all deceased but our suV)ject. The father of these 
children died about 1817 and his wife followed him to the grave about four years later. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather, Robert Smither, was Ijorn in Virginia. Before the 
original of this notice was a year old his parents moved to Owen County, Ky., where the 
father l)ouglit fifty acres of green timber land, with no road nearer than Napoleon, Ind., 
ninety miles away. The incidents iu the earlv life of Willis Smither were not materially 
different from those of other boys living on the farms in that new country. At an early 
age he was taught to work at anything necessary for him to do and to make himself useful 
around the pioneer homestead. The section of country was new and thinly settled, and 
without recounting the particular hardships and privations which the family experienced it 
is sufficient to say that Ijnt few enjoyed or suffered a greater variety. Young Smither 
attended school only two sessions in the winter and learned to read some, but not to write. 
Before he was ten years of age his father died, and he, with his mother aiul two younger 
brothers — Wyatt and Coleman — carried on the farm until our subject was about eighteen 
years of age. Then oar subject went to Fayette County, si.\ miles west of Lexington, Ky., 
and went to work for his elder brother, John, who was a blacksmith aiul gunsmith. He 
contiiuied with him until the next fall after the election, when Gen. Andrew Jackson was 
defeated for the Presidency, and then, with his brother John, came to the '' Hoosier 
State." The latter bought eighty acres of land in Marion County, Franklin Township, and 
our subject made his home with him about a year. From there young Smither and brother 
went to Indianapolis, where they worked at their trade for about ten years, and during 
that time made the first cow and horse bells ever made in the State of Indiana. Before 
coming to Indianapolis our subject had entered eighty acres of land in Marion County, pay- 



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ing for the same $l.-i5 an acre, and after leavincr IndiaiiapoliH, which was in the year 1837, 
he moved on this tract, which he had leased to a man and wiiose lease he was compelled to 
buy. This he did and commenced to farm. He lived in a little cabin twenty feet square, 
which he had built himself after clearing a small place for it. He was married first in 
Novemlier, 1829, to Miss Hester Davis, daughter of James Davis, a native of Delaware, 
and in the woods of Marion County this ambitious young couple began their career as pio 
ueers. For a year after settling in the little log cabin Mr. Smither and his wife had no 
better bed than one made of clapboards laid across stakes driven in the log wall and Moor 
of the cabin. As the cabin was "chinked"" and not "daubed" it let in the tierce cold of 
winter, and our courageous pioneers saw some pretty hard times. One winter night live 
wolves pulled down and ilevoured a deer in their dooryard and badly wounded a dog belong- 
ing to our subject. Al)0ut three or four years later Mr. Smither ]iut up a hewn-log house 
about twenty feet square, one room, with a kitchen addition. To his marriage were born 
these children: Nancy, died when about two years old; James L., born June 27, ]834, 
married Miss Lucretia Newhouse, and died June 6, 1860; Elizalieth Ann, born September 
11, 1839, married Richard Kittey, and died in November, 1890; Mary J., born February 6, 
1841, married Francis Kittey and is now a widow of Marion County, Ind. ; Sarah, born 
November 4, 1845, is the wife of William Demott, who resides in Shelby County, Ind. ; Mar- 
tha, born December 4, 1847, died in August, 1890; Hester Isaljel, born December 9, 1854, 
married Oliver Sloan, of Indianapolis. The mother of these children died December 21, 
1S54, and on March 13, 1856, Mr. Smither married Miss Mary H. Maze, daughter of John 
Maze. One daughter, Juliet F., has been born to this union. Our subject resided in the 
hewn log cabin until about 1858, two years after his second marriage, when he tore it down 
and built a one-story frame house on the site, and there resided until November, 1891, when 
he moved to New Bethel, Marion County, Ind. He purchased a little home in that town 
and is there spending the remainder of his days. He himself cleared the eighty acres he 
had entered for he hired no work done, although he occasionally helped a neighbor, who in 
turn helped him. When he tirst moved on that tract he had $500, which he had received 
for his home in Indianapolis, and with that he bought a horse an<l also sixty acres more 
land of the Government, adjoining the eighty- acres he had tirst entered, paying §1.25 per 
acre. He afterward purchased forty acres of William Sloan, but sold this in 1884, clearing 
$600 on the bargain. Mrs. Smither's father, John Maze, was a native of the " Keystone 
State" and was only twelve years of age when he came with his ])arents to Kentucky. Later 
he settled in Ohio and afterward in Indiana. He married Miss Hannah Harvey and they 
had twelve children, eleven of whom grew to mature years, as follows: Samuel (deceased), 
Thomas (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased, was the wife of William Carson), John (deceased), 
Riley (deceased), Rhoda (widow of Dr. Dewitt Cooper), Jane (deceased, was the wife of 
Samuel Gray, not deceased), Isabel (deceased, was the wife of Hiram H. Hall), Sarah A. 
(widow of Joseph Hittle), Mary H. (wife of our subject) and Cynthia A. (widow of Ogden 
Beujamen). The mother of these children died in 1858 and the father in 1859. The latter 
was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mr. Smither has been a member of the Baptist Church 
ever since his early manhood. In politics he was formerly an old line Whig but later 
affiliated with the Democratic party, with which he has affiliated ever since. He has never 
voted outside of Marion County, Ind. 

Hon. William S. Holman, who for the greater part of the past thirty four years has 
been a representative in Congress from Indiana, and one of the most widely known men now 
in public, was born in Dearborn Coirnty, this State, December 6, 1822, his parents being 
Jesse L. and Elizabeth (Masterson) Holman. His father was one of the pioneers of Indiana, 
having settled in Dearborn County about the year 1810, and was quite prominently con- 
nected with public aftairs, at one time coming within one vote of being elected to the United 
States Senate. William S. Holman attended the common schools of his neighborhood in 
youth and for two years was a student at Franklin College. He taught school for a time, 
wedded Aljagail Knapp before attaining his majority, read law, was admitted to the bar 
when old enough, and when twenty-one was elected probate judge of his native county. In 
1849 he was chosen prosecutiug attorney, elected senatorial delegate to the Constitutional 
Convention in 1850; in 1851 was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature, and 



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in 1852 was elected tu tlie Coiuiiion I'leas bencli, serviuij as sncb to the end of the term. In 
1858 he began his Congressional career by being elected from the old fourth district, and 
although the district has been twice changed, he has almost continuoush' retained a seat in 
C'ongress. The fact of Judge Holman having been so long in office speaks in no uncertain 
manner as to his personal popularity and the satisfaction he has rendered to his constituents'. 
During this long time he has served on some of the most iuipoi'tant committees, and hasl)een 
chairman of many of them. For j'ears he has been an earnest advocate of the theory that 
the Goverment's business should be transacted in a purely business manner, and that the 
distributions of the public funds should be conducted as carefully as in the case of private 
methods. All appropriation bills are carefully considered by him and his numerous " Mr. 
Speaker, I object " has gained for him the universal appellation of the '' Great 01)jector.'" 
Many consider that his plentiful objections are caused by eccentricity and for the purpose 
of securing notoriety. Many, also, proclaim that oftentimes his objections are needless, 
unworthy of the man, and that for personal and party aims he objects to the spigot and over- 
sees the leak at the bunghole. Be this as it may, Judge Holman has unquestionably saved 
the country the needless expenditure of vast sums. His latest great objection was his acri- 
monious opposition to the Congressional appropriation of $500,000 in favor of the World's 
Columbian Exposition at Chicago. In this matter he voted vyith the Southern delegates and 
in opposition to the almost unanimous support of his colleagues for the measure. During 
the war he was a Union Democrat and was an active supporter of President Lincoln's war 
measures. He is one of the most prominent characters now in public life. 

Dr. John Milto.n Youart (deceased). The successful physician must be a man of pa- 
tient research, capable of sustaining study and large sympathies. Free and broad should be 
his mind to seek in all departments of human knowledge some truth to guide his hand; keen 
and delicate the well-trained sense to draw from nature her most treasured secrets, and un- 
lock the door where ignorance and doubt have stood sentinel for ages. How tine his fibre 
who hears the querulous murmur of the sick man only to soothe the fretful brain with lov- 
ing kindness, to meet impatience with cheerful patience, and bring back the troubled heart 
to peace b\' tender sym|)athy. The above paragraph is but an attempt to sketch one who 
was greatly beloved and respected in Indianajiolis and who in his own person so closely ap- 
j)roached the ideal. Dr. John Milton Youart was born in Jliami Countj', Ohio, February 1, 
1828, and died on February 14, 1883. His father, Samuel R. Youart, was a native of Bally- 
mena, Ireland, and when about eighteen years of age he braved Neptune's tender mercies 
and came to America. Making his way to the Buckeye State he settled in Miami County 
and began tilling the soil. He was married there to Miss Elizabeth McJimsey, who was a 
native of Ohio and of Scotch-Irish descent. There both passed the remainder of their 
days. In his boyhood Dr. Youart was employed on his father's farm and obtained such 
education as the country schools afforded. Subse(piently his desire for further educational 
attainments were gratified for he attended Hanover College. Indiana, and graduated from 
that institution. Having obtained a lil)eral education and having decided to enter the jiro- 
fession of medicine, he proceeded to Cincinnati, where for five years he was a student under 
the late Prof. K. S. Newton, in the study of medicine and surgery. Dr. Youart also spent 
two years with an eminent French professor in the study of diseases of the eye and ear. 
Having completed his studies he located at Lafayette, Ind., where he practiced his profes- 
sion for several years, meeting with extraordinary success. While a resident of that city he 
ranked among the leading citizens and served the city in tlie capacity of alderman. When 
the Civil War broke out he enlisted as assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment Indiana 
Volunteers, and was soon after promoted to surgeon in the army. The Doctor won special 
distinction as is shown by the fact that after the battle of Murfreeshoro, Gen. Rosecrans, in 
the presence of the whole army, dismounted with his staff at the hospital and publically 
congratulated him on the manner in which he treated his wounded soldiers. No higher 
compliment could have been paid to the skill and fidelity of a surgeon. It has been said that 
only one other operator in the army of the Cumberland ecjualled him. After the battle of 
Stone River the wife of Dr. Youart joined him and for three months contributed her valu- 
able services to the work of the liospital. Owing to ill health the Doctor was compelled to 
resign his commission in 1803, and the effects of his arduous labors during the war re- 



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mained with him through life and shortened his days. Following the war he settled in In- 
dianapolis and continued to practice liis profession, until his death, with the exception of 
one year when be held the professor's chair in one of the largest medical colleges in 
New York, which position he resigned on account of business complications. In 1873 
he was elected a member of the school board and served in that capacity in a very 
creditable manner for several years. On February 4, 1856. soon after locating at Lafayette, 
Dr. Youart was married to Miss MargaretE. Davis, of Lyons, Iowa. They were the parents 
of eight children, four of whom are living. On the death of Dr. Youart the medical pro- 
fession lost one of its most careful, concientious and accomplished members. No gentler 
hand than his ever timed a fevered pulse, and his fame as a physician survives him in endur- 
iug and symmetrical beauty. His death was a calamity to his community and to the State. 
When considered as a loss to his profession, it may be said that from its firmament a star 
among those brightest and highest overhead has faded and gone out. 

Dr. Joseph D. Y'oo.vrt. The most important science bearing upon man's happiness, 
comfort and welfare, is that of medicine, and although young in years. Dr. Y'ouart is a credit 
to the profession. He is a worthy son of a worthy sire and has inherited many of those 
traits of character that made his father one of the most successful physicians of the State. 
Born on September 18, 1864, to the union of Dr. John M. and Margaret R. (Davisj Youart, 
our subject attained his growth in his native town, Indianapolis, and supplemented a com- 
mon-school education by attending the high school, from which he graduated in 1879. He 
took a four-years course in the shortest possible period, sixteen months, and while in school 
gave much of his attention to the study of medicine, Ijeing in the oiSce with his father. In 
1880 he took first course of lectures at Central College, physicians and surgeons, Indiana- 
polis, but on account of age could not graduate. He kept up his medical studies however 
and graduated from the Medical College of Indiana in 1892. In the year 1883 he spent 
seven months at Central Insane Asylum, Indiana, studying mental diseases. One year later 
he was made deputy coroner of Indianapolis and served in that capacity until the fall of 
1885 when he went to Sun City, Kan. There he practiced his profession and edited the Sun 
City Cnion. a weekly paper. While there he also pre-empted and proved up Government 
land. In 1889 he went to Chicago and was western editor of the Press-News Association, a 
rival of the Associated Press. In 1890 he became editor of the Helena (Mont.) Journal, 
owned by Kussell Harrison, and while serving in that capacity traveled through Alaska and 
the principal cities of the West. Returning to Indianapolis in May, 1891, he completed his 
medical course, and since that time has been engaged in general practice. On June 7, 1893, 
Dr. Y'ouart was united in marriage to May A. Burns, a beautiful and accomplished young 
lady, who was also a native of Indianapolis. He is an energetic practitioner, is recognized 
throughout the city as a friend of and laborer in the cause and advancement of the medical 
profession, and has acquired a flattering reputation as a physician. In politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat, has been an active worker for his party, and was president of tlie Young Mens' 
Democratic Club of the State of Indiana in 1884. 

Capt. John B. Witty. The average citizen, interested as he may be in the progress 
of the eit^'in which his interests are centered, pursues the even tenor of his way with little 
thought of the wonderful improvements that are going on about him in the methods of 
constructing the miles of railways that are so necessary to the gi-owth of a metropolis, the 
building of its palaces of trade, or to the men in whose fertile brains these plans originated, 
or who devote their time to keeping these roads in good condition. Among the benefac- 
tors at large of the country in the latter respect is Capt. John B. Witty, who has been 
connected with different raUways of the country almost continuously since the close of the 
war. He was born in Pleasant Garden. Putnam County. lud., in 1836, a son of William 
W. Witty, who was a native of Greensboro. N. C , and came to Putnam County, Ind. , 
many years ago, of which he was one of the pioneer settlers. He at once engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits, but was also quite an extensive contractor in stone and brick and built a 
considerable portion of the old National Road. He was a man of excellent business ability, 
and lived to be eighty-five years of age, dying in 1886. Politically he was always a 
Republican. His wife was born on February 14, 1812, in Greensboro, N. C, and died 
June 27, 1888, her people having been among the very earliest residents of Putnam County. 



338 MEMOIRS OF INDIAN AI'OIAS 

Of niue chilcheii l>oiii to this worthy couple, Johu B. was the second in order of birth, and 
liis Piiriv (Mhication was :ic(|uired in the subscription schools of Putnam C'ounty. When 
sturtin^,' mit in life for himself it was as a brakeman on the old Louisville, New Albnny <& 
Salem liailroiid, and at tiie early aj^e of eighteen years became a conductor on that line. 
He next became connected with tlie Louisville & Nashville- liailroad, then the Memphis & 
Cliarleston Kailroad. but in June, 1801, he returned to Indiana, and at Teiie Haute joined 
Stewart's Cavalry, Company A, but afterward became it member of Company I, Conrad 
Baker's regiment, and for over three years was in tbe cavalry service of his country. His 
company was detailed for body guard service for different generals and at the close of the 
war lie was a meml:)er of Gen. Grant's body guard. He w;is a participant in many engiige 
ments, among which were ('edar Mountain, Cross Keys, Strasburg, Mount Jackson, Port 
Republic, Culjieper Court House, the second battle of Bull Bun, Chaneellor.sville, Peters 
burg, Gettysburg. White Sulphur Springs, Hagerstown, Mil.. Nasliville, .fohnsonville, and 
others too nunicrous to mention. During his service he was in many dangemus situations 
and had numerous narrow escapes. He was in the charge against Fredericksburg, Va. , on 
Novemlier 9, 1S(V2. with Col. Dahlgren, being one of his lifty seven men who charged 500 
or more Confederate cavalry. At the close of the war he was mustered out of the service 
at Gen. Grant's camp, and was discharged at Indianapolis in 1864. During his entire 
service he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner. He then entered the service of the 
United States Government, and was stationed at Nashville, Teiin., on the Nashville divis- 
ion of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, continuing in the service of that road till 1S74 
as freight and passenger conductor. In 1874 he liecame roadmaster of the Elizabethtown 
iV Paducah Railroad; was next in the same CMjiaeity with the Owensboro i*t Nashville Rail- 
roa<l. and was then on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad as conductor. The three 
following years he was on the (^entral Brancli of the Union Pacific as jiassenger conductor, 
l)ut at the end uf that time he went East, and after a short time became connected with 
the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. For some time now he has ably tilled the position 
of general roadmaster of the Indianapolis Union Railway, and during this time has kept 
the road in the best of repair, and has discharged his duties in a manner calculated to 
give satisfaction to all concerned. No better man for his present position could be found 
than ('apt. Witty, and of this fact the comjiany seems to be fully aware. The Captain has 
shown his approval of secret societies by l)ecoming a member of the .'\. F. & A. M., in 
which he is a Knight Tem])lar, the Council of Seven Wise Men. the K. of H. , and ever 
since its organization has been a member of the G. H. Thomas Post of the G. A. R. 
Like his father before him, he has always been a decided Repul)liean, and has always 
labored for the success of that party. On December 20, 1804, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Mary H. Thwaites, of Louisville, Kj'. , and to their union one child has been given, 
Mabel C. Mrs. Witty was born in England, but came to tliis country with her parents 
when young, and first settled with them in Ohio, and then in Louisville, Ky. Her father 
was a railroad man in England, being with the London & Northwestern, and he was a 
successful builder of railroads. He became general roadmaster of the Louisville i^ Nash 
ville Railroad, but spent his declining years at the home of the subject, where he died on 
February 7, ISD'i, at the age of seventy seven years. In ]iersoiiaI appeaiance Capt. Witty 
is decidedly prepossessing, and he possesses good ph)'si(|ue and an excellent constitution. 
The success and honor which have attended liis walk through life are due to his own good 
(|ualities of heart and head, and bis career is worthy the emulation of all who would make 
a mark in life, and leave behind him footprints on the sands of time. 

WiLLi.\M Mc'F.\Ri,AND The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a grandson of 
Robert McFarland, who was a native Tennesseean and an early settler of Kentucky, where 
he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife reared a family of eight children, the of whom 
were sons and all were soldiers in the War of Revolution, fo\ir of them being in active serv- 
ice and the other the captain of a company of home guard. Robert McFarland died at 
an advanced age. His son. Benjamin AFcFarland, was born in Tennessee in 1770 and 
was afterward married in Kentucky to Martha Stinson. by whom he had one daughter, 
Martha, who married William Henderson and became a resident of Indiana, dying there. 
She left eight children, two of whom survive: Harriet, who married Samuel Conslev and 



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James. After the tleath of his tirst wife Benjamin MeFarland manied Mary Ratcliffe, anil 
to them seveu childreu were Ijoru, of whom Kobe) t died in infancy and six grew to maturity; 
Jane (deceased), who became the wife of John McCollum: Thomas (deceased), who married 
Betsey WycofF; Isabel (deceased), who married George Barnes: Samuel (deceased), who mar- 
ried Matilda Bryan; Eliza, widow of Thomas M. Thomas; William (the subject of this 
sketch). The father of these children was a soldier in the French and Indian Wars prior to 
the War of 1812-14, being a noted spy and scout in the service of his country. William 
McFarland, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Campbell County, Ky. , April 12, 
1814, on the farm Ijelonging to his father, Benjamin McFarland. On this farm he was 
brought up to the age of twelve years, living the usual life of the farmer's boy of that 
period. He was placed in school at the age of six years and attended every session of 
school during the three-months winter terms until he was twelve years old. He arrived with 
his parents in Indiana, October 17, 1826, his father and two of his brothers having come in 
the previous spring. They entered about eighty acres of land, cleared about seven acres and 
planted it in corn, then returned to Kentucky, sold their possessions there and returned to 
Indiana in the fall. Besides the above mentioned eighty acres, the father also entered eighty 
acres in Perry Township, and on this last tract they settled when they came in the fall. The 
first thing they did was to put up a cabin, 18x20 feet, the floor of which was made of as-h 
logs, split as tine as possible, and dressed with the axe. The door was made of oak clap- 
boards with the roof also of that material, greased paper took the place of window lights 
and the chimney was what was called '"cat and clay.'' William remained on this farm until 
about 1854. He was married in 1839 by Rev. John Richmond, a Baptist minister and physi- 
cian residing in Indianapolis, to Martha Ann, daughter of John Chiun, and for some time 
thereafter lived in a three-room frame house which had been put up on his father's faim. 
In 18r)4 he purchased ninety-four acres of land for S24 per acre, on which had been erected 
a good hewed log house and there he made his home for three years. Not being pleased 
with the neighborhood he sold his property there and bought 140 acres in Perry Township, 
paying S50 an acre, which was 85 more per acre than was usual. He paid S2,00tl and had 
nine years to pay the balance. In 1871 he erected the handsome two-story frame house in 
which he now resides, but at the present writing has a beautiful home almost completed in 
Indianapolis where he expects to spend his declining years. He was tirst a Whig in politics 
liut for many years has been a Republican and has voted for every Republican candidate for 
president since the time of Fremont. He has been a member of the Baptist Church since 
1839, in which he served as deacon since 1861. A family of eleven children were born to 
them, as follows; Carey A., who married Margaret Graber (deceased), has five children — 
Edna, Guy, Aggie, Elizabeth, and Fay; Man,- E., who man-ied Rev. Edward S. Riley, a 
Baptist minister, by whom she has one daughter — Margai'et: Appoline A.; John L., who 
married Ella Stargel and has two children — Edith M. and Charles: Artemesia: Benjamin F. 
who is married to Selina Ewan: William H. who married Belle Smock and has five children 
— Roxanna, Laurence, Nancy G.. Parviu, Martha C. , Louella A.; Melissa Isabella, who 
married Charles Collins, has four children — Clarence, Frederick. Mary and Leo; Margaret 
M. and Lily P. Carey A., the eldest son, served three years in the Federal army in the 
Seventieth Indiana Regiment, of which ex-President Harrison was Colonel. 

J(jH.\ H. RoTHERT. The caDing of the merchant is one of the oldest, as well as one of 
the most honorable of all lines of industry. Exchange and barter are two of the world's 
most important factors and without these the public would indeed find themselves in a sad 
plight. Above all it is necessary that the line of goods should be pure and the merchant 
reliable, two features combined in the mercantile career of John H. Rothert. dealer in prime 
groceries, flour and feed. Mr. Rothert is a product of Louisville. Ky., where he was born 
November 4, 1843, a .son of Harmon and Katherine (Faselage) Rothert, natives of Germany, 
who came to America when young and located in Kentucky, where Harmon Rothert died 
when the subject of this sketch was three years of age. The mother survived her husband 
a number of years and died iu Bartholomew County, Ind. At about the age of seven years 
John H. was brought by his mother to this State and his youthful days were spent on a farm 
in Bartholomew County, considerably to the exclusion of school advantages. During the war 
he was engaged in railroading, and at one time enlisted in the Third Indiana Cavalry, but 



340 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

was afterward rejected and began clerkiug in a grocery store, where lie remained for aliont 
five years. At the end of that time he opened an establisliraent of liis own ou Virginia 
Avenue and has carried on a successful business for over twenty years, his stock being valued 
at about $'2,000. He purchased the property where he is now doing business and erected 
thereon a good two story brick building in ISSl, and there he keeps constantly on hand a 
fine grade of general groceries which net him about $1,000 annually. Mr. llothert's suc- 
ces.s has been entirely due to his own efforts, and in addition to his business property of two 
lots, he owns four other lots, on two of which are two houses each, which he rents, the two 
other lots l)eing vacant, his entire property interests in the city being valued at $'2(1,000. He 
was married in 1.S72 to Miss Elizabeth Stolte, a native of Cincinnati. Ohio, by whom he has 
children as follows: Katie, William, John, Clara (dead). Fred, Lizzie and Kosa. Mr. Roth 
ert is a member of the German-American Protestant Association, the Turner's Society, and 
politically is a Ddmocrat, in loaal affairs voting for the one he considers the best man for the 
ofMce. He and his family attend the Zion Evangelical Society, of which he and his wife 
are earnest and consistent members. 

William J. Roach. This successful wholesale lumber dealer is a member of the well 
known firm of Roach & Clark of Indianapolis, Ind. He was born in Warren County, Ohio, 
August 4, 1841, a son of William H. and Eliza (Worley) Roach; who were also natives of 
the Buckeye State. The paternal grandparents were Virginians but were early settlers of 
Ohio, were tillers of the soil and in their religious belief were mendjer of the Quaker faith. 
The matenud grand[)arents wereof Scotch descent and the grandfather. Walling Worley, was 
a soldiej- in the War of 1.^12. W^illiam H. Roach followed in his father's fciotsteps and be 
came a farmer. He was called from life in 1X57 and his widow still survives him and is re- 
siding in Indianapolis at the advancetl age of eighty years. To this worthy couple a family 
of six children were born, three sons and three daughters, five of whom are living at the 
present time. On the old home farm in Warren County the subject of this sketch was reared, 
his education being obtained in the common schools in the vicinity of his rural home. He re- 
mained under the shelter of the parental roof, assisting his father in the duties of the farm, 
until he was about twenty-five years of age, at which time he engaged in the livery, and saw- 
mill business at Morrowtown, Ohio, following these occu])ations with reasonable success 
until four years had elapsed, at which time he came to Indianapolis, arriving in the month of 
March, 1S70. He at once engaged in the sale of saw dust, and operated several wagons 
throughout the city. This proved to be a profitable business, and he continued it for about 
ten years; then turned his attention to the wholesale lumber business as a member of the firm 
of Eudley & Roach, which partnership continued about five years. The firm then became 
Roach & Clark and as such still continues. These gentlemen are doing a profitable busi- 
ness and carry a stock of goods valued at about $15,01)0, their annual sales amounting to 
some 75,000. They ship their goods to St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, Buffalo and many other 
eastern cities, their jjroduct being obtained principally throughout the States of Indiana and 
Kentucky. While a resident of Morrowtown, Oiiio, Mr. Roach took an active part in the 
political affairs of that section and served in the capacity of Deputy Sheriff and constable for 
nearly ten years. Since locating in Indianapolis he has prospered financially and is the 
owner of a considerable amount of real estate besides his fine residence ])roperty. On 
November 4, 1801, he was married to Miss Jane Hyser, a native of Warren County, Ohio, 
and a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jeffries) Hyser, early settlers of Warren County, 
Ind., the father having been a soldier of the War of 1S12. To this union four children 
were born: Lizzie B., Clyde C. ; Harry D., who was killed in the lead mines in ^Missouri, 
May 18, 1892, of which he was superintendent at the time, and Helen. Clyde C. was a 
member of Richardson's Zouaves for five years and held the rank of captain. The mother 
of these children died April 20, 1SS4. having been a noble wife and mother, and a devout and 
consistent member of the Presbyterian Church for many years of her life. Mr. Roach's 
second marriage was celebrated June 0, 1887, Mrs. Anna (Jack) Hyser, becoming his wife, 
she having also been born in Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. Roach are members of the 
Memorial Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Roach has been a deacon for many years. In 
politics he has ever been a stanch Republican. 



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Adrial Stlvanus Kingsley. Tlie geutleman vvbose name beads this sketch was born 
in Erie County, N. Y., twenty miles from Buffalo, February 1, 1818, a son of Sabin and 
Betsey (Abbot) Kingsley, the former of whoDj was a native of Huntington, Rutland County, 
Vt., and the latter of Concord, N. H. ; she being a relative of the Abbotts of New England, 
well known writers. The mother was born in a block house. Mr. Kingsley was a tiller of 
the soil, and this occupation followed after his removal to Indiana, which was in a very 
early day. They went down the Ohio River on a raft, leaving Pittsburgh in November, 
1818, and before reaching their destination passed through many hardships and perils. At 
the end of six weeks they arrived at Cincinnati (January 1, 1S19), and on account of ice 
between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati landed only once. They settled in Switzerland County, 
Ind., in January. ISlit, and resided thereuntil their removal to Indianapolis in March, 
1855, in which city the father died on February 25, 1865. He was a strong Abolitionist, 
and upon his death bed, among the last words he uttered were, that he had only one desire 
and that was to live to see the Rebellion put down. His widow survived him until February 
3, 1881. The youthful days of the subject of this sketch were marked by many thrilling 
adventures, for the State of Indiana was in its primitive condition at that time, and until 
he was thirty-tive years of age he lived on farms twenty years half a mile from the town of 
Jacksonville. In the spring of 1854 he removed to Aurora, Ind., and in the spring of the 
following year to Indianapolis. He had obtained a common school education in his youth, 
and after reaching a suitable age taught school in Switzerland County for a number of years, 
and under the shades of Hanover College, and had among his pupils some men who have 
become eminent in the affairs of the State and nation. Upon locating in Indianapolis he 
opened a boarding-house, and during the five years that he conducted this establishment he 
became well known as one of the best hotel men of the city. Succeeding this he engaged 
in the dairy business, and in April, 1877, established the creamery, which business he is 
operating in a highly successful manner at the present time. On November 16, 1840, he 
was united in marriage to Roxy J. Aldrich, a native of Montgomery County, N. Y. , and to 
their union eight children have been given; Mary E. J. (deceased), Harriett E., widow of 
C. J. Shawver; Royal A.; Mary E. J., wife of James A. Johnson, of Dakota; Loring B. 
S. (deceased), Loring B. S. (another child, deceased), Charles E. A. and Frank E. Mr. 
and Mrs. Kingsley celebrated their golden wedding about three years ago, at which time all 
the family were present. Although Mr. Kingsley is quite advanced in years, he is yet hale 
and hearty and carries on an active business. He has a tine mind and is a frequent con- 
tributor to newspapers, being an interesting writer of the early history of Indiima, in which 
State he has lived for seventy-live years. He is a strong temperance man, and as early as 
1832 began alone to promote temperance work by refusing to drink whisky, and in 1847 
aided in the organization of a division of the Sons of Temperance in Jacksonville, Ind. On 
coming to Indianapolis he united with the division here and was one of its most active mem- 
bers while it was in existence. He became a member of the Baptist Church at the age of 
fifteen years, and, although not a member of any church organization at the present time, 
is a moral and upright Christian gentleman. In politics he was originally a Whig, but 
cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840. He was a strong Abolitionist 
and an ardent sympathizer in that cause, and, owing to his pronounced ideas in this particu- 
lar, he was subjected to many threats and insults, and at one time his life was threatened. 
Since the organization of the Republican party he has been one of its stanch supporters. 
While a resident of Switzerland County, in 1852, he was the nominee of the Free Soil 
party for county treasurer, receiving forty-tive votes, the entire strength of the party in the 
county at that time. Mr. Kingsley is a man of unblemished reputation, and his honorable 
walk through life points its own moral to the rising generation. 

Charles E. Heinrichs. The name above mentioned is one well known in Marion 
County, Ind., and the possessor of it was born at Osnabruck. Germany. Jidy 25. 1819, his 
parents being Henry and Johanna (Hoffman) Heinrichs, the former of whom died when Charles 
E. was very small, and his mother in her native town at the age of sixty-eight years. She 
was first married to Ernest Ropky, who was a Prussian officer, and was killed at the battle 
of Waterloo. Her sou Ijy this husband, Ernest Ropky, Jr., came to Indianapolis, where he 
died leaving a widow and three children, the former of whom soon followed her husband to 



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the grave. Charles E. Heinrichs was educated ia the schools of bis native land, paying for 
his education by his own lalior, and at the age of sixteen he left school, and entered a 
tobacco factory, in which be worked for thirteen years, supporting bis mother with his earn- 
ings, blithe soon realized the fact that if he wished to la)' up any money be must look else- 
where for it. He was at that time engaged to Amelia Bosse, and lacking funds of bis own, 
be liorrowed $40 of her, which she had saved from her earnings with which to commence 
housekeeping, andsetsail for America, landing at New York December 2, 1S47, with not !F1 in 
liis pocket. He at once went to an old (lerman tavern keeper, named Bick, of whom he lior- 
rowed $10, which took him to Delaware County, N. Y., and during that winter be secured 
employment in a tan yard. He then worked in a brick yard in Newport, Ky.. but owing to 
the dishonesty of the man for whom he worked he was cheated out of his summer's wages. 
He then pawned his watch and a suit of clothes, and sent for his sweetheart, who embarked 
for the United States in the fall of 1848. One month after her arrival they were married, 
and for two years thereafter the table from which they ate was a trunk, Imt they saved in 
the meantime $200. This brought them to Indianapolis,, and after working three months in 
a brick yard be and another man bought a yard of their own, and daring that summer they 
made about I.IOO. The following winter he worked for Col. Blythe in iiis pork packing 
house, and in the spring of 1853 be rented a little bouse and opened a grocery store, in the 
care of which he was assisted by his good wife. In this manner they cleared about $1,000 a 
year until 1861, when they opened an establishment at Cumberland, their capital at that 
time amounting to about $6,000. Mr. Heinrichs finally traded his city property for a farm 
of 110 acres, to which he added from time to time until he became the owner of about 800 
acres. He recently sold 200 acres in Marion County, and is now engaged in managing his 
fine farm of 400 acres, and looks after his five bouses and lots in Indianapolis, which be 
rents. The most of his land is now rented, and he simply oversees his extensive interests. 
Si.x sons and one daughter l)Iessed this union: Charles E., born in 1851, is a carpenter by 
trade; \V'illiam F., born in 1855, is an attorney; Ernest Edward, born February 25, 1858, 
is a resident of Cuml)erlaud; John H., born in 1860, is a stenographer of ability, and the 
other children died in childhood and infancy. Mr. Heinrichs is a member of the I. O. O. F. , 
theGermania Lodge, of the F. & A. M , has been a life-long Democrat, and is a member of 
the Lutheran Church, as was his worthy wife, who departed this life December 4, ISUO. at 
the age of seventy-one years. Tbeir son Ernest Edward is a young merchant of enterprise 
and intelligence, and the jieople of the section in which he resides repose in him the utmost 
confidence, for be has ever proven the soul of honor in his transactions with them, and 
thoroughly understands their wants. He has the management of the old established general 
mercantile house, which was founded by bis father, and the iiusiness is conducted on sound 
and upright principles. Ever since his school days Ernest E. has been connected with mer- 
cantile life, the most of bis time being in his father's store, and in this manner he became 
admirably qualified for the responsible position he occupies. It has ever been his ambition 
to grow up an honorable and successful business man, and that he has reached the goal of 
his ambition cannot be doubted when the large jiatronage he bas is taken into consideration. 
He was born in Indianapolis, and received the rudiments of a primary schooling there, which 
be completed at Valparaiso and Moore's Hill Colleges, and before succeeding his father in 
Ijusiness he was traveling salesman for a boot and shoe house of Columbus, Ohio. February 
27, 1881, be was married to Rosabel Buchanan, daughter of John Buchanan. a prominent farmer 
of Warren Township, this county, a sketch of whom appears in this work. Mrs. Heinrichs 
is an intelligent and talented little lady, possesses fine conversational powers, is her hus- 
band's right hand in many ways, and also "looketh well unto the ways of her household." 
They have two children: Harry H., born December 12, 1881. and Bertha L.. born October 
30, 1884. Mr. Heinrichs is a member of Capital Lodge, No. 124, of the I. O. O. F., Indian- 
apolis, and politically is known as a conservative supporter of the Democratic party. He is 
a gentleman wide awake tu bis own interests, and to the welfare of any deserving enterprise, 
yet is so fair and honorable withal, so i)ublic spirited, generous and honorable, that bis name 
is highly respected wherever known, and he counts bis friends by the score. 

J.\MEs T. Eaglesfield, a member of the well-known firm of William Eaglesfield Com- 
pany, is one of the young business men of Indianapolis. Connected with bim in business is 



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Alouzo E. Robbins, who is not actively associated with the business but is superintendent of 
the Toledo division of the Hocking Valley Railroad with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. 
They established their business at their present location in 1886, handling lumber and 
almost all kinds of building material, adding to their business in 189tl a well-equipped 
planing mill, and at present have ample facilities for everything in the lumber and building 
business, carrying a stock of from .?10,tlt10 to $15,O0U and having an annual business of from 
180,000 to i;96,000. James T. Eaglestield was born in Clay County, Ind., in 1856. William 
Eaglesfield, his father, was a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, born in 1815, and his parents 
having died, he came to Indianapolis in 18'i2 with his uncle, Caleb Scudder, a cabinet maker, 
and they were among the first settlers of Indianapolis, the old house being on the corner of 
Market and Tennessee Streets, opposite the State House. He went to school here and has 
many stories and reminiscenses to relate of the old times. lu 1835 he went to Putnamville, 
Ind., where he married Miss Margaret E. Townsend. a native of Kentucky. Some eight or 
ten years later they went to Clay County, where Mr. Eaglesfield operated a saw-mill and 
engaged in the lumber business. In 1860 he went to Terre Haute, where he carried on a 
prosperous business till 1875. His connection with the timber interests of the State through 
so long a time made him an acknowledged authority on all subjects relating to it. He died 
in 1888. leaving a memory of a long life well spent. His wife, though well advanced in 
years, continues in fair health and finds a comfortable home among her children in Indian- 
apolis. James T. Eaglestield has been reared in the lumber business, and received an educa- 
tion in the schools of Terre Haute, Ind., and at Ann Aabor. Mich. He is a member of the 
Commercial Club which has contributed so much to the advancement of the city. 

John W. Combs. The subject of this sketch is one of the old settlers of Marion County, 
Ind., having resided here for sixty-six years, and during all that time his career has been 
above reproach. All his life has been passed in the Hoosier State, his birth occurring in 
Dearborn County, January 4. 1824, to the union of Jesse and Lititia (Walton) Combs, the 
former a native of Laurel Hill, Penn., born March 20, 1787, and the latter of Virginia, born 
August 12, 1792. The parents resided in Pennsylvania until about 1818 when they moved 
to Hartford, Ind., and after making their iiome there for ten years, or until 1828, moved to 
Indianapolis. There both passed the remainder of their days. Three children were given 
them, as follows: Nancy, born April 8, 1814, married Oliver Morris, of Indianapolis (she 
is now deceased), William Franklin, l)orn July 14, 1816, was married tirst to Adelia Lumen 
and afterward to Miss Ellen Mitchell, and John Watson, our subject. The father of these 
children was in the War of 1812 and was stationed at Fort Metgs, in the northern part of 
the State, under Gen. William Henry Harrison. John W. Combs, the subject of this sketch, 
was about four years of age when he moved with his parents to Marion County. Ind., and 
here he has since resided. In this county his scholastic training was received and here 
he has since resided, honored and respected by all. On February 27, 1847. he was married 
to Miss Emma Cole, daughter of Allen and Adeline Cole, of Hamilton County. Ind. Four 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Combs: Teressa, born June 26, 1848, single and 
at home; Annetta L. , born January 27, 1850, died May 20, 1851; William F., born April 
29. 1852, married Miss May Cory, and is now at home; and George W., born March 10, 
1859. married Miss Carrie Kregelo, who died February 11, 1892. Mr. Combs is a public- 
spirited man and takes an active interest in all good work. He has held a number of public 
offices in the township and is well informed in politics and the affairs of the county. For 
eighteen years he was justice of the peace, has been township assessor two terms, and notary 
public for eight years. He now owns a fine farm adjoining the town of Oaklandon, this 
county. 

Mrs. S.4R.4H T. Bolton (deceased). The picturesque type of women to which Mrs. Sarah 
T. Bolton belonged is fast passing away, and soon it will become merely traditional in this 
part of the country. As the years go on this type recedes farther and farther bj- the 
advancement of civilization. Sarah Tittle Barrett, the eldest child of Jonathan B. and 
Esther (Pendleton) Barrett, was a native of Newport, Ky, born December 18, 1811. Her 
ancestors were of good lineage, her grandparents being distinguished bj' their ability and 
for their patriotic services. When Sarah was a little girl she came with her parents to 
Indiana to reside. Her reminiscences, quoted from her life, written by the late J. Vi. 



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Gortlou, were to this effect: "As there was no road for wheels, we were ol)liged to travel on 
horseback.'" They accomplished their journey in safety and reached their home, which was 
a log cabin with puncheon floor and all the rude furniture of the pioneer. It was at this 
time that the tirst inspiration of poetical thought came to the little girl, who in later years 
became the poetess whose name and verse are known to the world around. Amid the rude 
life of the early settler Sarah passed her youth, sharing the duties of the household. She 
had no educational advantages. She learned to cook, sew, knit and wash. None could 
afford to be idle. But in that life she established good habits of mind and body, 
and in it were laid the foundations for a noble character. When Sarah was quite a 
young woman the family moved to Madison, that the children might lie educated. She 
was much behind children of her own age, but it was an incentive to her. She advanced rapidly 
and was soon among the foremost in the school. Hon. Jeremiah Sullivan allowed her the 
use of his library, and this delighted her. Sarah T. Barrett's first published poem aj)peared 
in the Madi.sou Banner when she was about fifteen. From that time on until she was mar- 
ried she wrote nearly every week for the newspapers of Madison and Cincinnati. She 
attracted the attention of literary people bj' her productions and in this way l)ecame 
acquainted with Nathaniel Bolton, who owned a jiaper in Madison, and this led to their 
marriage October 31, 1831. They removed to Indianapolis and Mr. Bolton went into busi- 
ness with his step-father, Judge Smith. They established the Indiuiiaiiolin Gazi-ftf, the tirst 
newspaper ever published in the State capital. Mr. and Mrs. Bolton settled upon the tract 
of land upon which the hos|iital for the insane now stands. They moved into the town for 
awhile, where a daughter was Ijorn to them, and then went back to the farm, where a son was 
born. At this date Mr. Bolton planted the trees that now line the land from the national road 
to the hospital. So many people stopped at their house that they finally decided to make it 
public, and a sign "Tavern by Nathaniel Bolton " was raised. Mrs. Bolton attended to all 
the housework. Here parties were given at every meeting of the General Assembly, and 
among those who were there were Robert Dale Owen, Jesse D. Bright, Michael G. Bright 
and others. In October, ]S4(), Col. Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United 
States, visited there and a grand reception was given. Mrs. Bolton wrote a poetical address 
for the occasion. There was no great occasion from that day to the time of her death that 
she did not write poetically upon the subject. Her power of imitation was very 
strong, and it is said her poem on " Poe's Death "' in the style of his " Raven " e(]ualled his 
own immortal verses in rhythmic measure and poetic thought. In 1847 Mr. Bolton was 
elected State librarian, and at that time the general supervision of everything pertaining to 
the State House devolved on the librarian, and Mrs. Bolton assisted him in his work. There 
was great need of carpets for the Senate chamber and House of Representatives, as the Legis- 
lature would soon convene. Mrs. Bolton went to Cincinnati and purchased some, and after 
their arrival there was no one to sew them. Mrs. Bolton did this work. While thus 
engaged she jilanned and wrote a poem, " Paddle Your Own Canoe," which has been trans- 
lated into many languages and sung all round the globe. A verse from it; 

"Nothing great is liglitly won. 

Nothing won is lost. 
Every good deed uobly done 

Will repay tlie cost. 

Jjeave to lleaveu in liunible trust 

All you will to (io, 
IJut if 3'oii succeed you must 

Paddle your own canoe." 

Mrs. Bolton wrote fifteen songs which were long popular, and yet she was never 
enriched one dollar by them. "I Cannot Call Her Mother " and "A Reply to Katy Darling" 
were among them. Mrs. Bolton accompanied her husband to Switzerland, where he was 
appointed a consul, and while there she traveled extensively. Mr. Bolton was taken ill 
abroad and only lived to reach home. He died in 1858. Love of country was always an 
inspiration with Mrs. Bolton, and no poem of the war did more to rally the friends of the 
Union than her "Union Forever," written in March, 18fil. She was a woman of keen 
intellectual powers, which she retained to the last. She had the eccentricities of genius, and 



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these were as interesting in their way as her more conventional moods. The music of her 
imagination has sung to many another heart. In 1880 "The Life and Poems of Sarah T. 
Bolton "■ was compiled by Hon. J. W. Gordon. Some other best poems are not included — 
one esi)ecially, " The Wentworths. " Some of her poems are as popular and well known 
as scriptural stories, but often the name of the writer none who repeat them could tell. To 
the knowledge of her friends, no writing of hers was ever rejected by a pnblislier. Her sym- 
pathetic nature found expression in lines at all times. The songs she sang will ever be 
conspicuous in the literaj'y annals of the Hoosier State. She was not a believer in any par- 
ticular creed. Her death occurred August 4, 1893. Of two children born one son, James 
P. , only survives her. 

Jacob H. Sl.\ter. The entire life of Mr. Slater has been passed in ceaseless activity, 
and has not been without substantial evidences of success, as will be seen when this sketch 
is finished. He is a splendid type of the enterprise, industry and self reliance so noticeal)le 
in the Indianapolis business man and it is a pleasure to introduce bim to the readers of this 
volume. He was l)orn in Blackford County, Ind., October 17, 1848, and his father, 
Thomas Slater, was one of the early settlers of this State who left homes of comfort in the 
East to brave the perils and hardships of the pioneer life in the great M'est. But few of 
these old settlers are remaining but occasionally one is met with who has survived the 
storms and ravages of time, but his silvery locks and faltering footsteps tell us that ere long 
he will " pass to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. " Thomas Slater left Ohio 
for Blackford County, Ind., when sixteen years of age, and when tiiat county was an 
almost unbroken wilderness. In 1840 he married Mi^s Mary A. Hart, daughter of a neigh- 
bor who had emigrated from Pennsylvania about the same time. Having earned a small 
sum of money by hard work and economy, he purchased eighty acres of land, which was at 
that time very cheap, erected a log cabin and began the work of clearing up a farm. At 
that time the very best of timber was almost valueless, there being no way of disjiosing of 
it, and the best of walnut was sometimes sjilit into rails or burned in log heaps. The eighty 
acres of timber were finally converted into a splendid farm to which from time to time Mr. 
Slater added a few more acres. He was a man of more than ordinary ability and almost 
without the aid of schools he obtained a moderate education to which he added a fair knowl- 
edge of law. In 1869 he sold his farm and located in Montpelier, the same county, where 
he practiced law successfully until his death in 1892, having reached the age of seventy- 
three years. He could well be called a pioneer for he built the tirst frame house and taught 
the first school in the count}'. His son. Jacob H. Slater, subject of this sketch, was born 
a few months after the above mentioned cabin was erected and consequently knows some- 
thing about the hardships, dangers, pleasures and disadvantages of pioneer life. His parents 
thoroughly impressed upon his mind the importance of an education but his opportunities 
in that direction were very limited. The public schools usually consisted of one term of two 
or three months each year, taught by very iiiex])erienced and sometimes very ignorant teach- 
ers and as his time was needed on the farm for the most part, most of his education was 
received in the evenings at home. He often took a book to the field when plowing and would 
study diligently while the horses were resting. In this manner he obtained what was then 
considered a fair common school education and when sixteen years of age he obtained a 
teacher's certificate. His first term consisted of fifty-five days and with the money thus 
oiitained he attended a graded school at the county seat, for three months during the early 
spring. For the next five years he taught during the winter, attended school away from 
home one term and workeil on the farm the remainder of the year. Having obtained a fair 
education in that way he spent two years in the West and returned home in 1871. He then 
embarked in merchandising but later drifted into the insurance business. Starting in this 
))usiness at the l)ottom of the ladder he mastered its details until by gradual promotion he 
became the trusted special agent of one of New York city's largest fire insurance compa- 
nies. Having a desire to become a professional man he abandoned traveling and for about 
five years studied and practiced law with his father. In 1874 he married Miss Ida 
B. Shull, daughter of Dr. C. Q. Shull, a prominent and wealthy resident of the 
same village. One son is the result of this union, Ouy E. Slater, whose birth 
occurred August 26, 1875. The continued ill health of his wife compelled Mr. 



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Slater to iibandou the law practice in 1S80 and he hefjan seeking for a climate 
better suited to lier constitution. The following six years of his life were full of trouble 
and sadness. In 1S87, accompanied by his son, Mr. Slater returned to bis native State and 
veiy soon received several flattering offers to again engage in his chosen profession. 
Al)out this time the princijtle of building and loan associations on an extensive basis, was 
becoming ])opular with the public and as Mr. Slater, during his insurance experience, had 
<levoted a large amount of time and study to the actuarial or mathematical principles of that 
science, he at once became deeply interested in this popular system. . After carefully master 
ing its varied principles and plans, testing them by all the known rules of mathematics, he 
determined to locate in Indianapolis and make it his life's woik. In 18NU he formulated the 
jilaiis and oigaiii/.ed the Fidelity Building and Savings Union, with a board of directors com- 
posed largely of State otticers. Two years later he also organized the Fraternal Building 
and Jjoan Association in both of which associations he has ever since held official positions 
and has been prominently identifieil with their management. His long i)U8iness experience 
and energy, united with the keen business foresight of his chosen associates, has placed these 
associations among the strong financial institutions of the country, commanding to a large 
degree the confidence of the public in almost every neighborhood of the State. The second 
marriage of Mr. Slater occurred October K^, ISllO, to Miss Mary E. McDowell, a very intelli- 
gent young lady born in Newburg, N. Y., July 16, 18(i'2, but for a number of years a 
resident of Indianapolis. Immediately after marriage they estalilished their home on North 
.ler.sey Street, and there they now reside. In church matters Mr. Slater is not very active. 
He joined the Methodist Church when twelve years of age and upon leaving his native 
village he carried with him a card from his minister which he has not as yet deposited with 
any organization. While he is somewhat liberal in his views regarding the several orthodox 
churches, his preference would probably be slightly in favor of the Methodist Epis- copal 
Church. In politics he is a Kepublican and during his early manhood he entered actively 
into the work of several campaigns but never as a candidate for office. He was accorded 
considerable ability as a forcible and logical sjieaker both on the stump and before courts 
and Juries while jiracticing law. During recent years he lias lieen so thoroughly interested 
and active in his varied linsine.ss interests that the only attention given to politics is to care- 
fully study the principles of the parties and cast his vote. He takes some interest in fiater- 
nal and benevolent orders, being a member of Centre Lodge, F. & A. M. , of Indian- 
apolis and past chancellor of Pythagoras Lodge, No. 380, K. of P. He also holds a com- 
mission as colonel and A. D. C. on the staff of the major-general of the Unifoim Bank, K. 

of P. of the world. Mr. Slater is a man of strong convictions but has no hobbies. He is 

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proud of the fact, however, that he has never taken a drink of whisky as a beverage in his 

life and does not think it essential to our happiness. 

Joshua H. V.\n Deman. This ]irogressive tiller of the soil probably enjoys the dis- 
tinction of having lived continuously on one farm longer than any other inhabitant of 
Marion County, lud. His parents, John and Mary (Heizer) Van Denian, were natives of 
the Keystone State, l)ut in childhood were taken to Ross County, Ohio, where they made 
their home until 18H), when they came to Fayette County, Ii.d., and about 182(3 took up 
their residence in Marion County, where the father entered the land in Warren township, 
at the intersection of the Michigan with other roads, locally known as "Five Points." He 
spent the rest of his days on this farm with his family, and there was called from life in 
1867. In 1848 he deeded this land to his son, Joshua, who has lived on the place ever since 
he was one year old. This worthy old couple became the parents of three sons and two 
daughters: Samuel H. ; Johu E. ; Joshua; Eliza J., who died at the age of twenty four years, 
and Rebecca A. When John Van Demau came to Marion County, Ind., it was almost a 
wilderness, but being of a sturdj' disposition and greatly desirous of securing a home for his 
family, the life of a pioneer had no terrors for him, and he at once set energetically to work 
to clear the eighty acres of land which he had entered, in which he was assisted in later 
years by his children. He eventually entered two more eighty acre tracts, and thus liecame 
the owner of 24(1 acres of fine farming land. He was a Whig in ]>olitics and died March 
27, 1807, his wife having pas-sed from life in Decend)er, 1808. Joshua H. Van Deman was 
born March 27, 1S25, in Fayette County, lud., and was married on September 2'J, 









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1858. to Miss Liicinda Denny, daugbter of Theodore V. and Elizabeth Denny, a sketch 
of whom appears elsewhere in this work. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Van 
Deman two sons were given. Ordo L. and Roy L. He and his wife are members 
of the Missionary Bapti.st Church at New Bethel, and politically he is a Republican. 
He is a wide awake and intelligent farmer, always up with the times in agricultural appli 
ances and methods, and is recognized as a mau of probity and correct Ijusiness methods. By 
his thrift and industry he has accumulated an estate which places him among the list of 
"fore handed" and he has the respect of all citizens throughout his section. Mr. Van 
Deman is building a modern and comfortable home in the city of Indianapolis where he 
expects to remove and enjoy the fruits of his industry. 
* Joseph L. Fisheb. In reviewing the industrial enterprises of Indianapolis, it is the 

aim of this history to mention those men who are the best representatives of each separate 
calling and which contril)ute most to its reputation as a source of supply. Among those 
business men of the city who are worthy of distinct mention is Joseph L. Fisher, who is 
engaged in general contracting. He was born on the Ritsinger farm in Perry Township, 
Marion County, December 15, 1833, a son of David and Elizabeth (Hodges) Fisher, both of 
whom died when the subject of this sketch was a child. David Fisher and his wife were 
among the pioneers of this section and he was the second person to establish a tannery in 
this section of the country, and one of the lirst, if not the very first, missionary Baptist 
churches in the county was organized at his house. Prioi' to his removal to this section iu 
18'2H he had been a resident of Ohio. His wife was a native of Virginia, and they were 
married in Kentucky. Joseph L. Fisher was the tenth of their eleven children, and after 
the death of his parents he made his home with an elder brother who sent him to such 
schools as were held in the vicinity where he acquired a fair common-school education. At 
the early age of thirteen years he started out to make his own way in the world, and in order 
to clothe and feed himself he turned his hand to anything honorable that he could tind to 
do, Ijut labored piincipaljy for the farmers in the vicinity until his marriage, when he Ijegan 
farming on liis own account in Perry Township, and did some gravel contract woi'k on the 
Madison Road. In 1S(>9 he was appointed superintendent of the county a.sylum, which 
position he lield for three years, then moved hack tn the farm of 172 acres which he had 
purchased near Southport, where he made his home until 1874, then came to Indianapolis, 
since which time he has done nearly all kinds of contract work, such as excavating, building 
foundations for buildings, the stone work on bridges, and has paved several of the streets of 
Indiana])olis. He did the stone work on twelve or thirteen bridges in Hendricks County, 
three in Hancock County, two in Crawford County, one in Miami County, one in Boone 
County, and several in Marion County, all this work being characterized by firmness and 
durability. Before he had attained his majority he spent one summer in Clark Clounly, 111., 
iiut since that time he has been a resident of Indianapolis. He has helped to make the place 
what it is both by his influence and labor, and is public spirited to a degree, being ever readv 
to lend his assistance to any good work. He has at times given employment to from twenty-five 
to 125 men, and in his line of human endeavor he has gained an excellent reputation. He 
was married in 185-4 to Martha J. McCollum, of this county, to which marriage a family of 
four children have been given: two sons Ijeiug the only survivors: John D. , who is at home 
with his parents, and Ez.ra Morton, who is chief clerk of the Aniline Works of the city. 
When a boy of fifteen he entered the employ of the I. B. & W. Railroad in the auditor's 
office, and afterward liecame traveling auditor of that road. He held the same position on 
the Liuion Pacific stationed at Omaha, after which he engaged in the real estate business in 
Topeka Kan. After a time he entered the auditor's office of the Atchison, To]>eka & Santa 
Fe Railroad, and was then connected in the same capacity with the St. Louis Railroad, and 
later was with the St. Paid & Minneapolis Railroad, then with the Union Pacific Road, but 
on account of poor health he gave u]) his position, returned home and secured employment 
in the Ceiealin Works of this place. Mr. Fisher is a member of the Commercial Clul) and 
the Marion Club, and is a stanch Republican. He has long been a communicant of the South 
Baptist Church. He is interested in secret benevolent orders, as is attested by his member- 
ship in Logan Lodge, No. 575, of the MHs(jiiic fraternity, and of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 
2, K. of P. The fall of 18U3 Mr. Fisher was appointed street repairer by the board of pub- 
lic works, and is now filling that position in a highly satisfactory and efficient manner. 



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Alexander M. Hasxah. For many years, or since bis location in this county, the 
reputation Mr. Haiinali has enjoyed has been not only that of a substantial and progressive 
fanner, but of an intelliujent and thoroughly posted man on all the current events of the day. 
.\lthough now in his seventy-third year time has dealt leniently with him and he is still in 
the enjoyment of comparatively good health, and if possible takes a deeper interest in all 
public affairs than he did in more youthful days. He is a son of the Hoosier State, born 
ill Wayne County, September 17, 1821, on a faim belonging to his father, and when our 
subject was two years of age his father was elected sheriti' of Wayne County, and moved to 
Centreville. In this city young Hannah remained until sixteen years of age, attending a 
seminary there, and then entered the employ of M. K. Hiatt, at Milton, Ind., to learn 
the harness milker's trade. He remained with Mr. Hiatt four years, became proficient 
in his trade, and then returned to Centreville, Ind., where he attended school one year. 
Later he opened a shop there, carried this on two years with fair success, and then 
went to Cambridge (-ity, where he continued his former occupation until the spring of 1850. 
He was then seized with the gold fever and started overland for California. He left St. 
Joe, Mo. , with a company of about 150, called the "Express Company."' This company 
furnished the conveyances, meals, etc., and the passengers paid §2(I0 each. The trip lasted 
abinit four mouths but our subject left the company at Salt Lake City, where it abandoned 
the enterprise, and lie bought one fourth interest in a team going through — four mules and a 
wagon — and he and a man named Hnghes bought half interest in a wagon and two extra 
mules, and started. In .\ugust they landed at Sutter's Mill, and Mr. Hannah at once com- 
menced placer mining which he continued for two years, making $125 per day for six 
months. After that he started a ranch in Calaveras County, and raised barley, vegetables, 
etc., but finally sold his half of the ranch for $4,tM)(l, and soon after started home. He went 
by way of Nicaraugua. New York and Indianapolis, his father residing in the latter 
place. Soon after he entered the office of the Indiana Central Railroad Company to look 
after freight bills, and was thus engaged for six months, when he purchased 24(1 acres of his 
father, Samuel Hannah, in Perry Township, and moved on the farm. He was not married 
and he emjiloyed a family to keep house for him. Two years later, or in 1858, he erected 
a large brick house in which he resided alone until 1872, when he was marrieil to Miss 
Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Samuel Jackson of Illinois. On this farm he has made his 
home ever since. When he purchased the farm where he now lives about forty acres were 
partially cleared, and since then he has cleared 150 acres. Later he bought forty acres of 
the Demolt heirs, again forty acres and still later ten acres and then twenty acres, making 
350 acres that he has bought and now owns. Annually he raises about 1,200 bushels of wheat 
and he now has three cro|)s in his barn (1893). He also has about sixty acres in corn, from 
ten to twenty acres in oats, and from I5t> to 30(t tons of hay annually. In his political 
views Mr. Hannah has ever been a Republican. He is not a member of any church but con- 
tributes to all of them and pays his quarterage as regularly as any of the members. He is 
public spirited and interested in all enterprises for the good of the county, and no man is 
more highly esteemed. Samuel Hannah, father of subject, was a native of Delaware, born 
December 1. 1789. When six years of age he moved with his parents to Brownsville, Penn., 
thirty miles above Pittsburgh, and there grew to manhood. On July 11, 1811, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Eleanor Bishop, and subsequently, with his wife and two children, went to Cin- 
cinnati by Hatboat, and thence by wagon to Warren County, Ohio. In 1817 he settled in 
Wayne County, Ind.. and in Decern Ijer, 1823, he was elected sheriff. Two years later he 
resigned because as a Quaker he was opposed to the collection of fines for refusal to do mil- 
itary duty. In August, 1825, Mr. Hannah was elected to the Legislature but declined 
re election. In 1826 he was elected justice of the peace and served four years, acting as 
president of the Ijoard until 1829. Previous to that he was a]>pointed post-master at Centre- 
ville, by President Adams and held that office until removed by President Jackson, in 1829. 
He was one of three commissioners appointed by the Legislature to locate the Michigan Road 
from the Ohio River to the Lake, and to select the lands secured to the State by treaty with 
the Indians, held as the Upper Wabash in 1S26. In 1830 Mr. Hannah was elected clerk of 
Wayne County, Ind., and served in that capacity for seven years. In 1843 he was again 
elected to the Legislature and in 1846 he was elected bv the Legislature treasiuer of the 




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State, serving in that responsible position for three vears. After liis olectiou to tliis office 
he removed to Indianapolis, and there resided until his death, with the exception of two 
years spent at Centreville, during the liuilding of the Indiatia Central Railroad. In March, 
1851, he was chosen first president of the company but resigned in July following. The 
same summer he was elected treasurer of the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad Company. 
In May, 1852, he accepted the office of treasurer of the Indiana Central Railroad Company, 
and held that position until January, 18(54, when he retired from active life. He died Sep- 
tember 0, 1869, when nearly eighty years of age. He was married July 11, 1811, to Miss 
Eleanor Bishop, as before mentioned, daughter of Joseph Bishop, and eleven children were 
born to their union: Anna, deceased, was the wife of Solomon Meredith; Eliza, deceased, 
was the wile of John S. Newman; Sarah, deceased, married Rev. Dr. F. C. Holliday; Ellen, 
deceased, married John M. Ross; James died unmarried; Alexander M. (subject), who mar- 
ried Elizabeth M. Jackson; Israel, deceased, unmarried; Henry R., deceased, was the 
husband of Jerusha Kane; William P., who married Margaret A. Dunham and Thomas 
and Septimus, both died unmarried. The mother of these children died September 2(5, 1864. 
James Hannah, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Delaware and a Quaker in his 
religions belief. His ancestors came from Wales. 

John Thomas P.\rk is decended from substantial Virginia stock, for in that State his 
father and grandfather were born. Samuel Park, his grandfather, was born in 1767 and 
died in 1825. His grandmother, Martha Park, was also born in Virginia, her birth occur- 
ring in 1778 and her death in 1851. William Park, father of the subject of this sketch, was 
born in 1793, married Henrietta Thomas, of Kentucky, and in 1840 immigrated westward, 
finally settling in Morgan County, Ind , where he died nine years later. To himself and 
wife a family of eight children were given, of whom Samuel R. Park was one. Upon reaching 
maturity the latter took for his first wife Mary McNabb, by whom he Ijecame the father of 
one daughter, Mary S. McKinsey, and for his second wife espoused Mary Gurlej', by whom 
he had one son, Alphonso. The second child born to William Park was Mary, who l)ecame 
the wife of H. T. Swearengin (deceased), iiy whom she had live children. Benjamin and 
Ale.\ander were twin brothers. The latter, who is now deceased, married Mary Edwards, by 
whom he had five children, and Benjamin married Mary McNabb, by whom he had six chil- 
dren. Elizabeth Jane, the ne.xt child born to William Park, is now deceased, but became 
the wife of \V. R. Harrison, by whom she became the mother of one son, Walter J. John 
Thomas, the subject of this sketcli, comes next; then Henrietta, who married Joseph Cop- 
land, by whom she had six children. William P., who first married Susan Swearengin, who 
hare him six children, and for his second espoused Roxanna, a sister of his first wife and 
widow of Robert Ray. The mother of these children was born in Kentucky in 1800, and died 
in Morgan County, Ind., in 1878. She was a wonian of much intelligence and sound, good 
sense, and she and her worthy hnsljand endeavored to instill noble princi|)les in the hearts 
of their children, and that their precept and example was heeded cannot be doui)ted in look- 
ing over the honorable and useful careers of their children. John Thomas Park tirst saw 
the light of day in Mason County, Ky. , November 27, 1S36, and in 1840 he came with his 
parents to Indiana, and settled on a partially cleared farm of 160 acres which his father had 
purchased. Hei'e be was brought up, receiving the education incident to that period, that 
is he attended school for about three months out of the year until he was about twenty years 
old, one of his instructors being Hon. Franklin Landers. In 1862 he was united in mar 
riage with Maria E. Baxter, daughter of Peter D. and Martha Baxter, her birth having 
occurred in Ohio, and after his marriage Mr. Park farmed on rented land in Morgan 
County until 1878, when he came to Marion County and settled on 120 acres of land which 
he had purchased the previous year, about sixty acres of which were cleared and on which a 
house had been erected. Here he lived until about 1886, when he sold out and bought 17(1 
acres of A. C. Remy, about thirty acres of which tract were heavily covered with timber, the 
remainder being under cultivation. On the improved portion of this land the subject of this 
sketch raises the usual farm products, such as wheat, corn, oats, hay, etc., and he also gives 
some attention to the raising of horses, cattle and hogs. Mr. Park is a Democrat in his 
political proclivities, and cast his first vote for James Buchanan for president. A family of 
seven children were born to himself and wife, but one died in infancy. Those living are: 



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Walter K., who married Bell C. KiniiHii hiuI lias three cbildren, Ralph, Roy and Charley; 
Baxter D., who married Mary A. Burge; Otto, William, Vasque, and Martha, the unmarried 
members of which family still remain under the shelter of the parental roof. 

George W. Larimore. Among the most intelligent and highly respected families of 
Marion County, Ind., we may well note this one, whose beautiful farm is located in Wash- 
ington Township. Mr. Larimore was born January IS, ]H]H, in the Old North Carolina 
State, and with the exception of about a year spent there, he has ever resided in this State, 
and his history has run along the same lines chronologically with that of the Hoosier State. 
He is a son of Daniel M. and Mary (Brooks) Larimore, both natives of North Carolina, where 
they were married in 1810. To this union were born ten children, five sons and five daugh- 
ters, all of whom are now deceased with the exception of our subject and his brother, 
A. J. Larimore, who is married, has a family of five children, and resides in Jefferson 
County, Ind. Our subject's brothers were Joseph, Daniel M. , James and Andrew J., 
and the sisters were Jane, Nancy, Mary. Catherine, and one who died in infancy. The 
father of these children was a farmer by occupation. He was an upright citizen, and a 
man possessed of an unlimited amount of good, practical common sense. The incidents 
in the early life of our subject differed very little from those of other boys who were 
reared on farms. As soon as old enough he became familiar with the duties of farm life, and 
in common with other boys, attended school in his neighborhood, priucii)ally in the winter 
seasons. After reaching mature years he was married to Miss Malvina Hammond, their 
nuptials being celebrated January 0, 1S35. Her parents, Jonathan and Martha (Pepper) 
Hammond, were natives of Maryland, where they were married. To Mr. and Mrs. Larimore 
were born nine children, who were named as follows: James M., born August '2, 1S3(); 
Marcelia J., born November 80, 1888; Mary A. E., born July 22, 1840; Sophronia M., born 
Mav 4., 1842; Daniel M., born February 5, 1844; Thomas J., born January 22, 1846; 
William W., born March 25, 1849; Jonathan S., born March 29, 1853, and Martha E., born 
March 28, 1857. All the children are now deceased except Daniel and William. The former 
married Henrietta McCarthy, and now lives in Indianapolis. William married Louella 
Smith, and resides with his father on a farm just north of Indianapolis. He had but one 
child born to his marriage — Hattie, who died at the age of nine months. The father of nur 
subject was a soldier in the War of IS 12, ami served throught the entire war. 

Chbisti.\n F. Wiese. Prominent among the leading agriculturists of Franklin Town- 
ship, and no less so as a citizen, stands the name of Christian F. Wiese, whose birth occurred 
in Prussia, (iermany, December IS, 1838, his parents being Christian and Mary (Schakl) 
Wiese, also of Prussia. Not being satisfied with the financial prospects in the "Fatherland" 
they converted their effects into ready money and embarked for the United States, landing 
at Baltimore, Md., in 1850, from which place they came direct to Marion County, Ind., and 
purchased eighty acres of land in Franklin Township. Under their thrifty management 
this farm came soon to be regarded as one of the best improved in that section. Here the 
death of the father occurred December ]0, 1S78, at the age of seventy five years, the mother 
surviving him until May 27, 1885, having passed the eighty fifth milestone of her life, both 
having been members of the German Zion Church for many years. Their only surviving 
child is Christian F. Wiese who lent his aid as boy and man to improving the home ))lace, 
considerably to the detriment of his educational advantages, his only knowledge of the world 
of books being accjuired at night school. He has a naturally fine mind, however, and his 
views on all subjects relating to agricultural pursuits and on topics of general interest are 
sound and practical. June 11, 1S65, he was united in marriage with Miss Carrie, daughter 
of Henry and Marie (Roblfing) Blase, natives of Prussia, Germany, where !\Irs. Wiese was 
born March 17, 184(5. In 1S5I) her parents with their family left their native land for Amer- 
ica and although the husband and father was accidentally killed while at sea, the mother 
came on with her family and eventually settled in Marion County, Ind., and became the wife of 
Fred Struckman, who worked in a hardware store at Indianapolis, by whom she is the mother 
of one daughter, Mary, who married Henry Vehling of Indianapolis. After his marriage 
Mr. Wiese took up his resideneeon theold homestead where he lived for eight years, then made 
his home in Indianapolis for nine years, three years of which time he was a member of the 
police force of the city, in which position he acquitted himself with honor. He left the force 



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with a gooil record and rmnoved with bis family back to the farm, where he h;is since resided. 
He has a handsome residence, surrounded by a well kept lawn aud line cement walks, and 
everything about the place indicates that a man of thrift and energy is at the helm. His 
entire place is a model of careful farming and shows that his views are of a decidedly prac- 
tical nature. He and his wife have a family' of eight children: Mary, born August 7, 1867; 
Christina, born August 11, 1(S69; Charles, born September 18, 1871; Henry, born October 
10, 1873; Carrie, born December 14, 1876; Christian H., ijorn November 2U, 1878; Ella, 
born December 21, 18S0, and Clara, bom October 9, 1883, all of whom are living with the 
exception of Christian H., who on July 2"), with a brother, was fighting a tire in a pasture, 
which started from the spark of a passing engine on the Big Four Railroad, but a thunder 
shower coming up he took refuge from the rain under a cottonwood tree, against which he 
rested his head. The tree was struck by lightning, the current passing from it through 
Christian's body killing him instantly. He was carried to the house by his brother Henry 
who was near him but all efforts to revive him were fruitless and his untimely death only 
proved the truth of the saying that "Death loves a shining mark," for he was a very prom 
ising, upright young man, genial in disposition, energetic and faithful. Mr. Wiese and all 
his family are members of the German Lutheran Church, and he is a Democrat in his polit- 
ical views. He had a sister, Christina, who became the wife of Andy Franka, and after his 
death married his brother Henry. She bore her first husband three children: Mary, Charles 
(who died at the age of ten years) and Ella. 

Ibedell Sawyer, who came to this section many years ago, was l)orn in Guilford 
County, N. C. , April 22, 1816, being the eldest living child born to John and Sallie (Tansy) 
Sawyer, both natives of the old North State, the father born in 1793. The parents were 
married in 1815, and in 1825 they came to the Hoosier State, where they passed the remain- 
der of their days, the father dying in 1876. Si.x children were born to their marriage, all 
of whom reached mature years: Iredell, subject; Reny, widow of John Jessup, who was the 
son of Timothy Jessup; Eli, who lived in Missouri, but disappeared during the Civil War, 
has not been heard from since; Nathan, deceased, who married Betsey Roberts; Betsy, 
widow of Nimrod Landers, and John, who married Phoebe Lindley. James Sawyer, the 
grandfather of these children, was born in North Carolina in 1772. The parents of our 
suljject first located in Hendricks County, this State, and there resided for four or five years. 
From there they moved to Morgan County, settled near the Marion County line, and resided 
on rented land for about seven years. They then moved l)ack to Hendricks County, and the 
father entered eighty acres of land, on which he lived until his death. The scholastic 
training of our subject was limited, for he attended school very little in his native State, and 
but little more after coming to Indiana. When his father retvirned to Hendricks County, 
our subject, who was about twenty-two years of age, remained in Morgan County in the employ 
and on the farm of William Landers, father of Jackson and Hon. Franklin Landers. He 
remained with Mr. Landers for live or six years, hauling wheat to Cincinnati and corn to 
Indianapolis, and for this received $10 per month. On February 28, 1839, he was married 
to Miss Mary Eliza Dollarhide, daughter of John and Winifred (Koontz) Dollarhide, 
and our subject made his home with the widowed mother of his wife, and carried on her 
farm of 160 acres for some time. He then purchased seventy acres of the heirs and his wife 
inherited ten acres. The first land our subject purchased was two acres of Dana Kime, on 
which he put up a little log cabin. Into this he moved, and the first winter it had no door, 
only a quilt hung up to keep out the cold. He and his wife lived in this for three years and 
he then moved on his mother-in law's farm. The next tract of land he purchased was forty 
acres in Marion County, for which he paid $25 an acre. After this he purchased sixty six 
acres, and then 100 acres, paying for the latter, during war times, $75 per acre. Sometime 
previous to this Mr. Sawyer bought forty acres for $1,000. In 1886 he bought 130 acres, 
and afterward eighty acres. He has cleared aliout fifty acres, and has cleared ont under- 
brush and stumps on 100 acres of land. He has a good residence, and everything about 
his place indicates to the beholder that an experienced hand is at the helm. In politics Mr. 
Sawyer is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson. He has remained with 
that party ever since. He was brought up in the Quaker faith, his father being also of that 
belief. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer have had three children, as follows: Nancy J. (who was born 



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Noveiuber 2(), 1839, and was iiiairied to Hoiiry J. Milson, Noveiiilier 29, ISOl, is the mother 
of five children: Flora, John Lida, William and Jesse), John Evans Sav?yer (boru December 
4, 1844, died November 19, 1861, unmarried) and Iredell D. Sawyer (who was born August 
13, 1850, was married September 13, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Plummer, daughter of Thomas 
and Nancy (Moon) Plummer, and is the father of three children: John T.. Viola E. and 
Hurbie. 

John Conroy. The sons of Ireland are well represented in Marion County, Ind.,and 
they hold conspicuous places in many pursuits, which make that county a substantial star 
in the galaxy of Indiana's many interesting counties. John Conroy, who is one of the promi- 
nent dairymen of the same, is a descendant of Irish ancestors on both sides of the house and 
no doubt inherited from these ancestors the push and enterprise which have characterized 
his efforts through life. His parents. Luke and Mary (McDonuugh) Conroy, were natives 
of the Emerald Isle and were there reai-ed and married. In that country the mother's death 
occurred, and about 180r> the father crossed the ocean to the United States and died here 
the same year. He was a man possed of many sterling qualities and was well known for his 
upright, honorable career. He and wife were the parents of six children, who were named 
as follows; Catherine, married William McDee, and now resides in New York; Mary, mar- 
ried Martin Otis and makes her home in the Empire State, as does Patrick, the third child; 
Bridget, the fourth child, married a Mr. Ward, and is also a resident of New York; Thomas 
passed his life in Ireland and is now deceased, and John, our subject. The latter learned 
the shoemaker's trade in his father's shop in Ireland and followed it in that country and this 
for forty years. He then abandoned it to engage in the dairy business. From ISIU) to 1890 
he worked at his trade in Indiana])olis, but since the latter date he has operated a line dairy 
in the eastern part of the city. He has met with mucli success in this business enter[)rise 
and is reliaiile and trustworthy. During the Civil War Mr. Conroy was in the navy of the 
United States. He was on duty on the Mississippi Kiver and was in some pretty hot places 
from 18*53 to the close of the war. He is a member of the Major Anderson Post, (i. A. R. , 
and a member of the Catholic Church. Industrious and enterprising, ftlr. Conroy is highly 
respected by all who know him. All his properly has been accumulated by years of patient 
toil and he is now being rewanled by substantial results. He selected his wife in the person 
of Miss Eliza Feeley, daughter of James and Honore (Walters) Feeley, and their union was 
solemnized in the year 1864. He and wife have no children 

D.^Hius M. P[iRM.\N, M. D. Even in a city as large as Indiana[)olis it does not take 
long for a man with exce]itional ability to become well known in any art or profession in 
which he may be engaged, and perhaps in regard to the medical profession this is more pro- 
nounced than in any other. The prominent young physician whose name heads tliis sketch 
impresses even those who meet him in a casual way as a man who thoroughly understands 
his profession, and feels thoroughly at home in the position which he occupies. He has 
made no mistake in his calling. The unusual success he has achieved is the logical sequence 
of talent rightly used, together with energy and industry never misapplied. Dr. Darius M. 
Purman was t)orn in Allen County, Ind., January 28, 185(5, and is a son of Samuel and 
Rosanna (Cliamper) Purman, the former a native of Virginia and of Scotch descent, and the 
latter of Ohio and of German origin. The father settled in the Buckeye State, Can-oil 
County, at an early date and engaged in merchandising which he continued until 185(). He 
then moved to Indiana, Imt after a residence there of only one year, returned to Ohio 
where he engaged extensively in stock raising. In 18()8 he again came to Indiana, and in 
this State passed tiie remainder of his days, his death occurring in 1887. He was a pros- 
perous man and was the owner of several thousand acres of land in the Hoosier State. In 
1874 he established the Caledonia Stave Company at Baltimore, Ohio, the largest of the 
kind in the world, but he subsefpiently sold his interests and retired from active business. 
He was very generous and charitable, and in time of need many were the recipients of his 
kindness. He paid out many thousand dollars as security debts. Although he had limited 
educational advantages in youth, and started out in life as a shoemaker with limiteil means, 
he was possessed of wonderful business acumen, and was successful in all his enterprises. 
A great worker, always engaged in some enter[)rise to further his vast interests, his death 
was directly due to hard work. The original of this notice was reared in his native county, 



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and supplemented a fjooc), practical ediicah'on received in the public schools by takiug a 
course iu Taylor University, at I'^ort Wayne. Iniinediately after this he began the htudy of 
medicine at the latter place with Dr. B. S. Woodworth, and in 1874 entered the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis, graduating two years later. After this he located 
at Fort Wayne and practiced his profession there forsix years. In 1882 he came to Indian- 
apolis. He is one of the busiest of this liusy class of men, and is well and fully prepared to meet 
any professional demand that maybe made upon him, and met with flattering succe.ss from the 
start. Previous to coming to Indianapolis, in 1878, he attended Bellevue Hospital, New 
York, for a year. The Doctor is medical director of the Masonic Life Insurance Company, a 
position he has held seven years, and he is a thirty second degree member of the Masonic 
fraternity, being a member of the Indianapolis Consistory. He is also a member of the 
Grand Lodge, K. of P., of Indiana. In the year 1881 he was married to Miss Mary White, 
a native of Kokomo, Ind., and daughter of Elijah F. and Abbie R. (Thornton) White. Dr. 
Purman and wife have one child, named Thomas Harvey. In politics the Doctor is a stanch 
Republican and an active worker for that party. 

\ViLLrAM Hadley (deceased). In the midst of the failures and disasters of life, it is a real 
pleasure to review the career of a man whose efforts were crowned with success, and whose life 
has been as honorable in every particular, as that of William Hadley. We all have strivings 
after a high ideal, but an ideal alone is of little value if not re-enforced by the example of 
those who, like ourselves have human frailties, yet have been enabled to so overcome them as 
to lead lives of usefulness, integrity and true godliness. William Hadley was born near 
Siler's Mills, North Carolina, June 30, 1823, but in early childhood moved with his parents 
to a farm near Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., and assisted in cultivating this farm until 
twenty-one years of age. During this time he secured, under adverse circumstances, such 
academic advantages as the times afforded. Later he became |)rincipal of the Sulphur 
Springs Academy and organized a business college at Plaintield, Ind,, the first in the State. 
In 1851 he embarked in manufacturing in Indianapolis, and was the operator and owner of 
the Underbill Flouring Mills and was also a pioneer in the wholesale grocery trade in that 
city, the firm name being Taylor, Wright & Hadley. He was one of the organizers and an 
active worker and member of the Friends Church, being for many years a teacher in the 
Sunday-school. For a number of years he was very prominent in anti-slavery^ work, as he 
was in all other enterprises of a benevolent and philanthropic character. In 1879 he engaged 
in the tire insurance business and continued this successfully until his death iu 1889. We 
tind no one more worthy of mention, or whose long life of usefulness is more worthy 
to be chronicled than this gentleman, whose honesty and integrity were proverbial iu 
the community. In politics he advocated the principles of the Republican party. 
From 1857 to 1858 he was elected a member of the city council and in 1804 he was 
elected city assessor, serving continuously, being elected for eight successive terms evei-y 
two years at the popular elections. He was one of the founders of the Colored Orphan Asy- 
lum in Indianapolis and president of its board of directors. Probably no man in the city was 
more favorably known as an active, diligent and straightforward business man. In 1848 he 
married Miss Hannah T. Wright, a lady of culture and refinement. 

Dr. Jacob Buehler. The physician whose name heads this sketch is a native of Ger- 
many, born February 14, 1852, and is a son of Karl and Margueretta (Schwarz) Buehler, also 
natives of that country. The father received a liberal education in his native country and 
liecame a civil engineei', being employed by the German Government in that capacity for a 
number of years, but died in 1861 at the early age of thirty-seven years. His wife survives 
him and resides in Germany. The subject of this sketch reached mature years in his native 
country and secured a high-school education. When eighteen years of age he volunteered 
in the military service and remained in the same from 1870 to 1872, when he received 
medals from Germany and Baden and also receiveil diplomas. During service he received 
much instruction in a medical way and this was of much benefit when he began to take up 
medicine as a profession. He remained in his native country until 1882 and then came to 
America. With the exception of a short stop iu Kansas City Dr. Buehler came direct to 
Indianapolis where he has resided since. In 1883 he began the study of medicine with Dr. 
E. F. Hodges, and the same year entered the Medical College of Indiana, where he took two 



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courses during 1888 and 1885. He had to rely entirely on Lis own resources and bad to 
earn the mouey to tit iiini for his profession. On this aceonnt and for other rea.sons he was 
unable to graduate in medicine until the spring of 1891, when he left tlie Indiana Medical 
College with the degree of M. D. He has carried on a successful practice since. Dr. 
Buehler is a member of the Sydenham Society of the college. In October, 1875, the Doctor 
was married to Miss Anna Hoenig, a native of Baden, Germany, and they have one daughter. 
Socially the Doctor is a K. of H., and politically is indei)endent, casting his vote for the 
man, irrespective of party. 

Henry F. Habknev. Few, if any, of the various and many brandies of commercial 
activity that contribute to the general aggregate of trade in the city of Indianajiolis are of 
greater importance than the manufacture of boxes. A deservedly poi)ular and i)rosperous 
man engaged in this line of business, and one who has always maintained a very enviable 
reputation for turning out first class goods and for honorable, straightforward dealings is 
Henry F. Habeney. At first he commenced on a small scale bat he is now at the head of a 
flourishing establishment where employment is given to eighteen hands and an annual busi- 
ness of 135,000 is done. This has been accomplished not without close application and 
attention to business by Mr. Habeney, who is a man of more than ordinary business acumen. 
This gentleman was born in Indianapolis, May 1<5, 1S53, and is a son of Henry F., Sr., and 
Christiana (Limberg) Hebeney, natives of Germany. The fatlier crossed the ocean to 
America in 1846 and came direct to Indianapolis via Madison, where he was first engaged in 
the construction of Bee Line Railroad. Later he followed the construction of wells very 
successfully for a number of years and resided in Indianapolis until his death, July 24, 
1874. The mother of our subject came to America in 1848 and was married in Indianapo- 
lis to Mr. Habeney. Six children were born to tiiem, three of whom died in infancy. The 
others were named as follows: Louis A., died June 24, 1892; Henry F. (subject), and 
Amelia who married A. H. Russe. The subject of this sketch received his scholastic train- 
ing in the private and }iublic schools of Indiana[)olis and subsequently took a course in com 
mercial college. For over seven yeai's after finishing his education he was employed by 
Schrader & Bro. in the Queensware and crockery business, and continued thus until 1877 
when he embarked in business for himself. He engaged in the manufacture of boxes 
and from small beginnings has reached his present enviable position, all by his own ex- 
ertions. In May, 1S93, Mr. Habeney was elected councilman at large to till the unex- 
pired term of a deceased member. The election took place without his knowledge or 
consent and he served the city faithfully during the remainder of the term. During the 
election of October, 1893, he was a candidate for that office on the Democratic ticket 
but the entire Democratic ticket was defeated. Mr. Habeney is a member of the K. of 
H. and is a Master Mason and has passed all the official chairs of the former organi- 
zation. He is also a member of the Independent Turner Society, German (Orphan So- 
ciety, and has been a member of the board of the latter for ten years. He has served 
as president two terms, vice-president two terms, and at present is chairman of the tinance 
committee. Mr. Habeney is also a member of the German Park Association, formerly 
Indianapolis Shooting Target Association, and is a director of the Standard and Globe 
Building and Loan Associations. In choosing his companion for life Mr. Habeney selected 
Miss Emma S. Voigt, a native of Indianapolis and the daughter of Henry W. and Sophia 
Voigt, and their union was solemnized in February, 1878. Five children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Habeney — Willie, Bertha, Henry F., Albert, and one unnamed. Mr. 
Habeney and wife are worthy and consistent members of the Geiman Evangelical Zion 
Church. 

Prof. Thomas Carr Howe, one of Marion County's prominent educators, is a gentle 
man of rare culture and attainments, and discharges his duties with highly commendable 
zeal and abilit}'. He is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Charleston August 5, 1867, 
and was there reared and attended the schools until seventeen years of age. He then 
entered Butler University, in the third preparatory class, and graduated in 1889 with the 
degree of A. B. After that he took the position of assistant language teacher in the 
university, and held that position one year, or until the spring of 1890, when he was 
elected to the Armstrong Chair of Germanic Languages, created in that year and endowed by 



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Lis father-in law, Addisou F. Armstrong, of Kokomo, Ind. He has filled that chair since, 
and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Prof. Howe was married in June, 1890, to 
Miss Jennie E. Armstrong, daughter of A. F. Armstrong, and he and his bride left immedi- 
ately for Europe, where the Professor was in the University of Berlin for two years, study- 
ing Germanic philology. He is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He is not 
much of a politician but voted for Harrison. Robert L. Howe, father of the Professor, 
like many of the prominent men of the county, was a native of the Buckeye State, born in 
Clinton County in 1833. He was a minister in the Christian Church. In 1860 he came 
to Indiana and followed his ministerial duties in Clark County for eighteen years. In the 
fall of 1884 he came to Irvington, Ind., to educate his children, and was a resident of 
this town until his death, March 22, 1S92, having been in the ministry over thirty years. 
He was married May 24, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth E. Carr, daughter of Joseph and Nancy 
(Drummoudj Carr, and three children were given them: Thomas C. , our 8ul)ject; William 
D. , unmarried, a graduate of Butler University in the class of 1893: and Carrie R., at 
home. Thomas Howe the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania. 

J.\MES Shea. That " Honesty is the best policy " is clearly demonstrated in the success 
of those tirms that pursue a straightforward way of doing business. The favor of the puli- 
lic will rest upon those who merit its confidence by dealing fairly. Few indeed are those 
who so well deserve a high place in public opinion as James Shea, for he has been in busi- 
ness in this country but a short time and has built up a trade in the general mercantile 
business which is meeting his most sanguine expectations. He was boru in County Kerry, 
Ireland, May 1, 1857, his father being Cornelius Shea, also a native of County Kerry, 
Ireland, where he followed the occupation of farming throughout life and there eventually 
drew his last breath. The early educational training of James Shea was acquired in the 
Isle of Erin, many of his evenings at home being spent in pursuing the paths of learning. 
Upon commencing the battle of life for himself he went to Wales and began working in the 
iron works of that country, but later made his way to the city of London, where he secured 
a position of conductor on a street car, which occupation he followed for seven years. At 
the end of this time the United States became the goal of his ambition, and after crossing 
the broad Atlantic he came directly to Indianapolis, in the suburbs of which place he turned 
his attention to farming and gardening, his efforts in this line meeting with reasonable suc- 
cess. Later he began making his home in West Indianapolis and began extensively to 
engage in the building business and in all has put u]) about thiitj'-seven houses, nearly all 
of which were for himself. This branch of human endeavor continued to occupy his time 
■ and attention for a considerable period, and owing to his keen discernment and shrewd but 
always honorable business management it proved an exceedingly profitable source of revenue. 
In 1890 he laid in a stock of general merchandise and opened his present establishment 
and as he has conducted it on strict business principles and with the utmost integrity he is 
fully entitled to the success that he has won and which is constantly growing under his wise 
and honorable commercial policy. He deserves much credit for the way in which he has 
bent the force of circumstances to his will, for upon his arrival in this country he had little 
or no money and was a stranger in a strange land. It is through his energy that he has 
made what he has and by his unswerving determination to treat his patrons fairly and with 
consideration. He was married in Loudon about 1880 to Miss Georgia Caroline Franklin, 
a native of Hampshire, England, but he was called upon to mourn her death March 16, 
1893, She bore him three sons and two daughters, one of the latter being deceased. Mr. 
Shea is a member of the Catholic Church and socially belongs to the Ancient Order of Hiber- 
nians. Since coming to the United States Mr. Shea has identified himself with the inter- 
ests of his adopted country and has proven himself a useful and law-abiding citizen. 

Thom.'is Tallentire. Ability, when backed by enterprising business measures and pro- 
gressive ideas, will accomplish more than any other professional or commercial requirement. 
Prominent among those of foreign extraction who have allied their commercial and financial 
interests to those of the American people, and whom the ado{)ted country has reason to feel 
proud of, for their ability and many estimable qualities, is Thomas Tallentire, the well- 
known contractor of Indianapolis. He was born in New Castle, on Tyne, England, Novem- 
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elder Talleutire learned the blacksmith's trade iti his native country and eaiue to this country 
in 1850 or 1851. He first located in New York city, but subsequently moved to New 
Albany, Ind., later Lafayette and finally to Indianapolis where he has since made his home. 
He has been connected with the Big Four Railroad for thirty years and during a good portion 
of that time he was foreman of the blacksmith shops at Brightwood. Politically he is a 
Republican and socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Encampment, having 
been a delegate several times to the Grand Lodge. Thomas Tallentire, Jr., was only about 
two or three years of age when his parents came to America, and as a result all his recollec- 
tions are of this country. He attended the high schools at Lafayette, Ind., and finished in 
the academy at that place, under Prof. Jennings. When seventeen years of age he left 
school and l)egan learning the blacksmith's trade under his father, serving a four years' 
apprenticeship. Later he turned his attention to making car and engine s|)rings for the 
Big Four Road and still later he entered the city engineer's office under S. H. Shearer. He 
filled various positions in that office and was first assistant engineer for about two years. 
After that, until recently, he was street contractor in partnership with Joseph L. Fisher. 
In 1872 Mr. Tallentire decided that it was not good for man to live alone and married Miss 
Maggie Lowry,of Logansport, this State, a very pleasant and amiable lady. Like his father 
our subject advocates the principles of the Republican party and wields considerable influence 
in the community. He is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F. 

J.iMES Swain, retired. In recounting the forces that have combined to make Marion 
County, Ind., what it is, more than a jiassing reference must be paid to the life and labors of 
James Swain, of whom it may be truthfully said that no one has done more to lay the foun- 
dation of the country's prosperity deep, and to build upon them surely and well. He is a 
native of England, burn in Leicester, Leicester County, March "2, 1820, but nearly all his life 
has been passed on this side of the ocean. His father died when he was an infant, and young 
Swain remained with his mother until sixteen years of age, receiving a fair education in the 
common schools. The mother then went to live with a daughter, and our subject concluded 
that he would cross to America, and n)ake fame and fortune in the ''land of the free and the 
home of the brave." He had a married sister, Sarah, wife of George Balaam, living in 
Daviess County. Ky., and in OctoVier, 183t), he sailed from Liverpool. After a stormy pas- 
sage of sixty-three days he lauded in New York, where he remained about a month, but went 
from there to Philadelphia, where he found employment for about six months. In May he 
left for Pittsburg, and thence soon after for Evansville, and walked across the country to 
Daviess County, Ky., where his sister resided. For al)Out a year he remained with his sis 
ter, and then went to Evansville, where he remained for a year learning the cooper's trade. 
After that he entered the office of Jacob Page Chapman, who was then publishing the Soulk- 
westevn Svntbiel^ and reuiaine<l with him a year. At that time (Jhapman and his brother, 
George A., who had been publishing a paper at Terre Haute, came to Indianapolis, and our 
subject accompanied theuj. They started the Indianapolis Sentinel, and carried this on for 
some time, or until they sold out. At that time they presented our subject with a fine gold 
watch, suitably inscribed, as a testimonial of their appreciation of his fidelity and al)ility. 
They sold out to Austin H. Brown, with whom our subject continued until Mr. Brown, who 
was appointed county auditor and State printer, sold out. Then Mr. Swain and John G. 
Doughty took the contract for the State printing under Brown, paying him a commission, 
the firm name being Doughty & Swain. This continued for four or five years, and was the 
best opportunity our subject had yet had to make money. In 1X57 Mr. Swain was appointed 
first deputy post-master under John M. Talbot, who was appointed by President Buchanan, 
and our subject served until May, 1861, when he took a trip with his family to England. 
Coming back in August, 1801, he engaged in the hat business in Indianapolis for a short 
time, and afterward clerked for a fast freight line for a year or two. He then retired from 
active business, and made his home in Indianapolis until 1881, when, on account of his wife's 
health, he moved to Southport, in Marion County, and there he now resides. He has ever 
advocated the principles of th.e Democratic party, and his first vote was cast for Polk and 
Dallas. Socially Mr. Swain is an Odd Fellow. He is now one of the trustees of Southport, 
which pDsition he has held for six years, and he is a public spirited and influential citizen. 
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liberally of his means to its support. He was married in 1846 to Miss Mary Isabelle Parr, 
daughter of James Parr, a native of Maryland, and the fruits of this union was one son, 
George, whose birth occurred in 1847. The latter is now in the office of the IvdianajwUs 
News. William Swain, the father of our subject, was a native of Lancaster, England, and 
there passed his entire life. He married Miss Ann Shenton, who bore him eight children, 
our subject being the only one now living. Mr. Swain is social and genial, and is well liked 
by all acquainted with him. 

Orval D. Cosler. There is probably no one who deserves more credit for the upbuild- 
ing of North Indianapolis, one of tiie most beautiful suburbs of the city of Indianapolis, than 
does Orval D. Cosier, who was born nine miles west of Shell)yville, Shelby County, Ind., 
January 16, 1853, a son of William H. and Elizabeth A. (Eiider) Cosier. The former was 
a native of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky, and both were taken to Shelby County, Ind., liy 
their parents when William H. was a young man. and when Elizabeth T. was at the age of six 
years. There they grew up, were educated and eventually married. After their union they 
settled on a woodland farm in Shelby County, which liy hard work the father succeeded in 
clearing and on which he lived until Febrnary 14, 1870, when he became a resident of Indian- 
apolis and here died on September '.), 18S4, at the age of sixty-five years, his birth having 
occurred September 26, 1819. His widow still survives him, at the age of seventy years, and 
is a resident of North Indiaua()olis, her birth having occurred on March 10, 1823. Mr. Cos- 
ier was as successful as the average farmer, but having a large family never l)ecame very 
wealthy, and after taking up his residence in Indianapolis invested some of his money in a 
grocery establishment, but after being in that business for a few months sold the store. After 
this he began to manufacture boots and shoes and had a general repair store, and was engaged 
in this business at the time of his death. While a resident of Shelby County he held some 
few minor positions. He and his wife were for some time members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, but shortly before his death Mr. Cosier united with the Christian Church, in which 
faith he died. Mr. Cosier and his wife were of German descent, her father, Emanuel Ender, 
having been born on the River Rhine, in Germany, He was a highly educated man and 
could converse in seven different languages. He was schooled for a Catholic priest by 
his parents, but not desiring to be a priest he left Germany and came to America. Orval 
D. Cosier was one of eleven children, seven of whom are now living, and he was the sixth 
member of the family in order of birth. He received his education in the schools of 
Shelby County and when a young man of seventeen years came to Indianapolis in June, 
1870, having remained in Shelby County until that time in order to finisli the term of 
school to which he was going when his parents moved to Indianapolis in February of 
that same year. Orval D. Cosier' s first employment was at Walter's Stave Factory, at 
which place he only worked two days, refusing to work so hard for the small wages 
received. He then worked for a time at the carpenter's trade, and in the broom-corn 
culture for Mr. Bradshaw. After his father, William H. Cosier, bought the grocery store, 
Orval D. Cosier clerked for his father in the store until it was sold by his father. At 
thai time he began again learning the trade of a carijenter and after becoming proficient 
worked at this trade in Indianapolis for ten or eleven years. At the end of this time he com- 
menced contracting and continued the l)usiness for seven years, during which time he built 
many handsome i)uildings throughout tlie county, including one church, also superintending 
the building of the North Indianapolis Methodist Episcopal Church, About this time Orval 
D. Cosier was emjiloyed in the county treasurer's office for two years. Although he was a 
Republican and H. W. Miller, the treasurer, was a Democrat, Mr. Cosier was preferred to 
a Democrat. Such was the high esteem by which Mr. Miller held Mr. Cosier. He remained 
at the office during Mr. Miller's term of otKce, at the end of which time Mr. Miller proposed 
to and did go on Mr. Cosler's bond for $2,000, and signed a petition, as did many other 
Democrats and also Republicans, asking that Mr. Cosier be retained by his successor, who 
was also a Democrat, but such pledges had been made that it made it impossible to grant 
their desire. At the end of which time, being a good financier, he l)egan buying lots and 
building houses in North Indianapolis and placing them on the market for sale: and being 
unusually successful, in three years he has become the owner of a farm worth 15,000, six miles 
from the city of Indianapolis, and built a handsome two-story eleven-room dwelling on the cor- 



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uer of Rader and Francis Streets. North Indianapolis, for his liomp, which he now occupies. 
In all in North Iiidi;inapolis he lias built about forty-three dwellings; also four double 
dwellings which would e(|ual eight, making a total of tifty one dwellings, almost all of 
wliich have been sold at a satisfactory profit. He also holds some property as trustee. He 
has been a professed Christian since 1871, at which time he united with the Methodist 
Episcopal Chnrch, under the pastorate of the Kev. Frost Craft, then pastor of Third Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, and has been one of its most liberal supporters 
and active workers ever since. He was one of the prime movers in the building of the 
Methodist Episcojial Church in North Indianapolis, has been a teacher in the Sabbatii- 
school all the time, and also served in the capacity of superintendent a number of years, and 
al.so was present and helped organize the Methodist Episcojial Church and Sal)bath -school 
at North Indianapolis, and has for some years and does at present hold a local preacher's 
license. March 9, 1881, he was married to Miss Alice Shook, of Indianapolis, by whom he 
has four children: Edna Alice, Kussell Orval, Myron Curtis and Ruth. Mr. Cosier is a 
Republican, and although a stanch supporter of his party Las never been an aspirant for 
office. Mr. Cosier began life a poor boy, at the age of seventeen coming to Indianapolis 
with $2(t. giving half of that amount to his father; he was very industrious and economical. 
During the tirst few years after his marriage, he not Ijeing able to hire help for his faithful 
wife, and her health not being good, he would work all day at his trade and his wife would 
attend to her household duties and at night he and his wife would do the washing, and often 
other work which his wife could not do would be done at night, and in the evening and 
before breakfast he would hoe in the garden and then do a day's work. So determined were 
they to get a start in life, and not having any conveyancy, they would walk for miles to visit, 
go to work or do trading, but now have their horse and carriage and a handsome liarn at 
their present home in which to keep them. He has never belonged to any secret order or 
union and is opposed to strikes. Mr. Cosier built his first house about one year before 
his marriage, doing almost all the work alone, not Ijeing able to hire help, doing some of the 
painting by moonlight. He lived in this house about one year after his marriage and then 
sold the property for $600 cash and moved to Indianapolis; but he and his wife not being 
satisfied returnetl to North Indianapolis and built a five-room cottage on Francis Street, 
afterward adding a sixth room, at which place he lived until November, 1892, when he 
moved to his handsome two-storv residence, corner Rader and Francis Streets, North Indian- 
apolis. Mr. Cosier is a thorough business man, pushing his business for all there is in 
it, honest in all his dealings. Men with whom he transacts business have perfect confidence 
in him. This is one of the main pillars ou which his success rests; he always feels that he 
should be as tirmly bound by his word as by his note. At the time of Mr. Cosier' s mar- 
riage to Miss Alice Shook, he was worth about !?P)00, and while he has, through his industry 
and excellent financiering, grown to be worth about $10,000, yet he does not desire to take 
any honor or glory to himself. He feels as though he has just jnit forth the effort and the 
Lord has given the increase, and to Him he desires to give all the honor and glory, for to 
Him it belongs. 

WiLLUM N. RoBEiisoN. It is a pleasure to chronicle the history of a man whose life 
has been one of honor and usefulness, and although he is considerably past the zenith of 
his career, Mr. Roberson has aceunuilated a fortune that enal)les him to enjoy most thor- 
oughly tlie comforts and conveniences of life. In spite of his advanced years. Mr. Rober- 
son still keeps up the active and industrious life that brought him in such substantial 
rewards, and many men much younger than he display less activity, mentally and phys 
ically, than does our worthy subject. Mr. Roberson owes his nativity to Tennessee, born in 
Washington County, near Jonestown, October 2^!, 181R, and made his home there until he 
was in his sixteenth year. He then came with his parents, David and Mary ( Roberts) 
Roberson. to Indiana. Previous to this, while residing in his native State, he learned to 
read and write, but after coming to Marion County, Ind. , there were few schools outside 
of Indianapolis. For the first year after settling in this new State our subject did not go 
to school, but the next year he went quite steadily, boarding with his brother and paying 
$1 per week. In two weeks after starting to school Mr. Roberson had made such rapid 
progress in his studies, especially arithmetic, for which he seemed to have a natural taste, that 



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he led the rest of the scholars. Unfortunately, after twenty-four days in the school-room, 
he was obliged to quit and carry out his contract of clearing one-half mile of the old Central 
Canal. His teacher, Mr. Cook, told him when parting, that in many years' experience he 
had never seen his (our suljject's) e(jual in iigures. In 1831 the mother of Mr. Rotierson 
died, and about a year later the father, too, passed away. For two years after coming to 
the State our subject worked out on farms by the mouth, receiving $8 per month, and then 
got a sub contract from the State to dig a ditch. This took one summer, and he then got 
a contract to dig one half mile of the old Central Canal, as spoken of above. This canal 
was in Madison County, and on tinishing the same young Robersou and Andrew Wilson 
repaired damages done by a storyj on an arm of the old Central Canal in Indianapolis. 
This took one summer, and after that Mr. Roberson bought 100 acres where he now lives, 
paying $15.50 per acre. This was covered with green timber, and no improvements had 
been made. Prior to this he had bought eighty acres in Belmont, now West Indianapolis, 
and resided on the same four years. After buying the 100 acres he erected a log cabin on 
the same, and resided in this about a year. Later he embarked in the saw- mill business 
with Andrew Wilson, and they had three saw-mills in ditt'erent parts of the county. 
This business Mr. Robersou carried on for five years, and then sold out and returned to 
his farm, which he began immediately to clear. Of the 100 acres he has cleared sixty- 
five acres, and has it under a good state of cultivation. In 1852 he bought 80 acres in 
Wayne Township, and in 18fiO he purchased 82 acres adjoining his (iresent farm. Still 
later, in 1872, he bought 120 acres in Wayne Township, and in 1878 lie Ijought 80 acres 
adjoining his present farm. He also bought 146 acres in Morgan County. Mr. Roberson 
was first married, in 1841, to Miss Sarah Johnson, daughter of David Johnson, and four 
children were born to them, all of whom died young. On November 11, 1852, our sub- 
ject married Miss Nancy Flanagan, daughter of James Flanagan, and became the father of 
seven children, six of whom are living at the present time: Ella married Charles Kreit- 
line, and is the mother of two children, Charles and Louella; James married Miss Ida 
Kempton, and has three children, Bessie, Elsie and William; Joseph married Eva Foltz, 
and they have three children, Grace, Harry and Hazel; Anna married Clarence DuBose, 
and has two children, Gertrude and Edith; Nicholas married Nancy Pearson; and 
Harry married Maud Maun, and is the father of one child, Mabel. In his political views 
our subject is a Democrat and his first vote was cast for Martin Van Buren. He has been 
a member of the church since 1848, and is still an active worker in the same. He is 
kind hearted, genial and courteous, and is always cheerful and contented. No man is 
better liked in the community. His father is also a native of Washington County, Tenn., 
born in 1785, and in that State he was married to Miss Mary Roberts. Nine children 
were the fruits of this union, eight of whom grew to mature _vears, as follows: Charles, 

Maria, Rose A., Sarah, Nicholas, Keziah, Sophia and . Charles, the eldest child, 

was born September 15, 1808, and married Miss Mary Johnson. Eight children were born 
to this union: Maria (deceased) married Galiriel Sylvester, and they had one son; Rose A. 
(deceased) married a Mr. Hatton, by whom she had two children; Sarah married William 
Renison, and they have one son; Nicholas (our subject); Keziah (deceased) married a Mr. 
Catterson, and they had a good-sized family; and Sophia (deceased) married David Der- 
ringer and became the mother of three living children. The father of the above mentioned 
children was captain of the Light Horse Company in the War of 1812. He was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Charles Roberson, grandfather of our subject, was 
born in, Tennessee in 1765, and owned and ojierated a grist-mill in Washington County 

for many years. He married Miss Polly and they became the parents of three 

daughters and one son. His death occurred at the advanced age of ninety three years. 
Our subject's great-grandfather on the father's side was born in the Highlands of Scotland. 
Dick Wenning. Nothing is more true than that good management, fair dealing and 
application to business will result in profit to the parties at interest. Failure rarely if ever 
comes, imless as the sequent of negligence, rash speculation or dishonesty. The field of 
business is large and unusually ripe unto the harvest; active workers are, as a rule, 
rewarded with the highest success. Mr. Wenning is engaged in a most important calling, 
that of the vegetable grower, and makes a specialty of raising all kinds of early varieties for 



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tlie luiuket. He has eij^ht acres of land at 950 Madison Avenue, all of wbich is devoted to 
this line of work, and that this has been a profitable business is fully attested when it is 
known that he has erected one of the handsomest brick residences in the outskirts of the city 
of Indianapolis, surrounding which are neatly and tastefully laid out grounds. Mr. Wen- 
ning was born in Germany. April 2, 1833, a son of Barney Wenuing, who died in his native 
laud in 1S8<) at about the age of seventy years. The mother also died there at about the 
same age. In the public schools of the land of his birth Dick Wenning obtained a practical 
and useful education, and when old enough began learning the weaver's trade in a factory 
near his home, where he continued until he had attained the age of twenty-six years. The 
United States had for some time offered great attractions for him and here he determined to 
seek his fortune, and accordingly in 1859 he bade adieu to home and friends and crossed 
the ocean to this country, coming very soon after to Indianapolis. Shortly after this he 
went to Cincinnati, where he remained aViout one year, then returned to Indianapolis with i)ut 
little cash capital, but with a strong determination to make his way in the world and to earn 
a living if hard work, jiush and determination could accomplish it, little dreaming of the 
success that was to be his. He soon secured employment at farming and gardening in the 
employ of Nicholas McCarty, by which means he secured sufficient money to purchase his 
present property in IBfiO. This land he at once began to till, and knowing that in every 
large city vegetables are always in demand, bp wisely decided to devote his land to this 
branch of agriculture, and time has shown the wisdom of his judgment. His vegetables are 
always fresh and sound, and at his stall in the market house be always keeps on hand a 
large supply which he sells reasonably, and his customers can always rely upon fair deal- 
ing and prompt attention. He was married in the city of Cincinnati, two years after com- 
ing to the United States, to Miss Mitmie Cook, also a native of Germany, and to their union 
a family of eleven children were given, five of whom are living. Mr. Wenning and his wife 
are memliers of the German Reformed Church, in wliicb Mr. Wenning was for many years 
an elder, and in which be has always taken a deep iutere.st. Politically bis sympathies 
have always been with the Democratic party, and he supports i.t on all occasions. He is in 
every respect a self-made man, for he has had nothing but bis own energy, persistence and 
grit to rely on, and these formed the Itasis of bis capital upon wbich to begin luisiness. 

Edward M. Pcmphkey. There are tew cities in the central part of the United States 
which offer so inviting a field of activity to the contractor and builder as does Indianapolis. 
The rapid growth of the business interests of the city, with its accompanying growth of 
population and increase of wealth, has created a demand for finer and more elegant lesi- 
deuces, a larger number of substantial business blocks, while the extension of the city on all 
sides necessitates the erection of suburban residences. In this connection there is no man 
better qualified to meet the demands of the hour than Edward M. Pumphrey, contractor and 
builder, who has been familiar with the calling to which his attention is now devoted from 
early manhood. He is a native Hoosier, born in Putnam County, August 16, 1860, a son of 
L. M. R. and Virginia (Winter) Pumphrey, the former of whom was born in Wheeling, 
West Va. In 1803 be went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1835 moved to Glen's Valley, Mor- 
gan County, Ind. , where be located on a farm and established one of the first mills ever 
erected on White River. He named the town of (xlen Valley and became post-master of the 
place, getting his commission from Gov. Noble, making a very efficient and trustworthy 
official. In addition to the occupations above Mi(>ntioned he was(|uite extensively engaged in 
dealing in stock, in fact, was a man of great push and enterprise, keenly alive to bis own 
interests, but strictly honorable and charitable withal, and in every sense of the word a 
model American citizen. He built one of the first Madison, Ind., distilleries in the State and 
has been an active business man all bis life and although now over ninety years of age, he is 
yet <|uite active. In 1856 or 1857 be moved to Putuam County. Ind., and there still makes 
bis home. His wife was of French descent and died in 187(), while in bis veins Hows sfurd}' 
German blood. Edward M. Pumphrey was the fourth of five children born to the marriage 
of his parents, and in the schools of Putnam County bis initiatory education was secured, 
but he afterward finished his education in Asbury University. \\ hen a mere lad he learned 
the carpenter's trade, for his tastes seemed to point in that direction, but also from child- 
hood he has had a passion for flowers, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen took up tiori- 



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culture, with the expectation of makinor it his life work. He went to Chicago and entered 
the employ of Miller & Hunt, florists, and during the three years that he was with this firm 
he mastered every detail of the business and upon his removal to Indianapolis began follow- 
ing it on his own responsibility, l)ut after a time turned his attention to contracting, which 
calling has occupied his attention, uninterruptedly, up to the present time. He has built 
many private residences throughout the city and suburbs, and many of the most beautiful 
structures in this line which to-day ornament the fashionable quarters are due to his ability 
as a builder. He has also built some of the most noted business Ijuildings of this city, among 
which may be mentioued the Reutsch Block on Virginia Avenue, which was Iniilt l)y Mr. 
Pumpbrey out of St. Lawrence marble, pressed brick and terra cotta. The Fanlzer Sani- 
tarium on Michigan and New Jersey Streets, and other buildings of equal note, testify to his 
skill and knowledge of his calling. He is prepared to enter into contract.s for the erection 
of stores, factories, mills, residences of any kind or size in either wood, stone or brick, and 
his work is always sure to be substantially aud thoroughly done. His well directed efforts 
have done much to adorn the city and ia eacii and every one of his operations he has been the 
soul of honor. Mr. Pum|>hrey has lieen prominent in social as well as business circles, and 
is a member of Indianapolis Lodge, No. 56 K. of P., and Fifty-sixth division Uniform 
Hank. On December 24, 1884, he was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Lout, a 
daughter of Christian Lout, and in their pleasant home they dispense a generous and extended 
hospitality. 

\ViLLi.\M Kra.^s. Among the contractors and most expert and successful exponents of 
the art of brick masonry may be mentioned William Kraas, who is a native Glerman, his birth 
occurring in 1852. He possesses the most worthy characteristics of the German people, for 
he is strictly honorable, is energetic, intelligent and persevering, having inherited these 
worthy qualities from his father, Fred Kraas, who came to this country in 1872 and followed 
the occupation of brick laying and contracting, a calling to which he had given his attention 
(piite extensively in his native land. He was called from life in this city in IScSO at the age 
of sixty-seven years. William Kraas was educated in the land of his birth aud there also 
served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, but perfected himself in it after coming to 
the United States. After working with Henry Beerman for thirteen years he formed a part- 
nership with John Gruman and together they erected hundreds of handsome buildings in 
this city aud numerous l)usine8s blocks, among which were the Gem Laundry, the Shriever 
building, the Baschman residence, Clug, Kuhn, McBride aud others. Since l)eing associated 
these gentlemen have given employment to hundreds of men and have done a business of 
great magnitude and profit. About twelve years ago Mr. Kraas was united in marriage to 
Louisa Triselmann, who was also born in Germany, and to their union a son aud two 
daughters have been given, two sous being deceased, both dying at about the age of four 
years. Mr. Kraas is a meml)er of the Builders Exchange, the Contractors Association, the 
Indianapolis Planing Mill Company, and socially belongs to the K. of H., the Turners' Society 
and Beneficiary Association. When he came to the city of Indianapolis Mr. Kraas could not 
speak the English language, liut notwithstanding this drawback, he has made a success of 
everything he has undertaken and is now in good circumstances. His associate in business, 
John Gruman, was Iwru in Germany thirty years ago and when a young man seventeen 
years of age he came to the United States and began learning the carpenter's trade under 
Conrad Bender, became an exceptionally skillful mechanic, and his connection with Mr. 
Kraas was harmonious and successful. He was married to Miss Annie Metzker, of this 
city, by whom he became the father of two children, whom he left orphaned at his death 
in November, 1892. He was a member of the Buihlers Exchange, the Contractors Associa- 
tion and in the conduct of his business affairs was shrewd, practical and efficient. He 
possessed many fine traits of character and was exceptionally successful in handling the 
men in his employ. He and Mr. Kraas made one of the solid contracting firms of the city, 
and his death was a source of much regret to all who knew him. Since that time Mr. 
Kraas has l)een in business alone. 

DiETRU H F. Strohmeyer. Very few persons are now in existence who can remember 
the old-fa.shioned bake ovens that were used in former years, bffing built in the ground and 
sustained by piles of brick, beneath which tires were built and the tempting breadstuffs 



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piled for bakiug. Tbis lias all changed now and the result is the modern bakery with its 
massive ovens and scores of busy men. The name of Strohmeyer's bakery, at 222 West 
Washington Street, is widely known in this conueetion. Dietrich F. Strohmeyer l)ears tlie 
honor of having been horn in Germany, his birth occurring April 22. 186^, and he is the 
son of Henry and Lotta (Roemke) Strohmeyer, who passed their entire lives in the old 
coniitry, the former dying in 1875 and the latter in 1889. The father followed the occu- 
pation of a farmer and was fairly successful in this pursuit. Dietrich F. Strohmeyer 
reached mature years in his native country, received his education there and at an early age 
became familiar with the duties of the farm. He was left fatherless at the early age of 
seven years and from his fourteenth year on was obliged to hoe his own row in life. Many 
and varieil were his experiences. For two years he was a sailor in the North Sea, about the 
I'lnglish and French coasts, and he did not come to America until 188f'>. when he went 
direct to Indianapolis. After taking a course in a commercial college in this city he 
engaged in the l)akery business, which he has carried on veiy successfully up to the pres- 
ent time, the tirni name at present being Strohmeyer & Beck. Socially our subject is a 
member of the K. of P. and the I. O. O. F., in religion a Protestant and politically is a 
Republican. He does an annual business of about $12,000 and supjilies Indianapolis with 
tirst-class goods. He is a young man of enterprise and acknowledged ability in his trade 
and has already proven a valuable acquisition to the business. 

Thomas J. Chkistian. Indianapolis has always been considered a great center for hard- 
wood lumber. From its yards lumber has been taken forshipment to all parts of the United 
States as well as Europe. Very prominent among those engaged in the hardwood lumber 
business is Thomas J. Christian, a gentleman whose hustling abilities are well recognized 
in this city, as well as through the United States, in which he ranks as one of the most worthy 
representative people engaged in industrial life. He was a member of the firm of J. E. & 
T. J. Christian, which was established in 1891, which dealt exclusively in hardwood lumber. 
Fiom this establishment shipments have been made everywhere that hardwood lumber is 
U'^ed. Our subject became sole proprietor of the business in 1892, and has since increased 
the business to a very large extent. He was born in Indianapolis, October 15, 1867, his 
father, W. F. Christian, being a leading contractor and builder of this city for many years, 
who has for some years been retired. In the city of his liirth Thomas J. was reared, and in 
the j)ublic schools of the same he received a thorough and practical education, which has- 
fitted him for the active business life he has led since reaching man's estate. Upon leaving 
school he entered the employ of his uncle in 1887, to learn the lumber business, and con- 
tinued with him iintil he was taken into partnership in 1891, and as al)ove stated he has 
been alone in this business since 1892. On September 17, 1890, he was united in mairiage 
with Miss Catherine Holmes, a native of the city of Indianapolis, and a daughter of W. C. 
Holmes, by whom he is the father of one child: Wilmer, who was born January 17, 1893. 
Mr. Christian is a memljer in good standing of the F. & A. M., in which he has attained 
to the chapter, and politically he is a Democrat in principle but in local affairs is not parti- 
san. He is a loyal adherent to the law of probity, and in all his transactions he has proven 
himself a gentleman of honorable principles, and possesses the full trust of his patrons. 

Charlks Warken Fairbanks is a native of Unionville Centre, Union County, Ohio, his 
birth occurring May 1 1, 1852. He is a son of Loreston M. and Mary A. (Smith) Fairbanks, 
who were natives, respectively, of Barnard, Vt. , and Green River, Columl)iana County, N. 
Y., who immigrated to the Darby Plains, in Ihiion County, Ohio, late in the decade of the 
thirties. A mechanic by occupation, Loreston M. Fairbanks pursued the avocation of wagon 
maker for a number of years, but later engaged in farming near Unionville Centre, where 
the immediate subject of this sketch was bt)rn. The youth and early manhood of Charles 
\\'. Fairbanks were passed in assisting with the work on the home farm and in attending the 
district school, and later he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, which 
graduated him in 1872, when twenty years of age. During his senior year he edited the 
college paper known as the Western CoUegitDi, and prior to his graduation he began the 
sludy of the law. Upon completing his course at college he resumed his legal studies with 
much diligence, and early in 1874 was admitted to the bar by the Sujireme Court of Ohio. 
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as Associated Press agent at the cities of Pittsburg and Clevelaiul. Two events of much 
importance occurred to Mr. Fairbanks in the year 1874, being his marriage with Miss Cor- 
nelia, daughter of Judge P. B. Cole, of Marysville, Ohio, and his locating for the practice 
of law in Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Fairbanks is a graceful and accomplished lady, a gradu- 
ate of the same college as her husband, and is the mother of live children. Mr. Fairbanks 
for many years has been a trustee of the Oiiio Wesleyan University, and gives with an 
unsparing hand for the good of his alma mater. He takes a keen interest in all matters of 
a public nature, lends his aid in advancement of public enterprises, assists all measures cal- 
culated to improve the conditions of his neighbors, and is invariably found aiding every 
movement that tends to alleviate the siifferings or elevate the conditions of mankind. He 
has been an active director of the Consumers Gas Trust Company, createil by the citizens 
to secure cheap fuel, and is a trustee of the Meridian Street Methodist Episco]ial Church, 
although a memljer of no religious denomination. Mr. I^airbanks is a member of many 
literary clubs and societies, has delivered numerous addresses before universities and public 
assemblies, and in all has attained deserved distinction. Notable among his speeches is the 
address delivered on behalf of the board of trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University upon 
the installation of the Rev. Dr. James W. Basbford as president. Other addresses that 
have attracted much attention are those on " Nihilism '' and '' Paternalism iu Government," 
etc. Mr. Fairbanks has never held nor sought political preferment, and has declined many 
oflfere to enter j)ublic life, preferring to devote himself to his family and profession. An 
unswerving advocate of the doctrines of the Republican paity, his services have lieen much 
in demand in Indiana and in other States. In 189"2 he was chairman of the Republican 
State Convention, and delivered an address which was published as " The ('amj)aign Key- 
note-" In liSyS he was unanimous choice of the Republicans for United States Senator in 
opposition to the Hon. David Turpie, who was the Democratic choice. Upon the return 
of President Harrison to Indianapolis at the expiration of his term of office Mr. Fairbanks 
delivered the formal address of welcome on behalf of the citizens of Indiana. 

Gen. Ben.iamin Harhison. ex President of the ITuited States, is a grandson of the famous 
hereof Tippecanoe, Gen. William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, 
His l)irth occurred at North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833, and his early education was ac 
quired under the tutelage of a private instructor. At fourteen years of age he was sent to 
Cary's Academy, near Cincinnati, where he remained two years, then entered ]\Iiami Univer- 
sity, at Oxford, which graduated him in 1852. Having a predilection for legal pursuits he 
became a disciple of Blackstone at Cincinnati, and early in 1854 located for the profession at 
Indianapolis. Early in his professional career Mr. Harrison exhibited to a marked degree 
those characteristics which afterward made him famous as a great lawyer, and it was not 
long until he found himself the possessor of a large and fairly lucrative practice. The fall 
of ISnO he was elected reporter of the Su)ireme Court of the State and during his incumbency 
of this office published volumes XV and XVI of State Reporter. The war coming on, Mr. 
Harrison deemed that his country's welfare should become his first consideration, and accord 
ingly resigning from his lucrative position he recruited Company A, of the Seventh Regiment 
of Indiana Infantry and immediately went into active service. He remained in the service 
of the Government until the close of the war, when he was mustered out as brevet brigadier- 
general. He led his command in the battle of Resaca, participated in the capture of Cass- 
ville, battles of New Hope and Golgotha Churches, Kenesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek, 
at the latter of which his gallantry so jileased Gen. Hooker that he wrote to the Secretary of 
War "to call the attention of the department to the claims of Col. Benjamin Harrison, of the 
Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, for promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volun- 
teers." Participating at the Grand Review at Washington, Gen. Harrison returned home 
and resumed legal pursuits. In 187(5 he was the unanimous choice of the Re])ublicans for 
governor of Indiana, l)ut was defeated at the polls. In 1879 he was appointed by President 
Hayes as a member of the Mississippi River commission; was chairman of the Indiana dele- 
gation to the Republican national convention in 1880, and on the ballot that nominated 
Gen. (iaitield for the Presidency, cast the entire vote of his State for the successful candi- 
date. After this (from 1881 to 1887), lie became United States Senator and became one of 
the most conspicuous figures in the nation. In 1888 he was nominated by the national 



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Republican convention, at Chicago, for the Presidency of the United States. During the 
campaign he made numerous addresses, and although he had a vigilant enemy to combat, 
ruady to distort or mihconstrue his utterances, he did so remarkably well that not a single 
point was raised against him. His four years of administration marked an era of prosperity 
for the country, and at the national convention of 1892 held at Minneapolis, he was re- 
nominated on the first ballot. At the succeeding election he was defeated for a second term 
by Mr. t'leveland, and has since resided at Indianapolis. Mr. Harrison, while a student at 
college, met and loved Miss Caroline L. Scott, who became his wife in 1S53, and two children, 
l)Oth living, have blessed their union. The saddest event in the life of Mr. Harrison was the 
death of Mrs. Harrison in 1892. 

Wesley Ai.i-en, M. D. Among those of Marion County, Ind., who successfully follow 
the "healing art,"' as a profession is Dr. Wesley Allen, who was born on a farm belonging 
to his father, Joseph Allen, consisting of IfiO acres located two and a half miles northwest 
of West Newton, on March 2f), 1836. On this farm he made his home until he was about 
twenty four years of age, his early educational advantages having been received in the 
early subscription schools of his native township, from the time he was eight years old until 
he reached the age of nineteen. He then entered the '" Friends' Boarding School " located 
at Richmond, Ind , now known as Earlham College, which he attended one winter session of 
six or seven months, and one-half of a summer session. He then commenced the study of 
medicine in the ollice of Dr. Jesse Reagan, in West Newton, Ind., continuing his studies two 
years. In 1858 he taught one summer term in the common schools in AN'est Newton and in 
August, 1861, commenced the practice of his profession there, at the solicitation of his many 
friends and neighbors, l)efore he had graduated from any school of medicine. After a time 
he commenced attending lectures in the Indiana Medical College, from which he afterward 
graduated, some of his classmates becoming eminent medical practitioners. After complet- 
ing his legal studies he returned to West Newton and there has since made his home, a 
period of about thirty-two years. He has met with distinguished success in the practice of his 
noble but arduous profession, and is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the 
State Medical Society, and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. He was rejected for 
military service during the Civil War on account of a slight lameness. He is a member of and a 
trustee in the Methodist Episcopal Church and politically has alwaj's been a Republican and 
has ever taken an active interest in local politics. He was married October 20, 1861, to Rebecca 
A., daughter of Jesse and Ann ( Whitson) Jones, and to their marriage three children were 
born as follows: Or[iha; Alice, who married Lawrence V. Buskirk, of Bloomington, Ind., 
of which city he is now (IS93) mayor, has one son, Allen V.. and one child who died in 
infancy. The mother of these children died December 23. 1878, and Belle, the dautrliter of 
Homer and Mary (Payuter) Snodgrass, natives of Indiana, became his wife, to which union 
was born one son, Wesley, whose birth occurred Feiiruary 1, 1886. Joseph Allen, the 
father of Dr. Allen, was born in Shenandoah County, Va., August 14, 1794. of Quaker stock, 
and there he was brought up and received the education common to that time, which was 
mainly in the Quaker Church. He was married near Xenia, Ohio, in April, 1815. to P^liza- 
beth Cadwallador. a native of Virginia, l)orn February 21. 1797. a daughter of Moses and 
Mary Cadwallader. He farmed in the vicinity of Xenia until 1S24, then came to Indiana 
where he entered 160 acies of land in Dec;itur Township, Marion County, on which he lived 
until within a short time of his death which occurred in 1878. At the time of his purchase 
this land was covered with green timber, and his principal possessions consisted of a horse, 
a sack of flour and a (!0W, having spent his entire amount of money, consisting of $100, in 
paying for his first eighty acres. Of this farm he and his sons cleared 100 acres. He was 
an old line Whig in politics, then became a Republican and supported this party until his 
death. He was a member of the Quaker Church and in this faith reared his children, 
eleven of whom grew to maturity: Mary (deceased) married Wilson Barnett and left four 
children: Allen, Louisa, Eli and Preston; Solomon first married Annie Cox and afterward 
Mary A. Forsha, by whom he had two children: Linton and Asbury; Preston (deceased) 
married Susannah Jessup. by whom he had three children: Maria, Dr. J. Quincy and Etta; 
Sallie, widow of Layton Mills, has four children: Elijah, Lizzie, Lona and Joseph; Ellen 
(deceased) became the wife of Israel Comjiton and had six children: Elijah, Eliza J., Sam- 



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uel. Jasper, Wesley and Sallic; Huldab, first married Elijah Mills a;id after Lis death 
became the wife of Levi Ballard, by whom she had six childreD: Amos, Laura, Emma, Ella, 
Edward and Lizzie; Moses married Mary Jones (deceased), by whom he has three children: 
Jesse, Flora and Emma; Joseph married Esther Wilson, and to them three children were 
given: James, Elmer and Frederick; Dr. Wesley, the subject of this biography; Eliza, who 
married llollin Hospins, with two children survives him, the names of the latter being Dr. 
Waiter and Horace; and William, who married Mary Constable, has one son, Charles. The 
mother of these children was called from life October 81, 1876, and their father November 
9, LSTS. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Allen, Jackson Allen, was a Virginian, who was 
born about 1705. He lived in his native State until a few years before his death, which 
occurred at the home of his son, Solomon, in Parke County, Ind. He was a Quaker and was 
married to Sarah Bond by whom he had 12 children: Joseph, Solomon (deceased), Wesley, 
Benjamin, Sallie (Critz), Harmony (Bates), Rebecca (Woolman), Mary (Moody), Alice 
(Sanders), Anna (Laird), Edward Allen, and Kiith (Cox). 

Laban Hardino. Although Marion County, Ind., is well known for the energy, enter 
prise and push of its farmers, Laban Harding stands in the van in this industry, and has 
shown much wisdom and good judgment in the conduct of agricultural affairs, and through 
his own endeavors has won an enviable reputation. He is a native of the Hoosier State, born 
in Fayette County, near Connorsville, October 8, 1817, and at an early age became familiar 
with the duties of farm life. He was born on the farm belonging to his father, the same 
having been entered by his grandfather in 1810, and remained on the same until five years 
of age when he moved with his parents to Marion County, Ind. His father, Ede Harding, 
was born in Washington County, Ky., in 1793, and in 1806 moved with his parents to But- 
ler County, Ohio. There he remained until ISIO when he came to Fayette County, Ind., 
and there resided until 1822 when he moved to Marion County, this State. In the latter 
county he made his home until within a year or so of his death, which occurred in 1875, and 
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ray, of Hendricks County, Ind. He alKliated 
with the Democratic party up to the campaign of 1840, when he voted for Harrison and was 
a Whig until the formation of the Republican party, with which he was ever afterward iden- 
tified. He was drafted into the War of 1812, but was discharged on account of deafness. 
For many years he was a worthy member of the Baptist Church, and was active in his sup- 
port of all worthy enterprises. To his marriage were born seven children, five of whom 
survive as follows: Laban (our subject), Lavina (who married first John McCray, and after 
his death, Ambrose Hume, by whom she had six children), Oliver (married Miss Lavina Cox, 
who bore him seven children), John (married Miss Luna Brown and they have three chil- 
dren), and Sarah (who married first Harrison Ray, by whom she had two children, and after 
his death married Robert Spear). The mother of these children died in 1850 and the father 
subsequently married Rebecca Gowdy, nee Benn. Robert Harding, grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was born in Washington County, Penn., about 1760, and was married in that State to 
Martha Wade. Soon after he emigrated to Kentucky and in 1808 moved from there to But- 
ler County, Ohio, and thence to Indiana, in 1821. ■, There his death occurred the same year 
at the home of his son, Ede, father of our subject, in Fayette County. He was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary War, as were also four of his brothers. He was the father of a large fam- 
ily of children, thirteen of whom grew to mature years: John, Ruth, Avis, Martha, Nancy, 
Mary, Jemima, Elikum, Ede, Rol)ert, Samuel, Israel and Laban. He was of English extrac- 
tion. The youthful days of our subject were passed on the farm of 117 acres purchased by 
his father in Wayne Township, and he received his scholastic training in the old-fashioned 
log school-house of that period, attending three months in the year, and going a distance of 
three miles. He remained under the parental roof until twenty one years of age and assisted 
his father in the grist mill. On December 21, 1837, he was married to Miss Jemima McCray, 
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lucas) McCray, and soon after moved on a farm in 
Wayne Township. This farm consisted of sixty-five acres, principally green timber, and for 
this he paid $11 per acre. Mr. Harding remained on this farm until 1866 and then moved 
to his present farm which consists of 100 acres. Since then he has added to the original 
tract until he now owns 225 acres, a good portion of which is well improved and well culti- 
vated. In his political views he is a Republican and cast his first presidential vote for W'. 



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H. Harrison. He is a member of tliH Biiptist Chiircli and an earnest worker in the same. 
Of the eleven children born to his marriage, all lived to mature years except Eh'za A., who 
died when eight years of age. The remainder are as follows: John, enlisted in Company 
I, Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served three years (he held the rank 
of corporal when mustered out; at Chancellorsville he was wounded by a piece of shell and 
died from the effects of the same at his home in November, 1865; he was single); Samuel 
E. (single), died in 18()2; Mary E. (deceased), was a popular and well known teacher of 
Wayne Township, having followed that profession in the township for twenty-two years; 
Nancy, married Charles Montgomery and they have eight children, Ella, Myra, Mary, 
George. Samuel, Sarah, Flora and Kate); Elmira, married Christian Myers and died in iBfJS; 
William Newton married Mary MeConnell, and they have one child, William; Minerva, 
married John McClelland and became the mother of sis children (Rajanond, Eleanor, Her- 
bert, Jemima, John and Louise); Kate; Henry, married Alma Duzan and is the father of one 
child, George Laban, and Louella, married Thomas Craig. 

Phillip J. Roller. In giving a history of the prominent citizens of the Western States 
the biographical department of this work would lie incomjilete without mentioning the gen- 
tleman whose name heads this sketch, for he is deservedly ranked among its prominent 
farmers and stock men. He first saw the light of day April 2(t, 1888, iu Coshocton County, 
Ohio, and his parents, Andrew and Barbara (Sandels) Roller, were natives of Germany, 
coming to this country about 1885. This worthy couple were the parents of ten children 
— eight sons and two daughters — four of the sons dying in childhood. The remainder of 
the children grew to mature years and were named as follows: Caspar, married Mrs. 
Elizabeth Ermans; Phillip J., subject; William H., married Miss Margaret Gashbaugh; 
George, married Miss Anna Roof; Elizabeth, became the wife of John Roof, and Mary Ann, 
single, died at the age of twenty-two. Our subject grew to mature years in his native 
county, secured a fair education and when grown was united in marriage to Miss Emily 
Richcreek, daughter of George W. and Eliza (Mansfield) Richcreek. Their nuptials were 
celeljrated November 27, 1861, and to this happy union seven children were born — all sons, 
none of whom are married and all now at home or at school except the second, Decatur, who 
died in infancy. They were named as follows: William J., born Noveml)er 7, 1S6'2; Er- 
nest, born June 10, 1867; Andrew, born February 11, 1869; George, born April 10, 1872; 
Benjamin F., born July I, 1876, and Manford, born December 13, 1879. The old adage 
that " in unity is strength" is not better illustrated than in this family. The parents 
started in life with limited means and have reared this family of boys, five of whom have 
reached man's estate and are over six feet in height and weigh about 200 pounds 
each. They are all strong temperance men, are Democrats in politics and in church mat- 
ters have a leaning toward the Methodists. These brothers have clung together and have 
become the owners of 922 acres of land, each acre of which is worth $100. Besides this 
they have a good bank account and are classed among the substantial men of the country. 
The Richcreek family, of which Mrs. Roller is a member, came originally from England 
and settled in America at a very early date. The first branch of this family to take root in 
American soil was David Richcreek, who crossed the ocean from England and settled near 
Philadelphia, Penn., about 1760. David married Miss Mary Penn, a direct descendant of 
^Villiam Penn, and three children were the fruits of this union: Thomas, David and Phil- 
lip. David settled near Philadelphia, Philli[) made his home in the Old Dominion and 
Thomas came to Ohio. The latter reared a family of three sons and five daughters. The 
sons were named James, David, George W. (father of Mrs. Roller), and the daughters were 
Nancy, Maria, Susan, Casander and Leauor. George W. Richcreek marrieil Miss Eliza 
Mansfield and eight sons and three daughters were born to them, as follows: Absalom 
(deceased); Mahala, married J. Chamberlin and how resides in Joplin, Mo.; Emily, married 
our subject; Jared C, married Miss Minnie Kountz and makes his home in Montana, Kan.: 
Edward A., married Miss Frances Baker and resides in Labette County, Kan., where he is 
now probate judge; Benjamin F., married Mary J. Wilkinson and resides in Remington, 
Ind. ; Jesse, married Miss Payne and lives in Great Bend, Kan.: Anna L., married William 
R. Moore and resided in McCune, Kan., until her death, in January, 1892. The next two 
children were twins — Hiram and Howard. The former is married and resides at Decatur, 



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111., and the latter married Miss Eflie Crabtree and resides near Paris, 111. The mother of 
these children died in February, 1882. 

William H.\eberle. Few among the many excellent meat markets and groceries that 
attract the eye in Indianapolis, have secured a more enduring hold on public favor and confi- 
dence than the establishment conducted by William Haeberle. It is one of the best equipped 
stores of its kind in the city, where patrons can always rely upon getting a very superior 
article, satisfactory treatment and prompt attention. Mr. Haeberle was born in Germany in 
February, 1863, is a young man of pleasing manners, and combines jiush, enterprise and 
excellent business qualities, and has before him a promising future. His jiiirents, Gotlieb 
and Frederika Haeberle, were natives of the old country, but crossed the ocean to America in 
1881 and settled in Indianapolis. They were the parents of ten children of which seven are 
living, as follows: Gotlieb, married Miss Mary Branchle and is now living in Indianapolis; 
Frederika, married Adolph Lentz and is also a resident of this city; Christian, married Caro- 
line OfT and is a resident of this city; Christiana, married Carl Meiser and makes her home 
in Germany; Carrie, married John Beyer of this city; Fredrick, married Miss Amelia Kiefer 
and lives in Indianapolis; and William, the subject of this sketch. The latter was about 
eighteen years of age when he came with his parents to Indianapolis. He was married in 
February, ISS-"), to Miss Anna Kiefer, daughter of Jacob and Frederika Kiefer, both natives 
of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Kiefer came to America when single and were married in Indi- 
anapolis. Three children have been born to our subject and wife: Frederika, born August 
15, 1886; Alma, born December 21, 1888; and Lula, born May 21, 1889. Our subject 
learned the butcher's trade and for some time has been engaged in that business. For seven 
years he has been in business for himself and has a fine grocery store and meat market on 
Brookside Avenue and Jupiter Street, this city. In recognition of the class of people he 
caters to Mr. Haeberle has made it his aim to keep only the superior meats and the freshest 
and best groceries. His parents are living but his wife's father and mother are both deceased. 
To the latter couple were born five children, as follows: William, single and residing in 
Kansas; Annie, wife of our subject; Jacob, single, residing in Indianapolis; Louis, single 
and lives in this city; and Amelia, married Fredrick Haeberle, brother of our subject, and 
lives in Indianapolis. 

Fred W. Pape, blacksmith and wagon-maker at 83 Prospect Street, Indianapolis, is a 
mechanic skilled and experienced in his line of business. His career has been distinguished 
for enterprise and uprightness and he is well liked in the community. Possessed of more 
than the average skill in his business, the fickle goddess of fortune seems to smile benignly 
on him and his aspirations, and he has gained a large and permanent patronage. Born in 
Germany. March 7, 1866, he is a son of William and Christina (Hahne) Pape, natives also 
of the Old Countrj-, where they were reared and married. Six children were born to this 
estimable couple, as follows: William, married Miss Helena Hiindling and resides in Indian- 
apolis; Christina, married William Bodenl)erg and makes her home in this city; Fred W. 
our subject; Henry, deceased; Charles, single and resides in this city, and Henry, now de- 
ceased. The father of these children was a soldier in the German army and participated in 
the French War in 1870 and 1871. He went through without being wounded but lost his 
health and died soon after the war closed. After his death, or in 1885, the mother came to 
America and here her death occurred one year later. The subject of this sketch passed his 
boyhood and youth in his native country and was there educated. He learned the black 
smith trade in Germany, and for six years has followed that in connection with wagon mak 
ing in Indianapolis. Success has crowned his efforts. In the year 1887 he was married in 
Indianapolis to Miss Minnie Holtz, daughter of August Holtz, of this city, and two children 
have blessed this union: Walter, born in 1889, and Alfred, born in 1892. Both are living 
and are bright, intelligent little fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Pape are members of the German 
Lutheran Church. 

Eli Heiny. This gentleman was born in Stumptown (now New Danville), Lancaster 
County, Peun. , July 8, 1822, and about 1827 was taken bj' his parents to Maytown, Penn. , about 
seven or eight miles from his birthplace. Two years later they removed to Carroll County, 
Ohio, where the father purchased forty acres of green timber land and on this place they 
lived for some three or four years. They continued to reside in this county until Eli was 



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about fourteen years of age then moved to W'.ivne County, Ohio, and purchased 120 acres 
of land on which they lived two years then sold out and returned to Carroll County where 
the parents again purchased eighty acres of green timber land and the father with the 
assistance of his five sons started to clear it. They sold out on the day that William Heniy 
Harrison was elected President, loaded their goods on a wagon and started for Indiana, but 
on their way out of the county, passed the polls and although he and his eldest sons were 
Democrats and an attempt was made to prevent them from casting their ballot they were 
determined to exercise their right of franchise and succeeded in casting their vote for the 
Democratic candidate. They then proceeded on their way and at the end of three weeks 
reached their destination which was Hamilton County. There the father purchased \'20 
acres of land, for which he paid !?<)()(), and set about the arduous labor of clearing his land, 
his iron constitution standing him in good stead amid the hardships and privations of pio- 
neer life. Until a log house could be erected the family lived in a rented log house in the 
vicinit}', then moved into their own house in the spring of 1841, which at that time was con 
sidered a substantial and convenient residence. The house was built of hewed logs, with 
clapboard roof, puncheon floor, etc., and here Eli made his home until his marriage in the 
spring of 1848, although from the time he attained his majority he laljored for himself 
among the various farmers of the neighborhood, receiving for his services about $1 per 
month. He chopped cordwood for 25 cents a cord, averaging al)out two and a half cords a 
day, and considered that he was doing well to earn that much. He also drove hogs from 
Noblesville, Ind., to Peru, and from Noblesville to Cincinnati, for H7J cents a day in 
trade, being compelled to return home on foot. He was allowed $2 for expenses on the 
trip to Cincinnati, a journey that lasted ten days, and on one trip saved $1 of that 
money. The Wabash River had to be forded, as there was no bridge, and many times he 
had to wade the river in December when the water was almost at freezing point. This 
was in 1844 and Mr. Heiny used to cheer himself up with singing the campaign songs 
that were so popular in that day. In March, 1848, he was united in wedlock to Catherine, 
daughter of Henry Brenneman, a native of Pennsylvania, in which State she was also born 
and in the same little village in which Mr. Heiny first saw the light of day. Immediately 
after his marriage he rented 103 acres of land of his father inlaw in Perry Township, 
Marion County, having become acquainted with Mr. Brenneman while selling clocks in 
Marion and adjoining counties, a business he had carried on for about six months, prior to 
the death of his father, at which he earned about 112 a month and expenses. He continued 
to rent land for about ten years, at the end of which time Mr. Brenneman deeded the farm 
to him and his wife. There was an old one-story brick house on the place and a round log 
stable, but eight years later, in 18")^, his father in law put u]i for him a big two-story frame 
house i[i which he and his family have lived ever since, although excellent additions of brick 
have been made. At the time he located on the farm only about twenty-three acres were 
cleared but he has since cleared alioiit forty acres, twelve of which were quite heavily cov 
ered with sugar maples and black walnut trees. The former trees he cut into cordwood 
which he sold for iff 1.50 a cord and the walnut trees he split into rails and the refuse he 
burned. In 18.50 he purchased eight}' acres of land in Hamilton County for 1700 and three 
or four years later he sold this land for 11,500. In 1856 he bought 300 acres in Center 
Township, Marion County, for $7,000, borrowing 11,000 to pay down and giving a mortgage 
for the rest. As the ])a)'ments came due he met them and six years later he sold the land 
for $17,000, half of which went to his brother in-law, who purchased the place with him. 
In 1805 he bought 167 acres in Perry Township, paying therefor $14,100, and he is also the 
owner of some valuable property in Indianapolis on South Meridian Street and State Street. 
He has always been a Democrat politically and in 187() was nominated by that ])arty to the 
important office of county treasurer, but he was defeated, as was the balance of the ticket, 
and for the same position he was again defeated, with his ticket, in 1882, although on both 
occasions his friends declared him elected. In 1888 he was made the nominee for State 
representative, without solicitation on his part, and with his ticket was triumphantly elected. 
He gave his hearty support to all Democratic measures and the good of his section was 
always his first thought, in fact, he made an able and influeutial legislator. Seven children 
have been born to himself and wife, two of whom (twin boys) died in infancy. The five 



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who grew up are as follows: Benjauiiu F. : Isaac M. , who married Mary, daughter of John 
Aiiderson, has two children — Charles and Mabel; Henry H.; Levi Clinton, and Cliarles W. 
Mr. Heiny's father, Jacob, was born in Pennsylvania in 1795 and for some time kept tavern 
in Lancaster and Maytown. He was a cooper by trade but did not follow it a great deal. 
He died in Hamilton County, lud.. in 1847, aged fifty-two years, having been married in 
Pennsylvania in 1818 to Catherine Gall, to whom were Ijoru eight children, of whom Isaac 
died in infancy. The following grew to maturity: Henry, who died April 15, 18(53, aged 
forty-four years two months and nine days, married Annette Stichter, of Noblesville, Ind. ; 
Eliza (Forre) lives in Clarksville, Ind.; Eli (the subject of this sketch); Christian, of Hamil- 
ton County. Ind., married Barbara Heiuy, a distant relative; George is a resident of Indian- 
ola, Iowa, and is married; Jacob died May 29, 1873, aged forty -seven years and twenty days, 
unmarried; Maria married Isaac M. Caylor, of Clarksville, Ind. Elizabeth Heiny, grand- 
mother of subject, whose maiden name was Stern, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., 
June 6, 1776, and died February 8, 1856, aged seventy nine years seven months and twenty- 
three days. The grandfather John Heiny was born in Lancaster County, Penn. 

Martin Seerley. He whose name heads this sketch is a native of Frederick County, 
Md., where he was born November 15, 1818, being taken by his parents to Lancaster County, 
Penn., in 1824. which place continued to be his home until the fall of 1836, when he came 
to Marion County, Ind., soon after which his father entered forty acres of land in Hancock 
County, but never lived on it. He was a sicklesmith by trade, but had lost his eyesight 
before leaving Pennsylvania, therefore never afterward working at this occupation. After 
the arrival of the family in this section Martin and his brother rented eighty acres of land 
on Fall Creek which they tilled two years, then rented eighty acres on White River in Wash- 
ington Township, which they farmed eight years, after which they rented a 160-acre tract in 
Center Township for eight years. In 1855 Martin purchased eighty acres of Jesse Grace 
in Decatur Township, about one-half of which was cleared and in which they moved, set- 
tling in a little log house which had been erected thereon. In 187(t he purchased tifty-two 
acres more, and in 1872 made an additional purchase of sixty acres, and in 1877 of forty 
acres. Of this land thirty acres are in timber, twenty-five or thirty acres are cleared, 
and 200 acres are under cultivation, averaging about eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre. 
Mr. Seerley has always been a Republican in his political views, and his first vote was cast 
for James K. Polk, notwithstanding the fact that his father was a Democrat. He belongs 
to the English Lutheran Church, in which he is an elder, and at various times has heiil 
township offices. October 31, 1844, he was married to I'jlcinda, daughter of Daniel and 
Elizabeth Bower, l)y whom he became the father of eight children, Martin L., who married 
Mary B., daughter of John M. Chamberlain, by whom he has seven children: Sarah F., 
Elizabeth, John M., Thomas W., Nellie B., Indiana and Victoria; Silas, who married Rhoda 
B., daughter of Thomas F. Armstrong, has two children: Mary M. and William E. ; Julia 
A., who married Jonathan Foltz, has four children, Gertrude, Bertha F., Mary B. and 
Sarah; Joseph D. married Ruth E., daughter of John Scott, and has two children: Jessie 
and Ruth Etta: Mary, who married Elijah S. Miller, and has three children, Albert N"., 
Harry and Lulu P. ; and Sarah C, who married Perry F. Hurd, by whom she has a daugh- 
ter, Mary E. Two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Seerley died in infancy. Joseph Seerley, 
the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania in 1782, and was brought 
up in the State of his birth. He was married in 1817 to Elizabeth, daughter of George P. 
Brown, and died in Indiana in 1842, having been an active participant in the War of 1812. 
His family consisted of six children, five of whom lived to grow up: Martin; Thomas, who 
married Eliza A. Smith, by whom he became the father of three children; Homer H., John 
J. and Frank N. : William, who married Mary Messersmith, became the father of ten chil 
dren: Marcellus, Bayard, Horace, Frank, Elwood D. , Charles T., William, Flora, Grace and 
Ida; Elizabeth, widow of Peter Blue, has nine children: Indiana (who married Nelson 
Chamberlain), Rometa. Rachel, Charles, (who married a Miss Lewis), Albert, Cortez and Kate 
(twins), George and Blanche. The grandmother of these children died in 1809 at the age of 
seventy nine years and ten months. The grandfather, Joseph Seerley, was born about 1760. 
Daniel Bower, the father of Mrs. Martin Seerley, was born in Frederick County, Md. , Feb 
ruary 4, 1800, and was married there in 1824 to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Ringer, 

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and in 1828 they came to Indiana, and after one year's residence in New Hjinuony camp to 
Marion County, Ind., where they lived until their respective deaths, October 21, 1852, and 
December 23, 1872. Mr. Bower was a farmer, andhadlonjj been amemlter of the Lutheran 
Church. To himself and wife eight chrldren were given, the following of whom lived to 
maturity: Elcinda (Mrs. Seerley); Louisa; Mahala C. ; Luther, wlio married Rebecca Smith, 
and is now dead; Ann E., married Samuel Harper; Emeline, who became the wife of Jacob 
Van Valkenburg, and is now no more. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Seerley was Jacob 
Ringer, who emigrated to America in his early manhood. He was born about 1775, was 
married about 171tf), and ijecame the father of four children: Barbara (deceased), who mar- 
ried Conrad Ringer; Katharine (decea.sed), who married Henry Werstler; Daniel, who 
married Elizabeth Ringer; and Jacob (deceased), who married Maria Snay. Mr. Bower 
died about the year 1843. 

Adam Scott. It is with true interest that the biographer takes up his pen to speak of 
those worthy citizens whose active lives have ceased on earth but whose influence extends 
still and will continue to extend among all who knew them. This truth is doubly true when 
such a man has established for himself and his children a repiitation for integrity, character 
and ability. Adam Scott was born in Jedborougli, Scotland, March 31, 1S25, and was one of 
the oldest and best known contractors and builders of Indianapolis. His death, which oc 
curred June 1(5, 1893, was the result of an acute attack of pneumonia, coupled with heart 
complications. In 1850, when this city was comparatively a village, Mr. Scott settled in 
Indianapolis, and since that time, until his death, he constantly resided here. For many 
years he was of the firm of Scott & Nicholson, and carried on an immense business on Ken- 
tucky Avenue, where the plans for some of the best buildings in the State were prepared. 
Of late years he was with Charles Pierce, one of the most extensive public contractors in the 
United States. The first work done in Indianapolis by Mr. Scott was the building of the 
stone work utilized in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and he afterward constructed the Marion 
County Court House, the Bates House and other of the most substantial buildings in the 
city. His fame as a builder was not contined to his home, and the magnificent custom houses 
at Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala., were constructed under his supervision. In 1883 
he retired from business, but was not content to spend the remainder of his days in idle 
ness and, as above stated, he formed a partnership with Charles Pierce & Co., with which 
company he was prominent in the erection of the court house at Muncie, Anderson ami 
Evansville. After the completion of the Evansville edifice, Mr. Scott again retired from 
business pursuits and lived a quiet life witli his family until his death. In character his 
true old Scotch blood was always apparent and his honest, straightforward principles were 
the pride of his life. There was no pretense or humbug about him. He was what he ap- 
peared to be, an honest man, whose sympathies were always with the people. He was a 
stanch Republican in politics, but took no man to task on account of an opposite political 
belief. The Masonic Ad cocuir in speaking of him says: "It was our privilege to know him 
for many years, and for the last few years to enjoy an intimate friendship that often brought 
us together. We have never known a more candid, consistent, upright man, nor one who 
followed the golden rule more closely in all his intercourse with others.'' He was a charter 
member of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 5()4, A. F. & A. M., and also a thirty second member of the 
Scottish Rite. For many years he was a member of tiie English Lutheran church, and a 
deacon in the same f(jr some time. He was twice married. 

H.vRKY M. Mavhew. To follow out the lines of trade centering in a provision store 
would call for considerable experience of one's mental powers. The dealer in the necessi- 
ties of life must needs be a man of great discrimination and superior judgment and these 
es.sential qualities are possessed in an eminent degree by Harry M. Mayhew, who has a well 
located, well supplied and admirably conducted establishment in North Indianapolis, which 
was established three years ago on a limited scale, but which at once leaped into popular 
favor and is now one of the well patronized business houses of that portion of the city. 
He was born at Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ind., December 22, 1858, his father, Frank 
Mayhew, having been born in Cincinnati, in which city he learned the trade of a carriage 
painter. He afterward moved to Shelbyville and still later to W'aldron, Ind., where he 
died at the untimely age of thirty-five years, at which time his son, Harry M., was a small 



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child. He was a member of an Indiana regiment during the Civil War and was a man of 
much public spirit and enterprise. Harrv M. Mayhew was educated in the ]jublie sclioola 
of Shelbvville and while growing up learned the trade which his father had followed — that 
of carriage painting. He also has two l)rothers that followed in their father's footsteps and 
all are substantial residents of North Indianapolis. After l)ecomiug proficient in his trade 
he followed tlie calling of a carriage painter for eight years, starting in business with no 
capital, but liis success was assured from the start for he possessed the necessary energy, 
push and Jntelligence, and was not slow to grasp at any opportunity that came in his way. 
He has always been keenly alive to his own interests, but he has never taken advantage of 
others' necessity, and as a natural consequence he has numerous warm friends and his estab- 
lishment is well patronized. He has been a resident of North Indianapolis for the past 
eleven years, having located in this section when there was no town whatever. He has 
seen the place grow and develop into a town of '2,000 or more inhabitants and to become 
one of the most desirable suburbs of the city of Indianapolis. Mr. Mayhew is married to 
Miss Linnie Fonts, of Indianapolis, by whom he has one bright and promising little son — 
Russell. 

Dr. Shadrach L. Ferree. One of the old and honored medicine men and citizens of 
Indianapolis is Dr. Shadrach L. Ferree. This gentleman was born iu Clermont County, 
Ohio, July 14, 1830, and is a son of Moses and Keziah (Medearis) Ferree. His father was 
a native of Kentucky and was one of the early settlers of Rush County, Ind., having located 
there as early as 1835, and made his home there during the balance of his life, which ter- 
minated May 5, 1863. He was a careful and successful farmer and a good business manager 
and man of affairs, as is evidenced by the fact that when he located in Rush County he pos- 
sessied himself of 160 acres of unimproved but favorably situated land, which he improved 
and built on until it was one of the finest farms in the county, besides rearing and helping 
his children in various ways, and otherwise accumulated a tine property. His wife, who was 
a native of Ohio, survived him until April 25, 1885, and died at Greensburg, Ind. , aged 
eighty-three years. Of the twelve children of this worthy couple, two of their sons, Rich- 
ard C. and Charles M. Ferree, twins, served the Union cause in the Civil War and the 
former was killed at Resaca, the latter afterward becoming a well-known citizen and cap- 
italist of Kansas City, Mo. When his parents removed to Rush county Dr. Ferree was five 
years old. He was reared in the old i)ioneer way upon his father's primitive farm and 
gained his early education in the common schools, by three or four months' attendance dur 
ing the winter seasons, his services being required by his father during the balance of the 
year, for those were days when help was scarce and ready money was not plenty, and about 
every member of every family, from the youngest to the eldest, was obliged to assume some 
part of the burden of providing for the sustenance and welfare of the family. At the age 
of twenty, being dissatisfied with the education he had been enabled to obtain, he so man- 
aged to study a year in the academy at Knightstown, and later was enabled to be a student 
for two years thereafter at Asbury University at Greenca.stle, Ind. After leaving the last 
mentioned institution, he was for two years engaged successfully in the drug business at 
Columbus, Ind., and during that time took up and pursued the study of medicine to the 
point when he was obliged to dispose of his drug store in order to return home and com- 
plete his professional education. This he did, and in due time we find him located at 
Greenwood, busily engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1801, after two 
years there, he removed to London, Ind., and there resided, practicing and constantly study- 
ing his profession until 1880. Meantime, in 18<>9, he attended the Indiana Medical College, 
graduating therefrom in 1870, one of the first to receive the degree of M. D. from that institu- 
tion. In 1880 he took up his residence in Indianapolis where he has since enjoyed a profitable 
and constantly widening professional popularity. He is a member of the Marion County 
Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society, and is in everyway inlluentiai and 
useful in his profession as well as a citizen. Dr. Ferree was married June 13, 18(51, to 
Emmeret E. Loomis, a native of New York, and a daughter of Major Ruel and Eleanor 
(Haven) Loomis. Major Loomis began service in the Civil War with the rank of captain 
and was promoted for merit to major of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry. Later, he gave up his 
life to his country at the battle of Marietta. Dr. and Mrs. Ferree have had five children, 



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only two of whom are living: Leslie C. and Edgar L. Ferree, both of Kansas City, where 
the first is engaged in the real estate and loan business and the latter holds a responsible 
position in the custom house. Since the organization of the Republican party, in 1856, Dr. 
Ferree h<is l)een a Republican, having cast his vote for Gen. I'remont, and for every subse- 
(juent nominee of his party for the Presidency down to Benjamin Harrison. He and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal C'hnrch. 

Charles H. Sch.\d. There is no branch of Ijusiness more important in the whole list of 
occupations tlian that of the druggist. A prominent and representative establishment devoted 
to this branch of industry is that of Mr. Charles H. Schad, who now carries on a successful 
drug trade at 344 East Washington. He served an apprenticeship and remained with his 
employer ten years, after which he branched out for himself, since wliich time he has con- 
ducted the business with gratifying success. He carries stock valued at over $6,000, does 
retail business, and manufactures many specialties in the drug line. He at all times carries 
a complete line of jiure drugs, medicines, patent mixtures, perfumery, toilet articles, fancy 
goods and the usual druggist's sundries. Special attention is paid to the compounding of 
physicians' prescriptions and family receipts, the same being put up with care, dispatch 
and accuracy. Mr. Schad was born in Indianapolis September 21, 1855, and is of Ger- 
man descent, his father, Mathias Schad, lieing a native of Germany. The elder Schad left 
his native country for this in 1852 and located in Indianapolis, Ind. His wife, whose maiden 
name was Christina Weishaar, was also a product of the old country, where they were mar- 
ried. Mathias Schad was a merchant tailor and carried on the Imsiuess a number of years. 
His death occurred in December, 1883, after a long life of usefulness. The mother had 
passed away several years j)reviou8ly. Six children were given them and are now living. 
The original of this notice was reared in Indianapolis and received his education in the 
schools connected with the German Methodist Episcopal Church, also the piil)lic schools of 
the city. When a small l)oy he sold daily ]iapers in the streets of the city and later entered 
a drug store. Although he commenced life for himself without any means, by industry and 
perseverance he has aiua.ssed considerable property and is now one of the leading business 
men of the city. He is highly esteemed for his courteous manners and strict integrity and 
has met with well deserved success. He is a member of the State Pharmaceutical Associa- 
tion, County Association, and is thoroughly posted in all matters relating to the drug trade. 
He has shown his appreciation of secret organizations by becoming a member of the Masonic 
fraternity. Mr. Schad was married April 31, 1879, to Miss Mary Payne, a native of Lan- 
caster, Ivy., and to this union have been born three children: Carl H., Gertrude A. 
and Clarence R. Mr. and Mrs. Schad are members of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Schad 
advocates the principles of the Republican party and has been active in the best interests 
of his party in his ward, serving on election lioard, etc. 

Charles A. Dale. People who have real estate for sale should appreciate the imj)or- 
aace of placing it with an agent who is thoroughly acquainted with the business and has 
business connections that enable him to reach the jiurchaser promptly and secure as earlj' a 
transfer of the property as consistent with the best interests of the owner. Prospective 
purchasers should also, when they wish to bu)', consult with an agency that is well 
acquainted with values and has the reputation of dealing honoiably with all parties to a 
contract in every instance. Such an agency as this will be found in Ciiarles A. D;ile, who, at 
his conveniently located office, is prepared at all times to exhibit an excellent lineof property, 
as well as to enter, on his books, any additional business that may be offered him. He 
transacts all business on the principle that he expects in the future to deal with the same 
parties again. He does such business in his line as may be offered him, and since embark- 
ing in the business in 1891 he has built up a business that is not only extensive but also 
profitable. Charles A. Dale was born in Tipton, Tipton County, Ind., February 10, ISfiH, 
son of James I. N. and Zerelda (Lee) Dale. James I. N. Dale was a native of Ohio, born 
in 182S, and was an extensive constructor and brick manufacturer at Tipton, Ind., for several 
years, where he had located during the earlier period of his life. He was a lover of art and 
music and was considered one of the finest musicians of Tipton County. In politics he was 
an ardent Republican, and for many years he was a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church. His death occurred in 18(59. His wife, who is a native of Kentucky and a distant 



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relative of Gen. Lee, survives him and resides with her son, Charles A. , in Indianapolis. 
The latter passed his boyhood days in his native town until attaining the age of fourteen, 
when his mother removed to Jouesville, where he continued his studies toward acquiring a 
good practical education, such as the schools of that section and period afforded. Later the 
family removed to Virginia, 111., where he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1884 Mr. Dale 
returned to Jouesville and in company with his brother-in-law made a trip to Kansas, after 
which he came to Indianapolis and began work at his trade. Possessed of energy and good 
business and executive ability he soon began contracting and building on his own account. 
Meeting with deserved success, he was enabled to carry a considerable supply of lumber, and 
eventually extended his lousiness operations until he was operating a planing mill and 
general lumber business on an extensive scale. At this period an unfortunate and serious 
accident happened to an employe operating a machine in the planing-mill, which resiilted 
in a suit and judgment for damages, and required all the property Mr. Dale had accumu- 
lated to adjust the matter. He then removed to Seattle, Wash., where he became manager 
of a large lumber company which had been placed in the hands of a receiver. Upon his 
return to Indianapolis in 1891, he engaged in his present business, and is now at the head of 
the lirm of Charles A. Dale & Co., which under his management is rapidly coming to the 
front as one of the most reliable real estate firms in Indianapolis. Mr. Dale was instru- 
mental in organizing the Farm and Lot Savings and Loan Association, and is secretary and 
director of the same, the object of which is to operate principally among farmers, enabling 
them to borrow money and pay for farms on the same plans as building and loan associations. 
In May, 1893, he assisted in the organization of the Personal Property Savings and Loan 
Association, and is secretary and director of the same, it being the only one of the kind in 
the United States, whose object is to loan to responsible parties money on personal property. 
Mr. Dale is a member of the Plymouth Church. In politics he is generally independent, 
voting for the man whom he considers best fitted for the office. 

Dr. Ch.\rles B. Knerk. Among the promising young physicians of Indianapolis stands 
the name of Charles B. Knerr who was born February 10, 1854, in Reading, Peun., of which 
city his father, Levi P. Knerr, was also a native. The latter was a machinist by trade, at one 
time was master mechanic and had chargeof Philadelphia Navy Yards. He served as lieutenant- 
colonel of a Pennsylvania Voltmteer Regiment in the Mexican War, and was on duty from begin- 
ning to finish. He married Miss Mary A. Miller, a native also of the Keystone State, and 
in that State both received their final summons, the father dying May 24, 1876, and the latter 
iu March. 1887. Both were highly respected by all acquainted with them, being honorable, 
upright citizens. The original of this notice. Dr. Charles B. Knerr, received his scholastic 
training in the common schools and later learned the machinist's trade, following locomo- 
tive work for twenty years. In 1877 he came to Indiana and located at Lafayette, where he 
worked at his trade until 1880, after which he appeared in Indianajiolis. Here he had 
charge of the Pan Handle Tool Room until 1889, at which date he liegan the study of medi- 
cine with Dr. M. G. Martin. He entered the Medical College of Indiana, and graduated 
from the same in March, 1891, inunediately after which he located in Indianapolis, where 
he has since carried on a successful practice, which has enabled him to purchase property, and 
erect a residence and office thereon. He has already acquired a Mattering reputation as a 
physician, has proved himself a man of ability and energy, and is universally liked in the 
city. He is a member of the Indiana State and Marion County Medical Societies, and is 
also a member of the K. of P., and Chosen Friends. He was married July 15, 1883 to 
Miss Lenora Benson, a native of southeastern Iowa and the daughter of Aaron and Mary 
(Keeling) Benson, natives of Shelby Couutv, Ind. Dr. and Mrs. Knerr are the parents 
of two children, DeWitt, born April "U, 1887, and Willard, born September 17, 1890. They 
are members of the East Washington Street Presbyterian Church, and in politics Dr. Knerr 
is an Independent Republican. 

William Buschmann, deceased. The prudent way and careful methods of Teutonic set- 
tlers are conspicuous in JIarion County. Ind., where so many representatives of the German 
race have settled, and William Buschmann was no exception to the rule. Honest and upright 
in every particular no man held a higher place in the estimation of the people than he. He 
was born in Bielefeld, Prussia, in 1824, and there grew to mature years and received his edu- 



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cation. During bis youth, and before the flays of railroads.be drove foiir-borse mercbandise 
wagons tbrougbont Germany, and be derived macb pleasure in recalling tbose days later in 
life. Prior to coming to America be worked in Berlin six years as an engineer; be also served 
in tbe German Prussian Army three years, and during the Rebellion of 1S48. In 1852 be 
emigrated to America, and came direct to Indianapolis, where he secured employment with 
the late Judge Morrison. While in tbe employ of tbe Judge he planted a tree upon tbe 
property fronting what was then tbe Ft. Wayne road, now Central Avenue; he subsequently 
became tbe owner of tbe property, and until the day of his death took special care of tbe 
tree. Mr. Bnscbmann finally engaged in business for himself, and owned and carried on suc- 
cessfully tbe first store on the old bluff road. Later he became a clerk for Henry Severin, 
and was finally taken in as a partner, tbe firm being known as Henry Severin & Co. In 1870 
be erected a large and handsome brick block on Ft. Wayne Avenue, where he carried on an 
extensive and prosperous business until 1891. He then retired, and turned bis interests over 
to bis son, William F. He was unusually successful in liusiness, and owned much valuable 
projierty. the most prominent being tbe Buschmann Block on Ft. Wayne Avenue, Wash- 
ington Street Block, occupied l)y Sander & Becker; tbe block on Central Avenue, occupied 
by Lewis Meier & Co., Broad Ripple Park, besides several farms and other property aljout 
the city. He was one of tbe oldest and best known German citizensof Indianapolis, and was 
known for bis charity and liberal deeds. It can be said of him that no deserving person ever 
applied to him for help, and was turned away empty banded. He was a member of tbe Zion 
German Lutheran Church many years, and a most generous contributor to its support. In 
politics he was a stanch Republican, although he was never active in political affairs. His 
death occurred July 5, 1893, and the county then lost one of its most valued citizens. Mr. 
Buschmann was married in 1802 to Miss Caroline Froelking, who died in 1880, and unto 
them were liorn six children, all of whom survive tbem,viz. : Louis F. and Charles L., of tbe 
firm of Lewis Meier & Co.; William F. , who succeeded his father in business: Emma, tbe 
only daughter, is at home; August W., a clerk in his brother's store: Harry C, a student at 
Perdue University, and George H . now in the Indianapolis High School. Mr. Buschmann 
instilled into tbe youthfal minds of his children the principles of honesty and uprightness, 
and his last words to them were: "Children be honest, do your duty, and stay together." 
These children all possess excellent business qualifications. The eldest son, Louis F.,was 
born in Indianapolis September 28, 1868, ami was educated in tbe German English schools 
of that city. Later he attended tbe Commercial College, and then entered the employ of 
Henry Scbwiuge as salesman in the tea business. Three years later be was employed by M. 
O'Connor &Co. , wholesale grocers, as bill clerk, and afterward became city salesman for this 
firm. In January, 1887, be became a member of the firm of Lewis Meier & Co., manufact- 
urers of shirts, pants and overalls. This is an extensive business, 3-")0 bands are employed, 
and an annual business of §225.0(10 is done. Mr. Buschmann is traveling salesman for tbe 
bouse. He was married in ISSfi to Miss Franciska Endelmeyer, of Indianapolis, and they 
have two children, Frank AV. and Louis Edmund. Mr. Buschmann is a Scottish Rite Mason, 
thirty-second degree, and a member of the Mystic Shrine, also a member of the Commercial 
Club. In politics he is a Democrat. 

Levi H. Fessler. While it is of rare occurrence for tbe man who is by natural bent 
and training a farmer, to adopt any other calling, when he does so he usually rises to success 
in it, because his whole life has been based upon the principle of integrity, with the firm 
conviction that in all tbe avenues of trade honesty should be tbe ruling spur. Surely no 
person is better fitted for tbe arduous task of tbe wholesale and retail dealer in dairy prod- 
ucts, because it is part of the farmer's duty to provide dairy products. The wholesale milk, 
cream and dairy product establishment under tbe proprietorship of Levi H. Fessler, of North 
Indianaj)olis, is one of the very essential business houses there. This gentleman was born 
in Berks County, Penu., July -i. 1852, a son of Isaac and Catherine (Held) Fessler. The 
paternal ancestors originally came from Switzerland, several generations ago. and located in 
Berks County. Penn.. where Isaac Fessler died when tbe subject of this sketch was but a 
child. His widow survives him and makes her home with the subject of this sketch, being 
now in her seventy-seventh year. Levi H. is tbe youngest of their six children and after the 
death of his father he was bound out to a farmer in bis native county and there grew up 



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with no advantages or pleasures, and compelled to labor early and late with no compensation. 
Notwithstanding these disadvantages he thrived both physically and mentally, and in 1866 
he determined to come west and for some time was a resident of Hillsboro. 111. In 1868 he 
came to Indianapolis, and having prior to that time been engaged in farming, he had handled 
considerable stock and had learned to like that Ijranch of the business, but for some time 
after his arival here he followed other pursuits. For tliree years he was in Gibson & Co.'s 
mill, and for two years was with the Indiana Hominy Mills, after which he was employed by 
the gas company as superintendent of their lamps, and during the eight years that he was in 
this business had entire charge of their stock. Upon leaving the employ of this company, 
although his capital was limited, he started in a business that he had always desired to fol- 
low — that with which he is now connected — in North Indianapolis, but at the end of three 
years located on the Armstrong homestead where he has since lived. He has a large herd 
of milch cows, which is made up of Jersey and other graded stock, and his patronage has so 
increased that he has now a wide patronage, which most desirable and satisfactory state of 
affairs has been brought about by always giving his customers pure milk and by the most 
honorable dealing. He is doing well financially and has the satisfaction of knowing that 
what he now has has been acquired by his own good management and energy. Politically 
he is a decided Republican and he has for years been a devoted member of the First Presby- 
terian Church, On first coming to North Indianapolis he assisted in organizing the Mission 
Sunday-school, in which he became a teacher and superintendent. He has for many years 
been a member of Capitol Lodge of the I. O. O. F. l)ut aside from this belongs to no secret 
organization. December 19, 1871, he was married to Miss Mary A. Hindley, a daughter of 
Robert Hindley, who was born in Manchester, England, and who, upon coming to the United 
States, located in Philadelphia, of which place he has been a resident for thirty years. Mrs. 
Fessler was born in Philadelphia where her father plied his trade of carpet weaving and 
designing, being thoroughly acquainted with the weaving of all kinds of woolen goods. 
He was a man of much intelligence and from the time he settled in this country he identi- 
fied himself with her every interest and made a useful, law abiding citizen. The union of 
Mr. and Mrs. Fessler resulted in the birth of two sous and a daughter. 

Hon. Ovid B. J.\meson is a native of Indianapolis, where he was born July 17, 1854, 
his father being Dr. P. H. Jameson, who for over half a century was an active practitioner 
of the city of Indianapolis, and is acknowledged to be one of the most eminent of his 
calling. He is a man who has deeply iiiterested himself in the affairs of his section, and 
has rendered valuable aid to the city as a member of the council, in which he was a leader 
in many important measures, and to the State as a member of the board of commissioners of 
State benevolent institutions, in which capacity he served eighteen years, a considerable por- 
tion of this time as president. Dr. Jameson has l)een president of the State Medical Society; 
was for many years president of the hoard of Butler University, and in various other ways 
manifested his interest in the progress of his profession. In 1850 he wooed and won for his 
wife Maria, daughter of Ovid Butler, founder of the university of that name. Ovid B. 
Jameson inherited many of the most commendable traits of his worthy parents, and wisely 
made the most of the opportunities that came in his way. His early education was 
obtained in the public schools of Indianapolis, after which he entered Butler University, 
and at a still later period finished his education at Heidelberg and Berlin, Germany, his 
absence on foreign soil lasting from 1870 to 1876. Upon his return to his native land he 
began the study of law with John M. Judah, now of Memphis, Tenn, and after being 
admitted to the bar in 1879, he at once entered upon a prosperous professional career that 
has since known no diminution. He is considered unexcelled authority upon real estate 
titles of Marion Count}', as well as titles throughout the State, and almost from the firtt has 
had a large practice involving real estate law and the validity of titles. He has made a 
specialty of this branch of his practice, and his services have frequently been called into 
requisition both by home and foreign corporations, and in the capacity of counselor has 
passed upon real estate of immense value, and his opinion has seldom been found at fault. 
He has directed the expenditure of immense sums of money, and his knowledge of the 
law and the security of tenures made him a wise and safe counselor. A considerable 
demand has also been made for commercial law and collections, and to this branch of his 



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practicp Mr. Jameson has also given much attention, but he is well posted on all branches 
of civil law. He was honored by an election to the State Legislature in 1885, as a repre- 
sentative from Marion County, and made an able, intelligent and conscientious legislator. 
On November 10, 1886. he led to the altar Miss Mary Booth Tarkingtou. a daughter of 
Judge John S. Tarkington, and they have a pretty and comfortable home on Pennsylvania 
Street. 

Theodore F. Smither. The desirability of a perfect and durable roof is generally 
admitted. During the last twenty years more unsuccessful experiments have been made in 
new rooting materials than in anj^ other line, and the lesson to be drawn from this is to deal 
only with those who have proved the reliability of their rooting, and are thoroughly responsi- 
ble. Such a person we find in ilr. Smither, whose facilities for supplying the wants of his 
patrons in this direction are of the most perfect character, while the promptness, efficiency 
and leliability which characterizes every transaction, renders him worthy of every confidence. 
Mr. Smither is a native of Marion County, Ind., horn eight miles east of Indianaj)olis. July 
25, 1S44, and was educated in the public and private schools of that county and in the city of 
Indianapolis, to which latter place he came with his parents when about nine years of age. 
He attended school when sixteen years of age, and then commenced clerking in the con- 
fectionery store of Pliil Haynes, of Indianapolis. There he remained about two years, and 
then in June, 1861, enlisted in Company I, Twenty sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry as a 
private, continuing as such in that company and regiment until December, 1861, when he 
was discharged on account of ill health. Returning to Indianapolis he clerked for Mr. 
Haynes for some time and later entered into the employ of the Adams Express Company, 
remaining with the same until the 100-day troops were called for in 1864. He then enlisted 
in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-second Volunteer Infantry as corporal, and served 
his time. During his first period of service Mr. Smither was in an engagement at Lexing- 
ton, Mo., and fought bravely for the old flag. Returning from the army he was later 
em[)loyed by the American Express Company, located at Indi(inai)olis, and a year later he 
was appointed mail agent on the I. C. & L. Railroad (now Big Four), and continued as such 
for about a year. After that he was employed by the ^Merchants Union Express Company, 
and remained with that com[)any until about a year later when the company consolidated 
with the American, and our subject remained with the consolidated company abo\it four 
years. Then, about 1870, Mr. Smither went to Lyon Coiuity, Kan., and engaged in farm- 
ing, continuing to till the soil for about four years. Returning to Indianapolis he engaged 
in the roofing business in 1876, and this he has since carried on very successfully, He is a 
man of business experience and ability, and one with whom it is a pleasure to deal. He is a 
member of the Builders Exchange, and in 1885 was elected to the Indianapolis city council 
from the fourth ward on the Republican ticket, serving two years. In 1887 he was elected 
from the same district to the board of aldermen, and served until the board was abolished 
by the Legislature. Socially he is a member of the K. of P., Lodge No. 56, Indianapolis, 
and in his religious views he is a Baptist. In March, 1871, Mr. Smither was married to 
Miss Lizzie A. Weaver, daughter of Alexander Weaver, of Lyon County, Kan., and the 
fruits of this union were four children, two of whom survive: Ida M. . wife of Fred J. 
Wright, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Edna H. , who graduated from an Indianapolis public 
school in 189-1 when sixteen years of age. Mr. Smither was one of thirteen children born to 
the marriage of John Smither, a native of Kentucky. The latter came to Indiana when a 
young man and died in 1878, when seventy-seven years of age. Nine of his children grew 
to mature years and seven now survive. 

Frank Prange. Many yeais of hard, earnest endeavor in pursuing the occupation to 
which he now gives attention, coupled with strict integrity, honesty of purpose and liberality 
in all directions, has resulted in placing Mr. Prange among the truly resjiected and honored 
millers of this section. No man has been more the architect of his own fortune than he, 
for at the age of seven years he branched out to tight life's battles for himself, and has had 
to hoe his own row from that time to this. He is a native of Germany, born in Westphalia, 
November 10, 1834, and received his education in that country. He worked out for farmers 
as soon as able, and remained in his native country until twenty years of age, when he 
decided to become an American citizen. Upon reaching the United States he came direct to 



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Indianapolis, Ind. , and began working for the old Peru Railroad, first as a section hand. 
Five years later he was made watchman in the Peru depot and subsequently commenced 
teaming, following that for sixteen years. In the year 1880 he engaged in the milling Ijusi- 
uess on Pearl Street, remained tliere for aljout twelve years and then established iiimself in 
the same business on Davidson Street. His unusual success may lie attributed to his making 
the finest flour in the market, by sustaining tlie nniformity of its brands, by offering custom- 
ers the Ijest terms, and In' treating every one who has l)usiness relations wifii him in a 
courteous and proper manner. In the year 1855 Mr. Prange was married to Miss Sophia 
Thine, a native of German}', who came over from the native land at the same time he did, 
and their imion has been blessed by the birth of four children, as follows: W. F. Prange; 
Louisa, wife of Charles Plinesick, of Lafayette, Ind., William, and Emma, widow of Chris. 
Stolhonn. Our subject's second marriage occurred in 1865 to Miss Mollie Dicknian, a native 
of Germany, who bore him four children, three of whom are living: Charles, Henry ahd 
Lena. Mr. Prange is a worthy luemlier of the German Lutheran Church, and in politics 
adheres to the principles of the Democratic party. He has never sought office, preferring 
to give all his attention to the milling business. He is a stockholder in the Home Brewing 
Company of Indianapolis, and is one of the prominent business men of the place. His 
father, William Prange, was a native of Germany and there passed his entire life, an honored 
and respected citizen. 

Chables E. Thornton. A man's life work is tlie measure of his success, and he is 
truly the most successful man, who, turning his powers into the channel of an honoralile pur- 
pose, accomplishes the oliject of his endeavor. He who weds himself to a great |)rinciple 
lays the foundation of a successful life. In the study of every man's life we find some 
mainspring of action — something that he lives for. In Charles E. Thornton it seems to 
have l)een an ambition to make the best use of his native and acquired powers and to develop in 
himself a true manhood. A native of Putnam County. Ind., he was born July 3, 1855, to 
the marriage of Daniel T. and Nancy H. (Darnall) Thornton, the father a native of Virginia, 
and the mother of the Bine-Grass State. The father of Mr. Thornton was reared in Kentucky, 
and in 1840, when twenty-nine years of age, came to Indiana, where he followed merchandis- 
ing for many years at Bainljridge. Later he engaged in agricultural imrsuits, and for 
twenty-eight years was director of the First National Bank of Greencastle, Ind. To his 
marriage were born three children, as follows: Mary E. , died in 18511: James L., business 
manager of the Sedalkt (Mo.) Di'iiiocrtit. and ('harles E.. our suliject. The mother of 
these children died in 185S, and in ISfjO Mr. Thornton married Miss Maliuda I. Chenowith, 
of Columbus, lud., who now survives. Mr. Daniel T. Thornton died in 18y'-i. The original 
of this notice received all the advantages of a thorough education. After leaving the 
common schools of Putnam County he was for some time in Bainbridge Academy, and 
later graduated at Butler University in 1878. After leaving that institution he returned 
home and taught school for a time. On account of failing health he went to fanning, 
and continued this three years. In 1883 he came f)ack to Indianapolis and emliarked in the 
hardware and agricultural implement Inisiness with M. D. Darnall, and continued this until 
18Sf). when he fijrmed a partnershi|) with Col. Josejili Moore, of Indiana[)<)lis, under the 
firm name of Moore & Thornton, and for seven years they were among the most prominent 
and successful firms of United States claim attorneys of Indiana. In January, 181)3, he sold 
out to liis partner and accepted the position of president of the Indiana Society for Savings, 
one of the most prosperous of the State Building and Loan Associations, and devotes his 
entire time to the interests of the society. He is a trustee of Butler I^uiversity, the leading- 
college of the Christian Church, located at Irvington, a suljurb of Indianapolis. Affable in 
his manners, courteous in liis address, firm in liia convictions, faithful in his attachments and 
true in his principles, Mr. Thornton is one of the city's most worthy citizens. Socially he is 
a meml)er of the Indiana|)i)lis Lodge, No. 5(5, K. of P., and of the Indiana Division. No. 56, 
Uniformed Rank of tlie K. of P. He is also a trustee of the New Castle Hall, of the K. of 
P., now building; also a member of the Marion (Republican) Club; president of the Rock- 
ville Electric Light & Power Company, and a member of the Sigma Chi Greek fraternity. 
He is also a member of the Christian Church, ami is president of the board of deacons 
of the Third Christian Church, Indianapolis. In the month of October, 1879, he was 



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married to Miss Eva M. Houston, daughter of Judge S. M. Houston, of Springfield, Mo. 
Four children have been given them, Edgar, Mary, Margaret and Cornelia. In liis political 
views Mr. Thornton is a Republican, and takes an active interest in the affairs of his party. 

Edward Schmidt. Biography should be written for the sake of its lesson.s, that men 
everywhere may place themselves in contact with facts and affairs, and build themselves up 
to and into a life of excellence, not in any sphere but in their own rightful place, where 
they may keep and augment their individuality. To record in some respects the details of 
such a life is purposed in the following history of Edward Schmidt. This gentleman is a 
nalive of Cincinnati, Ohio, i)orn May 10, 1859, and when an infant was brought by his 
parents to Indianapolis, Ind. He grew to manhood in that city and received a good practical 
education in the German-English schools there. Later he attended the high school there 
and in IST'i, went to Hoboken, N. J., where he attended college for al)out two years. There 
he- laid the foundation for his snbsecjuent prosperous career. After finishing at that college 
he went to Leipsic, Germany, and there attended college for about a year and a half. He 
then returned to Indiana])olis and entered his father's brewery where he remained until the 
lirewery was sold to the English syndicate. This was in 1888, and since that time Mr. 
Schmidt's time hfis been employed in looking after his large interests. Since the year 1888 
he has traveled a great deal, and in 1803 he completed a trip around the world. Politicall}' 
^Ir. Sclimiilt is a Democrat and is deeply interested in the welfare of his party. In ISSTi he 
was elected to the Legislature and served in an efficient and satisfactory manner for two 
years. He is a young man yet, in the vigor of his manhood, and, much as he has already 
achieved, his history, if he lives, lies largely in the future. 

Henry Lane Brunek. A man's life-work is the measure of his success, and he is truly 
the most successful man who, turning his powers into the channel of an honorable purpose, 
accomplishes the object of his endeavor. He who weds himself to a great principle, lays 
the foundation of a successful life. In the study of every man's life we tind some main 
s|)ring of action, something he lives for. In Mr. Henry Lane Bruner it seems to have been 
an ambition to make the Ijest u.se of his native and acquired powers, and to develop in him- 
self a true manhood. A native of Illinois, born near Galesburg, January 10, ISOl, our sub- 
ject is the son of Rev. Francis M. and Esther (Lane) Bruner, the latter the daughter C)f 
Iia Lane who was born in South Carolina. Rev. Francis M. Brimer is a native of the Blue 
Grass State but was reared in Illinois, where he graduated at Knox College, Galesburg. 
He is a minister in the Christian Church and has been preaching since his graduation in 
1857, a period of nearly forty years. He held the rank of captain in the Federal service 
during the Rel)ellion, but only for about one year, when be was discharged on account of ill 
health. A jirominent man wherever he makes his home,' he has held many oiScial positions, 
anil represented Warren County in the Illinois Legislature. To his marriage were born several 
children, seven of whom now survive: Mary, wife of W. A. Seevers of Oskaloosa, Iowa ; Henry 
L , our subject: Celeste, wife of D. F. Givens of Des INToines, Iowa; Frank M. , and his twin 
sister, Fannie, who is the wife of Samuel G. Jeffrey of Albany. N. Y. ; Jessie, wife of Dr. H. 
A. Mynassian, ))rofessor in the college at Eureka, 111., and Bessie. The paternal ances- 
tors of these children came from Germany and first settled in Maryland. The youthful days 
of our subject were passed in Galesburg, and he received his primary education at Mon- 
mouth, III. Later he took a preparatory course at Oskaloosa College, and then went through 
the Freshman year af Monmoutli College. In 1880 he graduated at Abingdon College, at 
Abingdon, III., with the degree of A. B. and was valedictorian of his class. Leaving Abing 
don Mr. Bruner went to the Sheffield Scientific school, of Yale University, remained there 
one year, and then began teaching at Abingdon College, where he remained three years. 
From there he went to Eureka, 111, and there had the chair of natural science, holding that 
liosition for three years when failing health obliged him to give it up. He discontinued 
teaching then until the fall of 1891, when he accepted the chair of biology and geology in 
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. In 1892 he came to Butler University, Irvington, 
where he has since held the same chair. He was given the degree of A. M. by Eureka Col 
lege. Prof. Bruner is a worthy member of the Christian Church. He was married in 
1890, to Miss Carolyn L. Aumock, daughter of Dr. W. S. Aumock of Colorado Springs, 
Colo. One child, Harold Aumock, was born to this union. 



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William Sloan. This worthy farmer, like many of the best citizens of the county, is a 
native of the Empire State, Itorn November (>, 1807, and is a splendid type of the enterprise, 
industry and self reliance of the early Indiana pioneer. His long life of industry and use 
fulness and ids record for integrity and truehearted faithfulness in all the relations of life 
h;ive given him a hold upon the community which all might well desire to share. His 
parents, George and Mary (Story) Sloan, were natives of the Keystone State, where they 
were married. Seven children were born to this union, as follows: Nellie (deceased), was 
the wife of Robert Smith; Thomas (deceased); Polly (deceased), was the wife of Joseph 
Herestich; Peggy (deceased), was the wife of John Harris; John (deceased), and William. 
The father was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died about 18-")"), aged sixty-live years. 
Our subject moved with his parents to Ohio in 1817, and settled with them in Clermont 
County, where his father bought sixty acres of improved land and IdO acres of wild land 
adjoining. He remained on his father's farm until about of age, when he married Miss 
Deborah Stausbnrg. a native of New Jersey, and subsequently purchased a small farm of 
twenty five acres in Clermont County. He remained on this about two years, and then 
returned to his father's farm, where he remained until 1833, when he and his wife and two 
children started for Indiana, the trip occupying two weeks. He located in Montgomery 
County and bought eighty acres of land, twenty-five acres of which were improved, and paid 
for the same f40(*. On tliis tract were 300 sugar trees, and one week during the first season, 
he got thirty six barrels of sugar water. Mr. Sloan remained on this tract four years and 
then sold it for |(>00. He returned to Clermont County, Ohio, and rented a house in Clarks- 
ville, where he made his home for nearly a year, working during that time in Eli Hale's 
pork-house. Then he again moved to Indiana and located in Marion County within a mile 
of where he now lives, and there bought 160 acres of land, making the purchase in Februaiy 
when the ground was covered with snow. He paid $1,000 down, and turning in two horses, 
a wagon and a side-saddle for $400; he gave his note for the remainder, which was 1100. 
When the snow disappeared Mr. Sloan discovered that most of the land was poor, but he 
lived there for four or five years. He then sold it for $l,tiOtt, and rode horseback to Louis- 
ville, Ky., to see about purchasiug the Voorhees farm, which comprised 200 acres, and 
which was within a mile of his place. He bought the farm in Louisville, paying 12,050 for 
it, and there lieing no house on this tract he was compelled to remain on his old place about 
a year. He then moved to the Voorhees farm and farmed the same for four or five years, 
when he bought eighty acres known as the Major John Bell's farm, paying for the same 
$2,360. After this he purchased eighty acres adjoining of the railroad company, paying for 
the same |1,400, and at once moved on the eighty acres known as the Bellow's farm, on 
which was a story and a half frame house. This house stood right on the Michigan road, 
then the great thoroughfare of travel, and he kept tavern for thirty years. At the same 
time he kept his farms in a flourishing condition and added to them until aljout the begin- 
ning of the war, when he owned 7"i() acres. He ke])t tavern up to about 1870, when he gave 
it up and erected a handsome brick house just back of the old tavern, which was then torn 
down. Since that time he has followed farming. His first wife died in August, 1883, leaving 
him ten children, one having died in infancy. Those who lived to mature years were named 
as follows: Lydia J., wife of John McMullen, of Boone County, Ind. ; Julia Ann, died in 
1892. She was the wife of John E. Jones, of Montgomery Count v, Ind.; Jackson, died in 
1880; Alfred, died in 1885; Gilman, of Putnam County, Ind. : Eliza, wife of William Coffee, 
of Indianapolis; Silvina O. , wife of George Leonard, of Indianapolis; Sarah, wife of John 
Pike, of Marion County, Ind. ; Oliver B. , of Indianapolis, and Lafayette, of Marion County. 
In Eel)ruary, 1884, Mr. Sloan married Miss Mary F. McNiel, daughter of John and Mary 
(Cook) McNiel, and now lives with her on his farm in Marion County. Our subject has been 
a Democrat in his political views all his life, and he voted for Gen. Jackson when the latter 
was elected. He has voted for every Democratic president since that time. Mrs. Sloan's 
father, John B. McNiel, was a native of Fayette County, Ind., born in 1812, and he was a 
farmer all his life. He was peaceful and never had a lawsuit iu his life. He was the father 
of sixteen children, thirteen of whom were daughters and the rgmainder sons. Four of 
these children died in infancy, and the following grew to mature years: Sarah E. died in 
1889; George K. died iu 1878 (he enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Infantry, and served all 



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through the Rebellion); Daniel, resides in Wabash County, Ind. (he was a soldier in 
the Heventy-tifth Indiana Infantry Regiment, and was all through the war); Martha 
A., is the wife of William Low, of Wabash County, Ind.; Mary F., wife of our subject; 
Matilda, died in 1861; Caroline, died in 1862; Vantory Y. , is the wife of Calvin McLaugh- 
lin, of Marion County, Ind. ; Margaret R., wife of Philip Love, of Marion County; Delia, 
wife of Harry Worthington, Kansas City, Mo.; John Charles, of Marion County, and Lola 
I., wife of W. B. Harris, of Indianapolis. The motiier of these children was a native of 
Kentucky, and died in 1S80. The father passed away the following year. 

Ch.\rles Schilling. As another evidence of the intelligence and usefulness of the 
(Termaii class of western citizens, we are glad of the opportunity of jiresenting this sketch. 
Its subject needs no eulogy, and we give a "'plain unvarnished"' sketch of his life, believing 
that there is in it matter of pride to his own Fatherland people, and certainly enough to 
instruct and encourage young men beginning life under difficulties. Mr. Schilling was born 
in Minden, Germany (Westphalia), April 3, 1S35, to the marriage of Frederick and Maria 
(Slenceker) Schilling, both natives of the old country, where they passed their entire lives. 
They were the parents of five children, of whom our subject and Henry, are the only ones 
living. The mother died when Charles was but seven years of age, and the father received 
his final summons about 1S(>6. The early days of our subject were passed on a farm in his 
native country and he attended the schools of that country about three years only. From 
the age of seven to twenty-one he worked around on different farms herding, etc., and from 
the age of seven to fourteen he received for his services about 5 cents a day. This small 
amount he was ol)liged to turn over to his father to buy rye for bread. One memorable year 
rye was worth $4. 50 a iiushel and anything almost was used to make liread. The family 
had no meat, and potatoes, with the bread above mentioned, was about all the food they had. 
Even of this bread they frequently did not get enough to satisfy their hunger. When four- 
teen years of age young Schilling began to receive wages, or what was considered wages at 
that time in the old country, and the tirst year he receive<l about 15 in money and from 13 
to $4 in gooels, such as linen for clothes. The second year his wages were raised to the large 
sum of $6 per year, the third year to $7. and the fourth year to $11. After that he got $14 
per year and then $18, and aside from this about the same amount of goods as above 
mentioned. Certain that he could better his condition he started to America in 1857, the 
laud of promise to thousands of his countrymen. His brother, Henry Schilling, had pre- 
ceded him about eighteen months, and was living in Indianapolis, working in a brick yard. 
He had written our subject to come as soon as possible. After a voyage lasting eleven weeks 
and four days, three weeks of which were fair, the vessel reached the city of New York and 
our subject landed without a cent and in debt $5 to a friend wh(j came over with him. This 
friend had advanced that amount to |)ay his passage, the ticket then costing $35. This same 
friend, Henry Bochemyre, who died about 1870, came on to Indianapolis with our subject 
and paid his fare there. The next day our subject began working in the brick yard where 
his brother wa^! employed, and received the sum of 90 cents per day, very good wages 
indeed he thought. For thirteen years Mr. Schilling delved in the brick-yard in summer 
and the warehouse in the city in winter, and aside from this chopped wood, got out logs and 
worked at any kind of honorable employment he could find. After this for live years at one 
stretch he worked in the old Bellefontaine freight-house, and then bought a team and began 
to haul brick. This he continued for one year and then sold a little property he had bought 
from his savings. This property, consisting of four acres in four lots, sitnated in Dunlap's 
Addition, lirought him the sum of $5,000, having paid out for it about $2,400. Later he 
took the money and bought eighty acres of land of John Potter in Franklin township, 
Marion County. Ind., on which there was a one-story house, smoke-house, wood-house and 
barn. In 1884 he bought fifty four acres more and of the 134 acres, about thirty sis acres 
was timbeV. The remainder is tillable land. Mr, Schilling has raised (iOO bushels of wheat 
in one season and from fifteen to twenty-live and thirty acres of corn. In the year 1861 
Mr. Schilling married Miss Anna Myer, daughter of Christojiher Myer, who lived near Sey- 
mour, Ind. To this marriage were born nine children, as follows: Elizabeth, died at the 
age of twenty-two years and seven months: Fred; Anna, wife of Andy Waterman, of Marion 
County, Ind.; Matilda; Charles; Christopher; Ida; Clara; Amelia, and one son who died at 



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the age of teu ilavs, niiuauied. In his political views Mr. Scbilliug is a slaiicli Deiiiocrut 
and has always affiliated with that party. He is a member ui the Zion German Church but 
is not a member of any secret organization. 

John Frederick Henry Schilling. This worthy representative of a successful, 
thoroughgoing and industrious Geiman farmer, came originally' from Germany, born in 
Westphalia, Miuton, July IH. 183(1. His parents, Frederick and INIaria (Slenceker) Schill- 
ing, were natives of Germany, and there passed their entire lives. Our subject remained with 
his parents until fourteen years of age, but commenced working for different fiirmers, herding, 
etc. , when seven years of age. He received as compensation from 14 to 17 i)er year and f 3 or 

$4 in clothing. When fourteen years of age be went to live with an uncle, Daniel , 

and remained with him until twenty three years of age, never receiving a cent of wages, only 
his board and clothes, and working all day and a good share of the night. When twenty- 
one years of age he was liable to service in the army but on account of poor health he was 
allowed to return home. After this he worked for different farmers near his home, receiv- 
ing $-1 per year, a pair of boots and linen for clothing. Until twenty three years of :ige he 
continued thus employeil and then his health having improved he was taken into the army 
and served seven months. On April (!, 1855, he was married to Miss Caroline Burgman, 
daughter of Frederick Burgman, who lived near our subject, and on April Hi, of the follow- 
ing year he and his young wife took passage for America. This voyage lasted eight weeks 
and two days and ended by landing our subject and wife into the great city of New York. 
They remained there one night and then turned their faces toward the setting sun, arriving 
in Indianapolis, Ind., three days later. He had %\\ left of the $262 with which he had 
started from home and shortly after reaching Indianapolis he got employment in (Charles 
Myer's brick yard. At tirst he received 90 cents a day, but a month later his wages were 
advanced to $1 a day. He remained with Mr. Myers about fifteen years during the summer, 
and during the winter months chopped wood, worked in the pork house, freight depot, etc. 
After this he worked two years for Fred Sanders in the latter's brick yard, and as wages 
advanced during the war, he received as high as $2.25 per day. Then he rented eighty 
acres of land in Perry Townsliip, Marion County, paying $350 per year rent, and resided on 
this for over ten years. In 1879 he bought eighty acres in Franklin Township, Marion 
County, but did not move on the same until 1880. On this he has remained ever since. 
There were sixty acres cleared, on it was a one story frame house of three rooms, a barn 
and a wood house. For this farm he ])aid $-1,000. In 1883 he added twenty acres to the 
original tract, paying $55 per acre for it, and this comprises his holdings in the way of 
land. The additional twenty acres were cleared with a little frame house and a log barn on 
it. In the year 1892 our subject raised thirtyiive acres of wheat, twenty live bushels to 
the acre, and many acres of corn, averaging forty to sixty bushels to the acre. Mr. Schill- 
ing is an ardent Democrat in politics and since his first presidential vote for James Buchanan, 
he has never mis'ied voting for a Democratic Presidential candidate. The father of Mrs. 
Schilling was a soldier in the French War and died in 1847, when forty-two years of age, 
his daughter, Caroline, being about twelve years of age at that time. Mrs. Burgman fol- 
lowed her husband to the grave eleven weeks later. They were the parents of five children, 
four of whom grew to mature years: Dora, wife of Frederick Rodenbeck, of Germany; Car- 
oline, wife of our subject; Frederick, who died in Indianapolis in 1878 (he married Miss 
Louisa Klasing and left these children; Louisa, Matilda and Lizzie); Henry Burgman, who 
married Miss Eliza Gates and became the father of six children (Caroline, who married 
Frank Robertson; Frederick, who married Anna Snowden; William; Ella; Louis and Charles). 
Henry Burgham resides in Center Township, Ma.rion County, Ind. To our subject's mar- 
riage were born eight children, four sons and four daughters, one of the daughters, Louisa, 
dying when about fourteen months old. The remaining children are named as follows: 
Lena, wife of Christopher Achgill, of Franklin Township, this county; Louisa, widow of 
William Shakel, has three children: Henry, Ella and Carrie; Charles, first married Miss 
Louisa Jones, bj- whom he had one daughter: Mamie. For his second wife he selected 
Miss Hannah Chowa, who bore him one son: Charles; Emma L. , married Thomas Cochran, 
and has one son: Edward; Henry, married Miss Lizzie Cummins, and has one daughter: 
Lulu; Christopher and Frederick. 



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ArorsT Elbracht. Among those of our (icrinau oitizeiis who have developed a high 
order of ability in connection with the agricultural affairs of Marion County, and whose rare 
personal and social qualities have given them a deserved and atlded j)romineuce. Mr. August 
Elbracht is conspicuous. With steady purpose, energy and a full comprehension of the 
many duties of his occupation, he has pushed to the front and is an honor to his native 
country as well as to the land of his adoption. Perhajjs no class of people who have found 
homes upon the shores of America have done more to build up her interests or contribute 
more to her commercial importance and national prosperity than the sturdj', honest-hearted 
and industrious Germans. Mr. Eiliracht was born in Holle, Germany, in 1824, and came to 
America in ISfiO, when al)out thirty-tive years of age. His elder brother had preceded him 
to this country two or three years, our subject remaining at home with his father and assist- 
ing on the farm owned Ijy the latter. Our subject had an elder sister who had married 
Henry Eickhoff, and resided in Marion County, Ind., and upon landing in this country he 
immediately directed bis steps there. Previous to our subject's landing in America the 
father became restive, bade adieu to home and friends, and pitched his household tent in 
Franklin Township, Madison County, Ind., where he bought 100 acres of land. When our 
subject crossed over he brought his mother and they immediately moved into the little log 
house of the farm. The father died on this farm about ISOl and the mother about 18(57. 
The former [jaid f 10 per acre for the 100 acres. In the year 1S52 August Elbracht was 
united in marriage with Miss Lena Mempna and the fruits of this union were ten children, 
two of whom, a son and daughter, died in infancy. The eight now living are named as fol 
lows: Chris, Christine (wife of Charles Boggemeyer), Mary (wife of Fred Schmidt), Minnie 
(wife of William Tettebach), Henry, Charles, Edward and Louisa. Oixr subject and his wife 
are worthy members of the German Lutheran Church and are interested in church work. 
He is a Democrat in his political views. In 1871 Mr. Elbracht erected a good story and a 
half house on his farm and there he resides with his worthy companion and the children who 
are at home. During the year 1S93 he raised 40(t bushels of wheat and had twenty acres in 
corn. His father, Francis Elbracht, left him the farm he had bought when tirst coming to 
tills country, and since then our subject has made many improvements. His mother's maiden 
name was Mary Fierling who bore her husljand these children: Lottie (the widow of Henry 
Eickhoff), Minnie (widow of Alex. iMetzger), Katie (deceased, was the wife of William Metz- 
ger), Christopher (who came to America and was never heard of ))ut once afterward), and 
August (our subject). 

Joseph Hittle, deceased. The name which is here given was for many years counted 
as among the leading farmers of Marion County, Ind., and although he has now passed 
from earth's activities is is but just and satisfactory that his life's narrative be recounted 
among those who have done excellent service in subduing the wilderness and bringing it 
into its present splendid ccmdition physically, morally and socially. Born in Ohio October 
26, 1819, he was brought to Rush County, Ind., when seven years of age, the names of his 
father and mother l)eing Isaac and Margaret (Aron) Hittle. The father was a native of the 
Keystone State and there grew to manhood, learning the miller's trade in youth. After 
reaching mature years he emigrated to the Buckeye State and was there juarried to Miss 
Aron. Al)0ut 182() he and his estimable wife moved to Rush County, Ind., and he there 
entered KiO acres of land on which he resided until his death in 1S61. He was a soldier in 
the War of 1812, and a man highly esteemed in the community in which he lived for his 
many estimable qualities. Of the five children l)orn to his marriage, three grew to mature 
years, as follows: Joseph, died October, 1892; Michael, who lives on the old homestead in 
Rush County, married Miss Rebecca Carson, who bore him two children, t)nly one now liv- 
ing, William. His second union was with Miss Eliza Monroe and they had seven children: 
Margaret, John, Homer. Joseph, Alice, Ocieand Arthur. John Hittle, the third child born to 
our subject, resides in Wabash County, Ind. His tirst wife was Adeline Kindel by whom he 
had six children, one only surviving, Margaret. His second marriage was with Miss Emma 
Nixon, who died without issue. He was the third time married. Our subject's early scho 
lastic advantages did not amount to much, for as soon as able he was put to work on the 
farm, 100 acres, which his father had entered in Rush County. On this farm he remained 
until twenty-eight years of age, and then, on May 18, 1848, he was married to Miss Sarah A. 



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Maze, daughter of John Maze, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1780. After his marriage 
our subject remained on his father's farm engaged in milling and blacksmithing until ]85f), 
when he and his family came to Marion County, Ind. He bought 120 acres and of this 
about twelve acres had been partially cleared. Here began their struggle for a home and 
for sometime they lived in a log cabin, but only until Mr. Hittle could erect a frame, oiie- 
stocy house of three rooms. In this the enterprising young couple made their home until 
about 1S75 when a house of seven rooms was erected. There Mr. Hittle died in 1892, and 
there his widow now resides with her daughter, Mary E., who married Andrew Toon. Mr. 
Hittle never l)elonged to any secret organization, nor to any church, though his parents were 
Presbyterians. His career impressed upon his children and his many friends the example 
of a noble and honorable life, which, although it was fraught with hard labor and patient in- 
dustry, was a model of the sterling qualities that characterized a man who lived nearer to 
nature iu its purity than to the artifices of society. His death was the occasion of universal 
sorrow, for all felt the loss sustained by the departure of such a man. He was a Democrat 
in politics, although he never took an active part except to vote his ticket. His marriage was 
blessed by the birth of two children. Isaac, his son, was married first in 1869 to Miss Emma 
Parrish, daughter of KingParrish of Hancock County, Ind , and by her became the father of 
four children: Carrie E., Oscar L., Claudie O. and John G. Isaac Hittle's first wife died 
iu 1880, and his second wife was Miss Lucy E. Brown, daughter of Samuel Brown. Three 
children were born to this union: Delia M. , Charles J. and Chester A. Our subject's second 
child, Mary E., married Andrew Toon, son of Lewis Toon, and they have one son, Joseph 
R. John Maze, father of Mrs. Hittle, was born January 1, 1780, in Pennsylvania, and in 
1792 moved to the Blue Grass State. From there he moved to Ohio, thence to Indiana, then 
to Arkansas and then back to Indiana, dying iu Marion County May 1, 1855. He married 
Hannah Harvey and they had twelve children, eleven of whom grew to mature years. (See 
sketch of Willis Smither). 

John Demott. No name is more familiarly known in Marion County than that of 
Demott, and it is so thoroughly interwoven with its history that a work of this character 
would be incomplete without frequent reference to .some member of the family. The man 
from Kentucky has always been a potential element in the civilization and development of 
Indiana. No better blood ever infused pioneer life; no sturdier arm ever set about the task 
of subduing the wilderness, and no less vigorous mental activity could have raised a great 
commonwealth. John Demott was born in the Blue Grass State, Mercer County, December 
24, 1813, on his father's farm. His parents, Peter and Mary (Terhune) Demott, were natives 
of New Jersey and Kentucky respectively, the former born about 1766. When but a boy 
Peter Demott came with his father, Lawrence Demott, to Kentucky, and the latter entered 
1,400 acres of land. Peter served in the War of 1812. He married Miss Terhune, daugh 
ter of Garrett Terhune, of Kentucky, and the fruits of this union were thirteen children, 
eleven of whom grew to mature years, as follows: Lawrence, deceased, was the husband of 
Polly Davis, also deceased; Katie, deceased, was the wife of Simon Smock, also deceased; 
Dosia deceased, was the wife of Henry Bonte, now deceased; Polly, deceased, was the wife 
of Thomas Henderson, now deceased; Margaret, deceased, was the wife of Abram Vanuice, 
deceased; Sail ie was the wife of Daniel Stuck, and both are now deceased; Peter married 
Jane Hunter, and both are deceased; Ann married Philip French, deceased, and they lived 
in Gibson County, Ind. ; John Demott, subject, and Lucinda, married Jesse Turpen, aud 
they reside in Missouri. The mother of these children died May 27, 1862. When about ten 
years of age our subject came to Marion County, Ind., with his father, who entered 160 
acres of land iu Franklin Township, paying for the same $1.25 an acre. He and his father 
made the trip on horseback and two or three days afterward returned home, the distance 
being between ISO and 2(10 miles. The father thought nothing of riding sixty or sixty five 
miles a day over the rougliest kind of roads and through the woods and swamps. On his 
return our subject began farming on the old homestead of 160 acres, which was just opposite 
the noted Cave Springs. He received meager educational advantages — not more than 
eighteen months altogether — and got as far as the rule of three in arithmetic. He was about 
eighteen years of age when his father died and he remained on the farm with his sisters, 
Ann and Lucinda, until about thirty years of age. On March 16, 1843, he was married to 



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Miss Mary E. Bates, ami in tlip fall of tlic saiue year lie and bis bride moved to Trimble 
Couiity, Ky., wlieiv he bought 160 acres of land for 5?4tl(). This land was among the hills 
of the Ohio River and he had a beautiful view of the river and Madison, Ind. A large part 
of this land was cleared and he began raising corn, wheat and hogs, remaining on the same 
until October, 1854, when he came to Marion County, Ind., where his father had entered 
760 acres. The latter had also entered 480 acres in Johnson County, Ind. John Demott 
settled on a tract of Ifil) acres in Section 3, Range 4, Franklin Township, Marion County, 
the same being allotted to him on his father's death. Previous to settling on his farm per- 
luaueiitly he had visited it several times and had clearings made and a house erected, so that 
his family could move riglit in. On this farm they settled and here Mr. Demott has made 
his home ever since. He has cleared about seventy acres, besides finishing clearing the 
twenty acres he had partially cleared previous to settling upon it. Among the first men to 
work for him was J. L. Carson, late auditor of Shelby County, Ind., who split, hauled and 
laid up 5,0(10 oak and walnut rails for our subject. To Mr. Demolt's marriage were born 
eight children, one of whom, Peter, died in infancy. Those who lived to mature years were 
named: William Merritt, born February 7, 1844, married Miss Sarah, daughter of Willis 
Smither, of Marion County, Ind., and they now reside in Shelby County, this State: James 
Peter, born May li4, 1847, resides in Lebanon, Ind. He married Jliss Alice Vandiver, daugh- 
ter of James Vandiver, of Marion County, Ind.; John Thomas, l)oru January 27, 1849, 
married and resides in Marion County, Ind. ; Jane M., born February 0, \8T)0, married 
Samuel Parsons and died when her first child, a daughter, was about four years old. The 
child died soon after; Simon S., bora January 19, 1852, died in Missouri, unmarried: Ohio 
C, born May 10, 1854, married Miss Mollie Hendershot, and they reside in Indianapolis, 
Ind.; George C, born March 25, 1857, married Miss Belle Hawkinger, and resides in 
Marion County, Ind; and Eliza Ruth, born October 24, 1859, married Jacob Kerner, and 
resides in Franklin Township, Marion County, Ind. The mother of these children died July 
3ll, ISfiO, and our subject has never married again. In early manhood Mr. Demott was a 
Whig and a great admirer of Henry Clay. Later he cast his vote with the Democratic party, 
with which he now affiliates. In early life he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, but his name was taken off the church books because of his supposed atHliation with 
the Southern cause. In spite of all this he has contributed liberally to build and maintain 
all the churches in his neighborhood, excepting the new Methodist Episcopal Church to 
replace the one he belonged to. When asked for some timlaer for the church he (piietly 
informed the committee that it would never do to put " butternut " timber in that church. 
They took the hint and withdrew. 

Andkew Collins. For many years this highly honored pioneer of Franklin Township 
has been identified with the interests of Marion County, Ind., his settlement here dating 
from 1 840, and during that time his career has l>een above reproach. He enjoys the reputation 
of being a substantial and progressive farmer, and has also been considered an intelligent 
and thoroughly posted man on all the current topics of the ilay. Although now in his eighty- 
second year time has dealt leniently with him and he is still in the enjoyment of compara- 
tively good health, and takes as deep an interest in all piililic enterprises as in his more 
youtliful days. Mr. Collins was born in Hamilton ('ounty, Ohio, August 5, 1812, fourteen 
miles northwest of Cincinnati, to the marriage of Ephraim and Catherine (Scottj Collins. 
The elder Collins was born in Maryland about 1777 and was married in Pennsylvania to 
Miss Scott who bore him six children, five of whom reached mature years, as follows; Mary 
(deceased), married James Chambers and thej' had one (^hild, Isaac. She died" in 1891 ; 
Charles (deceased), married first Patsy Powell and afterward Agnes Blair, uee Johnson. He 
had two children, Katherine and Mary J., by the tirst union and six by the last, Charles, 
Isaac, Willard, Susan and Delia. Robert Collins (deceased), was the husband of Susan 
Stephens who bore him one child, James; Sarah (deceased), was the wife of William C^olumby 
by whom she had four children, three now living, Charlf-s, Elizabeth and Susan; Isaac Col- 
lins (deceased), married Sarah Dane and they became the parents of two children, Alary and 
Ephraim, both deceased; and Andrew Collins, our subject. The mother of these children 
died about 1873, when quite aged, over four score years. The father served in the War of 
1812. Robert Collins, grandfather of our subject, was born in Maryland, but when a young 



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man emigrated to Ohio, and died in that State wlien our subject was a small hoy. It is supposed 
that tlie grandfather served iu the Revolutionaiy War, and that he was of Irish parentage. 
He was almost one hundred years old at the time of his death. The original of this notice 
grew to manhood in his native county but received limited educational advantages, the 
schools at that time being subscription schools. He attended only three or four sessions of 
three mouths each, but as he was apt in figures and in that time went past the double rule 
of three in Pike's Arithmetic. The old Webster spelling book was used then. Mr. Collins 
was married January 30, 1834, to Miss Susan Hill, daughter of John Hill, of Ohio, and up 
to the time of his marriage had resided on his father's farm. After that important event 
took place he moved to a little tract of twenty-five acres in Hamilton County, Ohio, owned by 
his wife's grandmother, and tilled the soil there until 1840 when he came to Marion County, 
Ind. He settled on eighty acres in Section Twelve, Range Four east, Franklin Township, 
which his father had entered, paying $1.25 per acre, and which he deeded to our subject, 
the patent being signed by Andrew Jackson, President. On this tract of land our subject 
erected a log cabin, sixteen feet square, and commenced the arduous lalwr of clearing the 
forest. He lived in this cabin for about ten years after which which he put up a one-story 
frame. Later he added another story and lived in this until about 1883 when the house was 
destroyed by fire. On the same site he erected a one-story frame of four rooms and now 
resides in this. Three children were born to his marriage, Ludisa, Elijah and JohnH. The 
eldest child. Ludisa, was born November 9, 1834, and married Lewis Toon. She became 
the mother of five children, as follows: Andrew, who married Mary Hittle; Carrie, who 
married Warren Adams; Emma, who married Marion Swarts; Susan, who married Edward 
Guss; and Richard. The second child of our subject, Elijah, was Ijorn June 24, 1838. 
He married Emily Tolan and they became the parents of three children: Susan married 
Robert Moore; Charles married Mary Maze; and Ollie. Our subject's third child, John H., 
was born May 15, 1843. He married Miss Rebecca Cress and they have two children, Rob- 
ert H., who married Carry Smith, and Nettie Collins. Elijah Collins, son of our subject, 
was drafted into the army in 1863 but did not serve long. John H. Collins, the other son, 
enlisted in 1862 and served until close of hostilities. He was in the last battle that occurred 
before Lee's surrender. In his political views our subject was a free-soil Whig but later on 
espoused the cause of the Republican party of which he has since been a warm advocate. 
His first vote was cast for Gen. Jackson and when the Republican i^arty nominated John C. 
Fremont, he voted for him as he did for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Collins is a member of the 
United Brethren Church which he has attended for over sixty years, and he was licensed to 
exhort. He has served as class leader and superintendent of the Sunday-school for several 
years, and is a man highly esteemed in the community. 

William Woodford White. It is always a pleasure to deal with the history of one who 
is a inemlier of one of those grand old families who have for generations been distinguished 
for patriotism, heroism, and the strong characteristics whicli have made them prominent 
wherever they have settled. William Woodford White is one of the early pioneers of Marion 
County, Ind., and is descended from an old and prominent Virginia family. His father, 
Nathaniel White, was a native of the Old Dominion, but in early manhood emigrated to 
Kentucky, and was there married to Miss Margaret McFarland. There were children born 
to this union as follows: Green (deceased); Louisa (deceased), was the wife of William 
Alston; Thersy (deceased), was the wife of Andrew Moorhouse; Milton (deceased); Ann 
(deceased), was the wife of Alfonso Bryan; William W., our subject; Hattie (deceased), was 
the wife of Perry Ransdell, and The father of these children died in 

1812. Grandfather White was a native of Scotland, and from his sturdy Scotch ances- 
tors our subject no doubt inherits his perseverance and industry. William W. White was 
born in Jessamine County, Ky. , February 25, 1809, and although nearly eighty-five years 
of age is in the enjoyment of comparatively good health. When about two years of age 
he was left fatherless and his mother soon afterward moved to Harrison County, Ky., 
where she had a brother living. From there she moved to Boone County, Ky. , where she 
bought fifty acres and her older sons put up a cabin on the tract and commenced to clear the 
forest. On this farm they resided for twelve years and then moved to Marion County, Ind., 
where our subject's elder brother, Milton White, had settled on 160 acres of land, a short time 



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before. TLiis land the latter bad bought with the proceeds of the sale of the fifty acre tract 
in Boone County, Ky. Milton White paid $1.25 per acre for the tract in Marion County, 
entering it from the Government, and in the fall of 1824 the family moved on this. A cabin, 
eighteen feet square, of round logs had been erected for them before their arrival, but as it 
had no chimney or doors, they had to provide these afterward. There were l)ut three fami- 
lies within three miles of their location, and amid these rude surroundings they Ijegan 
their career as early settlers. They first began clearing the land, and by spring they had 
about six acres cleared of trees, and the next year thej' put in a crop of corn, but raised no 
wheat for about six years, i)ecause they had no mills to grind it. (iame was very plenty 
then, and deer was frequently killed within a hundred yards of the cabin. Wild turkeys 
were so common that no one cared to shoot them. On this farm our subject lived for seven 
years, and then bought 1()0 acres of school section land, which sold for $1.40 an acre, one 
fourth down and the balance in ten years. In 1833, soon after he bought this tract, our 
subject married Miss Martha Vandiver, erected a cabin on his land, and moved with his bride 
into this. For about a year he remained on this, elearingabout four acres in that time, and 
then, finding that he would not l)e able to [)ay for if, he sold it for $240, where he had paid 
$60 for if, and the man he sold fo assumed the balance of the payment due the State. Mr. 
White then entered eighty acres in Franklin township, paying $1.25 per acre, but three years 
later sold this and entered 120 acres in another part of Franklin township, paying f 1.25 per 
acre, later he bought forty acres for $2.50 per acre, on which a small cabin was being built, 
and in that he lived for a few years. In 1848 he erected the house in which he is now living. 
He now has 130 acres cleared, most of it his own labor, and he has cleared as much ground 
for others as for himself. Mr. White is not a church member and he belongs to no secret 
organizations. His first vote was cast before he was eighteen years of age, for Gen. Jack- 
son, and he has been a Democrat in politics ever since. To his marriage were born eight 
children, as follows: James B. ; Robert A. ; Margaret; Sallie, wife of James Nolan, of Ken- 
tucky; Clarissa; Green, who married Anna Anderson, and was left a widower with six children 
— Harry P., Laura, Edith, William W., Robert L., and Caroline; Milton, (deceased); Eliza, 
widow of John Brener, has five children — Ollie, Frank, Nellie, Floy, and Ralph. 

James Webb. The time has arrived when it becomes the dnty of the people of this 
country to perpetuate the names of their pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settle- 
ment and relate the story of their progress. In biographical history is found a power to 
instruct men by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties and to waft down the river of 
time a safe vessel in which the names and actions of the people who contributed to raise this 
couutrj' from its primitive state may be preserved. One of the representative pioneers of 
Marion County, Ind., was James Webb, a native Virginian, born in 1794, and who, when 
about twelve years of age, moved with his parents to Henry County, Ky. There he grew to 
manhood and there he obtained a limited education common at that period, probably not attend- 
ing school over six months altogether. He was married in Henry County, Ky., in 1810, to a 
Miss Sandford, and there he continued to make his home until 1832, when he moved to 
Marion County, Ind. He bought 300 acres of land and added to this from time to time 
until he became the owner of about 1,500 acres. His chief occupation, and in fact almost 
his whole business, was raising stock of all kinds, and at this he made a complete success, 
accumulating property worth over $100,000 before his death in 1886. He was a Whig in 
politics, afterward a Democrat and an active partisan. He served in the Indian War of 1836, 
was not a member of any secret organization but was an active member of the Christian 
Church in which his wife also held membership. A man of medium height and weight, he 
was possessed of an iron con.stitutiou and indomitable energy, and lived to be ninety-two 
years of age. He was the father of seven children, as follows: James E. (who married 
Mattie Combs, daughter of F. Combs, has three children, Addie, Isaiah and Ella); Hannah 
(married Charles Orme and is the mother of six living children, four being deceased); Nancy 
(married Ethell)ert Bryan and died without issue); Elizabeth (married Charles Browning, 
now deceased, and has five children, Albert who married Catherine Stewart, Hannah who 
married Jesse Sells, Nancy who married Frank Brand and Eli who married Elizabeth Car- 
ter); Sarah (deceased, married Augustin Beasley and to them were born Joseph, Augustin, 
John, Lucretia (widow of Daniel Brewer), Bettie (wife of Mr. Bowen), Fannie (wife of Edgar 



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Brewer), Affia and Alice); Susan (deceased, married Charles Browning and to them were 
born Lloyd (who married Matie Browning), John (who married Emma McNutt), and Oscar 
(who married Mattie Ballard); and John S. (deceased, who married Nancy Royster and 
became the father of live children). James Webb's tirst wife died and he was married a 
second time. John Sauford Webb was born in Henry County, Ky., in 181J, and there grew 
to mature j'ears, receiving but a limited education. He came on a prospecting trip to Indiana 
and also visited Illinois, after which, in 1S32, he came with his parents to the Hoosier State, 
settling in Marion County. Here he was married in 1S39, to Miss Nancy Koyster, and the 
six children born to them were named as follows: Mary F. (wife of William Lockwood, is 
the mother of two children, Nora (wife of Frank Rogers), and Margaret); James W. (mar- 
ried Mary Grube and has four living children, Dora, Anna (widow of Rev. Charles Lewis), 
Betty and Frederick); Sarah (deceased, was the wife of Alfred Isaacs and has two children, 
Gertrude (wife of Dr. Hiram P. Castor) and John); Nannie (deceased); Charles R. (who 

married Mrs. of New York city); and John Edward (who married Frances V. 

Bright, daughter of John C. Bright, of Logansport, Ind.). The father of these children 
advocated the principles of the Democrat party and took a deep interest in its welfare. 
Although not a member of any religious sect he attended the Christian Church quite regu- 
larly and contributed liberally of his means to the erection and si;pport of churches in his 
vicinity. His death occurred in February, 18S8, and his wife died the October following, 
aged si.xty-eight years. Their sou John Edward now resides in an elegant brick mansion 
erected by his father, and he also inherited eighty acres of land with it. To this he has added 
by purchase eighty acres more and has 140 acres cleared. He is a progressive, thorough- 
going farmer and understands his business thoroughly. He raised 800 bushels of wheat 
(twenty-sis bushels to the acre), fifty acres in corn, averaging fifty Ijushels to the acre and he 
also raised some oats. He is considerable of a stockman and raises the American Rambouil- 
lett sheep, formerly known as the French sheep. He raises them for breeding purposes and 
has a herd of about 100 head, the only one in the State. In this herd are about twenty-eight 
rams, all registered and going back to the Rambouillett breeding farm established many 
years ago by the French Government. Mr. Webb also raises Jersey cattle and owns a herd 
of twenty, including two bulls of tine pedigree. One of these animals is named "Cash 
Boy" and is numbered in the Jersey cattle register. Mr. Webb's herd of sheep took the 
gold medal prize at the Paris Exposition in liS91. The sou-in law of James Webb, whose 
name heads this sketch, Charles Orme, was born in Lewis County, Ky., in 1819, and was the 
son of Moses Orme. He came to Indiana with his parents in 1828 and they settled in Perry 
Township, Marion County, Ind., where the father bought land. He grew to manhood in 
that township and was married in 1844 to Hannah Webb, and their children were named as 
follows: Sanford (who married Ella Bennett and has four children, Charley, Harry, Mamie 
and Willie); George (who married Mary Paul); Martin L. ; Mary E. (who married Benja- 
min Myers and has four children, Franklin, Cora, James and Effie); Emma (who married Dr. 
Jacob Truster); Charles (who mariied Carrie Brewer and has two children, Ruth and John); 
and Fannie (who married John Brewer, deceased, and has six children, Samuel, Dosia 
(who married Dr. Miller), Mary E. J. (who married a Mr. Dixon), Belle (who married Charles 
Coovert), Margaret (who married Lewis Tracey) and Tommie, a girl (who married a Mr. 
Brooks). The father of these children, Charles Orme, has always been a Democrat in poli- 
tics and was at one time elected by his party to the office of trustee of Perry Township, but 
refused to serve. Although not a member, he attends the Christian Church, of which his 
wife has been a member for fifty years. 

Vincent Myers. This worthy agriculturist is a descendant of good old Virginia stock, 
his grandfather, Robert Myers, having been born in that State Octoljer 30, 1765. The lat- 
ter was married in his native State and subsequently moved to Kentucky, where his death 
occurred. He was the father of ten children, as follows: William, deceased; Henry, 
deceased; John, who served in the War of 1812, also deceased; Francis, deceased; Robert, 
deceased; Thomas, deceased; Mary, widow of Joshua Dean, resides in Brown County, Ind.; 
Matilda, deceased; Ephraim, who resides in Andrew County, Mo., and Elijah W., deceased. 
John Myers, father of our subject, and the third in order of birth of the above mentioned 
children, was born in the Corn Cracker State, Bourbon County, June 24, 179(3, and there 



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remained until 1821, when he came to Indiana, lucaling in Maiion County, Pern- Township, 
where he and his brother, Henry, entered eightj' acres of land in the green timber. A num 
ber of years later he sold his share, forty acres, and bought 100 acres in Perry Township. 
To this he subsequently added nearly 155 acres, but divided a considerable portion among 
his children. He was twice married, the first time on July 1 1, 1820, to Miss Nancy Brown, 
daughter of Vincent Brown, of Georgetown, Ohio. Six children were Ixirn to this union, 
as follows: James M., deceased, was the husband of Henrietta Hull, daughter of William 
Hull, of Perry Township, Marion County, Ind; his wife died, and on March 5, 181)1, he 
followed her to the grave; they left three living children, as follows: John W., Nancy J. 
and Harriet F., all of whom are married, the first to Cassie Morrison, the second to Charles 
Litterer, and the last to William Uoatney. Sarah J. Myers, second child born to the marriage 
of John Myers, married Hezekiah Copsey, and both are now deceased; they left four living 
children, George W., John E., Nance E. and Francis M. The first of these, George W. , 
married Miss Nannie Hughes; John E., married Jane Bristow, and they have two daughters, 
Jessie and Gracie; Nancy Ellen, first married William Morgan, by whom she had two chil- 
dren, Emma and George; her second marriage was with Michael Snyder; Francis M., 
married Mattie McFarland, and they have one son, Hugh. Rebecca Myers, the third child 
born to the marriage of John Myers, died on October 7, 185U. She married George Har- 
nes, and they had four children, of whom three survive, as. follows: Edward, who married 
Ella Wells; Nancy E., deceased, was the wife of John Stanton, and Elizabeth, who married 
Fielding Brewer. Mary E. Myers, John Myers' third child, married Jesse Thomas, and 
they have two living children, Margaret and John. Amanda Myers, unmarried, died May 
3, 1850, and Vincent, our subject. The father of these children was a soldier in the War of 
1812, and served under Gen. W. H. Harrison. He served as justice of the j)eace in Perry 
Townshij), Marion County, Ind., for forty years, and was holding that oi!ice at the time of 
his death, July 10, 1882. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal C'hurch. The 
mother of our subject died January 2, 1851, and the father was married December 11, 1854, 
to Mrs. Comfort Hinkston, who died February 0, ISU2. Vincent Myers, the subject of this 
sketch, was born on the farm where he now lives June 28, 1842, and as he grew to mature 
years assisted his father on the farm and secured a fair education in the subscription schools, 
attending rather irregularly until of age. On December 18, 1872, he married Miss Mar- 
garet C. Neiman, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Carr) Neiman, both of whom were 
natives of Pennsylvania, and both at present residing in Indianapolis. Our subject had 
purchased forty acres of land previous to his marriage, erected a house on this, and soon 
after his union moved into this. Three children have been given this worthy couple: 
Joseph John, born February 24, 1874; Albert Porter, born December 11, 1879, and Ray- 
mond Neiman, l)orn January 1, 1891. Mr. Myers is a Republican born and bred, and has 
always voted the straight ticket. His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, 
a fact of which Mr. Myers feels justly proud. He was mustered into the State militia 
toward the close of the war, but never left the Slate. For many years he has been a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is now trustee and was steward. For seven 
years past he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school. In 189- Mr. Myers was 
elected justice of the peace but declined to qualify. He has also served several terms as 
road supervisor in Perry Township. Of the 100 acres that he owns, sixty acres of which 
were given him by his father, ninety acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. 
Joseph Neiman, the father of Mrs. Myers, followed the trade of a tailor in Middletown, 
Penn., until 1849, and then came to Indianapolis, where he carried on his trade for some 
time. After this he was engaged in farming in Johnson and Marion Counties, and is now in 
the grocery business in Indianapolis. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Eleventh 
Indiana Infantry, Company A, and served about six months. He married Miss Elizabeth 
Carr, and seven of the eight children born to them are now living, as follows: Thomas J., 
who married Catherine Robertson, is the father of two children, Elizabeth and Clara; Mar- 
garet C. , wife of our subject; Barbara E., who married Albertus T. Langhorn, is the mother 
of two children, Lucy and Barbara A. ; Frederika, who married Joseph Reeves, has one son, 
Stewart; Joseph M., who married Margaret Ward, has one son, Joseph; Ida E., married 
George Weakley, and they have two children, Blanche and Nellie, and Mary Anna, who is 



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unmarried. Mrs. Myers' grandfather, Jacob Neiman, was born in York County, Penn., and 
followed farming all his life. He married Elizabeth Metzger, and moved to Dauphin 
County, Penn., where he passed the remainder of his days. He was a soldier in the War of 
1812. Two of his ten children now survive: Joseph Neiman, and Barbara, who married 
Benjamin Myers, and now resides in this county. Mrs. Myers' greatgrandfather, Michael 
Neiman, was l)orn in Germany, but at an early date emigrated to America. On the maternal 
side the great grandfather, Joseph Snider, was an officer in the Revolutionary war. Her 
maternal grandfather, Moses Carr, was a soldier in the War of 1812. 

O. C Chambers & Bro. Prominent among the many reliable houses of West Indian- 
apolis, Ind., may be mentioned that of Ch.amljers & Bro., and that it is appreciated as one 
of the foremost drug establishments of the ]>lace can be readily seen by the large patronage 
it commatids. This house deserves honorable mention in this volume, not only on account 
of the high character of its management, but also on account of the superiority of its 
stock. Oscar Chambers was born in Tipton, Ind., November 25, 1858, a son of John W. 
Chambers, who died at Brownstown. He was born in Jennings County, Ind., and when 
a young man went to Tipton, where he worked at the carpenter's trade, and afterward held 
the office of treasurer of Tipton County, and while there was also editor of the Aflrocate, 
but which was a well-conducted and successful journal under his management for some 
time. His wife was Miss Elizabeth Jane Boyd, and to their marriage five children were 
born, of whom Albert was the eldest, and Oscar the next ; Avery and Thomas, twins, the 
latter dying in infancy; Albert, who also died young, and John W., who is the present 
editor of the Commercial, at Caruthersville, Ind. The initiatory training of Oscar Cham- 
bers was obtained at Brownstown and was finished at Lexington, Scott County, Ind., after 
which, at the age of twenty', he became a clerk in a drug store owned by Stillwell & 
Burrell, of Brownstown, witli which tirm he remained- for four years. He then embarked 
in the same business for himself, and after continuing in this branch of endeavor for four 
years he went to St. Louis and became foreman for the Provident Chemical Works. After 
a time he entered the employ of A. J. Miller, at 284 South West Street, Indianapolis, 
Ind., but after a time took charge of the business, of which he and his brother Avery are 
the proprietors, but which at that time belonged to Mr. Miller. The business which they 
are so successfully following is unquestionably a highly important one, for upon the skill 
and care of the pharmacist, almost as upon that displayed by the medical profession, de- 
pends the physical welfare — almost the life or death of the sick or ailing. The proprietors, 
without doubt, thoroughly understand their l)usiness, and are doing well from a financial 
standpoint. Oscar Chambers has become a well-known citizen in West Indianapolis, and 
for one term served in the capacitj' of its treasurer, but has since been content to look after 
his ever-increasing business. Socially he is a member of the K. of P., the I. O. O. F. and 
the Red Men, his brother Avery being also a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow. The 
latter learned the trade of a printer when a boy, and has worked on many of the princi- 
pal papers in the United States, among which may be mentioned the Indianapolis Senlinel, 
the Louisville Courier-Journal, and the St. Louis Post -Despatch. He and his brother are 
practical druggists, and are successful and honored business men, highly esteemed in 
social as well as commercial circles. 

William McGixnis. Among the pushing and enterprising men of Indianapolis, Ind., 
William McGinnis takes high rank. He is a sou of James and Eliza (Mericle) McGinnis, 
the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., and the latter in Oneida 
County, N. Y. The father was a blacksmith by trade and emigrated to Indiana in 1832, 
settling at Guilford, of which they were among the very first families. They resided there 
until 1857, then removed to Lawrenceburg and the father entered the employ of the I. 
C, & L. Railroad as blacksmith, in which capacity he served for many years. He is still in 
the employ of that road but has attained an advanced age, and owing to long and valuable 
service which he has rendered the company he has been retired from hard work and given a 
position suitable to his enfeebled condition. In April, 1861, William McGinnis responded 
to the first call of bis country for troops, and was a member of the first company that left 
Indiana for the front. Company D., Seventh Regiment Indiana Infantry, Ijeing discharged 
at the expiration of four months. He immediately re-enlisted in the same regiment and 



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company, l)ut was shortly after assigned to military railroad work in Tennessee and Georgia, 
from tlie fact that he had practical experience in railroad work. He served faitlifnllv iu 
this capacity until near the close of the war, being discharged in August, 186-t, on account 
of disabilities arising from injuries received in a railroad accident, which unfitted him from 
further service and lias resulted in his permanent injury. He was in the first engagement 
fought in West Virginia at Phillipi and was afterward in the battle of Carrick's Ford. In 
politics he has always been an active worker for the success of the Republican party, but as 
far as regards himself has never been an aspirant for political preferment, his business fully 
occupying his time and attention. He established his lumber yards iu 1881, and in 1888 
the South Side Planing Mill was purchased from Louis F. Burton, and with its original 
capacity more than doubled it has been run in connection with the lumber yards uf the 
present proprietor. A considerable increase was made in the mill as soon as it was bought, 
but the greater part vvas made in the spring of 1891. The establishment is located at the 
corner of Woodlawn Avenue and Dillon Street and is reached from the central part of the 
city by taking the Virginia Avenue ears to the fountain. Twentj'tive skilled employes are 
kept busy in operating the mill, and its work is noted among l)uilders everywhere for cheap- 
ness, beauty and finish, as well as for the promptness and accuracy with which orders are 
filled. The machinery used is all of the latest and best description. In connection with 
the planing-mill, and in the conduct of his general trade, Mr. McGinnis has two large lum- 
ber yards. The main one of these is at \7>2 Lord Street, and is admiral)ly located for cheap 
shipments and access to railway transportation. The second yard or branch is at 591 
Virginia Avenue. In both the yards business and the planing mill the \)ulk of the materials 
handled heretofore has been pine, of late years there has been an increase in use of native 
hardwood, sycamore, ash, stained poplar and the like for finishing. In these Mr. McGinnis 
is prepared to compete with any firm in the State both in prices and in finish. The mill and 
yards are among the model institutions of their class in the Indiana Capitol. Mr. McGinnis 
was born in Guilford, Dearborn County, lud., June 19, 18-1:2, and liegan work as a railroad 
employe early in life, and beginning at the bottom, in the course of years rose to one of the most 
trusted and popular officials of ttie old I. C. & L. route. Mr. McGinnis was successively fireman, 
locomotive engineer, freight and passenger conductors. After serving three years as engineer 
he was made freight conductor by Superintendent Richardson, and was thus employed for 
seven years. He was then promoted to ]iassenger conductor, and for thirteen years was one 
of the best known and most popular of all the knights of the bell cord and punch in Indiana. 
He continued thus running from Cincinnati to Chicago as the exigency of the service 
required until he embarked for himself in his present business, in which he has been 
deservedly successful. In the fall of 1893 he added to his business interests a livery, board- 
ing and feed stable, for the conduct of which he erected a substantial brick building 724x110 
feet, at a cost of $-t,000. His building is thoroughly equipped with an excellent line of 
carriages and horses, and he is thoroughly equipped to do a strictly first-class business. In 
this connection he deals in Hour, feed, etc., and is considered an enterprising man of affairs. 
He is treasurer of the Equitable Savings & Loan Association, and is a well known and popu- 
lar citizen. He was married in March, 1865, to Miss Julia Evans of Lawrenceburg, Ind., 
his family consisting of two boys, Percy E. and William Clare. 

John H. Roth. The grocery industry of the States is one whose greatness is hardlj- 
understood, except by those who are directly connected with it. Thousands of persons are 
engaged in this line and millions of dollars of capital are involved, and in this as in many 
other lines. West Indianapolis takes a leading part. New firms are constantly springing 
into prominence and one established in 1S90. is that of which John H. Roth is the pro- 
prietor, at 262 Howard Street. Mr. Roth was born in Jefferson County, Ind., April 10, 1862. 
a son of Charles Roth, who was born in Germany, and came to the United States when a 
young man. about 1833 or 1N34. He was a shoemaker by trade Ijiit after coming to this 
country and locating in Kentucky he was engaged in the management of a plantation. 
During the war he was a resident of Louisville, and after its termination he came to Indiana 
and located in Shelby County, where he resided for some time. He also resided for a while 
in Edinburg, John.son County, but for many years past has been engaged in tilling the soil 
ill the vicinity of that place. He is now sixty years of age and his wife, whose maiden name 



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was Eva Kitzsinger, was also born in Germany, on July 26, fifty-four years ago. Her 
father, Leonard Kitzsinger, has now attained the advanced age of ninety-two years and is 
a resident of Madison, Ind. John H. Roth, whose name heads this sketch, acquired what 
knowledge he has of the world of books in Edinburg, Ind., and being industrious and push- 
ing, he began earning his own living at the age of lifteen years. He spent seven years in 
learning the butcher's trade, and the following five years clerked in a grocery store, where 
he thoroughly learned the details of the trade. In 1890 he commenced business at his 
present t,taud with a limited capital, ijut has prospered far beyond his expectations and has 
without doubt a prosperous future before him. His stock of goods is select and by his 
honorable business policy he has won to his side a long line of patrons and has attained a 
degree of success which is a credit to his business talent, and also to West Indianapolis, 
in which he is held as a most worthy citizen. He lias aided in the improvement of the 
place, is active in advancing her interests and is a reliable and public-spirited citizen. 
September 9, 1883, he was married to Miss Hester Ellen Green of Bartholomew County, 
Ind.. and to their union two sons and a daughter have been given. Mr. Koth is a member 
of the I. O. O. F., I. O. R. M. and theK. of P. He expects to soon change his business place 
to Reisiier and Miller Streets. 

George W. Shaffer. The practical value of shrewdness and discrimination combined 
with strict i)robity is exemplified in the prosperous condition of those who transact business 
on these principles. Mr. Shaffer is a man who has kept fully abreast of the times in the 
matter of enterprise and is considered one of the substantial and useful citizens of the city 
of Indianapolis. He is a product of Hamilton County, Ohio, where he was born November 
8, 1853, a son of Levi and Sarah J. (Patterson) Shaffer, the former of whom was born in 
Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio. The occupation of Levi Shaffer has been that of farm- 
ing, in which line of human endeavor he has met with reasonable success in Hamilton 
County, Ohio, of which section he has been a prominent and honored citizen for many years. 
During the Rebellion he was four years in the service of his country as a member of the 
Twenty-fourth Ohio Regiment Infantry, participating in many important and bloody battles. 
In the county of his uativily George W. Shaffer was reared and was given the advantages of 
a good public-school education, which opportunities he was wise enough to improve. He 
afterward learned the tonsoiial art, and in the spring of 1873 came to Indianapolis, the first 
three years of his stay here being spent as a laborer at the old Union depot. At the end of 
that time he engaged in business for himself and for seventeen years successfully conducted 
a well appointed establishment of his own, which was largely patronized by persons desirous 
of getting shaved in first-class style. His place of business was located at 205 Massachu- 
setts Avenue for seven years. Mr. Shaffer has always been quite an active politician, and 
in the fall of 1893 was elected from the seventh ward as a member of the city council on the 
Republicau ticket by 520 votes, the largest majority ever given to a candidate from that 
ward. Socially he is a member of the K. of P. and at present holds the position of Prelate 
in Star Lodge, No. 7. Mr. Shaffer was married December 28, 1879, to Miss Lyda Lewis, a 
native of Greencastle, Ind., a daughter of Henry and Sarah Lewis, and to their union one 
child has been given whom they named Pearl, who was born on January 7, 1883. 

Jdhx C. Schmid & Sons. The senior member of the above named firm is probably the 
pioneer cut stone contractor of the city of Indianapolis, of which place he has been a resident 
since 1856. The industries pursued in this city are numerous, and few of them are of more 
importance than the Imsiness followed by Mr. Schmid and his son, for on their thorough 
knowledge of their calling depends the durability of the structures raised by them, and in 
it are engaged thousands of men to whom are paid millions of dollars in salaries every year, 
while the amount of capital invested in the rearing of these structures is enormous. Mr. 
Schmid is a product of Germany, where he first saw the light in 1829. He received his edu- 
cation in the land of his nativity, which he olitained in the common schools and also by some 
private instruction, and at the age of thirteen years, or in 1842, he began learning the stone 
cutter's trade, at which he served an ajipreuticeship of three years, during which time he 
became tboroughly informed in this branch of human endeavor, and received a diploma for 
his efficiency in his trade. He successfully labored at his trade in his native land until 1849, 
at which time, being ambitious and enterprising, he determined to come to the United States, 



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it^^itfT^ ',''''* '^'' T'^'l'^ °^''""^ ^ '^''""^' ^^''^^ f°'- =«^vanc.>i.ent than his own. Upon 
lu. ar nval here be made h.s home in Ciucinuati, Ohio, until 1851. during which time he 
came to Indiana, and laid the abutments for the bridge over the Whi e River at Bedfo.Ta a 
very early day. From Cincinnati he removed to Columbu., Ohi<,. and during the five vears 
that he remained there he was engaged in contracting. After his arrival in Indianapolirie 
did journeyman s work for some time, after which he formed a partnership wi h G I ten 
bach and a brother of the latter, and the lirm of Schmid & Ittenbach was^n existence for 

S: PaT A So'l't^F ^'"'' ;'VV T^'f'■ ^.r^""""* "^ '-P--^-' «'°- work onthfRob 
ert 8 1 ark Methodi.st Episcopal Church, the Vance block, the Ingalls block, and on various 
costly and extensive buddings throughout the State, their work bdiig of such a n.d .« sTo 
merit uaiversal approval, and a patronage of more than ordinary proportions. Mr Schm d 
supenntended the stone work of the State House, the admirabli nature of which work 
g eatly to bis credit. He started out in life with a capital of $300, and a thorough know! 
edge of his calling, and showed bis wisdom by coming to a city, which up to the tfrne ofTis 
ar val. had had no stone work done within her limits' His career has been imbued with an 

is a man o7^ • V^" '''' ^'' P'^'"'^^ ^'"' '" '^"^ ''"''' '^"k of permanent prosperity. He 
s a man of strict commercial integrity, and invarial,ly carries out his promises to the letter 
his patrons being among the ownei-s of the largest and most important"^ buildings In sts 
M . Schm.d was married to Miss Elizabeth Hamil, who bore him one son and one daughter 
?r m° n V 'T"'"/ f '•'1"' ""^ '''' Republican ticket as a member of the city S, • 1 
from the ninth ward and b.s daughter who became the wife of George F. Smith a pr m 
nent contractor of the city For his second wife Mr. Schmid chose Miss Kline hi' f^^ 
and by her became he father of two sons: Cliarles H. and C. F. E., both of whom a re in 
business with their father, and are practical stone cutters. John H. married MislMrry Tice 
Chades H. IB married to Maggie Reifle, of this city, and the youngest son is unm rried " 

the B.dlde s'ViT" '' 'k''" ?7^"l' '^'^'^ *° '^"'^'^ "1^ "- t°-'- -<i i« « member of 
the Buldeis Exchange He and his family attend the Reformed Evangelical Church in 

t"yen?y tlo'ear " '"' '"' '"'"' '''''''''' ■^^^"' ^"'^ «""day-scbool sfperinteiidZt for 

tenanT"l-nnJ' ,^''-^'\^^''°"f Every owner of a residence or business block, as well as every 
tenan knows how important it is to have all parts of a building built of seasoned lumbe'r 

Shane O tT "° '^^' ''' '^f "''"'' ^""''^ "'^' "°^ ^' --P'"g- ^^'^king or getting 
a own«.i of' 0"« /"-^I^^^P^'f gentleman has proven to contractors^md builders, as well 
as owners of property, that material purchased of him is always as represented, and that he 
can sell as cheap, if not cheaper, than many of his competito,-s. Thi^ gentle,, an is Ha vey 
J^ Arman rout, a wholesale dealer in hardwood lumber, which he purcha'ses throuc^ho^rt Ind7 
citL He'tj T T-nessee and markets at Chicago, Cincinnati and other lai^^e western 
l.Z . f 9 nnn.^nl'r!"^'^ '" *^'' '^"^i'^-^ss in Indianapolis for the past sis years and 
ha„dle.s about 2,000,000 feet annually, which aggregates from $75,000 to §100,000 Mr 
tZZT '"T v- ^!■^^f°'•dsville, Lid., January 10, 1850. but his father, Joseph Av- 

mant.oi t, was born ,n Virginia, and was one of the earliest settlers of Montgomery County 
lud. of which he was a successful farmer for many years. His death occurred in 1,SS7 'at 

iventuckian by birth, but when young was taken by her parents to Indiana, and in Mont- 
gomery County .she grew to womanhood. Her death occurred in 1S58 at the age of tbiHy- 
tive years, and thus at an early age Harvey J. was deprived of a mother's cafe. He was 
Sven him'inTH " . """T't"'' ^'T °^ "^'' '^' advantages of the public schools being 
fhlLe ^; ;^ f ?. ^^'° ^° '?'"", ^^' ^'^'^^ "^ carpentering and bridge building, and at 
the age of twen y-three years be became a contractor. For a number of yearL there- 
aftei he carried on an extensive bu.siness, amounting to about igfiO.OOO annually the 
«ffT° T"^ contracting being done ,n-incipal]y at Frankfort and Kokomo. Ind.' He 

ti^c int Tn"lls M '\ "' T"''i"^' ''^''^' ^'"^ '="-g^'^' ''" -^".-ti"" with rnilroa.! con- 
TCoPomn ln?i r ^'''^^"t'-f^t engaged in the lumber business with residence at 

Kokomo but his operations extended throughout the State and he w.s engaged in buyiiu. and 

' eTnd ref-ii? rr ''Z ?° \^^'' ''^ ^"'^^ *° Indianapolis and engaged in the wloTe 
sale and letail hardwood lumber business for himself, and in this business, thanks to his 



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excellent jiulgoient and keen commercial instincts, he has met with a more than ordinary 
degree of success. Mr. Armautrout has always lieen deeply interested in politics and is 
a member of the Cleveland Club, of which he had charge during the inauguration of 
President Cleveland at Washington, D. C, upon his last election. In 1892 he was alternate 
delegate to the national Democratic convention at Chicago, and in various other ways 
he has aided this party. Socially he is a member of the Uniformed Rank in the K. of 
P. He is one of the leading and popular citizens of Indianapolis, is pulalic spirited to 
a degree, and in commercial circles his name is highly honored. In 1872 he was married 
to Miss Louisa Wilson, at Frankfort, Ind., a native of Thorntown, Brown County, Ind., 
who in girlhood removed to Frankfort with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Armantront are 
the parents of one son, Charles W. , who was born July 19, 1874, and gives every promise 
of becoming a wide-awake and intelligent business man. 

George F. Smitu. Among the useful and progressive men of affairs of Indianapolis, 
Ind., who is eminently worthy of mention in this volume is George F. Smith, who is presi- 
dent of the Contractors and Builders Association, and is himself a highly successful and 
skillful builder, a calling which has received his attention the most of the time since he left 
school, although he for a number of years worked for others. The county of Rockland, N. 
Y., gave him birth on June 11, 1854, his father, Frederick Smith, and wife, Christiana Iske, 
were born in Germany, and married in New York city in 1851. In 1848 they came to this 
country and have resided here ever since. After coming to the United States, although a 
locksmith by trade, he gave his attention to the manufacture of brick for some time there- 
after. In 1859 he became a resilient of the city of Indianapolis, and here followed the 
calling of a blacksmith. He died here in 1871, forty-three years of age. She is still living, 
seventy-six years of age. In the pul)lic schools of this city George F. Smith obtained a 
good education and he learned the details of his trade while serving an apjirenticeship under 
Botcher & Nieman. After completing his knowledge of the builder's art he worked for all 
the principal contractors of the city at different times, and then commenced business on his 
own responslliility, as his thorough knowledge of his calling and his long experience emi- 
nently fitted him to do. The most of his attention has been given to the erection of 
residences, and in this branch of his business he has made a reputation for himself that has 
made his name well known to builders and real estate men throughout the city. That he is 
a thorough-going and practical builder is a fact that cannot be denied by his brother con- 
tractors, and they showed their recognition of his worth by electing him president of the 
Contractors and Builders Association. In May. 1879, he was united in the bonds of 'matri- 
mony with Miss Amelia Schmid, a daughter of J. C. Scbmid, a prominent stone contractor 
of the city, a sketch of whom appears in this work. Mrs. Smith was born in Columbus, 
Ohio, and has borne her husband one son and two daughters; Doratha, Walter and Caroline. 
Mr. Smith is a member of the Center Lodge, No. 216, K. of P., and of Washington Lodge, 
No. 114, K. of H. 

Charles N. Kellogo. The introduction of machinery in the manufacture of furniture 
during the past few years, entirely revolutionized this important branch of industrial enter- 
prise. While it is not contended that the machine-made product is superior mechanically 
or in point of finish or durability to that made by hand, it is an indisjmtable fact that the 
cheapness and rapidity of manufacture in the new era has made this class of furniture very 
popular and greatly in demand. Not one of the oldest, l)ut certainly one of the best known 
manufactories of this line of goods in Indiauaf)olis is that of C.N. Kellogg & Bro. , who 
embarked in the business in July, 1893, at which time they purchased the planing and saw- 
mills which were owned and operated by M. Murray & Co., and established a number of 
years since by Charles Murray. The plant is an extensive one 160x150 feet in dimensions, 
and the ground occupied by them covers an area of nine lots. They give particular atten- 
tion to their planing mill and manufacture a cheap, but excellent line of furniture and have 
already a wi(le patronage. They give employment to about forty hands, who are all skilled 
in their line. Their plant and ecpiipment are valued at about $40,000. Charles N. Kellogg 
was bjrn in Dul)lin, Wayne County, Ind., June 24, 1851, but his father, Norman P. Kellogg, 
was a native of the State of New York, was a physician and surgeon formany years, and was 
very successful -in his profession. He practiced for a number of years in Cincinnati, Ohio, 



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prior to locating at Dublin, Ind., iu 1850, but he later became a resident of Boone Uountj'. 
He has for some time been retired from active practice and makes his home with his son in 
Indianapolis. He was united in marriage to Sarah J. Avery, a native of New York, and a 
woman of much intelligence and kindness of heart. In Boone County, Ind., Charles N. Kel 
logg was princi]ially reared, and besides the common schools he received the advantages of 
an academic education. When twenty one years of age he engaged in the saw milling busi- 
ness in Boone County and a few years later associated with him his brother, Edwin 1'., and 
under their able management the business grew to extensive proportions. They carried on 
milling and the general lumlier trade successfully until July, 1892, when they sold the same 
and a year later came to Indianapolis, where they have since been in business. Mr. Kellogg 
was married in 1873 to Miss La Borda Robinson, a native of Crestline, Ohio, and a daughter 
of John H. and Almira Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are the parents of seven children: 
Belle, Myra, Lizzie, May, Edna, Norma and Minerva. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the 
I. O. R. M. : in politics he is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Presby 
terian Church. He and his brothei' are rated as gentlemen of untrammejed honor and in all 
their business transactions are looked upon with the utmost popular regard. 

John V. Carter. Among the prominent and enterprising citizens of Marion County, 
Ind., no one is more worthy of note than he whom we here name, who is spending his later 
years in comfort and in the enjoyment of the result of his earlier labors. He was originally 
from Butler County, Ohio, born August 13, 1819, to the union of Mordeeai and Ann (Cox) 
Carter, the former a native of Chatham County, N. C. , born May 27, 1777, and the latter of 
the same State, born July 8, 1780. After marriage the parents moved to Warren County, 
Ohio, and thence to Butler County, that State, where Mr. Carter died December 13, 1820, 
He was a Quaker in his religious views and a worthy and esteemed citizen. Nine children 
were born to this worthy couple, as follows: Edith; Ara, deceased; Aaron, deceased: Har- 
lan, deceased; Matilda, Dorinda, Lucinda, James \V. and John Y. The mother of these 
children died Jul)' 23, 1849. Samuel Carter, grandfather of our subject, was also born in 
the Old North State, about 1750, and was of the Quaker belief. He married and became 
the father of several children, among whom are the following: Mordeeai, Samuel, Robert, 
^largaret, Elizabeth and Mary. John V. Carter was reared on the farm belonging to his 
|iarents in Ohio, and when not yet two years old was left fatherless. He attended the old- 
fashioned log school house, with slal) seats. l)ig chimney, etc.. and attended until about 
seventeen years of age, generally about three months in the year. He was married in Preble 
County. Ohio, in 1849, to Miss Diana Holtry. daughter of John and Sarah Holtry. and three 
years later, in 1852, he came to Marion County, Ind., and located in Wayne Township, 
where he bought 320 acres of laud. On this he resided until 1888, when he came to Indian- 
apolis, and in this city he now resides, retired from the active duties of life. He cleared 
about fifty-five acres of land in Marion County and has passed a life of industry and useful- 
ness. In politics he has always advocated the principles of the Republican party and his 
tirst Presidential vote was cast for William H. Harrison. He belongs to the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, of which he has served as otficer for many years. To his marriage were born 
six children: Emma, died at the age of thirteen years; Fletcher married Mary A. Apple- 
gate, and they have two children, Wilbert and Earl; James W. ; John H. married Miss Ida 
Belle Smith: Flora A. married Ezra L. Guthrie, and Mary, single. James \V, Carter, the 
youngest but one of the children born to Mordeeai and Ann (Cox) Carter, first saw the light 
of day in Butler County, Ohio, July 13, 1817, and he there made his home until February, 
1846, when he came to Marion County. Ind. He was married September 28, 1843, to Miss 
Susan Davies, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Elliott) Davies, both of whom were natives of 
the Keystone State. Mr. and Mrs. Davies moved to Ohio in 1803, and there passed the 
remainder of their days. James W. Carter bought 300 acres of land in Wayne Township, 
after his marriage, and on this resided until October, 1883. when he came to Indianapolis, 
where he now resides. Like his brother. John Y. . he is a stanch Republican in his political 
views and has served twice as trustee of Wayne Township. He belongs to no church or 
society. To his marriage were born five children: Mary died in infancy; William died 
when twenty-five years of age; George enlisted in Company K, Seventieth Regiment Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, under Benjamin Harrison, and one year later was wounded at Resaca, 



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djing in July of the following year. He was but twenty years of age and held the rank of 
corporal; Frances L. and John V., the latter of whom married Jennie Johnson, daughter of 
Henry Johnson. 

Fred Bremer. One of the most popular materials that enters into the construction 
of buildings of the present day is brick, for go where you will, in any large city that is the 
chief material used, and the most imposing edifices are made of it, with perhaps the ex- 
ception of the first few stories. It therefore follows that men who thoroughly understand 
their business .should engage in the manufacture of this most important commodity, and 
that Fred Bremer is qualified to do so cannot be denied. In Germany he first saw the light 
in 1849, and in the schools of his native land he obtained a practical education. At the 
age of nineteen years he came to the United States, and for some time thereafter resided 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. , in which place he clerked in a store for two years. He then came to 
Indianapolis, and as a means of livelihood he spent several summers laboring in a brick- 
yard and in the winter time turned his hand to anything honorable he could find to do, in 
order to gain a start. By laboring early and late, making the most of his opportunities, 
and by the exercise of the utmost good judgment and strict economy, he soon found him- 
self on a smooth sea and floating with a prosperous tide. He first manufactured brick in 
Irvingtou, then on the national road, after which he came to the place where he is now 
doing a prosperous business, and where he owns twenty-five acres of land, which is well 
adapted to the uses to which he puts it. He first purchased five acres and later the balance, 
and naannfactures a most creditable article, which has gone into the construction of many 
of the finest buildings of Marion County. Through financial reverses he lost quite heav 
ily, but with characteristic energy he continued to labor faithfully at his business and 
retrieved his losses almost wholly. He was married in this county to Miss Mary Hartman, 
and to them a son and daughter have been given, the former of whom is deceased, as is 
also the wife and mother. For his second wife Mr. Bremer espoused Metta Scheele. of 
this county but a native of Germany, and their union has resulted in the birth of a son 
and daughter. Mr. Bremer is a member of the Zion Evangelical Church, and politically 
is a Democrat. 

James B. Matlock. One of the industries always in demand, and daily growing more 
so by reason of the rapid growth of cities and towns, is that of contracting and building. 
A casual glance about us is all that is required to gain a conception of the immense amount 
of work done by men following that line of ijusiness. In this connection we would call 
attention to James B. Matlock, a prominent contractor and builder of Indianapolis, Ind., 
where he has followed his trade for the past seven years, building some of the finest houses 
in this rapidly growing city He is a native of that good old mother of States, Virginia, 
born in Lee County, in 1839, to the union of Charles and Mary (Bray) Matlock, natives of 
the Blue Grass State. When young the parents moved to the Old Dominion and there their 
marriage was solemnized. Eight children were the fruits of his union, viz.: John married 
Miss Mary Jane Dillon and now resides in Independence, Kan. ; Sarah (deceased); James 
B., subject; George, who died when eleven years of age; Nelson Preston married Miss Sarah 
Crawford, but is now deceased; Sarah Jane, who died in infancy; Britton also died in 

infanc}'; and . The subject of this sketch came to Indiana when a young man and 

previous to that, in September, ISBl, he enlisted in the Eighth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 
and was in active service until cessation of hostilities. He served his country faithfully and 
as a memento of his services carries a Confederate l)all in his hip, receiving the same in the 
battle of Snow Hill, Tenn. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant. For many years he 
has been a contractor and builder and is now erecting for himself a fine residence and store- 
room combined for as soon as it is finished he expects to embark in the mercantile business 
on East Prospect Street, just east of the Circle railway. The store will be a grocery and he 
will carry such other stock as the neighborhood may demand. Mr. Matlock was married in 
Brown County. Ind.. in 1867 with Miss Mary Jane Fleetwood, daughter of Hiram and 
Matilda (Hartman) Fleetwood who were born, reared and married in Kentucky. Five chil- 
dren have been born to this union and are named as follows: Louis Mauson, born in April, 
186S, married Miss Jennie Winters, and now resides in Indianapolis; Oliver P. Morton was 
born in 1869, died when twenty years of age; William, born in 1872, married Miss Flora 



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Forester ami resides iu this city; George U. S., born in 1874, is now at home; and Berti. 
May, boru in 1878, is also at home; Maud, born in 1882, died at the age of two years Mr 
Matlook was first married to Mary Jane Hamilton, and by her had two children" Nancy C 

now living in this city, the wife of Pe(er M and Charles, now deceased. 

Chahles L. Pearson. The contractors and builders of Indianapolis, are, as a body 
niiexcelled liy those of almost any other city. Each succeeding vear witnesses many marked 
improvements in this thriving business center, i)articularly in the way of handsome business 
blocks, residences, etc.; and to the contractor and builder, in effect, conjointly with the arch- 
itect, belongs the task of imparting to the city that appearance of 'solidity, wealth, refine- 
ment and comfort which at once stamps its citizens as progre.ssive and enterprising. 
Charles L. P.'urson, one of the well-known and popular contractors and builders of Indian- 
apolis, is a native of O.skaloosa, Iowa, l)orn in 1856. His father, Silas D. Pearson, is a native 
of New York city, and there learned his trade of mill builder. He moved in 1S4S to Wis- 
consin, from there to Steubenville, Ohio, thence to Oskaloosa. Iowa, and from then to Chi- 
cago, while at this place he enlisted in the Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, and after his 
term of service went to Wisconsin, where his family had preceeded him and now resides at 
Appleton. He has erected many of the largest buildings in the North and West and has 
been a successful business man. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. In 
1861 he enlisted in the Seventy second Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and was in service three 
years. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg and other engagements and at one lime 
received a severe wound in the hip. He still feels the effect of that wound. Of the eleven 
children born to his marriage, eight are now living, six sons and two daughters. The 
original of this notice, Charles L. Pearson, was educated in the public s^chooirof Appleton, 
Wis., and learned his trade under the tuition of his father. When fifteen years of age he 
left home and worked in Ai)pleton and all over Outagamie County. Later he worked at his 
trade in Minneapolis, Minn., and iu other States, and finally settled in Indianapolis, where 
he began working iu the shops of the Atlas Engine Works. Later he began contracting 
for himself and has built most of the houses in the north part of Irvington, principally resi- 
deiices. Starting in life with nothing but his trade, he has met with the best of success, all 
owing to his exceptional business ability, his reliability and promptness in carrying out his 
undertakings, and the liberal methods "he adopts in dealing with the public. On July 19, 
1883. he mariied Miss Sadie E. Chill, of Indianapolis, and to their union have beeu"born 
four children, all sons. In polities Mr. Pearson is a Republican. He is a member of Lodge 
No 446, Carpenter Union, 

Ernst H. G. Dreier. It is indeed a rule with very few exceptions that the i)rosperou8 
and representative men of business of all large cities are rarely ever natives of the same. It 
is likewise a notable fact that vast numbers of the successful men who do business in the 
States are foreigners by nativity. This thought is brought about by the personality of Ernst 
H G. Dreier. a native of Germany, and now a prominent member of Indianapoli.s' business 
circles. He first saw the light of day in 1842 and was reared and educated in the old coun- 
try. He there learned the brick-mason's trade, serving an apprenticeship, and later became 
a contractoi-. Seeing a better opening for his trade in the United States he crossed the 
ocean in lSv2 and located in Indianapolis. Three days after his arrival he was taken sick 
with small pox. and as he was ill seven weeks all his ready money was used up. Inheriting 
the perseverance and industry of his Teutonic ancestors he went to work as soon as able and 
his superior ability as a brick mason soon became recognized. Work came in from all sides 
and he is now classed among the best brick contractors in the city. He is a meml)er of the 
Builders Exchange and is thoroughly capable and reliable in all the duties that he under- 
takes. He has been engaged on many of the prominent buildings of the city, among them 
the Lutheran Church, on the corner of New Jersey and McCarty Streets, the German Luth- 
eran Orphan Asylum, on East Washington Street, and many other buildings. He was married 
in his native country to Miss Sophia Cook, who died in this city in January 3, 1885. Six 
children were born to this union, all now living. In 1885 Mr. Dreier married Miss Anna 
Denker, a native of Germany, and four children have blessed this union. Mr. Dreier is an 
industrious, thorough going business man and is well respected in the community. 



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August Bdthe. Enterprising inelLods, when combined with study and ability, will jiiit 
any man on a prominent road to success and gain an enviable reputation for the managers 
of the enterprise. August Buthe, who is a contractor of no ordinary ability and who has 
won an enviable reputation in that capacity, is a native of Germany, born in 1862 and the 
son of August Buthe, Sr. , who passed his entire life in the old country. August Buihe, Jr., 
like all the German children, attended school a certain length of time and then learned a 
trade, that of brick-laying and plastering. After serving an apprenticeship of four yeais he 
decided to seek his fortune in the United States and sailed for this country in 1871. After 
visiting all the principal cities of the United States, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Francisco, 
etc., and following his trade in the same, he came to Indianapolis in 189(1 and engaged in 
the cement work here for the Acme Paving Company as their foreman. Later he commenced 
contracting for himself, and from the start has m^de a complete success of his business. He 
built the longest pavement in Indianapolis, extending from Twelfth Street to Twenty sixth 
Street, a mile and three quarters, and he also built from Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street 
on Meridian, besides numerous other pavements. He is a tine and skillful workman and his 
reputation for honorable business methods and integrity is unsurpassed. He came to this 
country with limited means and what he has accumulated is the result of energy, industry 
and good management on his part. He is a member of the Builders Exchange and is also a 
member of the I. O. O. F., Garden Lodge, No. 53. He was married in 189(1 to Miss Annie 
Lamberg, a native of Newport, Ky., and a lady of much refinement. 

Charles Nuerge. Nothing is more true than that good management, fair dealing 
and application to business will result in profit to the parties at interest. Faihire rarely 
if ever comes, uule-;s as the sequent of negligence, rash speculation or dishonesty. We 
are led to these reflections by a glance at the career of Mr. Charles Nuerge, senior member 
of the iirm of Nuerge & Reinking, building contractors. By a most thorough knowledge 
of his trade, gained step by step under one of the most reliable of workmen, and through 
his own experience, Mr. Nuerge has made one of the widest reputations and has a pat- 
ronage of verj' satisfactory proportions. He has been identified with the construction of 
many of the prominent buildings in the city, and in partnership with Mr. Henry Reinking 
built the Jamison & Mallott structure, Arcade Clothing House, John W. Schmidt's resi- 
dence, A. C Harris' residence, Catholic school-house on Noble and North Streets, W. P. 
Fishback's residence. Home Brewing Company's buildings, some of the buildings at St. 
Mary's in the Woods (near Teri-e Haute, Ind.). Starch Works (in Des Moines), the last a 
$130,000 contract, and they rebuilt Progress Clothing and many other buildings too numer- 
ous to mention. This firm's contracts extend to some of the largest cities, and in all their 
operations they have proven themselves gentlemen of sterling integrity, their work iuvari- 
aJjly proving satisfactory. Mr. Nuerge was born in Adams County, Ind., June 12, 1850, to 
the union of Charles and Minnie (David) Nuerge, natives of Germany, the father born in 
1819. About 1844 the parents decided to settle on this side of the Atlantic, and they first 
located in Adams County, Ind., on land in the woods. He became a successful farmer, 
and added to the sixty acres he first purchased eighty acres, which made him a very good 
farm. There he died in 1872. Of the seven children born to this marriage, the eldest 
was a native of Germany. Of these children three were sons and four daughters, but only 
two, daughters, besides our subject, are now living. The father served his time in the 
German army before coming to America. The original of this notice was educated in 
Adams County, Ind., and learned the carpenter's trade in all its details there. In 1871 he 
came to Indianapolis, in company with Henry Reinking, and commenced working for 
George H. Hoereth, an old and prominent builder of the city. Six years later he com- 
menced building as a contractor himself, and he received his first contract from Henrv C. 
Wilson. Later he formed a partnership with Frank Mowwe, of this city, and was with 
him until 1882. One year later he formed the partnership with Henry Reinking, and they 
are classed among the prominent and reliable contractors of the city. Mr. Nuerge is a 
member of the German Lutheran Church and one of the directors of the German Orphan 
Asylum of East Washington Street, also the Builders Exchange and Contractors Association. 
In 1872 he was married to Miss Louisa Schildmeyer, of Indianapolis. She died in 1883, 
leaving two children, a son and daughter. His second marriage was with Mrs. Pierson, 



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daughter of Herman Scbophorst, of Adams County, this State. Two daughters have been 
born to this union, both living. 

Robert Miethke. The practical value of shrewdness and discrimination, combined with 
strict probity is e.xemplified in the prosperous condition of those who transact business on 
these principles, and of these Robert Miethke is one of the most prominent. He is one of 
the successful florists of Indianapolis, Ind. , and the ever expanding wealth and luxurious 
tastes of the citizens of the place have done much to make his business a prosperous one. His 
trade has also been augmented by the fact that he is the soni of honesty in all of his busi- 
ness transactions, is anxious to please his patrons and that their orders are carried out 
promptly and to the letter. He makes a specialty of cut flower designs and pot plants, in 
the arrangement of which he shows a refined and artistic taste. He has followed this busi- 
ness in Indianapolis for the past live years and founded the establishment of which he is 
now the proprietor at the corner of South Meridian and Walnut Streets. He is a product 
of Germany, where he was born in 1857, and in the land of his l)irth he received his educa- 
tion and became a well informed young man. He has been a resident of the United States 
since 1882, and for some time after reaching this country he was a resident of Detroit, Mich., 
where he followed his trade which he had thoroughly learned in Germany. From Detroit he 
went to Chicago and from the "'Windy City" to Indianapolis, and here, at first, was for 
some time in the employ of A. Weigand, after which he engaged in business for himself and 
has met with a success that is in every way satisfactory and to his credit. He was married 
here in 1888 to Miss Elizabeth Seraphine and to them two sons have lieen given. Mr. and 
Mrs. Miethke are members of the German Methodist Church anil are honorable and highly 
respected citizens. Mr. Miethke has worked at his trade in the principal citiesof the United 
States, and being very practical in his ideas his services have been in demand in many of the 
principal green-houses in the United States. It is but just to "give honor where honor is 
due," and to say that he is a gentleman of high character and of excellent business reputa- 
tion is but simply speaking the truth. 

OscAK S. Deitch, M. D., was Ijorn in Indianapolis, June 17, 1866, a son of Joseph L. 
and Rachel A. (MuUikin) Deitch, the former a native of France and the lattter of Indiana. 
The father was reared and educated in his native land and came to America in 1847 and 
located at Williamsburg, Intl., where he was married. In 1865 the family came to Indian- 
apolis, where Mr. Deitch engaged in the carriage business, at the same time carrying on a 
money brokerage business. He died in 1881. His wife survives him. Dr. Deitch was 
reared in Indianapolis and educated in the public schools, and at the age of fourteen became 
a clerk in a drug store. He took up the study of pharmacy systematically and later became 
a student in the Cincinnati Pharmaceutical College. In March, 1885, he established a drug 
store in Indianapolis, which he has since managed with much success, being located on West 
Washington Street. He began the study of medicine in 1887 under the preceptorship of Dr. 
Hodges. In 1888 he entered the Medical College of Indiana and was graduated therefrom 
in 1890. He at once entered upon a general practice which, in connection with his drug 
business, he has since conducted successfully. He is a memlier of the Marion County Med 
ical Society and the Indiana State Medical Society. In 1892 he was physician to the Marion 
County Jail, and secretarj' to the County Board of Health. At this time he is physician to 
the Marion County Asylum In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Jewish 
congregation of Indianapolis. June 3(1, 1889, Dr. Deitch married Emma Pence, a native of 
Indianapolis and a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Applegate) Pence of Ohio. 

Othello L. Deitch, M. D., of Indianapolis, was born at Edinburgh, Ind., August '27, 
1864, a son of Joseph L. and Rachel A. (MuUikin) Deitch, and was about six years of age 
at the time of his parents" removal to Indianapolis. He was reared and educated in the 
public schools aiul the high school of the city and, and at the age of fifteen, became a clerk 
in a drug store. After a study of pharmacy he Ijegan to read medicine with Dr. Eisenbeis. 
In September, 1SS6, he entered the Medical College of Indiana and was guaduated there- 
from in 1888 with the degree of M. D. Locating on New York Street, he practiced his pro- 
fession there for a few months until he purchased property in West Indianapolis, where he 
has since lived and had his office. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society 
and of the Indiana State Medical Society. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a member 



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of the K. of P., aud is connected with other orders and organizations of prominence. Dr. 
Deitch was married February 15, 1893, to Paulina Jacobs, who was born iu Boston, Mass., 
January 14, 1873, a daughter of Samuel and Jennie Isaacs Jacobs. 

Nahdm H. Lowe, Sr. There are many enterprises which bear the relation of monuments to 
the energy and ambition of man in this country, and particularly is this true in regard to 
contracting and building. Few industries of Indianapolis are of more importance than this, 
and few men have made more of a success of this undertaking than Nahum H. Lowe, who is 
one of the foremost business men of the place. He is a native of the Pine Tree State, York 
County, born in Kennebunk, a town near the sea coast, January 9, 1818, and is a son of 
Samuel B. Lowe,, also a native of Maine, born in Lyman. The elder Lowe and family moved 
to Springvale, Me., thence to Cambridge, Mass., and from there to Washington, R. I. He 
was a carpenter, woodworkman and cabinet maker by trade and was thoroughly versed in 
his business. In politics he was first a Whig l)ut upon the formation of the Kepublican 
party, joined its ranks and remained with it until bis death, which occurred in 1888, when 
he had reached the advanced age of ninety-four years. His uncle. Squire John Lowe, was 
a member of Congress and when Gen. LaFayette visited America, he made the welcoming 
speech at Kennebunk, where he took dinner. This uncle served in the Revolutionary W».r, 
as did two other uncles, William and Thomas. The Lowe family came originally from Eng- 
land and the first members to venture to America, settled in Maine. Samuel B. Lowe 
married Miss Lydia P. Stagpool, also a native of Maine, and who was almost eighty years 
of age at the time of her death, in 1873. Sixteen children were born to this worthy couple, 
six sons and ten daughters, fourteen of whom grew to mature years. Five are now living, 
three daughters and two sons. The original of this notice received his education in Kenne- 
bunk, Me., and learned his trade partly in his father's shop. When eighteen years of age 
he left home and went to Taunton, Mass., and was engaged in making calico for twelve 
years. After this he was with the Providence & Worcester Railroad, then the Erie 
Railroad, in all one year, and subsequently engaged with Allen Holbrook in manufacturing 

an article, , used in weaving cloth, our subject being foreman for the concern for 

about one year. After this he engaged in car building three years in Cambridge, Mass., 
and then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was engaged with George Peck, building rail- 
road cars by contract. Later he went to Madison, Ind., with Clough & Farnsworth in the 
same business, but eighteen months later came to Indianapolis where he established car 
shops for Farnsworth & Rockwood. A year later he started in business for himself, con- 
tracting, which he has since continued. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. 
In 1838 he married Miss Mary E. Porter, and in 188S they celebrated their golden wedding. 
She was born in 1820, is seventy three years of age, and enjoys comparatively good health. 
Three sons were the fruits of this union: Charles G., who is in the furniture department of 
a New York store; N. H., Jr., also a builder, is now with J. E. Shover as superintendent; 
and George P., a painter with J. R. Adams. Mr. Lowe is a member of Tippecanoe Club, 
and has lived in the same house where he now resides for thirty nine years. 

John W. Pierson. It has been said that "a rolling stone gathers no moss,"' and in the 
main this observation is true, bat the career of John W. Pierson isiu direct refutation of this 
trite saying, for during his career as a man of business he has been engaged in various occu- 
pations, and has met with reasonable prosperity in them all. He is one of the enterprising 
and prominent citizens of West Indianapolis, of which place he has been a resident for the 
past seven years. He was born in Putnam County, Ind., September 20, 1831, a son of Ervin 
and Mary (Hunter) Pierson. who were born, reared and married in Shelby County, Ky., and 
in an early day became residents of Putnam County, Ind. The father was successfully 
engaged in tilling the soil near Greencastle for many years, but finally retired from the active 
duties of life, and spent the balance of his time at Coatesville, Hendricks County, and there 
died at the age of seventy-four years, his birth having occurred in ]8n0. His wife's death 
occurred some three or four years prior to his own. He was a Whig in politics until 1856, 
then voted for Fremont, and was ever after a Republican. He and his wife were earnest 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in that faith reared their ten children, of 
which large family John W. was the eldest. His early education was obtained in the primi- 
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decider! to make that liis oeciipatioii after comniencinf,' the l>;itlle of life for himself, and con- 
tinued to till the soil up to 1860. He iheu owned a drug and dry oroods establishment at 
Filinore, Viut afterward moved to Coatesville, Hendricks County, Ind., where he followed 
various occupations such as stock trading, the furniture liusiness, and connection with a 
woolen mill and tile factor}', as well as others. He came to Indianapolis in 1881, and has 
since been actively engaged in the stock business, the last five years being spent in West 
Indianapolis, where he has become well known, and has gained a fair reputation for probity, 
business management and public spirit. The l)uilding up and progress of the city of Indian- 
apolis have ever been close to his heart, and in May, 1890, his numerous Republican friends 
elected him as a member of the board of trustees of West Indianapolis for a term of two 
years, during a part of which time he was president of the board, and at the expiration of 
his term he was elected to succeed himself. During his administration a great man}- improve- 
ments have been made, school houses have been erected, water works and electric lights 
established, and electric cars, and in all of these undertakings Mr. Pierson has been one of 
the prime movers. The principal part of West Indianapolis has been built since his coming 
to the place, and in bringing about this most desirable state of affairs he has by no means 
taken a subordinate part. Socially he belongs to the A. M. In 1856 he was married to Miss 
Ann McDaniel, of Boone County, Ind., who died two years later, having become the mother 
of two children, only one of whom survives: Mrs. Elizabeth E. Elrod, of Clarke, S. Dak. 
Ira Emerson, a son of the eldest child, died in ISST), at which time he was married, and liv 
ing in Terre Haute, Ind., where he was engaged in railroad business. He was in the United 
States mail service during Gen. Grant's administration, and was a useful and substantial 
citizen. On April '22. 18(50, Mr. Pierson was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Newman, at 
that time a resident of Putnam County, Ind., but born in Kentucky in 1826. She is a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church, and very much respected. 

Adam A. Gadld. The time has never been when the prescription druggist was not of 
as great importance to a community as the physician. Indeed, it would be difficult to name 
a branch of business that is more indispensably im]iortant than that devoted to the sale and 
importation of drugs and the preparation of prescriptions. No more is there any line of 
business demanding more ability and scientific knowledge. One of the eminent young drug- 
gists of North Indianapolis, Ind.. is Adam A. Gauld, who was born in River John, Nova 
Scotia, June 5, 1864, his father, John Gauld, having been born in Scotland. September 21, 
1795. He landed on American soil on his twenty-fourth birthday, and after some years 
spent as a Government surveyor, he opened a drug store at River John, Nova Scotia, which 
occupation he followed there and in other places until the time of his death in 1879. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Isabella Ross, was born in Nova Scotia and died January 26, 
1892, at the age of sixty si-X years. This worthy couple were earnest members of the Chris- 
tian Church, and in that faith reared their six children, five of whom are living at the pres- 
ent time. Adam A. Gauld was the fifth of this family in the order of his birth, and his 
early education was obtained in the grammar schools of his luitive town. His vacations and 
leisure time were spent in his father's drug store, and during this time he acquired a knowl- 
edge of the business and its requirements that he would have been long in gaining in any 
other way. In 1883, in compiuy with J. D. Gauld, a brother, he came west and located in 
Indianapolis, where he was employed as a prescription clerk, until six years ago, at the end 
of which time he formed a partnership with his brother, A. B. Gauld. and together they 
opened a drug store in North Indianapolis. They have become widely known as the most 
honorable business men and have created a well defined confidence in their many patrons. 
Their business is rapidly increasing and their handsome and attractive store is the head- 
([uarters for drugs of all kinds, in fact, everything that goes to make Uji a well appointed 
store. The 8ul)ject of this sketch has always taken a deep interest in the political affairs of 
the sections in which he has resided, and since locating in the city of Indianapolis, has been 
a delegate to city, county and State conventions, as a Republican, but has never aspired to 
])ublic office. He is a notar}' public, appointed by Gov. A. P. Hovey, and is a member of 
Marion Lodge, No. 3r>, F. & A. M. of Indianapolis. January 21, 1892, he was united in 
marriage to Miss Emma Schreck, of North Indianapolis. 

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fifteen years, is one of the city's most successful business men, and lias had a long experience 
in his line of trade. He started the Wmteru l-^portsinan in 1878. In 1891 he sold this 
paper and February 4, 1893, started the paper he now publishes, called RdiidalVs Horse 
Kegisfer. His office is at 20| North Delaware Street, and his home at the corner of ClifFord 
Avenue and Watt Street, Indianapolis. At his home he has a large barn and keeps it well 
filled with the finest horses the country can afford, with a half-mile track for training pur- 
poses. Mr. Randall was born on the Wyandotte Reserve, Ohio, in 1828, and, like most of 
the natives of that State, he has inherited much of the sturdy spirit and noble generosity 
which so many who claim Ohio as a birthplace possess. His parents, Alfred and Martha 
Randall, were natives of the Old Bay State. When children, they came with their parents 
to the Buckeye State, and there grew to mature years and were married. On August 28, 
1848, Nelson A. Randall was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss Rachel M. Arney, who 
was a native of that State, born at Lancaster, in 182<k Her parents, Daniel and Eliza (Bar- 
rack) Arney, were married in Lancaster, Ohio, within two miles of which city both were born 
and raised, and Mrs. Randall was the first of eleven children born to this union. The other 
children of this union are named as follows: Louisa, born in 1851, died at the age of thirteen 
years; George, born in 1853, died in 1875; Eliza, born in 1855, was married to Jarris Tillberry 
when twenty-two years of age but is now deceased; Jane, born in 1857 and married Frank 
Parker, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., she is now deceased; Elsie Ann, born in ISfid, is now the wife 
of James Tillberry, of Ft. Wayne, Ind. ; Scott, now a resident of Ft. Wayne and Daniel, 
now living at the same place. The remainder of the children died in infancy. To our sub- 
ject and wife have been horn one child, Berry, whose birth occurred September 0, 1849, and 
who is now living with his parents. He married Miss Laura Redmond and the fruits of 
this union were two children. Birdie, now twenty-one years of age, and Harry, nineteen 
years of age. Birdie married John Lehr. Mrs. Randall is a practical and intelligent woman 
and takes an active part in all the business matters in which her husband and herself are 
interested. 

James Mao.ennis. Special adaptability to any particular calling in life is the one nec- 
essary adjunct to permanent success. No matter the vim and determination which charac- 
terizes a man's start in business, unless he is to the manor born, he will find to his sorrow 
that his line has been falsely cast, and the quicker he draws back and takes up another calling 
the better it will be for him. Mr. James Magennis, the veteran brickmaker of the county, 
has been in the business for thirty three years, and is one of the best in his line of business 
in this part of the State. It is said that the finger of time is one of the most satisfactory 
and reliable endorsers of a man's Imsiness career. Men in the various walks of life may 
with justification halt and refuse to listen to the solicitation of a beginner, but the voice of 
the old established business man always carries with it attention and respect. Mr. Magen- 
nis is a native of the Emerald Isle, born in 1840 to the marriage of Timothy M. and Frances 
(Frost) Magennis, who were born, reared and married in that country. About 1850 the 
parents crossed the ocean to America, and here passed the remainder of their days. Twelve 
children were born to their marriage, as follows: Mary Ann, deceased; Jane, deceased; Ellen, 
married George Maknew, and is now a resident of the State of New York; Sophia, single, 
resides in this city; Tbomas is married and makes his home in Monroe County, Ind. ; Char- 
lotte, deceased; Frances, married James King, and resides in Cincinnati, Ohio; Anna, 
deceased; Oetavia E., deceased: James, subject; Mattie, deceased, and George, resides in 
this city. As our subject was but four years of age when became with his parents to America, 
he has a very dim memory of any other country, and all his interests are centered on this 
side of the Atlantic. He has been twice married, first to Miss Nancy Campbell, who bore him 
four children: Mary Ann, now deceased; Fannie, single and at home; Elmer, at home, and 
John, who now resides in Monroe County, Ind. After the death of his first wife Mr. Magen- 
nis married her sister, Jane, by whom he has one child, Herbert, now at home. Mr. Magen- 
nis had one brother, Thomas, in the Civil War. The latter enlisted in the Twenty-seventh 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as color bearer, and was wounded three times at the battle of 
Antietam. Socially our subject is a Mason, l)elonging to Center Lodge, No. 23, of Indian- 
apolis, and in all matters of puljlic enterprise and improvement he takes a prominent part, 
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Theodore Johnson. Many of the best knowu farmers aud residents of Marion County 
have been born here and in them we find men of staliility and uprightness. Theodore John- 
son is no exception to the rule for he was born in Belmont, now known as West Indian- 
apolis, May 15, 1833, and is one of the worthy and respected citizens of the county. He is 
a sou of Theodore, Sr., and Nancy (Cool) Johnson, whose marriage occurred about 1824. 
The father was a native of New Jersey, born in 18(14, and when about seventeen years of 
age heciime with his parents to the Hoosier State and located in Marion County. There he 
finished his growth and grew to sturdy manhood. His wife was a daughter of William Cool, 
a substantial farmer of Clarion County. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were l)orn eight children, 
six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood; Dana, died unmarried; Clarissa, married 
Wilkes Waiters and now resides on Belmont Avenue. West Indianapolis; Theodore, our sub- 
ject; Isaac, married Martha Sellers; Julia, married William Curdy and resides in West 
Indianapolis. They have seven children, as follows: Esse, Walls, Victoria, Ann, Delia 
William, Isaac and Ann, who married John Horton, iiecame the mother of three children, 
two of whom are living: Charles and Richard. Ann married for her second husband Ausfus- 
tns Shafer. The father of these children passed away in 1853, and the mother survived him 
until August 17, 1893. dying at the advanced age of eighty-eight. For many years the 
father was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he was steward and class leader 
most of the time. In politics he was a Whig. Our subject's paternal grandfather was a 
native of New Jersey also. On his father's farm in Marion County Theodore Johnson, Jr., 
attained his growth and received his education in the old-fashioned log school-house of those 
early days. He generally attended about two rnonths in the year but only until he was six- 
teen years of age. In 1864 he was married to Miss Barbara Hoover, and two children were 
the fruits of this union. In his political views Mr. Johnson is a Repul)lican and his first 
vote was cast for John C. Fremont. Socially he is a member of the K. of H., the I. (). O. F. 
and the A. O. U. \V. Like his father he is an active member of the Methodist Episco])al 
Church, and contributes liberally of his means to its support. 

James Johnson (deceased). This well-known and much esteemed pioneer of Marion 
County, Ind. , who was everywhere respected for his sterling worth, came originally from 
Virginia, his birth occurring in Grayson County, on May 8, 1801. His father, Samuel 
Johnson, was also a Virginian, born about 1780, and was a descendant of one of- the 
well known families of that State. He was married there to Miss Ann Simcox, and the 
following children were born to them: Janjes. John, William, Sallie (who married John 
Chill), Ann, and Mary (who married John Carson). Thomas Johnson, the great-grand 
father of these children, was born in Virginia and passed his entire life there, dying 
about 1757. He married a Miss Anna Varnnm, ami became the father of nine children, 
among them being John, Samuel, Jesse, Isaac, Rachel, Susan, Rhoda, Elizabeth and Ann. 
The elilest of these children married Lydis Ballard, Samuel married Ann Simcox; Jesse 
married Jane Simcox (a sister to Samuel's wife), Susan married a Mr. Schooley, Elizabeth 
became the wife of Mr. Lundy, and Ann married Mr. Nordyke. 

When about ten years of age, James Johnson, subject of this sketch, went with his 
parents to Butler County, Ohio, and there made his home until eighteen years of age. He 
then came with his parents to Indianapolis, where he resided for about three years, when he 
went on a farm m Wayne Township. This farm his father had entered when first settling 
in Indianapolis, and on this our subject passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1882. 
All who knew this upright, honorable citizen revered and respected him. He married Miss 
Hannah Snively, and to them were born nine children, as follows: Samuel, single, died in 
1844; Sarah A., single, is deceased; Henry S., deceased, married, first. Miss Margaret Var- 
uer, and afterward Miss Lucy Emerson; Catherine married William C. Holmes; John 
married Miss Mary Ann Carter; James married Miss Mary P. Crawford; William J. mar- 
ried Miss Ma7y Ida Quigg; Mary E. married William R. Hog.shire; and Isaac B. (deceased), 
who married, first. Miss Mary Scudder and afterward Miss Mary E. Overboltz. The 
Democrat party commanded the devotion of Mr. Johnson, and he was ever a public-spirited 
citizen. His wife died in IS'iO. His daughter Catherine was married to William C. 
Holmes, on December 15, 1849, and eight children were given them, six of whom survive: 
Sarah A., wife of George W. Johnston; Mary E. , unmarried; Martha A., married Frank 




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F. Ferguson: Johnson C; Catherine, who married Thomas J. Christian; and Roi^e H un 
married. The father of these children died in 1888. He was a s<m of William' and 
Elizabeth (Lyons) Holmes. In polities he was a Republican. For raanv years he was a 
prominent business man of Indianapolis, but previous to that time had followed farming 
milling and trading. He held membershij) in the Christian Church. 

Charles T. Karreh. With the rapid and steady advance of Indianapolis, with the nuick 
increase of her improvementsr the trade of builder and contractor is one of primary impor- 
tance, and IS one on which the first step of progress is dependent. To excel in this business 
requires years of close application and practical education in active service, and among 
those who take a foremost place in this respect are the brothers, Charles T. and Frederick 
Karrer. They sustain a wide reputation in their business, being reliable, painstaking and 
thoroughly satisfactory, as there is ample evidence to show. Charles T. Karrer was born in 
Lancaster County, Penn., in 1854, and is the son of George Karrer, who was born in Ger 
many. The latter was a carpenter by trade, and after coming to America he followed that 
in the city of Indianapolis until his death. Charles T. Karrer was educated in the Indian- 
apolis schools, and learned his trade under his brother, Frederick Karrer, now his partner 
with whom he remained live years. He then commenced journeyman work, and twelve 
years ago, in 1881. he commenced contracting for himself. Although he started with limited 
means, he was thorough master of his trade, and his superior work soon brought him all the 
employment he could conveniently attend to. He has erected many of the finest buildinas 
in the city, and never lacks for work. On February 3, 1878, he was married to Miss Eliza- 
beth Baker, of this city, and a son and daughter have been given him. In his political 
v^ews Mr. Karrer is a Republican, and socially a member of the I. O. O. F., Capital Lodge. 
No. 124. Frederick Karrer, who for ten years has been contracting and building in this 
city with his brother, Charles T., has in that time built up a trade and simultaneously 
with it a reputation, so that he will compare most favorably with any local contemporary 
He is also a native of Lancaster County, Penn., born in 1844, and came to Indianapofis 
with his parents when twelve years of age. He learned his trade from his father and then 
commenced working for Christian & Shover as foreman, and was ahso in the rolling mill 
until ten years ago. when he entered into partnership with his brother Charles He has 
been unusually successful and is a skillful, reliable workman. In the rear 1871 he was 
married to Miss Emma Martin, of Indianapolis, and three children have been born to them 
a son and two daughters. Mr. Karrer is a member of the Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church' 
and 1.S trustee in the same. Socially he is a K. of H. Unlike his brother he is a Democrat 
in politics. 

William H. Hollixgsworth. This substantial and e.Ktremelv well known citizen of Pike 
township. Marion County, Ind., was born on February 9, 1840,' to Ira and Deborah (Ben- 
nett) Holhngsworth, and was reared to manhood in tlie township in which he now resides 
receiving his education in the district schools. He remained with his j^arents until he attained 
his majority, assisting in the duties of the farm, but at the opening of the great Civil War 
in 1861 he dropped his hoe to take up arms in defense of his country. enlistTucr in Company 
1, beventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, on August 22, 1861. After serving over three years 
his regiment returned to Indianapolis and there he was mustered out on September 14 1864 
having been on active duty while in the service. He was detailed at Culperoer Court House 
u'tJ''''™^" ""■ ^^^^" to carry dispatches for Gen. James Wadsworth, 'who commanded 
the First Division of the First Army Corps. After the expiration of his term of service he 
returned to his former occupation of farming in Pike township, with the consciousness of 
having performed his duties faithfully and well in the various engagements in which he was 
engaged. He was at Winchester, Va.. March, 1862, under Gen. Shields, with whom he 
crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Seventh Indiana was assigned to McDowelKs divis- 
ion, and about that time Gen. Lee's army invaded Maryland, and Mr. HoUingsworth partici- 
pated in the battles of Antietam and South Mountain. After recrossing the Potomac River 
they camped at Belle Plain Landing, when Lee's army invaded Peuusyhania, and Mr' 
Tvi.l'^f.™''*'' "''^'^ ^^^ regiment took part in the great battle of Gettysburg. On July 3 
18b3, while Mr. HoUingsworth was carrying dispatches, he was wounded by a shell: the same 
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which still causes him much suffering, and for which he receives a pension. He remained 
at the corps hospital headquarters until he was fit for dut}', then once more entered active 
service. His duties were numerous and arduous for at times he was compelled to work day 
and night and he was many times placed in very dangerous positions. Ho participated in 
the bombardmetit of the Weldon Railroad, leading up into Petersburg, which was one of the 
hottest engagements of the kind during the entire war, and where hundreds of Union men 
sacrificed their lives. He was afterward transferred to the Fifth Army Corps (with which 
he remainetl until the expiration of his term) under Gen. Warren carrying dispatches for 
him, then returned home by way of Washington City. Two years later lie was married to 
Miss Margaret A. Martin (March 1, 18()6), a native of Fulton County, Ind., and a daughter 
of John T. and Martha (Molar) Martin. To their union the following children have l)een 
given: Martha, who was married to Onier Button August 15, 1893; Lillie; Grace, who died 
in infancy, and Lottie. Mr. Holliugsworth is the owner of forty-eight acres of the old 
family homestead, where he has resided ever since the purchase of the same from his father 
in 18<38. He is a member of the George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, of the G. A. R. at Indian 
apolis, in which he has =erved in different official capacities. He participated in the great 
parade September (5, 1893. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for the past twelve 
years and has passed through the chairs of Rural Lodge, No. 416, and represented the same 
in the Grand Lodge, No. 84, of Indianapolis. In politics he is a stanch Republican and has 
always taken an active interest in the welfare of his party, being a member of the Tra- 
ders' Point Glee Club, in 1888, which has enlivened political occasions with music. His 
daughters are also accomplished musicians, and are beautiful and cultivated singers. 

WiLLi.\M Norman Bowm.an. Architecture is one of the most difficult of all the arts, as 
it requires a highly-cultivated taste, a subtle knowledge of the harmonies of form and pro- 
portion and an observation snfficiently artistic to catch thes])irit of a facade or an entire and 
complicated structure. It requires something more than a mere draughtsman to execute a 
piece of work like the Indiana State House or the Administration Building and the Fine 
Arts Palace at Jackson Park, Chicago. It is just as necessary in architecture that forms, 
colors and proportions should blend into harmonious unison. And so it happens that an 
architect m\ist be an artist able to sound all the depths of the great art and create a struct- 
ure that will meet the aesthetic as well as the technical requirements of utility. Such an 
architect is William Norman Bowman, who was Ijorn in Carthage, N. Y., March 12, 1868, 
being the son of Lucius S. and Elizabeth A. (Hurd) Bowman, both of whom were also 
natives of New York State. The father was a mechanic by occupation, and in 1881 removed 
with his family to Jackson, Mich., where they continued to reside for some time, but at 
present are residents of Irvington, Ind. Shortly after the family settled in Michigan the 
suljject of this memoir went to Detroit, where he began the study of the profession of 
architecture, and after completing a thorough course of artistic studies was em]iloyed for 
two years in the otTice of Mortimer L. Smith & Son, of Detroit, well known and eminent 
architects. In 1889 Mr. Bowman came to Indianapolis and associated himself in the pro- 
fession of architecture with John G. Thurtle, under the firm name of Thurtle & Co. This 
partnership continued until Januarj' ], 1893, when Mr. Bowman opened an office of his own. 
Some of the contracts executed by them while the partnership lasted were the Burgess 
Hall, the power house and gymnasium building at Butler University and the two-story 
brick residence at the corner of Pennsylvania Street and Home Avenue. The plans fur- 
nished by the firm have included many of the well known and beautiful residences and sub- 
stantial business blocks of the city. During 1893 Mr. Bowman has furnished plans for 
twelve of the finest residences of Indianapolis and suburbs, among which are the elaborate 
residence for D. M. Pariy, the remodeled residence for James F. Tailey, a business block at 
Franklin, Ind., and has some artistic plans in his office for a new court house now contem- 
plated. Mr. Bowman is a njember of the K. of P. and at presetit is keeper of the records 
and seal of Irvington Lodge, No. 3"24. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of 
Indianapolis. He resides with his parents at Irvington. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He is a young man of culture and artistic taste and gives promise of developing into one of 
the foremost architects of the great West. 

John St. George Thurtle, architect, was born in England October 13, 1S59, a son of 



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Walter John and Elizabeth (Loughton) Thurlle, who were natives of England, where they 
still reside. B3' occupation the father is an architect, but at the present time is a building 
contractor ou Governmental work. The immediate subject of this sketch was reared and 
educated in his native country, receiving the finishing touches to his literary education by 
attending Shrewsbury Grammar School, and giaduating from St. Mark's College, London, 
in 1876. Beginning the study of architectural drawing at South Kensington Science and 
Art Schools, the City Guild's Institute, successfully passing all examinations, be obtained 
admission to the Academy SVihools of Architecture and Design, from which he received his 
diploma. As a student Mr. Thurtle was exceptionally brilliant, receiving, on three different 
occasions, the Queen's prize, and at the last examination being awarded the silver medal. 
After traveling two years pursuing architectural studies he entered his father's office as one 
of the corps of architectural draftsmen, taking charge of the work for about a year. Later 
Mr. Thurtle opened an office for himself, which he continued about two years. From 1882 
to 1SS5 he was in the service of the Government in the civil branch of the army. In 1886 
he came to America, remained a short tiuje in the cities of New York and Buffalo, but in 
April, 1889, located permanently at Indianapolis, lud., having previously practiced his pro- 
fession at Jackson, Mich., for some time. Very shortly after his location in Indianapolis 
Mr. Thurtle attracted the attention of the various contractors and the public as an excep- 
tionally able architect, and since that time he has commanded a lucrative business, which is 
steadily on the increase. Notable among the buildings for which he has furnished plans can 
be mentioned two structures at and the remodeling of the main edifice of Butler University, 
the Grubbs, the Tuttle and Jacobs buildings, numerous residences, various schools and 
churches, and his work has extended not only to surrounding counties, but States as well. 
At Indianapolis, in ISUl, Mr. Thurtle married Miss Edith Bradford Grover, a native of 
Terre Haute, Ind.. and their pleasant and happy home is in this city, Where they have many 
friends. Mr. Thurtle is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, is independent in his political views and he and his wife are members of Plymouth 
Church. 

M.^RTiN C. Ander.son. One of the most prominent and useful citizens of Marion County, 
Ind., is Martin C. Anderson, who was born in Hancock County, Ind. , November 14, 1844, a son 
of William H. and Susan (Wilson) Anderson, who were born near Williamstown, Ky., but 
were taken by their parents to Rush County, Ind., at the settling of that section and were 
brought up there on woodland farms. After they had reached maturity and were married 
they removed to Greenfield, Ind., where the father liegan following the calling of a plaster 
contractor. He died in 1863 at the age of fifty one years, his widow surviving him until a 
few years ago when she died at the age of eighty one years, at which time she was making 
her home with her children. To their union five children were born, two sons and three 
daughters, three of which family are living at the present time. When Martin C. Anderson 
was one year old his father came with bis family to Indianapolis and here the subject of this 
sketch received Lis finishing education in the city high schools. At the age of seventeen 
years he began learning the plasteier's trade under his father, with whom he continued to 
be associated until the death of the latter, when he commenced Imsiness for himself and 
eventually became the largest plastering contractor in the city. He first entered the polit- 
ical arena in 1873, at which time he made the race for councilman in the old eighth ward 
and served one term. At the end of this time he became the Democratic nominee for city 
clerk and ran several hundred votes ahead of his ticket but was defeated and went down 
with the rest of the ticket. In 1890 he was a candidate before the Democratic convention 
for the nomination of recorder but was defeated by Peter Carson. In 1S91 when the 
county commissioners wanted a superintendent for the Maiion County Workhouse, Mr. Ander- 
son was unanimously chosen and has made a faithful and exceptionally efficient official. The 
highest compliments have been paid him for the excellent and efficient manner in which 
this penal institution is managed and disciplined. These things are easily explained, how 
ever, when it is taken into consideration that 3Ir. Anderson is an industrious workingman 
himself. A large per cent, of the inmates of this institution are men who have fallen by the 
wayside, but who bave been workingmen, and Mr. Anderson has always proven a true friend 
of the workingman. In June, 1886, when the plasterers of the city were on a strike, Mr. 



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Anderson was the first man to come to the assistance of the journeyman plasterers bv aeree- 
ing to pay ten hours' pay for eight hours' work and for a time tliis" state of affairs continued 
He IS a rueraber of the Cleveland Club, the Masonic lodge, the K. of H., the A. O. l'. W.. 
and the K. of P., and is an active member of the Builders Exchange. On June 20 INT? 
he was united in marriage to Miss Emma L. Glazier, a native of this city, her father, Charles 
Glazier, Iwing the first engineer on the Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railroad, and ran the 
first train over the road after its conapletion. Three children were born to the union of Mr 
and Mrs. Anderson, but only two are living at the present time: Harry C. and Hervey G 
Charles M. died in infancy. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Fletcher Place Church and 
IS a woman of much intelligence and nobility of character, in fact, a worthy helpmate to lier 
worthy husband. 

Col. Ben-jamin W. Hartley. Since the year 1850 this gentleman has been enga<red in 
the occupation of bnck contracting. He was born in Clarke County, Ohio, Februan- 13, 
1826, and is a son of Josiah K. Hartley, whose birth occurred in the vicinity of HamiUon' 
Butler County, Ohio, of which State his father, William Hartley, was one of the pioneors 
from Kentucky, although a native of England. After his marriage, which occurred in Butler 
County, he came to Indiana. Josiah K. Hartley was a very successful contractor and built 
one of the first brick houses ever put up in the town of New Carlisle. In this business he 
was succeeded l)y his son, Benjamin W., the subject of this sketch, although for a number of 
years prior to his death they were associated in i)nsinesH. Benjamin W. built the paper 
mills, the Niles Tool AVorks, the Malt House, the school house, aud many other buildings in 
Hamilton, and since his residence in Indianapolis, whither he came in 18")], he has put up 
some very important structures in partnership with Robert Taylor, who was the pioneer 
brick man of the town. About the first building they erected after they had associated them- 
selves in business was the gas works, then the Christian Church at the corner of Delaware 
and Ohio Streets. In the meantime he began the study of medicine with Dr. Lawrence 
Alibott, and shortly after went to Rockville, Parke County, and began practicing. In ISSfi 
he went to Kansas, and the following year took up his' residence in Wyandotte- County 
where he remained until the winter of 1804. While in Wyandotte County he was a mem- 
ber of the city council, and was next elected assessor of the county. After he removed to 
Johnson County he was elected trustee of Shawnee Township, and'was afterward elected to 
represent that county in the State Legislature. May 9, 1861, he became first lieutenant of 
Company A, Second Kansas Infantry, and on May 25, was promoted to the captaincy of that 
company, becoming lieutenant-colonel of his regiment October 29, 1801. He served three 
years throughout southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, and was in the engao-ements at 
Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge in the border service. In 1864 he returned to""Hamilton, 
Ind., and opened a tobacco factory, but later disposed of it, and in 1870 came to Indianapo' 
lis and formed a partnership with John W. Thompson, and again commenced contractino' 
During the panic of that time and for six years thereafter, he was on the police force of tl7e 
city, at which time Mr. Thompson was jiusfice of the peace. After his term of service on the 
police force had expired he and Mr. Thomjison resumed business and have since had all the 
contracts they could possibly attend to. They have been doing a great deal of foundation 
work and for some time were associated with William Landmeier, but for a short time Mr. 
Hartley has been pursuing his operations alone. He has been quite a politician in his day. 
and has been a member of Republican conventions and on committees on numerous occasions, 
August 9, 1849, Mr. Hartley was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Cornthwait, a native 
of Butler County,. Ohio, bnt on September 3, 1893, he was left a widower. She bore him 
nine children, five daughters surviving. Mr. Hartley is a memljer of the I. O. O. F., and at 
the opening of the war was deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of the State of Kansas, 
and at the present time he is a member of the Indianapolis Lodge. No. 465. In 1841 he 
became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but two years later he united with 
the Christian Church, became an officer in the same, aud ever since 1852 has preached the 
doctrine of that denomination on various occasions in the Shelby Street Christian Church. 

Frepeuick J. Meyer. The calling of the merchant is one of the oldest as well as one 
of the most honorable of all lines of industry. Exchange and barter are two of the world's 
most important factors, and withcmt these the public would indeed find themselves in a sad 



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plight. Above all, it is necessary that the goods should be first class aud the merchant hon- 
orable and reliable, two features combined in the mercantile career of Frederick J. Meyer. 
This gentleman was born in Prussia, Germany, January 2, 1847, a son of Henry J. aud 
Eleanor (Schaekel) Meyer, who spent their entire lives in their native laud. The father was 
a farmer by occupation ;ind served three years in the German aimy, his death occurring iu 
November, 1846. His widow survived him until March. 1889, when she, too, j)assed away. 
The birth of Frederick J. Meyer occurred after the death of his father, and as is the custom 
in German}', he attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, at which time 
he entered a high school, which he attended for two years. He then turned his attention to 
farming, which he continued until emigrating to America, in 1867. Upon his arrival in this 
country he came immediately to Indianapolis and soon began working in the flour mill of 
C. Heckman, but one year later entered the wholesale establishment of Holland & Oster- 
meyer, also remaining with them about one year. He then engaged in contract work for 
himself until 1875, wheu, having saved some money, he engaged in the grocery business on 
a small scale at the corner of East and McCarty Streets, having purchased a lot there on 
which a small building, 16s60 feet had been erected. By close attention to business and 
good management he prospered and is now the owner of a store 60x150 feet, two stories 
high, erected by him in 1884, in which he carries a stock of goods valued at about -fl 2,000, con- 
sisting of groceries, dry goods, clotiiing, boots and shoes, in fact, a tine line of general merchan- 
dise, and does a business of about $45,000 annually. He also owns, in addition to his busi- 
ness property, six houses and lots, all of which he has accumulated since coming to this city, 
his capital, on locating here, amounting to 149. He is a member of St. Paul's German 
Lutheran Evangelical Church, and has been one of its trustees for fouiteen years and presi- 
dent for five years. He is one of the directors of the German Lutheran Orphan's Home 
Society, and on November 6, 1893, was appointed a member of the board of public works 
by Mayor Dennj', and entered upon the duties of this position November 20. He is a well- 
known and substantial German citizen and has always taken great interest in everything for 
the welfare of the city. He was married October 21, 1870, to Mary Buddenbaum, a native of 
Prussia, Germany, by whom he has one child, Harry C , born in August, 1871. and died at 
the age of nine months and ten days. Mr. Meyer has always been a stanch Democrat and 
has given his active support to that party on all occasions. 

CoRYDON R. Shimer. The subject of this sketch was born May 20, 1838, on the farm 
where he now lives and his education was received in the common schools of Marion County. 
This was such as to (pialify him to teach in his home district for a period of twelve months 
to the satisfaction of his patrons. He remained in common with his parents, Elias N. and 
Mahala Shimer, until twenty-six years of age, or until the death of the father who requested 
him in his will to take charge of the homestead, consisting of 240 acres which was left intact 
for the benefit of Mrs. Shimer. As this was the mother's wish also, our subject remained 
with her during the remainder of her days, a period of twenty two years. The father was 
born December 6, 1798, aud the mother June 8, 1802. They were married April 4, 1S22, 
near Zanesville, Ohio, and remained there until 1829, when they came with their three little 
boys to their western land, consisting of 16(^ acres unimproved. To this eighty acres more 
were added in 1848. Mr. Shimer and family remained with the family of their lirother-in- 
law, Henry Brady, while a cabin was being built, and then began their career as early set- 
tlers. In the course of time churches were established and Mr. and Mrs. Shimer attached 
themselves to and were prominent members and active workers in the Pleasant Run Baptist 
Church (Old School], Mr. Shimer serving the church association as clerk for many years. 
Mr. Shimer was a man of more than ordinary ability and intelligence which qualities were 
greatly improved by his industry in reading and study. He was a man of sound judgment, 
unsullied reputation and honorable deportment. He was iu every respect an exemplary citizen. 
He served the community in several offices with credit to himself and general satisfaction, 
unwavering in his notions on religion and politics. He never compromised principle let the 
consequences be what they might. He died July 29, 1864. Mrs. Shimer was a woman 
whose whole mind and strength were employed in the arduous duties and loving care of her 
home and family. Her character was one possessed of all the beauties, charms and loveliness 
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the f;dljPr's dwUL wore of the most pleasant character throughout, •• the last were the most 
precious. Says Coryilon; "I ha.l attained an age when I could more fully appreciate a 
mother s worth." She died December 13, 1S86. Six children were born to this worthy 
couple as follows: Caleb D. ; William R. : Isaac H.; Asa N. ; James N. H., and Corydon R" 
our subject. The eldest of these children, Caleb D., is seventy years of age, and resides in 
Hancock County, Ind. He has been three times married, first to Mrs. Marcraret Mitchell by 
whom he had one child, Catherine M., who died in 1871, aged twenty threeVais Hissec 
ond wife was Miss Susan Birdwhistle, by whom he had two children, Anna and William 
The former died at the age of two years, and the latter is married. Caleb's third wife was 
Miss Ellen Bingham, who bore him four children, Martha A., married Amie Geroude and 
has two children. Donald and Eva: Emma, married Mr. Campbell: James C, married and 
has two children, Robert and Grace: and Katie, has been twice married, tirst, to Blr Walter 
Tate, by whom she had one child Walter, and the second time to Hulbert McNeily, l)y whom 
she has two children. Temple and Lizzie. Emma. James C. and Katie reside in Topeka 
Kan. William R. , the second child born to Elias N. and Mahala Shimer, is now sixty-seven 
years of age and has been twice married, first to Miss Elizabeth O'Neal, who l)ore him eight 
chi dren, Mahala C, who married George Adams, and became the mother of seven children 
William, Daniel, Elizabeth, Susan, Carry, Mary and Henry: Isaac H., who is now thirty- 
nine years of age, married Miss Jennie Hart, by whom he has four children, William, Mag- 
gie, Myrtle and John; Willie, a very exemplary boy, died when sixteen years of age; Daniel 
v., another bright, intelligent child, died when eight years of age; Nelson R., married Miss 
Mila Murphy, and has five children, Nellie, Grover, Carl, Clara B. and Lizzie; Richard O 
married Miss Josie Patterson, and had one child ; Thomas and Charles. William R Shimer's 
second marriage was with Miss Sue M. Dunn, who bore him one child, Carrie. Isaac H 
the third child born to the marriage of Elias Shimer, is now sixty-four years of age, and has 
been three times married. His tirst union was with Miss Indiann Moorhouse, by whom he 
had one child, Thomas. His second marriage was with Miss Jane Gunning, who bore him 
three children, Howard, who married Miss Lelia Hovev, and had four children and died 
Nellie Charley, Willie and Lee; Jennie, married Edward Cook, and has three children, 
Nina, Guy andean infant, and Flora was married in 1892 to Robert McGinnis. of Indian- 
apolis. Isaac H. Shimer's third union was with Miss Lititia Harris, who bore him nine 
children, Elias, Viola. Henrietta, Ray, Myrtle, Mabel, Erie, Grace and Eddy. Asa N , the 
fourth child born to Elias N. Shimer, is mentioned in another part of this work, and James 
N. H., thehfth child, died when two years of age. The paternal grandparents of these 
children, Isaac and Sarah Ann (De Lashmutt) Shimer, were natives of Maryland, the former 
born in 1/bo, and died near ZanesviUe, Ohio, in 1848, and the latter in 1773, and died at 
her son s, Elias N. Shimer's, in 1856, and was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, and removed 
from that place with eight others to Crown Hill bv C. R. Shinier, in 1887. Five children 
were born to this union, Elias N., Elizabeth, Catherine W., Susan and William J. Elizabeth 
was twice married, first, to John Wilson, by whom she had five children, William D., Sarah, 
Frankie, Eliza and Catherine, all married. Her second marriage was with John P Deiui)- 
ster, by whom she had four children, Henry, Ellen, Virginia and Thomas, all married. 
Catherine W ., married Thomas J. Northup, who died in IS.^fi. " Mrs. Northup was a wt)man of 
great magnetism, she was a model woman; several years of her life were spent in Washington 
City among the elite. To .say that she was accomplished, generous, noble, lovely, simply 
describe her character. Never would human being in need leave her presence ungratified if it 
was within her power to alleviate their wants. She died in full possession of all her faculties, 
()ctober lb, 188'2, at the residence of our subject, after a sojourn with the family of twenty- 
six years— cherished sojourn, a' sojourn cherished by all with whom she came "in contact.'" 
Susan was married to the late J. B. H. Bratshaw, of Detroit. Mich. Two children 
were the fruits of this union, Sarah Ann and Matilda, both married. William J., the 
youngest of the family, made his home with his brother and nephew for nearly thirty 
years, and died in 1884, when seventy-three years of age. Our suliject's maternal" grand- 
P*'L*!?i!' ^"^®'' ''"^^ Susanna (Stiader) Dunn, were natives of New Jersey, the former born 
in 17//, and died in 1849, and the latter born in 1779 and died in IS59. ' They were united 
in marriage June 11.1 797, and from this union resulted eight children, Hannah, Mahala, Mary, 




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Asa, Stiader, Thomas, William and Susan. The eldest child. Hannah, married Hon. Henry 
Brady, by whom she had six children, Emily, Oliver, LitJtia, Margaret, Mahala and George; 
Mary, married James Caldwell, and became the mother of live children, Caleb, James, Will- 
iam, Herve}' and Susan: Asa, the fourth child boi-n to Caleb Dunn, married Miss Caroline 
Se<lwick and had these children, Wilson, Hannah, Susan, William, Lucy, Mary, George and 
Emma; Strader, the lifth child, married Miss Hettie Joseph, who bore him six children, 
William, Jane, Martha, Mary,\ Cornelius and Cornelia (twins); Thomas Dunn married Miss 
Hannah Ailes, and four children are living, James, Elijah, Marion and George; William 
Dunn married Miss Dorothy Crane and has two children, Howard and Cora; Susan Dunn, 
the youngest child liorn to Caleb Dunn, married James M. Mercer, and became the mother 
of one child, Jacol) D. On September 10, ]87>i, the original of this notice was married to 
Miss Belle Zimmerman, daughter of Christopher and Kate Zimmerman, of f)fi6 East Wash- 
ington Street, Indianapolis. Mrs. Sliimer is a lady t)f culture who in addition to a high 
school education, attended St. Mary's of the Woods, at Terre Haute. Four children have 
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shinier, as follows: Bessie, who dierl in infancy: J. Tilden, born 
February 3, 1877, is now attending Butler University ; Donald B. and Harold N. (twins), 
born January 9, ISS-t. The latter died when but four days old. Donald is kind, obliging, 
industrious and a GOOD boy. Fidelity Farm, the home of our subject, adjoins Irvington on 
the south and is located two and a half miles east of the city limits of Indiana])olis. It con- 
sists of 1'.I2 acres and is admirably ada{)ted to the uses to which it is put, general farming. 
Some of Air. Shimer's horses are standard bred and he has a line half mile track where he 
oversees the training of hin animals. At the head of his herd is the Hambletonian stallion 
Billy Breckenridge; his younger animals bid fair to make reputations on the race course. 
Until a few years ago Mr. Shimer's attention was given to the raising of Jersey cattle, and 
he still has a tine herd of this breed. He was nearly killed in 1884 by an infuriated Jersey 
bull, and all his life will carry the scars of this encounter on his head anil face. Mr. Shimer 
has a substantially built, modern two-story brick house of thirteen rooms, the Iniilding being 
trimmed with stone and galvanized iron, a large bay-window fronts the north, and on the 
east and west of the double parlors extending the entire height of the house, all furnished 
with the best quality of French plate glass. The house is located on one of the highest 
points of land in the vicinity and presents a fine appearance from the surrounding countrj'. 
It is situated within one-half mile of Butler University and of the Irvington public 
school. Mr. Shimer also has a slate-covered brick smoke and wood-house, also a brick car- 
riage-house and granary, and his large farm barn is capable of comfortably stabling thirty 
head of stock. 

Alfred Pahud. The activity which characterizes ever}' branch and department of trade 
and commerce is due to the initiative energy and enterprise of the leading representative 
merchants in each line, and the Horal industry of the city is as well represented by thor- 
oughly energetic and competent business men as any other branch of human endeavor. 
Alfred Pahud, a well known florist of the city, has a perfect understanding of his business 
and realizes the im()ortance of ]iromptness and of delivering according to promise, and has 
made it a rule never to disappoint his customers under any circumstances. He is the oldest 
and one of the most practical florists in Indianapolis and has had a lifelong experience in the 
work. He has been the florist of Crown Hill Cemetery for the past six years, and none has 
ever had occasion to regret his apj)ointment to that position, for he is careful, painstaking 
and conscientious in his work, and nothing is left undone that should be attended to. Mr. 
Pahud was born in Switzerland in 1852, where he also received a practical education, and 
prior to coming to the United States he thoroughly learned the trade of a florist, so that 
although he was a stranger in a strange land and unfamiliar with the American customs 
upon reaching this country, he knew that he could make a good living by following his 
chosen calling. Prior to coming here, however, he followed the calling of a florist for live 
years in Paris, three years in Lyons, three years in Switzerland, and learned to speak the 
German, French and English languages (juite fluently. After coming to Indianapolis, Ind., 
he estaljlished himself in his present business and has 20,000 feet under glass, in which are 
rare, beautiful and costly flowers as well as the most inexpensive, in fact, everything to suit 
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cut flowers, decorating, etc., and furnishes rare and beautiful designs for banquets, balls and 
public demonstrations of all kinds. He commands a liberal jiatrouage, for the wise Ameri- 
can knows where his interests lie and always patronizes those who endeavor to please him. 
in which respect he shows his good judgment. Mr. Pahud was married in his native land 
ami brought his wife with him to this country, but she died about one year after their 
arrival. In 1883 Mr. Pahud married a second time, his present wife having been born in 
France. By this union they have four children. He is a man much esteemed by all who 
know him and is a useful addition to the business circles of the city of Indianajiolis". 

David Johnson. The gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch has been 
quite successful from a pecuniary standpoint in the conduct of his affairs, and is a liberal, 
gnnerous and high minded gentleman, whose correct mode of living has gathered about him 
a large circle of friend.s and well-wishers. He has resided in Marion County all his life, for 
here he was born August 3, 1832, a son of William M. and Eliza (Appleton) Johnson, the 
former of whom was a native of New Jersey, and when a young man removed therefrom to 
Ohio, and one year later came to Indiana, taking up his'residence in Marion County, three 
miles northeast of the Circle in 1821, near where the United States Arsenal now is", which 
was then heavily covered with timber, and Indianapolis consisted of but two houses. The 
paternal grandfather. David Johnson, was a farmer and cooper and died when the subject of 
this sketch was a child. He entered a woodland farm on coming to this country, which is 
now owned by Samuel Johnson, whose son resides on the farm. William M. Johnson helped 
clear up this land, but afterward moved to or near West Indianapolis, and his farm is now in 
l)ossession of the subject of this sketch, and is situated on Eel Creek. It comprises 16(1 acres, 
and from the door of his present residence Mr. Johnson can see one half mile distant to the 
place where he was born. His father. William M. Johnson, also bought land here and fol- 
lowed farming np to the day of his death, which occurred in 1877 at about the age of 
seventy seven years. When Mr. Johnson came to this section of the country the^only 
inhabitants were mostly Indians, and the land now occupied by the populous city of Indian- 
apolis was a continuous patch of hickory ash bushes, also thickly timbered. He lived to see 
Indianapolis become one of the greatest railroad centers in tiie United States, and Marion 
County to become one of the most prosperous in the State. He was a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church for over fifty years, and at various times trustee and steward of the 
same. In politics he was first a Whig and later became a Eepul)lican. His wife was a 
member of the same church as himself and died in 1850. when al)ont forty years of age. 
To this union a good old fashioned family of twelve children were given, of whom Henry, 
the eldest, is a prosperous farmer of Wayne Township this county; David: Mary, wife of 
Henry Pence; Anna, wife of a Mr. John J. Johnson, a farmer and brick manufacturer of 
Castleton, this county: Sarah A., wife of John YanSickle of Boone County: George is a 
farmer near Castleton, and the rest of the children died in infancy, with the exception of 
Emeline, who lived to be seventeen years of age. David Johnson received his education in 
Indianapolis in the first log .school-house that was built there, and after attending school for 
two mouths in the year, when he was nineteen years of age he decided that his education was 
completed, and it was more than ordinarily thorough for that period. At the age of twenty- 
one he began working out for $13 per month as driver of an ox team, and was afterward on 
the Cincinnati Railroad hauling timbers for bridges, and in the spring he assisted in layin» 
the foundations for these bridges. Shortly after he began farming and after his crop "was 
garnered he returned to railroad work, or anything that he could find to do and continued 
this way for some time, and thus got bis start in life. Thirty three years ago he rented land 
of Mr. McCorby and has had business connections with him ever since. He made his first 
purchase of land in 1857, at which time he purchased ten acres where his home now stands, 
but where he now owns twenty acres. In 1870 he bought three acres, for which he paid 
$1,100 an acre. This is a part of West Indianapolis, and besides this he owns a one- 
third interest in the old home place, which is now very valuable. He has been quite a suc- 
cessful contractor as well as a farmer, and built the Michigan Street bridge, the Morris 
Street bridge foundation and put in the foundations of the Kentucky Avenue bridge, and 
worked on the Kentucky levees in different parts of the city and has" otherwise been con- 
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for many years, was then elected city treasurer and is now serving his second term in this 
position. Although formerly a Whig in politics, he has long been a Republican and cast his 
first Republican vote in 1856. In 1N57 he was married to Miss Mary Johnson, daughter of 
William M. Johnson (not related) and to them three children were given: William O., a 
farmer, and Elida, wife of Fred Crow. Another son. Charles, lived to be eighteen years of 
age. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Methodist Ei)i8copal Church and he is a 
member of Samaritan Lodge, ^of the I. O. O. F. , of which he has been a member since 1856, 
and he also belongs to the I. O. R. M, and the R. A., in which he is trustee, and the A. F. 
& A. M. He is a man whose usefulness to Indianapolis cannot be doubted, and he has 
the satisfaction of knowing that his life has been well spent and an honorable one. 

Jeremiah Egan, Esq. The duty of caring for the graves of those who have "crossed to 
that bourne from whence no traveler returns" is a sacred one and one that should be placed 
in the hands of those who are painstaking, trustworthy and reliable. In Mr. Egan these 
qualities are to be found in an eminent degree, and besides these he possesses good taste and 
a knowledge of landscape gardening which has been of essential benefit to him in perform 
ing the duties of sujierintendent of the Holy Cross Cemetery, a position he has discharged 
with marked ability for some time past. The Sons of Ireland are well represented in 
Marion County, and they hold conspicuous places in many pursuits which make that 
county, a substantial star in the galaxy of Indiana's many interesting counties. Jeremiah 
Egan was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1836, and was named for his father, who was an 
honest and industrious tiller of the soil in the Isle of Erin, and no doubt he inherited from 
this worthy gentleman many of his most worthy business qualities, as well as the quick wit 
and light heartedness so characteristic of the Irish people. The father died in his native 
land in 1846, but prior to this he had given his son Jeremiah every educational advantage 
within his power, and for sometime was himself his teacher, for he was finely educated, and 
one of his greatest desires was that his son should be also. In 1868 Jeremiah Egan decided 
to seek his fortune in America, and on April 28 of that year landed in Indianapolis, Ind. 
Having learned the trade of a gardener near the city of Cork, Ireland, he became a florist 
upon his arrival in Indianapolis, in connection with which he followed the occupation of 
gardening for nearly five years. At the end of that time he had accumulated sufficient 
means to enable him to purchase an establishment of his own at 805 East Market Street, of 
which he is still the owner. He soon after secured employment in the city gas works, with 
which he was connected until about 1S92, when he was appointed to the position of superin- 
tendent of the Holy Cross Cemetery, and under his wise and comprehensive management 
the place has been greatly improved and made a "thing of beauty.'" Old and sunken graves 
have been built up, the new ones are always carefully looked after, and the grass, shrubs and 
trees are kept neatly trimmed. Mr. Egan has proved to be the right man in the right place 
and all who have friends buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery are thoroughly satisfied with 
his management of the place. He belongs to the St. Michael's Benevolent Society and 
politically is a Democrat. He was married in County Cork, Ireland, to Miss Nora Irvin and 
to their union live sons and two daughters have been given, one of the latter being dead. 

John Sanders. Of the many prominent farmers of Decatur Township, Marion County, 
Ind., Mr. Sanders is well worthy of mention for he has been a resident of this county all his 
life and has ever had its interests at heart. He was born on the farm belonging to his father 
October 26, 1837, and as he was left motherless when only three weeks old, he was taken by 
his maternal grandmother, Phoebe Mills, wife of John Mills, who lived in Decatur Township. 
He made his home with his grandmother until about twenty-seven years of age, or until her 
death which occurred in 1865. Young Sanders attended the subscription schools in Decatur 
Township from the age of nine up to twenty, but rarely attended the full session of three 
months during the winter season. The grandmother had made her home with her son, Amos 
Mills, and after her death our subject continued to make his home with Amos Mills until the 
hitter's death in 1874. He then bought 106 acres of the Mills farm and as fifty-five acres of 
that farm had been deeded to him as the heir of Amos Mills' widow he now has a tine farm 
of 156 acres. He has erected a handsome frame house and resided on this farm since. On 
December 8, 1870, he was married to Miss Ellen Newlin and to them were born two children: 
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now attending Eailham College. Mrs. Sanders died August 20, 1873, and on August 21 , 
1889, Mr. Sanders was married to Mrs. Louisa Newlin, daughter of Joseph Beuford and 
widow of David Newlin. No children have resulted from this union. Mr. Sanders is a 
member of the Friends Church, and in politics is a Republican, casting his first Presidential 
vote for Abraham Lincoln. His father, Daniel Sanders, was born in Ohio in 1S09, and came 
to Indiana with his parents in early manhood, probably about 1828 or 1829. They located in 
Decatur Township, ]\Iarion County, and there Daniel's father entered laud and gave Daniel 
eighty acres to whicli the latter added before his death until he owned 160 acres. In Deca- 
tur Township Daniel followed farming until his death iu March, 1808. He had married, in 
1833, Miss Rachel Mills, daughter of John Mills, and two children were the fruits of this 
union: Lydi.i, who married A. Barnett., and John, our subject. Mr. Sander's second wife 
was Mary Horton, by whom he had six children, as follows: Rachel (deceased); James 
(deceased); William, Amos, Ann (deceased), and Seth \V. Rachel, the eldest of these chil- 
dren, married George W. Goodwin and became the mother of four living children: Elma, 
James, William and John. James, the second child, married Miss Jennie Roberts and they 
have four living children: Walter, Elizabeth, Mary and Earl. William, the third child, 
married Serilda Tillman, and six children were l)orn to them: Alda, Delia, Alice, Grace, 
Frank and Luther. Amos, the fourth child, married Anna Armstrong, and to them was 
born one child. Harold. Seth W. first married a Miss Tillman but no children were born 
to this union. Later he married Miss Jennie Franceseus and three children were born to 
them, as follows: Gertrude, Hubert and John C. The father of our subject was the third 
time married, that choice being Miss Cynthia Mendenhall, daughter of Aaron Mendeuhall. 
Mr. Sanders, was a Quaker in his religious views. His father, William Sanders, was also a 
Quaker, and was liorn iu Georgia June 1, 1778. He was reared in that State and married 
there. After the birth of two children he moved to Ohio and made his home in Warren 
County until 1832, when he came to Indiana, locating iu Marion County where he died 
December 24, 1841. He married Amy Williams who bore hiiu thirteen children, eleven of 
whom grew to mature years: Sarah. Mary, Charity, Daniel (father of subject), Rebecca, 
Joel, Eli, Sibby, Elibu, Rhoda and William. Eight of these children are deceased. Their 
mother passed away September 15, 1865. Our subject's great-grandfather, Joel Sanders, 
was probably born in North Carolina but moved from there to Ohio where his death occurred 
about 1819." 

JiiHx G. Peniier«.\st was born in Bedford County, Penn., March 19, 1834. He is one 
of a family of nine children whose parents, John and Baibara Pendergast, were both natives 
of Pennsylvania. His parents were married in Bedford County, Penn., and there resided until 
1842, when they came to Marion County, Ind., and settled at Indianapolis. The father was 
an unusually successful farmer and a man of more than ordinary attainments. He took an 
active part in politics, both as a Whig and a Republican, and wielded no small influence, 
being always found in his place at conventions, etc. Both parents were honored members 
of the Baptist Church for many years. John G. Pendergast, the subject of our sketch, 
passed hi.s youthful days in Indianapolis and attended what was known as ''The Little Old 
Brick School House," located near the present site of the Second Presbyterian Church. 
When nineteen years of age he began to serve an apprenticeship of thirty months under Enos 
Pendergast, an older brother, who was an old-time builder in Indianapolis. Soon after 
reaching his majority, he became a member of the I. O. O. F. Later in life he united with 
the Masonic fraternity; he is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, a Knight Templar, and 
has the honor of l)eing a past commander of the Raper Commaudery No. 1, famous in 
Masonic societies for its drill corps. He is also a member of the Methodist Church. In 
1863 he married INIiss Margretta Donnan, a daughter of David Donnan, one of the pioneer 
builders of Indianapolis. As a journeyman he began to work for Byrket & Beam, being 
employed by that firm for six years and holding the position of foreman during the latter 
part of the time that he was with them. He then commenced contracting with George Wells as 
partner, and two years later he was apjiointed to superintend the Viuilding of the noith wing 
of the old insane hospital. This was in 1868, and he was thus engaged for three years. 
Later he built the veneer works for Osgood & Adams. He was then appointed by the 
county commissioners to superintend the building of the Marion County Court-house, seven 





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years being required to complete this building. Mr. Pendergast wa.s made cliief of the 
Indianapolis Fire Department in 1878, and be held that position for three years and seven 
months. He bad been offered the position the year previous, but had declined it. Up to 
the time of his appointment the fire department had been run much in the go-as-you-please 
manner. Mr. Pendergast soon brought the department up to a standard of discipline and 
efficiency equal to that in any of the larger fire departments of the country. He also intro- 
duced a system of book-keeping, records and specifications that are still followed in the 
department. Soon after his retirement from the fire department, he vpas appointed to super- 
intend the building of the State House. After this building was finished, he planned and 
superintended the construction of the large manufacturing plant of Messrs. Tucker & Dor 
sey. He was afterward empU)yed by the Broad Hippie Natural Gas Company as superin- 
tendent; put in all the plant in the city and extended the line up into the gas fields of Ham- 
ilton County; he acted in that capacity until that plant was sold to the Trust Company. In 
conjunction with others he organized tiie IndianapolLs Paving Brick Company, built the fac- 
tories at Brazil, Ind., and managed the work there for three years. Selling his interest in 
this establishment, he took charge of a brick company's interest at Hillsdale, twenty five 
miles from Terre Haute, Ind. , but remained there for only a short time. He returned to 
Indianapolis, and recently has been appointed building inspector of that city. Mr. Pender- 
gast cast his first vote for Fremont and has always been a stanch llepublican. 

John W. Sears. The writer knows of no calling that has Ijeeu dignified and graced 
ill modern poetry more than that which in practical life is generally most prosaic. Long- 
fellow and Schiller especially have thrown a veil of romance and heroism about the towering 
form of the blacksmith, that while it stands out in all its muscular strength, lends an awe- 
inspiring majesty. John W. Sears has been a resident of Brightwood since the close of the 
war, and during that time has followed his trade, blacksmithing and wagon-making, and is 
the typical village blacksmith. He was born in Henry County, Ind., March 2'2, 1S44, and 
is a son of John and Esther (King) Sears, who celebrated their nuptials in Henry CJonnty, 
Ind., in 1830. The father was a native of Canada, and the mother of Kentucky, and lioth 
came to Indiana when children. They were the parents of six children, as follows: David, 
who died in infancy ; William, is now living in Kansas, and is married to Mattie Colwell ; 
Martha, is deceased; John W., subject; George, deceased, and Mariah, now residing in 
Kansas. John W. Sears was reared in the Hoosier State, and at the breaking out of the 
Civil War he was anxious to tight for the old flag. In March, 18()2, when eighteen years 
of age, he enlisted in the Seventeenth Indiana Battery, and served his country faithfully 
until July 5, 1805, when he was mustered out. He was with the Army of the Potomac, and 
was in all the prominent engagements fought by that army. He was in tlie battles of Get- 
tysburg and Antietam, and had the index finger iif his left hand shot off at the second joint 
in one of the many engagements in which he participated. His brother, George, was in the 
One Hundred and Fourteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Sears has been a resident 
of Brightwood since the close of the war, and is held in high esteem by all who know him, 
and the number is by no means small. He has been honored by his townsmen with the office 
of trustee of Brightwood, in which capacity he served two terms of two years each. He is 
an active member of the K. of H., and has been a member of the order seventeen years, 
holding all the offices within the gift of that order during that time. He is also a member 
of the G. A. R. and the I. O. O. F. Mr. Sears was married in Marion County to Miss 
Anna Glissner, by whom he had three children; Walter, born in 1870; Ross, born in 1873, 
and George, born in 1877. All are at home and single. 

William Fetrow. Few families in this Township have a higher standing for char- 
acter, ability and enterprise than the one represented by the name at the head of this sketch, 
and in its various members it is eminently worthy of the respect which is universally con- 
ceded to it. He of whom we write is a native of the "Keystone State," born December 3, 
1848, son of Joseph and Caroline (Fetty) Fetrow, who were married in Pennsylvania about 
1833. To this union were born eleven children — five sous and six daughters — as follows: 
Alexander, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Joseph, Catherine, William, Maggie, Daniel and Mahala. 
One died in infancy. Alexander, the eldest child, is now living in Dalesville, Ind., and is 
married to Nancy Pottinger. They have four children. The second child born to Mr. and 



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Mrs. Fetrow, Elizabeth, married Roljert Corbett and resides ia PenDsvlvania. Mary lives 
in the •• Keystone State"' and is the wife of John Been. John makes his home in Indian- 
apolis. He married Mary Marshall, who is now deceased. Joseph resides in this county 
and is the husband of Caroline Smith. Maggie is the wife of Samuel Smith and resides 
in Virginia. Catherine died unmarried. Daniel, now deceased, married Clara Hio-trins. 
who resides at_ Juliette. Ind. William, the subject of this sketch, remained in his native 
State until 1S55, when he came with his parents to Marion County. Ind. In this county he 
received the principal part of his education and here he grew 'to sturdy manhood on his 
father's farm, where he became thoroughly familiar with all the duties of the same. On 
July 1. 1883. he was married in Marion County. Ind.. to Miss EflBe D. Xewton and this 
union was blessed by the birth of three children: Eaymond, who was Ixtrn July 13. 1SS4: 
Robert, lx.rn December 3. 1S86. and Gnntie. lx)m October 19. 1SS9. All are living and are 
bright and intelligent children. Mrs. Fetrow. the wife of our subject, is the da^hter of 
O. L. Newton and Jeauette i Walker) Xewton. who were married in Coatesville. Ind.. and 
who were the parents of four children: Charles. Henry. Obera and Eflie. Charles is also 
married, but has no children. Mr. Xewton served four "years in the Civil War and was in 
an Indiana regiment. He participated in several of the prominent engagements, but 
escaped without injury. Mr. Fetrow. the subject of this sketch, is one of the prominent 
farmers of his section and delights in his calling. His, as well as his wife's family, were 
among the early settlers of Indiana and contributed their full share toward its improvement 
and development. He is highly respected in the community. 

ArGUSTis E Teitset. This gentleman is justly deserving the recognition of being 
one of the progressive and successful tillers of the' soil of Marion Countv. for in this 
occupation he has attained a degree of success that can only be accounted for in the fact 
that to it he has devoted the greater portion of his life. He was born in Marion County. 
December 25. 1836. and this, no doubt, has had something to do with the great interest he 
has ever taken in the welfare of his section. His parents. Lawrence FrederTck and Caroline 
(BcBsenberg) Triesey. were bom. reared and married in Germany, but soon after became 
residents of the United States, and in 1830 of Marion County. Ind.. at which time the 
father was a young man of twenty nine years. Under the shadow of the "stars and 
stripes" all their children, three sons and four daughters, were born: Magwie. the eldest, 
has been married twice, but is now a widow, residing in Indianapolis: CaTheriue died iii 
1891, unmarried: Andrew Jacob died while serving his country in the Civil War (he was 
married to Elizalieth Junkins. who, with his three .sons and one daughter, survives himi: 
Frederick William died at the age of twenty-one years: Christina married Henry Miller, 
and resided in Kansas until her death, which occurred in 1891. having become the mother 
of eleven children; Caroline, who died in infancy: and Augustus E .'who was next to the 
youngest of the family. The early days of Augustus E. Triesey were spent like the 
majority of farmers" boys, that is. he assisted on the home farm and received such educa- 
tion as the schools of his day afforded. April 1, 1807. he was united in the bonds of 
matrimony with Miss Margaret Bosderfer. a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Bosderfer. 
She was born in the old country, but when a young woman came to this country alone, 
and here met and eventually married Mr. Triesey. the only fruit of which union is a 
daughter. Minnie, who was born September 15. 1876. and who still makes her home with 
her father and mother. Mr. Triesey is one of those grand old soldier citizens who was with 
his country, heart, soul and Iwdy. during the troublons times of the Civil War. On June 
12, 1861. he enlisted in the First United States Cavalry, with which he served until 1865. 
when he was mustered out of the service and returned' to his -ain fireside."" He was in 
forty-two battles, prominent among which were Cold Harbor. Gettysburg. Chaucellorsville. 
Cedar Creek, Winchester and others. While in the service he had two horses killed while 
he was riding them, but himself escaped with a few unimportant scratches, which were not 
severe enough to keep him from active duty. Since his return from the war his attention 
has been given to farming, in which he has been reasonably successful, being now possessed 
of a comfortable competence. He is highly regarded by all who know him. and has numer- 
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William Siegmund. In the rich agricultural region of Marion County, Ind., William 
Siegmund has found an excellent opportunity to display his ability as a tiller of the soil, 
and in this branch of human endeavor he has been prosperous. He owes his nativity to 
Clermont County, Ohio, where he was bom August 17, 1827, but in 1831 was brought by 
his parents, James and Elizabeth (Groves) Siegmund, to Marion County, Ind. , and in this 
section has made his home ever since. James Siegmund lived with his parents in his native 
State of Pennsylvania until be was sixteen years of age, when he went to Ohio, and there 
met and married Miss Groves and in 1831 came with her and his son, William, who was at 
that time four years of age, to Indiana. Their union eventually resulted in the birth of 
live sons and three daughters, four members of which are still living. The names of these 
children are as follows: Jacob, David, John, James, Esther, Susan and Levina, William 
being the eldest of the family, and with Esther, Susan and John, the survivors. They all 
reside in Marion County with the exception of John, who lives in Missouri, and all are 
married. Since 1881 William Siegmund has been a resident of this C(junty and has been 
actively and successfully engaged in farming, an occupation for which he seems to have a 
decided aptitude. He has also manifested great interest in the public affairs of the county 
and has ever had the welfare and progress of his section warmly at heart, and so far as his 
means permitted and his influence extended, be has used them in behalf of his adopted 
county. August 7, 1851, he was married to Miss Jane Herrou, a daughter of John and 
Sarah (Gorbet) Herron, who were married in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1831, Mrs. Siegmund 
being their first-born. John Herrou was a Kentuckian by birth, while his wife was a native 
of New Jersey. They met in Ohio and were there married and at once came to Indiana, 
where their daughter Jane was born. To William and Jane Siegmund six children have 
been given, all of whom are married and settled in life with the exception of the youngest 
child, Ada. The others are: Eliza, Celestine, Albert, Ella, and Lory. Mr. Siegmund is a 
man of tine physiijue, is possessed of great physical endurance, and is one of the most 
industrious, thrifty and enterprising of men, and the wonderful development of the county's 
resources has been in a great measure due to his and like efforts. 

Lew Robinson. There are few men in business circles who show as much fitness for 
their vocation, in that they are wide awake, experienced, reliable and energetic, as Lew 
Robinson, and there are none who have a more thorough knowledge of the business of con- 
tracting and painting than he. He is a product of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he 
tirst saw the light of day February 15, 1851, his father being John Robinson, a native of 
Pennsylvania. The latter was a farmer and stockraiser of considerable note and was an 
extensive dealer in blooded horses, at Cumminsville, Ohio, now in the twenty iifth ward of 
the city of Cincinnati. He was a shrewd and keen business man, was successful in his vent- 
ures, and in 1861, at the age of tifty-two years, his career was closed by death. His widow 
still survives him. Lew Robinson was the eldest of four children and was educated in the 
public schools of Cincinnati and in Farmer's College, at College Hill, Ohio, which is now a 
widely and favorably known military school. He finished his education at the age of eighteen 
years, after which he l)egan learning the trade of a painter in Cincinnati and there remained 
until he attained the age of twenty-one years, when he came to Indianapolis and engaged in 
contracting. His business has rapidly and steadily increased and has become so extensive 
that he is compelled to employ a very large force of workmen, but he uses care in their selec- 
tion and none but those who are first-class painters are employed. He has dlled some very 
extensive contracts and has just completed the Government work, the post-office, and has done 
a great deal of school house painting. He has taken a great deal of interest in the political 
affairs of his day and has always been an active and influential worker for the success of the 
Democratic party, but has himself never aspired to official position. He was married in 
this city in June, 1887, to Miss Minnie Hall. Mr. Robinson is a member of the Ma.ster 
Painters Association. He is also interested in the sand and gravel business and is the owner 
of several very extensive and valuable bars on Fall Creek. This interest is even more exten- 
sive than that of his painting business and he deals extensively with street contractors, who 
use his product for the improvement of the streets. 

Ernest F. Kottlowski. The average citizen, interested as he may be in the progress 
of the city in which his interests lie, pursues the even tenor of his way with little thought of 



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tlie wonderful improvoinents that are going on about liim in tlie methods of constructing the 
many magniticent buildings so necessary to the growtii of a metrojjolis. or to the men in whose 
brain the plans for these immense projects originate. Among the many men who have 
erected tlie thousands of business buildings of Indianapolis may be mentioned Ernest 
F. Kottlowski, who is a notable carpenter and builder, and well known to. contractors 
all over the city. He was born in Germany on April 2(5, liS()8, a son of Ernest Kottlowski, 
also a native of that country, who was a druggist in that department of the German Govern- 
ment prior to his removal to the United States in 1879. Upon his arrival in this country he 
settled in Iiidianajiolis, and here met a sudden death in 1891, at the age of sixty one years, 
by being run over by a Big Four passenger train. In the public schools of his native land 
Ernest F. Kottlowski received his education, after which he served a two and a half j'ears' 
apprenticeship at the cabinet- maker's trade, during which time he acquired an excellent 
knowledge of the same. Upon coming to the United States with his father he turned his 
attention to his trade, first in St. Louis, but afterward pursued this calling in many other 
cities, among which may be mentioned Litchfield, 111.; Louisville, Ky.; Danville, III., and 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1882 he came to Indianapolis, and has devoted the moat of his atten- 
tion to his trade up to the present time, principally as a contractor. He has done some very 
extensive and important work since coming here, among which may be mentioned the resi 
dence of Thomas T. Thompson, John K. Pearson, George \V. Dickson and others. He also 
built the Capital City Cloth Casket Company's building, and numerous others of note. He 
was married to Miss Anna Plath, a native of Germany, and they have long been earnest 
members of the German Lutheran Church, and in this faith are rearing'the four sons that 
have been given them. He and his wife are highly esteemed by all who know them, and have 
made many friends since locating in Indianapolis. He is a member of the Builders and 
Traders Exchange, and the Contractors Association. 

Ira C. Webb. The calling of the contracting painter has become one of great impor- 
tance for no matter how handsome a building may be architecturally, the judicious and 
artistic application of paint will add to its beauty ten-fold, while the improvement it makes 
in an old and dilapidated building can hardly be estimated and cannot be too highly com- 
mended. Nor is this all; its preserving properties are great, and a building, when painted 
in proper manner, will last many years longer than it would do were it unpainted. In Ira 
C. Webb are combined all the qualities which go to make a successful painter and decorator 
for he has a keen eye for the beautiful, artistic and harmonious, does his work thoroughly 
and lives up to the letter of his contract. He is one of the pioneers of his line in the city 
for although he was born in Genesee C!ounty, N. Y., Deceml)er 1, 1832, he has been a resi 
dent of Indianapolis since about the close of the war and has ever since been one of her pub- 
lic-spirited citizens. In his veins How some of the best blood of which this country can 
boast for he comes of a good old New England family, the early members of which were 
soldiers of the Revolution, his paternal grandfather, Charles Webb, having won the title of 
colonel in that war. His father, Ira C. Webb, was born in West Brownfield, N. Y., and 
throughout his long life of seventy-two years, he was a practicing physician and a successful 
one. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and died in 18(52, in the city of Buffalo, N. Y., 
which at the time of his location was iidiabited principally by the British and Indians. He 
was a Democrat throughout life. He was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Laura 
Hurd, a native of New York State, who on January .S, 1889, quietly breathed her last at the 
ripe old age of eighty-two years. Of seven children born to this worthy couple lour are liv 
ing at the present time, of whom Ira C. is one. His early education was obtained in the 
country schools of his native State and although limited to the ordinary l)rauches of learning 
was of a practical and useful kind. He remained in the State of his birth until he attained 
his twenty-seventh year, having served an apprenticeship at the painter's trade in LeKoy, 
N. Y., and later worked at it in Rochester, Buffalo and many other cities, and in 1859 came 
west, in anticipation of the advice of Horace Greeley, and for some time was a resident of 
Hendricks County, Ind. In the month of August, 1861, he erdisted in the Eleventh Indiana 
Infantry, but was in the service oidj^ a short time. Since that time his attention has been 
given to contracting, being four years associated with Charles Pierce, who is one of the most 
extensive builders of court houses and public buildings in the United States, acting for him 



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in the capacity of superintendent and paymaster during this time in numerous populous 
cities. Since he has been engaged in contraciing for himself he has been palled to various 
cities throughout the country among which may be mentioned Frankfort, Louisville, Ky., 
and Vinceunes, Ind., and numerous others. He has filled many heavy contracts in Intli- 
anapolis and has always conducted his operations to a successful and satisfactory termina- 
tion. Starting in life for himself his capital was his energy and determination, and by a 
proper use of this capital he has prospered financially and his reputation in his line is of the 
very highest. Official positions iiave never had any attractions for him for his business has 
occupied all his attention, but he is none the less a stanch Democrat. He was married in 
July, 1862, to Miss Lorinda Shirley, of Hendricks County, Ind., by whom he has one son, 
Albert, who is a painter of Brownsburg, this State. In July, 1869, he married Miss Ella 
Shinners of this city, by whom he became the father of eight children, one of whom is 
deceased. Mr. Webb is a member of Raper Commandery, Knight Templar Mason, the 
I. O. R. M., K. of P., and the Uniformed Rank of Druids. 

William R. Tall. One of the most important branches of house building is the 
plastering, and it requires both skill and experience to become proficient in this art. He 
was born in Dorchester County, Md. , March 14, 1836, the fifth son of William R. and 
Margaret (Phillips) Tall, also natives of that State. The Tall family first became known 
in this country in 1620, and the land on which the founder settled, in Maryland, remained 
in possession of the Tall family until the death of William R. Tall, the father of the subject 
of this sketch. Several members of the family participated in the early wars in which 
this country was involved at different times. They were also prominent in the political 
affairs of their day, especially the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Young Littleton 
Tall, who was also very extensively engaged in merchandising, and was quite an extensive 
builder of ocean vessels for the carriage of grain. He died at the age of twenty -six years, 
leaving two children, the father of the subject of this sketch being one and his sister the 
other. The father died in October, 1870, at the age of sixty-four years, having been a 
farmer throughout life. Politically he was a Whig, and for a period of thirty-five years 
held some office or other. The mother died when the subject of this sketcli was a small 
child, from exposure caused by rescuing him from a well into which he had fallen. He was 
the youngest of nine children, and received his education in the schools in the neighbor- 
hood of his home. At the age of seventeen years he commenced to learn the trade of a 
plasterer in the city of Baltimore, Md., and served an apprenticeship of four years, working 
the entire time for $3 per week and boarding himself. At the age of twenty-one years he 
went to Dorchester County, where he remained one year, then went to Doniphan, eastern 
Kansas, and very shortly afterward to St. Joseph, Mo., where he worked as a contractor 
for three years. In 1859 he left that city and went to New Orleans, where he remained 
during the winter of 1859-60, then returned to his native county in Maryland, and was there 
at the opening of the Civil War. In the month of July, 1861, he assisted in raising Company 
C, of the First Regiment of Maryland Volunteers, and was in the service three years with the 
rank of first lieutenant. The company was made up in one neighborhood and all its mem- 
bers were acquaintances. It was in the battle of Gettysburg during the third day's fight, 
and guarded the river on the peninsula in lower Maryland. Mr. Tall was neither wounded 
nor taken prisoner during the war, and after the termination of hostilities he went to Rich- 
mond, Va. , where he conducted a mercantile establishment. At the end of five years he 
moved back to Baltimore, Md. , where he remained one winter, engaged in mercantile 
operations. He then turned his face westward, and although he had no particular objective 
point, he liked the api)earance of Indianapolis and accordingly located here, and followed 
his trade as a contractor of plastering. In 1876 Mr. Tall cast his vote for Samuel J. Tilden, 
for the Presidency, and has ever suice been a meml)er of the Democrat party. November 
13, 1862, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma Vaughn Smith, of Maryland, by 
whom he became the father of nine children, four of whom, three sons and one daughter, 
are living. 

Stephen A. Shilling. This well-known plastering contractor was born in Ashford, 
England, forty-eight years ago, his father being Abraham Shilling, who was also a native of 
Ashford, and who was a highly educated Episcopalian minister. Soon after his arrival in the 

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United States be died at Pofctsville, Pei:n. , baviug followed the calling of a minister all 
his life. His wife came to this country with him and survived him until 1891, at which 
time she was called from life in Kansas at the age of eighty-four years. After the death 
of her husband she removed with her family to Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, and there the 
the subject of this sketch received bis education. On April 17, ISO], be left home and en- 
listed in the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry in the three months' service at President LiDcolii'sfirst 
call for troops, and after his term of enlistment bad expired he joined the Second West Vir- 
ginia Cavalry for three years, under Gen. G. A. Custer. He was in the engagements in the 
valley of the Shenandoah, was at Bull Run, Gettysburg, Lynchburg, Five Forks, Peters- 
burg, and was on the charge when Gen. Lee surrendered. He was never wounded but 
slightly, and the two times that be was captured be both tinjes mauaged'to make bis escape, 
and finally received his discharge at Wheeling. West Va., July 4, 1865. He then became 
steward on boats plying between Pittsburg and New Orleans, having been on the river from 
the time be was eleven years of age,' as cook. He later became a plasterer of Pomeroy, 
where he remained until 1S71, at which time he went to Ellsworth, Kan., and located on a 
soldier's claim near Elleuw(jod. Three years later he removed to Great Bend, Kan., but 
after the loss of bis wife by death he returned to his old home in the East. At the end of 
one year he returned to Kansas and upon marrying a second time in Indianapolis decided 
to locate in this city and was engaged in the grocery business for one year. He once more 
went back to the Sunflower State at the end of that time, and during the one year that be 
was in that State was engaged in farming and plastering, and followed this occupation for 
twelve years thereafter in Sidney, Shelby, County, Ohio, whither he had moved. Since 
tliat time he has resided in Indianapolis where he has built up an e.\tensiveand highly satis- 
factory busiue.ss financially. He is painstaking, industrious and strictly honorable, and as a 
natural consequence bis services are in demand. His first wife was Miss Prusia Smith, who 
left him with a son and daughter, and his present wife was Elizabeth Leonard, by whom he 
has two sons and two daughters. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the G. A. R., 
Neill Post, at Sidney, Ohio, and the Builders and Traders Exchange. Politically be is a 
Republican. 

Joseph A. Dcnlap. This gentleman is a contractor of twenty-live years' experience in 
Indianapolis, and as a plasterer has not bis superior in the city. He was born in Johnson 
County. Ind., September 3, 1847, a son of Joseph A. Dunlap, who was a native of Kuox- 
ville, Tenu., where be made his home until 1831, at which time be came to Indiana and 
located in Johnson County, where he made his home up to the day of his death, which 
occurred in 1890 at about the age of eighty-one years. He was successfully engaged in till- 
ing the soil throughout life and found an able helpmate in bis wife, whose maiden name was 
Mary Jones, and who was born in the State of Virginia. When a child she was brought by 
her parents to Indiana and was a resident of Johnson County until her demise, which 
occurred in 1880. They were earnest and faithful members of the Baptist Church, in which 
the father was for many years a deacon. In the Dnnlaps flow Scotch and Irish blood and 
in all the members of the family the best traits of these people are to be found. Joseph A. 
Dunlap was one of twelve children born to the marriage of bis parents, being the seventh in 
order of birth, the family consisting of seven daughters and five sons. At the age of sixteen, 
being ambitious and adventurous, be left home and friends to join the One Hundred and 
Thirty second Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Company A, and was in the service until Sep- 
tember, 1864, at which time he returned to Franklin. Ind., and l)egan learning the plasterer's 
trade. After becoming thoroughly familiar with every detail of this line of work he com- 
menced contracting and soon after came to Indianapolis, but upon bis arrival here turned 
his attention to the poultry business, an occupation which completely occupied bis time and 
attention for several years. He then once more became a contractor and has followed this 
occupation with marked success up to the present time. He has all the work that he can 
properly look after and has filled some very important and extensive contracts in a manner 
that has won him the universal approval of contractors and builders, and from those who have 
any knowledge of his business. He is vice-i)resident of the Builders Exchange and has been a 
directorofthatinstitutioneversince its organization. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
the K. of H. , and in the last mentioned order he is past dictator of Victoria Lodge, No. 22. 




JOHN M. BUTLER. 



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He also liplongs to the G. A. R. In the year 1S7'2 be was united in luairinge witb Miss Ella 
Sloan, of Johnson County, Intl., and to their happy niiion one son has been given, Chjirlts 
H., who is a credit to his parents and gives every promise of becoming a useful and intelli- 
gent citizen. 

Lonis E. HoERGER. It is an indisputable fact that the United States stands aloue in 
the pre eminence of having a,n array of citizens, who, without adventitious aid or accident of 
birth, have attained to wealth and distinction in public affairs. This is the glory of the 
country, and every man who has it in him can prove himself a man. This suggestion natu- 
rally suggests itself in looking over the career of Louis E. Hoerger, for onlj' a few years 
ago he was an employe of others, but is now established in business for himself with every 
prospect of iicquiring a goodly amount of property. He was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1S67, 
a sou of Christopher Hoerger, who was born in Germany about si.xty-one years ago, and 
came to the United States when a young man some forty tliree or four years ago, and settled 
in Louisville, Ky. After locating in that city Christopher Hoerger turned his attention to 
gardening, and followed that calling successfully until coming to Indianapolis in 1875. He 
located in the north part of the city for a number of years, but in the meantime had pur- 
chased land at Brightwood, although he never lived on it. At u later period he purchased 
five acres of land in Haughville, and is now giving his time and attention to gardening, in which 
calling he may with truth said to be an expert. The most of the property of which he is now 
the possessor has been acquired by his own hard work and by the shrewd management of 
his ailairs. He was married to Miss C. Eckart, who was born in the old country, and 
is still living in the enjoyment of good health, having boine her husband si.x children, of 
whom the immediate subject of this sketch is the fifth. His education was obtained in the 
public schools of Indianapolis, and when not pursuing the paths of learning he was assisting 
his father to cultivate his garden. He always had a natural liking for this business, and in 
time knew all that his father could teach him about the cultivation of vegetables, but he was 
also very fond of flowers and plants, and after quitting his father's services he entered the 
employ of the Ewart Manufacturing Company, with which he remained three years. At the 
end of that time he had saved sufficient means to enable him to purchase the land on which 
he is now living, and he immediately thereafter built his green -house and commenced to raise 
all kinds of flowers, the majority of which he disposes of at the market-house. He is doing 
well, with every promise of a rapid increase in patronage, and his future prospects are bright. 
Mr. Hoerger was married in 1890, to Miss Mary Grande, a daughter of August Grande, who 
is a prominent gardener near Haughville, and their union has resulted in the birth of one 
son. Mr. Hoerger and his wife, asarealso his parents, are members of the Catholic Church, 
and are law-abiding and public-spirited citizens. The senior Hoerger is secretary of the 
Gardeners" Association of Indianapolis, and also of the Benevolent Association. 

Joseph H. Alexanher. A biographical compendium of Marion County. Ind., would be 
incomplete were not mention made of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, for 
he is a man of much public spirit; is interested in worthy public measures and in every 
enterprise for the common good. He is endowed by nature with such gifts as charac- 
terize true manhood, in all that the word implies, and seems admirably fitted for the calling in 
which he is now engaged — that of drugs — for he is methodical, careful and very painstakino-. 
He was born in Greensburg, Ind., August 25, 186H, a son of Dr. John H. Alexander who 
has for over thirty years been a leading and remarkably successful practitioner of the '"heal- 
ing art" at Greensburg. His knowledge of medical lore was obtained by much private read- 
ing and in the Ohio Medical College, from which admirably conducted institution he was 
graduated. During the early portion of the great Civil War, he offered his professional serv- 
ices to his country and became surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, and while 
in the discharge of his duties was on many a hard fought and bloody battle-field. He is now 
a member of the pension board, to which position he was appointed by President Cleveland 
during his first administration. He still makes his home at Greensburg where he is hitrhlv 
honored by his extended circle of acquaintances. Joseph H. Alexander, his son, received 
his first instruction in the paths of learning in the public schools of Greensburg, but 
afterward finished his education in college, which he attended until 1885. He then entered 
the employ of Daniel Stewart, the wholesale druggist of Haughville, as city salesman and 



420 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

lemKiiieil with tlifi house five years, during which tiinu he luade a name ami ie])ntation 
for himself of whicli he lias every reason to be proud. His services were considered invalu 
able by hi.s employer and his honesty and fidelity to his interests were recognized and thor- 
oughly appreciated. Upon leaving the service of this house he established himself in his 
present business in Haughville where he has a neat and attractive store, fitted u|) with an 
excellent and complete line of first class goods, including all kinds of drugs, patent medi- 
cines, and various articles for the toilet. He is always to be found at his place of business, 
and his patrons have the full assurance that their interests as well as his own will be looked 
after. His trade is among the elite of the city, but he attends to the wants of the poor as 
courteously as though they were possessed of unlimited wealth. He is a model business 
man and citizen and is popular and well liked in social circles. He is a member uf the 
I. O. O. F. and the K. of P., and in his political views is a Republican. 

CosRAD C. WuLFF. The practical value of shrewdness and discrimination, combined 
with strict probity is ex>tuplitied in the pro3pt«rous condition of those who transact business 
on these principles, and am mg this class of business men may be mentioned Conrad C. 
W ulff, who has a reputation for honorable deiling, built up out of the ])ractice of these in- 
valuable business qualities. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1841, and came to the 
Unite^l States in May, 1870, but prior to that time had obtained a good education intheschoola 
of his native city, from which he graduated in 185*). At the end of that time he turned his 
attention to the wine business in a wholesale house in Hamburg and continued to follow this 
oc2upation with success until about 1870, when he determined to seek his fortune in the 
United States, and upon reaching this country he at once went to St. Lo.uis, Mo., then to 
Cincinnati, Ohio, but in the latter part of the same year took up his residence in Indian- 
apolis. In 1874 he came to West Indianapolis and for some time acted in the capacity of a 
salesman where the old stock yards used to stand, but in 1877 engaged in business foi- him- 
self at the corner of Missouri and Kentucky Avenues, where he successfully conducted a pros- 
perous business for about one year. Hethenojjened another establishment at East Washington 
Street, but at the end of two y.-ars decided that a mora desirable location could be had on 
West Washington Street and remained there about two years. At the end of that time he 
loc.ited on Ha Hey Avenue and Morris Street where he has since been located. Having an 
astute vision, a clear head and good health he began his business life with energetic appli- 
cation and determined purpose. Ho has given close attention to details, has neglected noth- 
ing, in wliicii he h;is shown good judgment and proved himself a capable manager. In 1887 
he erected his present magniticAut business block, anil is doing a business with which he has 
every reason to be satistied, for it is extensive and paying. Mr. WulfT is well and favorably 
known to the public and since locating in Indianapolis has identified himself with her inter- 
ests and growth. H^ is a liw abiding, public-spirited citizen, and the property of which he 
is now the owner has been acquired since his arrival in this country. Mr. Wulff was mar- 
ried in 1879 to Miss Louisa Sohleger, daughter of Christian Schleger, her natal State being 
Ohio, and in due course of time a family of five chddren gathered about their hearthstone. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wulff are members of the Lutheran Church and socially he belongs to the 
I. O. O. F., the I. O. K. M. and thi K. of P.. in which latter org.mization he has attained 
to the position of treasurer of his lodge. No. 244. 

John H. Herig. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch has been connected 
with the Standard Oil Company for the past twenty five years, and for the past four- 
tean years has been earnestly looking after their interests in West Indianapolis. He owes 
his nativity to that beautiful city, Detroit, Mich., where he first saw the light of day in 1852, 
his father being John L. Herig, who was born in Baden, Germiiuy. He was a child of three 
years when brought to this country, and, as he has lived here up to the pre.sent time, he is 
in every essential a loyal American citizen, true to her interests. Until he was a young man 
he was a resident of Zanesville, Ohio, but he then went to Cleveland and became a sign 
painter, in which he attained to considerable perfection. From Cleveland he went to Detroit, 
Mich., and there he met and won for his wife Miss Caroline Eisnach, a German lady by 
descent, who is now deceased. Mr. Herig still follows his trade, at which he has been 
reasonably prosperous. The subject of this sketch was the eldest of eleven children — seven 
sons and four daughters — and his education was acquired in the public schools of Detroit, 



AND MARION COUNTY, INDIANA. 421 

which lie attended uatil he was fourteeu years of age, at the end of which time he began 
learning tiusmithing. After completing his knowledge of this trade he entered the employ 
of the Standard Oil Company as a laborer in the tin department, but taking a great dislike 
to that branch of the business he left it to enter the cooperage department, with which he 
has been connected up to the present time, now occupying the responsible position of fore- 
man. He went to Cleveland for this firm as assistant foreman, but since coming to Indian- 
apolis he has held his present position. He is one of the company's most thoroughly 
trusted employes, can be relied upon at all times, and is energetic and industrious. He has 
always been deeply interested in the political affairs of the day and in the success of the 
Republican part}', of which he is a member and a stanch supporter. From 1885 to 1887 he 
was a councilman from the twenty-fifth ward, and is the only Eepul)lican representing the 
same. He was a member of the board on the improvement of streets and alleys and public 
imjirovemeut, was on the committee on contracts and on the fire department committee. In 
1892 he was elected a trustee of the first district of West Indianapolis, and in various other 
capacities has manifested his interest in public affairs. He is a nian of strict probity of 
character, and is honored alike by the citizens of Indianapolis and by the members of the 
firm with which he has so long been prominently connected. He has always shown consider- 
able interest in the workings of secret societies, and is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the 
I. O. O. F., the K. of P., the R. M., and the P. S., D. of R., and is captain of Pettibone 
Division No. 72 in the Uniformed Rank. In 1873 he was united in marriage to Miss Dora 
Winters, of Cleveland, Ohio, and to their union three sons have been given: Albert Louis, 
John Henrj' and Edward George. John Henry died when quite young, and the other sons 
are still at home with their parents. 

Lawrence Swartting. Nothing is more true than that good management, fair dealing 
and application to business will result in profit to the parties at interest. Failure rarely 
if ever comes to him who devotes himself conscientiously to his work, and to him who would 
succeed energy and perseverance are leading essentials. Lawrence Swartting has these 
attributes in good measure and as a florist is meeting with justly merited success. He 
owes his nativity to Austria, where he first saw the light in 1852. The land that gave 
him birth also afforded him his education, and although it was not of the higher class it 
was thoroughly practical and has proven amply sutficieut to meet all the requirements of 
his business. At an early age he began working for a florist, but in him the spirit of enter- 
prise was strong and when only fourteen years of age, or in 18(36, he came by himself to 
the United States to seek his fortune. He first made his way to Terre Haute and until 
1871 was in the employ of a florist at that place, who was a relative. From that time 
until 1874 he was at Jacksonville, III, then went to the city of New York, where he 
remained two years. We next find him in the city of St. Louis, but the same year he 
went to Terre Haute and in 1881 came to Indianapolis, having up to that time been con- 
nected with some of the largest floral establishments of the United States. He labored 
in every capacity and in this manner succeeded in obtaining a thorough and practical 
knowledge of the business in all its details. After his arrival in Indianaviolis he was in the 
employ of A. Wiegand for about fifteen months, at the end of which time he was placed 
in charge of the green-houses and groimds of the insane hospital, in which capacity he 
served for eleven years. The grounds of that establishment were beautifully kept under 
his management, were tastefully laid out and Mr. Swartting showed himself to be a skillful 
and remarkably tasteful landscape gardener and the lawn surrounding the asylum was said 
to be the handsomest in the State. Upon giving up this position he purchased his pres- 
ent property at 120 Lexington Avenue, where he has five commodious green-houses. He is 
an artistic decorator, in which capacity his services are almost constantly in demand and he 
makes a specialty of cut flowers, constantly keeping a large supply on hand. Since com- 
mencing in business for himself he has built up an extensive and most profita1)le practice, 
the result of intelligent grasj) of the enterprise and of faithful, honest, [lersistent work. 
In 1887 be wedded Miss Sadie Herron, at that time a resident of Indianapolis but a native 
of Ohio, and to them one son has been given, Kearney. Mr. and Mrs. Swartting are mem- 
bers of the Christian Church and socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. 



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O. R. Weaver. The right liand of the loyal American will forget its o.ming and his 
tongue cleave to the roof o his mouth ere he forget the services of those heroic men, who 
in response to the call of the great Lincoln, left their homes and those thev loved, bkriue 
as offerings upon the altar of liberty sacrifice greater than ever smoked upon the stone of 
offermg in Hebrew temple, even their own lives. Son.e were accepted an.l thev went down 
in carnage or expired in disease-laden hospitals: others in part, andtiiey came home maimed 
or halt, or blind; and still others escaped altogether. But the offering was the same in 
every event, and the living and the dead are equally the objects of the gratitude and the 
ove o those who love freedom and their country. In the number of the heroic band was 
the subject of t^.s sketch, now the assistant quartermaster general of the Department of 
Indiana (t. A. R., who was but a lad when he heard the call and heeded it with all the 
zeal and patriotic tire that warmed the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill O R Weaver 
was born in Kn.ghtstown, Henry County, Ind., April 22, 1845, being the .son of John 
Weaver, the oldest di-uggist of this State, now of Knightstown. This worthy man gradu- 
ated in medicine in Ohio and practiced for a number of years, and is vet in the active busi 
ness of a druggist. He married a Miss Elizabeth Huttle. of Bathm.^-, Ohio. The grand 
parents of our subject on both sides were pioneers of Indiana, the Weavers being descended 
from old Col. Jacob Cxuucle, of war fame, and are of a most patriotic line, members of the 
family participating in every war from that of the Revolution down to and including the 
last war, and taking in all the Indian wars. The paternal grandfather, Peter Weaver came 
from Pennsylvania and settled in Ohio. The subject of this sketch was reared in Knights- 
town and was educated in the public schools. He was attending one of these and at the 
same time stiulying medicine when the war broke out. and at the age of sixteen he enli.sted in 
Company A Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but was rejected on account of his 

f^H W !, wi^Ti °^ l^iV^"""™*' ^° '"' '^"'^^ «"^1 l-oignant disappointment. He 
tretted to think that his comrades and friends were lighting for the liberties of the country 
and he in peace at home. And thus it was all through the winter, but in the spring of 1862 
he made another attempt, enlisting this time in Capt. M. D. Leeson's companV. of the 
I< ifth Indiana Cavalry, but was again rejected for the same reason as before. He would not 
he daunted, however and was resolved to try and try again until he was successful For 
the third time, in the summer of 1862 he offered himself, in Company I. Third Indiana 
Cava ly, as a recruit, and this time, to his inliuite joy, he was accepted". At this trial he 
adopted an expedient that was afterward quite common, of placing the tigmes "IS" in 
b.s shoe, and declaring that he "was over eighteen.'" He was in all of the engagements of 
his regiment up o and including the battle of Stone River, from the date of enHstment, and 
here he was disabled in the summer of 186:^ and discharged, he weighing but eighty pounds 
at li>s t.me^ After partially regaining his health he reenlisted, in 1864! as a hospi'tal .stew- 
ard o the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry and .served 
until the term of the regiment expired, and then in the spring of 1865 he started for Indian- 
apolis with the object of again enlisting, but was taken sick and was unable to j.^n the regi- 
ment before Its departure from the city. I„ the fall of 1860 he was connected with a whole- 
sale drug house in Cincinnati, and went to the Northwest, where he spent the fall and win- 
ter, returning to Indianapolis in the spring of 1867 with the object of joining Gen Sol 
Meredith s surveying corps, the objective ,,oint being the then Territory of Montana, but a 
railroad accident delayed him. and he reached here too late. From thi^ cause grew the fact 
ot Col. Weaver being a continuous resident of Indianapolis since that time. In 1868 he was 
in the employ of the patentee of a drive well, Col. N. W. Greene, and was connected with the 
company in this city for .several years. ' Then for a year he was with Nordyke & Marmon 
Machine Company, after which he was with the Eagle Machine Companv for'two years At 
iqqpI'^'^cqV^''^)''^*'" ^^'•'""^'3' ill and was confined to his house for an entire y"ear-from 
Ifibh to 1887. Recoveruig then, he went into the office of Col. Walker, assistant adjutant 
general of the G. A. R.. and served until February. 18U1, when he was appointe.l assistant 
quartermaster general G. A. R. Dej-artment of Indiana, and has served under this adminis- 
tration ever since. Col. Weaver is a member of the K. of P. and is past chancellor of that 
order, and also past grand master of the A. O. U. W. and serving a second term as supreme 
representative of the latter order: He has served as recorder of the subordinate lodge A 



AND MARION COUNTY, INDIANA. 423 

O. U. W. continuously since 1874. In politics be is a Republican, and the only member of 
his family who votes that way, but he is none the less strong in his political views for that 
reason. He was married in 1870 to Miss Nannie Ogle, of Tipton, Ind. , and one child, John 
R., has blessed this happy union. 

R. M. Smock. Among the reputable men of Indianapolis, who in their conduct of 
business matters and the duties belonging to the various relations of life have accjuired a 
worthy name, we may well mention R. M. Smock, who in every walk in life has 
carried with him the esteem of all. This gentleman was born in Marion County, Perry 
Township, Ind., April 2, 1841, and his parents, Isaac and Ann T. (Smock) Smock, were 
natives of Kentucky. Isaac Smock left his native State with his mother in 1827, and in 
a wagon made the trip to Marion County, Ind., where he located on a farm. He was mar- 
ried in this county in 1839. and he and wife started out to tight life's battles for themselves 
as pioneers, for the country was very thinly settled at that tiate. Mr. Smock was engaged 
as an agriculturist, and this has continued to be his occupation up to the present time. 
Assisted by his most worthy wife he has amassed a comfortable competency, and the con- 
veniences aud comforts of life are now to be found in the pleasant home of this most esti- 
mable couple. Mr. Smock is now in his seventy-sixth year, but the frosts of time have 
touched him lightly. Of the eleven children born to this union, seven are now living, and 
our subject is second in order of birth. The latter became familiar with the duties of farm 
life at an early age, aud received his education in the common' country school. In the year 
1862, in the month of July, he enlisted in Company G, Seventieth Indiana Infantry, and 
served as a private soldier for three years. He was wounded in front of Lost Mountain 
January 16, 1864, by a gunshot in the left chest, and was sent to the Nashville hospital, 
where he remained two weeks. He was then furloughed home, but after arriving under the 
parental roof he was taken with typhoid fever, and it is only a wonder that he is alive to 
tell of it. It was a long time before he recovered. He participated in a number of battles, 
prominent among them are the following: Russellville, Ky. ; Resaca, Cassville, Burnf 
Hickory, New Hope Church and Golgotha Church. After recovering from his illness he 
was transferred to post duty under Col. A. O. ^Yarner, and was stationed in Indianapolis. 
The Seventieth Regiment was commanded by Gen. Benjamin Harrison. In Noveraljer, 1865, 
Mr. Smock entered the county clerk's otfice as deputy, and served in that capacity continu- 
ously until July, 1884. This record is ahead of any other citizen's in Indianapolis, and 
abundantly testifies as to his ability in that position. In 1884 he was elected justice of the 
peace, held that position until 18it2, and since that time has been engaged in settling up old 
accounts that accrued in his office. On April 13, ISUS, he was appointed assistant adjutant- 
general. Department of Indiana, G. A. R. He is a member of George H. Thomas Post, G. 
A. R. , was adjutant one year; also commander one year. For two years he served as deputy 
of the board of visitors of the G. A. R. to the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home 
at Knightstown, and is secretary of the same. Mr. Smock has shown his appreciation of 
secret organizations by becoming a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and the U. V. L. In 
the year 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Jane E. Johnson, their nuptials being cele- 
bratetl at Battle Ground. Tippecanoe County, Ind., aud two sons are the fruits of this union: 
F. C. & H. E. The eldest son is married, and has one child, Arthur A. Mr. Smock's sec- 
ond marriage occurred in 1874 to Mrs. F. E. Fisher, who bore him one child, Helen. Our 
subject's maternal grandfather, John Smock, came to Marion County, Ind., in 1821, and 
entered 1()0 acres of land just south of the city. He aud his eldest son came to make the 
purchase, and brought the money in their saddle bags. Isaac Smock was the youngest of 
his father's family, and the only one now living. Mr. Smock aud family are members of the 
Second Presbyterian Church, aud he has served as deacon in the same for ten years. 

Prof. Alexander Erne-stinoff. Tiie man who wrote that "Music hath charms to soothe 
the savage breast'' had indeed a true conception of the human organism. There are few peo- 
ple in the world who are not susceptible to music, and it certainly plays an important part in 
almost every walk of life. Wherever it is necessary or expedient to incite a concourse of 
people in a certain direction or to arouse a degree of enthusiasm, music will always prove a 
powerful agent. Soldiers at the sound of stirring melody will rush into the heat of battle 
utterly oblivious of danger. In the softer and more gentle paths of life, music also plays an 



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importaut part but uowbere, perhaps, lias its influence been more marked than as an adjunct 
toward christenizing people. Alexander ErnestinotT, professor of music and a vocal special- 
ist with otiice at r)30 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, has played an important part in 
molding the puldic taste toward high grade music, and the large number of pupils which 
he at all times has is a sufficient guaranty of his success and popularity. He was Ijorn in St. 
Petersburg, Russia, January 14, 1853, his parents being Alexander and Clementina (Janonsh- 
kooska) Ernestinoff, natives of Kussia, in which country they are still residing. Professor 
Alexander ErnestinofT was the only son of their three children and in the city of St. Peters- 
burg he was reared and educated, graduating from the Imperial Gymnasium'aDd later from 
the Conservatoire. Immediately thereafter he went to Berlin, Germany, in which city he 
spent some time and while there made a contract with some New Yoi k" parties to come to 
New York and take charge of the German Opera, and for this purpose, in 1872, he crossed the 
Atlantic and for three years thereafter traveled throughout the United States with this com- 
pany, making his home in New York City. He located in St. Louis in 1876 and took charge 
of the St. Louis Orchestra and was the leader of two musical societies, the Germania and the 
Arion. He remained in St. Louis until 1881 when he was engaged by the Indianapolis 
Mnennerchortocome to this city, and for two years thereafter was connected with this society. 
He then took charge of the Lyra Society, but later the Meridian Street Church Quartette was 
placed under his management, and he conducted it successfully for three years. At the end 
of this time he gave up all positions and has since devoted the "most of his" attention to teach- 
ing, and has one of the finest orchestras in the city. His quartette is also w.ell known for the 
fine music which it renders, and the entertainments which it has given frequently intheopera 
houses of the city are always largely attended by lovers of good music. Professor Ernestinoff 
is exceptionally gifted with musical talent, and has a tine voice, which has reached much per- 
fection by careful and intelligent training. His renown in his line of work is wide-spread 
and he is therefore prosperous financially. He was married in 1876 to Miss Amalia Kiuklin, 
a native of New York, by whom he has two children, Antoinette and Helen. 

William A. Readino. One of the lawyers of Indianapolis of whom one frequently 
hears or reads in connection with some legal matter of moment, frecjuentlv in connection 
with some important transaction in real estate, is William A. Reading. Indianapolis has 
always been the fortunate possessor of lawyers of ability and success, and" some of its most 
l)rilliant legal practitioners have been natives of the city. Mr. Reading is one of this 
class. Indianapolis was his birthplace and he was born August 9, 1855, a sou of Alexander 
D. and Sarah E. J. (Brown) Reading, His father was born in Kentucky and came to Indian- 
apolis about 1838, and here married, in time. Miss Sarah E. J. Brown^ whose father located 
in this county in 1824 or 1825, and was one of the pioneers of this city. Samuel P. Reading, 
his grandfather, was a soldier and an officer not alone in the Revolutionary M'ar but in the 
War of 1812-14, risking his life in a second war to perpetuate the national liberty he had 
risked his life to gain. Alexander D. Reading is a resident of Irvington, Ind. William A. 
Reading received his primary education in the public schools of Indianajiolis and was later 
graduated from the Greenfield Academy and from Butler University. He then took up the 
study of law under the direction of Judge Ralph Hill, and in 1881 'was graduated from the 
Law School of Indianapolis and was admitted to the bar of Marion County. He kept 
his office with Judge Hill and for twelve years has continued it there, in fact, as student and 
lawyer, he lias never occupied another, though his practice is entirely independent of that of 
every other lawyer. He is regarded as shrewd and far-seeing, careful in preparing his cases, 
skillful in presenting them and ingenious and logical in arguing them. He has been success- 
ful in a purely legitimate way, seeking not political preferment nor aid of the influential, 
depending upon his knowledge of his profession and his merit as a man. In business and 
social circles he is no Jess popular than with his brother members of the bar. He is a Knight of 
Pythias, and has from time to time been identified with other important organizations of iTiffer- 
ent kinds. He is a Democrat of the stanchest kind, but while wielding a palpable jiolitical 
influence, is not really active as a politician, for he has no political ambition to gratify and 
IS too intensely devoted to his profession to take up the battle for others. At the same time 
he IS a close and most observant student of public affairs and holds the great interests of 
our country to be above all mere partisanship. 




Hon. BYRON K. ELLIOTt. 



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Lewis George. The progressive farmer whose name heads this sketch was horn in 
Highland Count}', Ohio, ou the farm belonging to his maternal grandfather, Richard Bar- 
rett, December lU, 1820, and there he was brought up and received his education in thesub- 
scription schools of the period, one of his instructors being John W. Block, a noted teacher 
of that time, who taught the young idea in Union Seminary, an institution composed of three 
(iistricts, which he attended Yrom ten to fourteen years of age. When nineteen he left 
school and began working out as a farm hand at $8 a month and board for John W. Block, 
with whom he remained two summers, but in the winter of 1842 came to Marion County, 
Ind. , and in January of the following year bought 120 acres of land, for a portion of which 
he went in debt. The ty]iical log cabin served as his residence for some time, and altera 
short visit to his old home in Ohio, he returned to this section and began working for his 
cousin, I. George, with whom he made his home until January 9, 1844, when he married 
Harriet, daughter of Moses Alderson, a native of Kentucky, who was a soldier in the War 
of 1812. Soon after his marriage Mr. George moved on to the land he iiad purchased where 
he lived until 1S55 when he bought 100 acres of Robert Milhous, onto which he moved and 
lived until 188.") when, some of his sons having gone to Oregon, he went there also. He pur- 
chased 16(1 acres of land in Washington County, but at the end of two years returned to this 
county, his wife having suffered a stroke of paralysis from the effects of which she died Aug- 
ust 3, 1892, after having been a cripple for nearly forty years. To them eight children were 
born, two of whom died young: Alberry who was called from life at the age of seventeen 
years and Cornelius who died at the age of three months. Those living are: Ellen, widow 
of Hope De Bolt, has six children, Dalmon, Hattie, Minta, Alma, Nellie and Leslie (the 
last two being twins); Elias, who married and is now a resident of Salt Lake City ; Curran, 
who is married and resides in Oregon, has two children; Willis is also married and resides 
in Portland, Oregon; Alarion married Margaret Hadley and has four children, Alberry, Hat- 
tie, Leonard and Dony; Vernon married Alice Chitwood and is a resident of Ashland, Ore. 
Lewis George was formerly a Whig and Aliolitionist, but is now a Republican. He 
has served in the capacity of justice of the peace, is a member of the Masonic order, and 
belongs to no church although he was brought up a Quaker. Mr. George has a good farm 
of 175 acres and is now in the enjoyment of all the necessities as well as many of the lux- 
uries of life. His father, Ellis George, was born near Winchester, Va., in 1775, and upon 
reaching manhood moved to Ohio, where he married Amy Barrett, with whom he came to 
Indiana about 1840, locating in Hamilton County, where he died about 1844, after having 
become the father of five children: Lewis; Richard (deceased), who married Sarah A. Hayues 
and has three children: Elizabeth, Henry L. and Frank; Jesse (deceased), married Mary 

Hay nes and had four children: Amy E., James, Henry C. and Dr. E; Harrj^ and 

The father of these children was a Quaker and Abolitionist. He was left a widower in 1831 
and took for his second wife Sidney Barrett, a sister of his first wife, who was the widow of 
Moses Roverts, by whom she had one son, Moses. The paternal grandfather of the subject 
of th'is sketch, Richard George, was born in Virginia about 1752, and there he lived and 
died. He was married to Mary Cowgill, by whom he had five sons and five daughters, four 
of the latter dying unmarried. Lydia, the surviving daughter, married Joshua Johnson, of 
Virginia, and afterward became a resident of Ohio and later of Indiana. The sons were 
named Henry, John, Evan, Richard and Ellis. Hope De Bolt, who married the daughter 
of Lewis George, was born at Newtown, Ohio, in 1842, and when about twenty one years 
old removed to Vincennes where he lived for about four years prior to removing to Indian- 
apolis: After locating in this city he clerked for Dan Lemon for two years, and in 1873 was 
married to Miss George, after which he moved to a farm owned by his wife's father on 
which he lived one year. He then lived in Vincennes for one year, after which he returned to 
the farm and there was residing at the time of his death, which occurred October 20, 1886. 
Politically he was a Democrat, as was his father, Henry De Bolt, before him, the latter serv- 
ing two terms as treasurer of Hamilton county. 

Pkof. J. B. Roberts. One of the most striking features in the early history of this 
country is the attention that has been given to educational matters. In those days wherever 
a considerable settlement has been formed, the village school was one of the first objects 
taken under consideration by the connnunity. It iias been truly said that "a good education 



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is the best iiiheiitance that parents can leave children." Riches may take to themselves 
wings and My away, but a good education will last through life. Among the prominent 
educators of Indianapoli.s is Prof. J. B. Roberts, who is instructor in High School, No. 1. 
He has l)een a resident of the city for nineteen years and during that time has won a host of 
wMini friends. He was born in T;izewell County, 111., near Peoria, December 11, 1833. and 
is the son of John M. aud Mary W. (Burhans) Roberts, natives of the grand old Empire 
State, and of Welsh-German extraction. The Roberts family settled in Connecticut at an 
early date and the paternal grandfather of our subject, Daniel Roberts, was the first to 
"seek green fields and pastures new." He moved to the State of New York and was there 
actively engaged in tilling the soil. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Teinpt-ed by 
the fertile soil of the Prairie State, thefather of our subject emigrated to Illinois in 1831, 
and with his father, three lirothers and a sister, made the journey in wagons. The}' passed 
through Indianapolis, liut did not stop there, and pushed on until they reached Tazewell 
County, 111. Peoria at that time consisted of a few log cal)ins, and Mr. Roberts drew a 
j)icture of the town, the same now being in the possession of our subject. He was a natural 
artist, but had spent some time in a lithograph establishment in New York city. On his 
new farm he erected a rude log cabin and this he occupied one winter, after which he erected 
a more substantial dwelling in which he passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1887. 
The mother received her final summons in 1838. At the time of their settlement nearPeoria, 
Indians were numerous and often visited the home of this worthy couple. Prof. J. B. Rob- 
erts was the only child born to this union, but four children, three of whom are livincr, were 
born to his father's second marriage. The latter was a very prominent farmer, was char- 
itable and kind, and was ever ready to extend a helping hand to the needy and afflicted. He 
was one of the early Abolitionists, was positive and outspoken in his views, and held a num- 
ber of township otfices. The original of this notice attained his growth on the farm and 
like the majority of farmer boys received his primary education in the district schools. 
When sixteen years of age he decided that further education was necessary and eutered 
Knox College, from which institution he graduated in 1855. Following this he was instructor 
in ancient languages of the same college for seven years and then secured the position of 
superintendent of the city schools of Galesburg, 111., which jiosition he held until 1874. 
At the latter date he came to Indianapolis and was principal of the high school for seven 
years, or until 1881. For four years following this he conducted a private school, and since 
then has been an instructor in the high school. Socially Prof. Roberts is a member of the 
K. of H., and secretary of the College Corner Literary Club. He holds membership in the 
Plymouth Congregational Church, and is a liberal contributor to the same. In the year 
1856 he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy G. Gillette, of Galesburg, 111., and three 
sons and a daughter have been born to this marriage: William B., George B. , John G. and 
Margaret A. Politically the Professor affiliates with the Repul)lican party. 

T. M. Wright. The career of a lawyer is a succession of contests and the successes 
made in the legal profession are probably more than in any other calling in life exam'ples 
of the " survival of the fittest." To become distinguished at the bar requires not only 
capacity bat also sound judgment and persevering industry and these qualities are admira- 
bly combined in Mr. Wright. Shrewd and quick in grasping points of law, his decisions 
are usualh- ready to be given when the arguments are given. Careful in the preparation 
of his cases, he has the ability to present them in a concise, logical and forcible manner. 
Mr. Wright, now deputy prosecuting attorney, is a product of Pennsylvania, born in Schuyl- 
kill County, near the city of Pottsville, November 22, 1847. His parents, Hiram N. and 
Ann (Glassmire) Wright, were also natives of the grand old State of Pennsylvania and were 
of German and French extraction, respectively. The father is now a resident of Indian- 
apolis and is for<'man of the Belt Ruilroad shops. The subject of this sketch was l)rought 
to Indianapolis by his parents when six years of age, grew to manhood here and here 
received the principal part of his education, having attended school at Crawfordsville, Ind., 
for some time. After the death of his mother he gave up his schooling and began learning 
the painter's trade. He did not follow this, however, but began learning telegraphy and 
followed this for some time on the Bee Line Railroad. Subsequently he engaged in the 
theatrical business with William Riley, who had the only theater in town at that time. He 



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took part in all the plays and continued this for some time. The study of the law theu 
attracted his attention and he was admitted to the bar in 1874. Since then he has been in 
the active practice of his profession. He has been deputy city and deputy State prosecutor 
for several years, having been appointed to the former position in 1875. In 1887 he was 
appointed deputy State prosecutor by James L. Mitchell and served for four years under 
that gentleman. Upon the etection of John W. Holtzman as State attorney he was again 
made deput}' and has served in that capacity continuously for over six years. Mr. Wright 
is a member of the K. of P. and in politics is strictly Democratic. 

George F. Miller The subject of our sketch is a widely known and very popular 
citizen of Indianapolis, who is now filling the oftice of deputy county and city treasurer. 
He comes of a worthy stock, having been born in Cabell County, W. Va., the son of Will- 
iam C. and Eliza (Gardner) Miller, natives of Gallipolis, Ohio, and of Greenup, Ky., 
respectively. The Miller family were early settlers of the valley of Virginia, and the great- 
grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as, also, in the Indian 
wars. He was the founder of Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, and built the fort 
where the city named now stands. At that place he followed the vocation of a fanner and 
there he died and was buried. The paternal grandfather, John Miller, lived and died in 
Virginia, and the maternal grandfather, Joseph Gardner, was a native of Boston, Mass., but 
removed to Virginia, where he died. In his earlier life he was a seafaring man and captain 
of a vessel which plied between Boston and San Domingo, as well as other islands of the 
West Indies group. The last days of this voyager were spent in quiet and rineventful 
retirement. The father of our subject was a merchant and trader and resided at Bar- 
boursville, Va., where he died in 1886. The mother of our subject survived him two years, 
dying in 1S88. This couple were the parents of seven children, six of whom are living, 
namely: Mrs. B. H. Thaxtou, of Huntington, W. Va. ; C. H. Miller, of Huntington, W. 
Va. ; George. F. Miller, our subject; John W., of Barboursville; Jose))h Miller, late com- 
missioner of internal revenue under the first administration of President Cleveland, now liv- 
ing at Kanawha, AV. Va., and Florence, wife of George F. Miller, Jr., president of the First 
National Bank, of Huntington, W. Va. The subject of our sketcli was born in Virginia, 
where he was reared and attended school, and from which, at the age of seventeen, he 
enlisted, at the outlneak of the war, in Company A, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and served 
four years; being with the army of West Virginia, with Longstreet's corps in Tennessee, and 
surrendered with Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. He was captured at Mossey Creek, Teuu., 
and carried to Camp Douglass near Cbicago, where he remained seven months, when he was 
exchanged. Mr. Miller served as first lieutenant and bore the record of an excellent oiMcer 
and a brave soldier, courageously contending for a cause his conscience approved. After the 
surrender he went to Cincinnati, where he was book-keeper in a wholesale grocery house for 
two years; then, in 1869, he came to Indianapolis and engaged in the coal business for 
about eight years, following which he was in the foundry business. In the year 1884 he 
was appointed deputy United States marshal during Cleveland's administration and served 
until 188"), when he went into the county treasurer's office, under John Osterman, as deputy, 
and has been in the office ever since, proving himself a most efficient and accommodating 
pul)lic servant, who has gained the respect and confidence of the pxdslic without reference to 
politics. He was married in 1868 to Miss Catharine A. Davidson and one child has blessed 
this union, Catharine L. Mrs. Miller and her daughter are prominent members of the 
Second Presbyterian Church, as well as very popular among a large circle of ac(]uaintances. 
Mr. Miller has a number of social affiliations and is a member of the Masonic order. 

Thomas McCoknell. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a member of the 
well-known firm of McConnell & Mount, contractors and builders, but was born in Belmont 
County. Ohio, in 1S88, a son of Francis McConnell, which name his paternal grandfather 
also bore. The latter was a native of the land of "thistles and oatmeal," but prior to the 
Revolutionary War came to this country and later became a member of the Continental army, 
serving in Washington's aimy for seven years. He later became a pioneer of the State of 
Ohio, where his son, Francis, the father of the subject of this sketch was born in 1803. Be- 
sides being a successful tiller of the soil the latter was a shoemaker, which business he fol- 
lowed in Bridgeport, dying there in 1881 at the age of seventy-nine years. He was a Re- 



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publican in politics, held the position of township trustee for many years, also that of assessor 
and held-other offices of trust. Thomas McConnell, the subject of this sketch, was educated 
in his native county and at the age of eighteen started to learn the carpenter's trade, at 
which he served an apprenticeship of three years. In iSofi he located at Marietta, Shelby 
County, Ind., and there on June 24, 1862. he enlisted in Company B, Seventieth Indiana 
(tien. Harrison's Regiment), with which he served until the war closed, being a participant 
in all the battles in which his regiment took part. At the close of the war he returned to 
Indiana and after a tim » located in Indianapolis and commenced working at his trade, and in 
1S75, with his brother John A. for a partner, he commenced contracting. They continued 
together successfully until 1886 when John A. went west by himself and Thomas associated 
himself with Mr. Mount, with whom he has since been connected. They have erected many 
of the handsomest buildings of Indianapolis, among which was Dr. Eastman's Sanitarium. 
They also su|)erintended the building of the city hall, and the other buildings which stand 
as monuments to their credit are too numerous to mention. Mr. McConnell has always been 
interested in politics and at all times works for the sviccess of the Rejiublican party. He is 
a member of the Contractors' Association, the Masonic order, the Chosen Friends, and Major 
Anderson Post of the G. A. R. In 1853 he was united in marriage with Miss India Weyer, 
of Ohio (Belmont County), and out of a family of two sons and five daughters born to them, 
one son and three daughters are living. 

F.\TRi('K J. O'Me.^ra. The American product, man, is the finest type upon the face of 
the earth, for the reason that he is not pampered and spoiled b)' luxury and for the further 
reason that he knows he may aspire to any height without prejudice against him as to birth 
or previous condition. In every community may be found numbers of solid, representative 
men, leaders of thought and influeucers of action who have been brought to their exalted 
places by the sheer and sole force of their own pluck and energy. The subject of our sketch, 
yet a young man, is the superintendent of buildings and grounds of the Indianapolis 
School Board, a position of responsibility and trust which came to him because he deserved 
it and because he is in every way qualified to discharge its duties. Patrick J. O'Meara was 
thrown upon his own resources at a very early age, having to sujiport himself when but thir- 
teen years old. With unfaltering courage the lad pressed on his way, working hard by day 
and attending school by night, his bright and receptive mind craving knowledge and his 
intelligence telling him that an education was indispensable to success on the road which he 
had thus early niaiked out for himself. He was born at Buffalo, N. Y., February 9, 1S56, 
being the son of Patrick and Bridget (Sheehan) O'Meara, natives of the city of Limerick, 
Ireland. They were married in their native city and sailed for America in 1855, landing at 
New York city, where they remained for a while and then going to Buffalo, at which place 
they lived until 1865, in which year they came to Indianapolis. They now reside at Ander 
sou, Ind., the father being now retired, after a busy life; he having been for a number of 
years book-keeper and head clerk in the New York Central freight depot. This worthy couple 
have had ten children, tive of whom are living, namely: Anna, Mary, Michael, Patrick J. and 
Henry, of Muncie. The subject of our sketch was a mere youth when he accompanied his par- 
ents to this city and here he attended school until he was thirteen years old, when he began to 
be self su])poiting; but, as stated, he was resolved to gain understanding and he was enrolled 
regularly in the night school and applied himself diligently to his studies. His first employ- 
ment was in a grocery store and afterward in a restaurant at Anderson, Ind. In the year 1886 
he was employed by Hetherington & Berner, the widely known and extensive manufacturers, 
with whom he remained for six years, enjoying the confidence of the house and faithfully dis- 
charging his duties. At the end of this time, in 1S()2, he was appointed to his present position 
and entered upon the discharge of its responsibilities in July of that year., Mr. O'Meara was 
married June 5, 1889, to Miss Georgia Branham, of Anderson, Ind., the marriage being a 
most happy one, the two being congenial and the husband finding in the wife a helpmeet 
indeed. Our subject is a man of large social development, finding great pleasure in the society 
of his friends, and inclines to social organizations, being chancellor commander of Indianapolis 
Lodge, No. 56, K. of P. and is also a member of the order of Red Men. In politics Mr. 
O'Meara is a Democrat of the most pronounced type and has rendered his party most efficient 
services in the way of organizing and holding men in line for the support of the nominees dur- 




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ing election campaigns and elections. The education of our subject in religions matters was 
in the Catholic Church, in which he was baptized and contirmed and his matured judgment 
holds him firm in the faith of his fathers. A manly, upright and straightforward citizen, a 
careful, methodical man of business and a wbolesouled good fellow, Mr. O'Meara has by no 
means reached the height of his powers or the end of the favor of his fellow citizens. What- 
ever they may call him to do h« will do it faithfully and well. 

George W. St.\nley. The name of George W. Stanley is a very familiar one in the 
business circles of Indianapolis, he being one of the leading contractors of the city and the 
president of tlie Builders lixchange. He was born in Fayette Comity, Ind., June 1, 1836, 
and is the son of Lewis and Ann (Johnson) Stanley, natives of North Carolina and Cincin- 
nati, respectively. They came to Indiana at an early day and settled in Fayette County, tlie 
father following the trade of a wagon -maker. He died in Hancock County, Ind. , in 1S90, and the 
mother in the following year. The subject of onr sketch was reared in his native county 
until he was about twelve years old, attending the schools, and then removed with his parents 
to Hancock County, where he grew to manhood. After attending the Northwestern Christian 
University for one year he learned the trade of a carpenter, chiefly under his father. This 
he followed, varying it with teaching, up to the time of his marriage, in Hancock County. 
He was elected trustee of Vernon Township and served one term in Hancock County, in the 
year 186'2. Subse(|uently he was appointed agent for the Bee Line Kailroad and was sta- 
tioned at Oakland, Marion County, Ind., holding the position for about ten years. In 1S74 
he was elected township trustee of Lawrence Township, and served for three consecutive 
terms, or six y-ears. Our subject removed to Indianapolis in 1884 and engaged in the busi- 
ness of a general contractor, which he has followed ever since. Among the many contracts 
he has executed is the Tomlinson Hall, the Bank of Commerce; Claypool Block, on Pearl 
Street; the Lombard Building; Macey Building, on Delaware Street, and numerous promi- 
nent residences. Mr. Stanley is one of the leading contractors of Indianapolis and employs 
a very large force of men during the building season. Mr. Stanley is president of the 
Builders Exchange, having served two years as secretary immediately before his election as 
such. He is a man of unimpeachable integrity and his work is always done well, his con- 
tracts l)eing carried out to the letter. He is in fellowship with the Masonic order and has 
other social connections in the city. Our subject was married in 1859 to Miss Ann Wood, 
of Marion County, by whom he has had three children: Carrie M. , Flora P. and Clarence. 
Politically he is a Democrat and believes firmly in the principles of that party. The name 
of the firm of Salisbury & Stanley — such is the style of his firm — is an honored one in the 
city, and the house is located at 177 Clinton Street. 

Thom.is Sheehan. The subject of our sketch is a man who possesses a quality, the value 
of which cannot be overestimated, and that is the one of pleasing, or, in other words, an 
accommodating spirit. In this day when the strife for place breeds so much selfishness the 
virtue is the more apparent. Our subject, the bailiff of the Marion Count}' Criminal Court 
and secretary of the Hendricks Club was born in Fayette County, at Connorsville, Ind., 
August 10, 1855. He is the son of Michael and Margaret (O'Conner) Sheehan, natives of 
Ireland, who came to America in 1840, first reaching New Orleans, and then proceeding by 
the river to Covington and going thence to Fayette County, Ind. The father was a farmer 
and pursued that vocation until his death in 1857. The mother, who is living in Fayette 
County, bore her husband seven children, namely: Lizzie and Thomas (these two were by 
her first husband), William, Mary, Lewis, Ellen and John. The subject of our sketch was 
reared in Fayette County, where he received a common-school education; the early j'ears of 
his life being spent on the farm, after which he went to the work of a molder at Connors- 
ville. Coming to Indianapolis in 1879 he worked here at his trade until 1891, when he was 
appointed by the court as ImilifF, and in January, 1893, he was elected secretary of the 
Hendricks Club. Mr. Sheehan is an enterprising young man, full of energy and devoted to 
the principles of the Democratic party, for which he works with untiring zeal in every cam- 
paign. Our subject was married in June, 1881, in Columl)us. Ohio, to Miss Helen L. 
Richter, by whom he has two sons and two daughters, namely: George T.. Mary M., Alice 
G. and Paul C. He and his wife are consistent members of the Catholic Church, in which 
faith they were reared as their parents before them. 



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Peter Carson. Oue of the most gratifyincr features of fjovermneiit in the United States is 
tlie efficiency and integrity of tLose who are called upon to hohl office. It is the more remark- 
able in that the terms are so brief, herein differing from the old countries of Europe, where one 
who secures a position under the Government is expected to hold it throughout the remainder 
of his days. Here in America, however, the doctrine of rotation is maintained, whether the 
offices be national, State, county or municipal, and it is remarkable, and redounds to the 
immortal credit of the citizens of the Republic, that of the great multitudes who held office, 
cases of improper conduct are rareh' exceptional. The subject of our sketch is one who 
reflects greatest possible credit upon those who supported him for the office of recorder of 
Marion County, a position he tills with an earnestness of purpose, an attention to details, a 
spirit of accommodation and with a fidelity that stamps him oue of the very best men hold- 
ing the office of recorder in this or any other State. Mr. Carson was born in Dublin, Ire- 
land, November 10, 1849, being the son of Timothy and Ellen (Coleman) Carson, natives 
of Ireland. The mother sailed for America in 1853, with four children, her husband having 
j)reviousl3' died in the old country. Landing at New York, she took her family to Louis- 
ville, remained there for a time and then went to Nashville, Tenn. Subsequently she went 
to Indianapolis, where she died in September, 1890. The subject of our sketch, the young- 
est of the family, received a limited education, being compelled at an early age to work for 
a living. In turn he served at the trades of machinist and of boiler maker, but did not com- 
plete apprenticeship in either. He was not afraid to put his hand to any kind of honest 
labor and for a time while a youth and very young man he did follow a luimber of different 
pursuits; but he was diligent and faithful in everything he undertook and steadily bettered 
his condition. During the administration of President Cleveland, from 1IS85 to 1889, he 
served four years as inspector of customs. In the year 1890 he was elected recorder of 
Marion County, on the Democratic ticket, but having two years to wait before he could 
enter upon the duties of his position, he was employed in a brewery. Last year he took 
possession of the offic^ and has managed it with rare discretion and to the highest satisfac- 
tion of the public Our subject was happily married in 1873 to Miss Maria Pool, by whom 
he has had four children, namely: Nellie, Willie, Katie and Joseph. Mr. Carson is a man 
in whom the social impulse is very strong and he is a member of a number of clubs, in all of 
which he is very popular as well as very useful and influential. Later: Since the above was 
written and put in type Mr. Carson has unfortunately died leaving many warm friends and 
acquaintances to mourn his untimely demise. 

Victor M. Backus, treasurer of Marion County, is worthy and well qualified i[i every 
respect for the responsible position he fills, and, being a whole-souled, generous man, is 
deservedly popular with the ]iublic in general. He was born March 27, 185<l, being the son 
of Paul and Mary J. (Miller) Backus, who were natives of Germany. After attaining man- 
hood the father entered the army of his native land and continued there in active service many 
years, finally retiring with honor and the rank of lieutenant colonel. He also helil the office of 
burger of Louisheim for the long period of fourteen years. He, with his wife and three 
children, set sail for America in a sailing vessel, and after a voyage of twenty-one days spent 
upon the ocean landed in Now York city. The father died in Williamsburg, N. Y. , in 
lSr)4, the mother surviving until 1866, when she died of cholera. The father of our 
subject was married three times, and l)y his last marriage had three children, only 
one of whom survives, and he is the subject of this sketch. Victor M. Backus was but 
two years old when he came to this countr)', and in 185;") accompanied his mother to Frank- 
lin, Ind., where he lived several years, attending school until the outbreak of the war, when, 
at the age of ten, he secured a position on the J. M. & I. Railroad as a "peanut" boy. 
While discharging the duties of this position he became acquainted with a number of sol- 
diers, and, at the age of thirteen, enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry, in Company D, Wilder's Brigade, and served until the close of the war as a pri- 
vate soldier, and was never awaj' from his company or regiment a single hour while in the 
service. This is a record of which the oldest of the soldiers might well be proud, and it is 
one that redounds to the infinite credit of this boy soldier, who was in every battle of the 
Atlanta campaign, the Wilson campaign, at the capture of Selma, and a number of other 
important engagements. At Macon, Ga., he was chosen one of the sixty of his regiment to 



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g.) on an ex|.,,<lit;o„ f„r M,o caplnro .,f JolT.w.on J>uvjs. JIc wmh hIm, om.. of l,l.„ ■fiiHl, Union 
soldiers detailH,! (,,> go to Ati.lerHonville to mliovo tl.o Union sol.li.TH tliore; was ono of tl.o 
tirst Union suldi.Ts to go int,i Atlanta the nigl.t it was taken and blown up. Mr HackiiH 
WHS m five or SIX lioHy contested and l.loody battles before ho was f«urt<.e., years old ar,.! 
he was one of the youngest, if not the very youngest, to enlist into the army fr.mi Indiana 
and carry a musket. J he soldierly and courageous spirit of (1... falher was Iransmitl..,! to 
the chddren, for the brother of our subject, Mai I bias, enlisted at the lirHtcall for t roops a.,.1 
re-enlisted for three years, and then veteranized for three years more. The service of Mat 
thiaswMs in the Ni.mteenth and Twentieth Jndiwiui ilegimentn, ),hey forming part of the 
celebrated Iron Brigad.., which lont more men than any oth.-r two regiments in the entire 
United .Stales army. In the year IHC'i a cousin of Mr. Jiackus, who had been wounded at 
the second battle of iJull Run, was taken to Cincinnati, when his only sister, Mary It 
Backus, went to the hospital to nur.so him, and she remained afterward until the close of the 
warasa faithlul and efficient nurse of the sick and wounded Union soldiers When our 
subject returned home at the close of the war he cast about f(,r something as a livelihood 
and he ciiose the trade of a carriageinaker, serving an ap[)renticesliip at this at Franklin' 
Ind., after which, 111 the sj.ring of 18C.7, he came to Indianapolis and went to work under 
Col. Benjamin C. Shaw, who ..wihkI the largest factory in the West, where he worked under 
iiMtructions for eighteen months, at very small wages When his time was out be was 
given a .•ontract on the linest work in the house, with thre.. tires, and continued at this until 
Col. Shaw was elected State Treasurer in 1874, when he opened up business for liimself 
starting in a small way, and in six years had the largest carriag.r factory in Indianapolis 
and It IS claimed for him that he has sold more work at retail than any other house in 
Indiana. In the year 1881, after the retirement of Col. Shaw from tlie State Treasiirershii, 
the two formed a partnership under the tirm name of Shaw, Backus <fc Co Mr Backus 
bought out the inler.^st of Va>\. Shaw in ]8n:^, made and i.atent...] .,ne of the first and best 
road carts in the country; organized and w.is made president of the Backus Cart (Jompany 
and manufacture,! •>,]{){) carts in the first year. He sold out this business and started under 
the firm name of Backus ct Keagan, cui Circle Street; later buying out Mr. Keagan and ran 
the business alone until l8iM, when he sold out to H. C. Fisk & Hon in order to take the 
office of treasurer of Marion County ami of the city of Indianapolis, to wliich ofJice he had 
been elected in 181K) with the largest majority ever given any county or city treasurer it 
being over three thousand. The term of oflice is for two years, and Mr. Backus decline.! a 
renomination, retiring with the esteem and the confidence of the citizens of Indianapolis an. I 
Marion (Jounty without refen-nce to [.arty. At th.. first meeting of the ol.l sol.liers of the 
Seventeenth for re.)rganization Mr. Backus was .m.- of the first presidents of the re-Hmental 
organizatDii. an.] at the last briga.le reunion he was clir.sen its president also, thisXeing in 
IHUO, and th.^ hon..r proceeding from the celebrated Wihler's brigade. Mr. Backus is the 
youngest member of the eomiiany, n-giment and Ijrigade with which he was associated, and 
he was chosen its brigade president at the (-ariiest re.juest of (it-u. Wil.ler liimself. Thi 
distinction Mr. Backus may well consider the proudest honor of his life. Our subject wa 
married Fel^ruary 14, 1874, to Miss Mary iMcCarthy. of Brear, Ohio, by whom he has had 
three children, .jnly one of whom is living, Hazel, aged nine years. Mr. Backus is a mem- 
ber of George H. Thomas Post, (i. A. K ; „f Star Lo.ige, N<x 7, K. .,f P., and is president 
of the celebrated Hendricks VAnh of Indianapolis. As will have been seen Mr. Backus has 
been the recipient of many honors, yet every one of them he has richly merited and earned 
through his own exertions having climbed the ladder of distinction, and yet a young man' 
other and higher honors are before him. 

Lekov S. Hknthokn, M. D. Few, perhaj.s none, save those who have trod the arduous 
paths of the profession can picture to themselves the array of attributes,- physical, mental 
andmf.ral, the host of minor graces of manner and person, essential to the making of a suc- 
cessful physician. His constitution mn.st needs be of the hardest to withstand the con.stant 
shock of wind and weather, the wearing loss of sleep and rest, the ever gathering load of care 
the insidious approach of every form of fell disease to which the daily round of duties mo- 
mentarily expose him. F.jr many years this most imf.ortant science bearing upon man's 
happiness, comfort and welfare, has been practiced by Dr. Leroy S. Henthorn and he has 



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kept tLorouglily abiv;ist of the great strides it bas made in the last thirty years. The Doctor 
was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, May 3. lS4(j, and is of Welsh-Irish descent, his ancestors being 
from the British Islands. They came to America at an early date, settled in Maryland, and 
for many years followed agricultural pursuits. Some members of this family served in the 
War of 1812. The father of our subject, Daniel H. Henthorn, wasa nativeof Fayette County, 
Pennsylvania, and was a cabinet-maker, a carpenter, a contractor, etc., by trade, devoting the 
most of his life to that business. His later days were spent as an architect. In 1813, when 
a boy, lie came to the Buckeye State with his parents who were among the early pioneers of 
Licking Count)'. There he was married to Miss Rachel R. Morrison, a native of Fayette 
County, Penn., who came with her parents to Ohio when small. They were also early pio- 
neers of Licking County. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn removed to Crawford 
County, Ohio, settled in Bucyrus, in 1833, and were among the early inhabitants of that place. 
Indians were numerous in the vicinity at that time. Of the eight children born to the above 
mentioned marriage seven are now living, one, Eugene E., having been killed at the battle of 
Fredericksburg in 1802. Mr. Henthorn died at Bucyrus in 1872, and his widow survived 
him several years, her death occurring in Indianapolis in 1884. Dr. Henthorn attained his 
growth in Bucyrus, attended the public and high-school, and when sixteen years of age 
enlisted in Company K., Eighty-Sixth Ohio Infantry, for three months. In 1S()3 he served 
about six months in general hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and had charge of the dispen- 
sary. During his first enlistment he served some time in Virginia among. bush whackers, and 
during his second enlistment he served some time in 1804 in the heavy artillery. Following 
the war he became drug clerk and served six months in this business at Bucyrus, Ohio, and 
Des Moines, Iowa. During all this time he bad devoted considerable attention to the study 
of medicine, and in 1874 almost his entire time was given to this. In 1875, he came to 
Indianapolis and entered the Indiana Medical College, from which be was graduated in 
1877. Since then be has carried on a general practice in this city. Dr. Henthorn was assist- 
ant demonstrator of anatomy in Indiana Medical College two years, and lectured on 
obstetrics for two years. For three years he was professor of physiology in Indiana Dental 
College and later he lectured on physiology two years in Indiana Medical College. From 1876 
until 1891 be was on the consulting staff in the city hospital in obstetrics. In 1883 and 1884 be 
was superintendent of the pest house and had charge of all small pox cases of the city. While 
on the consulting staff at the city hospital be gave many lectures to students of different med- 
ical colleges of Indianapolis. The Doctor has been a member of Indiana State and Marion County 
Medical Societies ever since he began practicing, has served on committees of the same and 
bas read papers l)efore both. He selected his life companion in the person of Miss Joannah 
Myers, a native of Bucyrus, Ohio, and their nuptials were celebrated May 16, 1878. Her 
parents, George W., and Mary (Hart) Myers, were natives of Pennsylvania, and Muskingum 
County, Ohio, respectively. Her father served four months in the Civil War during the year 
1864, and held the rank of Lieutenant of an Ohio company. To Doctor and Mrs. Henthorn 
have been born three children: Mary, Oril and Jessie. 

Frederick Jones. No field of modern financial enterprise affords safer or more favora- 
ble opportunities for the investment of capital, either in large or small sums, than the real 
estate business. Few indeed in Indianapolis have been more fortunate in establishing and 
maintaiuino' a high reputation among the jiroperty owners and speculators for the uniform 
satisfaction he has rendered to those with whom be bas held business relations than Fred- 
erick Jones, and the sterling integrity ami sound judgment that has characterized all his 
transactions has won him a clientele of which he has every reason to feel proud. He is a man 
of energy and large business capacity, shrewd and enteri)rising, and is highly regarded in 
the community for bis integrity and upright character. Mr. Jones was born in Indianapolis 
August 23, 1800, to Acjuilla and Harriet (Cox) Jones, and was reared and educated in the 
common schools of his native city, in a college at Racine, Wis., and at Butler University. 
After leaving school he entered the wholesale boot and shoe store of Jones. Armstrong & 
Co., as a clerk, and was connected with this firm about five years, a portion of which time he 
acted In the capacity of traveling salesman. In 1883 he became associated with H. C. 
Holloway in the manufacture of stove-pive elbows, which was quite extensive for a time. In 
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he held until the following Jnne, when he was appointetl a special agent of the United States 
Pension Bureau in the State of Michigan, wiiieii position lie held until June, IS'.IO, wht'n 
he resigned and began dealing in real estate in Indianapolis, continuing successfully to the 
present time. September 21, 1891, he put Tuxedo Park on the market, which consisted of 
467 lots, and disposed of all in little more than a year, which was one of the greatest feats' 
in the sale of real estate ever^accomplished in the city. Mr. Jones was for a time associated 
with C. H. & E. J. Kickert, as the member of a corporation in this phenomenal real estate 
deal, but had the entire management of the same, and the brilliant record achieved was 
largely due to his energy, foresight and push. These gentlemen severed their connection 
February 1, 1893, since which time Mr. Jones has conducted business alone and in com- 
pany with A. L. Palmer, the name of the tirm Ijeing Frederick Jones & Co. The tirm at 
present handle suburban ])roperty and are doing an extensive business. Mr. Jones is a 
member of the K. of P., is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife, whom he married 
June 8, 1881, and whose maiden name was Nellie E. Woodall, a native of Vincennes, Ind., 
are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. They have two children: Frank S. and Harry 
H. Mrs. Jones' parents, Aquilla and Emma (Haines) Woodall, were born in New York 
State, but were early settlers of Indiana. 

James H. Smith is a member of the tirm of James H. Smith & Co., located at 36i W. 
Washington Street, money brokers, real estate and insurance agents, and as the gentlemen 
jomposing this tirm have a thorough general knowledge of real estate as well as of the gen- 
eral routine work of the real estate agent, their patrons and friends are numerous and 
their business a large and profitable one. The methods of. this tirm are regular and par- 
ties may approach it with the confidence of fair treatment. Whether they wish to buy 
realty, borrow monej', to rent property or whatever their business, they will receive cour- 
teous attention. Matters are disposeil of with dispatch, thoroughness and after the most 
approved business methods, the interests of clients being jealously guarded. Mr. Smith 
was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, December 31, 185<), a son of Cyrus and Elizabeth (Eller) 
Smith, the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in Indiana. The paternal 
grandfather, John Smith, was a pioneer of Ohio and became one of the prosperous farmers 
of the "Buckeye State,'' the time consumed in the acquirement of his property being 
marked by many hardships and by much hard labor. Cyrus Smith was reared in Marion 
County, Ind., whither his parents moved at an early day, and his early education was 
acquired in the old-tune sub,scription schools, which were held in log cabins of very primi- 
tive construction. When a young man he became a " Hoosier schoolmaster," in which 
line of work he was so successful that he was elected to the position of county superintend- 
ent of schools on three different occasions. He also served as deputy county clerk under 
John C. New, in the old court-house. During the great Civil War he held the position of 
enrolling clerk from the commencement of that struggle until its close and had some severe 
experiences while following that line of duty. For over thirty years he has been engaged 
in the sale of school books in Indiana and Michigan and is probably as well known as any 
man traveling through this territory. At present he travels for A. S. Barnes & Co., of Chi- 
cago, and makes his home at Lansing, Mich. Although born in Iowa James H. Smith was 
reared and educated in Indianapolis and in the college at Adrian, Mich., from which he 
graduated in 187(5. Indiana[)olis has been practically his homo all his life and here he 
determined to open an office after finishing his legal education. He began the study of 
law with Johnson, Osl)orne & Herr, at Goshen, Ind., and in 1879 was admitted to the bar 
in Indianapolis, after which he practiced his profession for a number of years and gradually 
drifted into the real estate and money brokerage l)usiness, which he now follows. He was 
married February 6, 1883, to Lydia A. Davidson, a native of Tennessee and of Quaker par- 
entage, who came north with her mother during the Civil War, her father having died when 
she was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two children: Florence N. and 
Hervey E. Mr. Smith has always been a Republican in politics. 

Dr. E. D. RuTLEDaE. Although comparatively young in years. Dr. Rutledge is classed 
among the popular physicians of Indianapolis, and is in the enjoyment of a large practice 
with the better class of people in and around the city. He belongs to that class of 
physicians who recognize the fact that there is something more than a barren ideality in 



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"ministering to a miiul diseased," or, in other words, that the mental condition of the patient 
has in many cases much to do witli his physical condition, and alwaj-i endeavors to leave his 
patient in a happy and hopeful frame of mind where the nature of the disease renders this 
possible. Born in Delaware County, lud., October 30, 1855, he is a son of John Rutledge, 
whose birth occurred in Maryland in the year 1801. When the elder Rutledge was a young 
man he came to Delaware County, Ind.. and in 1830 bought land at SI. 25 an acre, being 
among the pioneers of that section. He became a successful farmer and accumulated a 
handsome competency. His death occurred in June, 1891, at the advanced age of ninety 
j-ears. His widow survives him and resides on the old homestead he entered when first 
coming to the State. Her maiden name was Martha J. Dynes, a native of Lebanon, Ohio, 
and she came to Indiana at an early day with her brother. Dr. Jeremiah Dynes, the tirst 
physician to locate in Delaware County. John Rutledge, father of subject, was an exemplary 
man, modest and retired, and never aspired or held otfice. He was a faithful Democrat in 
his political views, and a strong temperance man, never drinking liquor of any kind, or 
using tobacco in any form. He was one of the representative citizens of Delaware County 
for many years and was frequently chosen upon juries, owing to his adaptability for such 
positions. One of his sons, Dr. William V. Rutledge, served as surgeon of the Forty- 
second Indiana Cavalry for nearly live years during the war, and from the effects of hard 
service died in St. Louis iu 1892. The subject of this sketch. Dr. E. D. Rutledge, passed 
his boyhood and youth in his native county and received a good practical education in the 
schools at Muncie, lud., and at the old academy there. During his youthful days he clerked 
in a mercantile establishment for a time and assisted with farm work at home, where he also 
began the study of medicine when about seventeen years old. Previous to this, however, 
when but a lad, he became deeply interested in medicine, studying his brother's books while 
the latter was in the army. He decided upon a professional career when very young — medi- 
cine, and could think of very little else. In 1881 he went to St. Louis and entered the 
American Medical College, from which he graduated in the spring of 1882. He immediately 
began a general practice, locating at Sulphur Springs, Henry County, Ind., where he carried 
on a successful practice for six years. While there he was three times nominated for coroner 
on the Democratic ticket, but owing to a large Republican majority in the county could not 
overcome the same, although he ran far ahead of the ticket. He was physician for the 
county poor for over four years in Henry County, and when he left, resigned that position. 
After a residence of fourteen months at Xew Burlington, Delaware County, where he had an 
immense practice, he came to West Indianapolis in the fall of 1888, as he was unable to 
attend to the large country practice at New Burlington, his health having failed. Since 
locating in West Indianapolis Dr. Rutledge has had an excellent practice. He has also 
lectured one term in Central College of Physicif'.ns and Surgeons, on diseases of women and 
children. He is a member of the Indiana Medical Society, also the Marion County Society, 

and he is also serving his third year as physician in West Indianapolis. Socially 

a member of the Red Men, he acts as general marshal in all parades, etc., of the same. In 
the year 1877 he married Miss Ida V. Elliott, who was born in the Old North State, 
Three children have been given them: John W. , Corral W. and Cora M. The Doctor 
and wife are mambers of the Christian Church, and in politics he is a Democrat. 

John W. Singleton. Among the many unique, yet useful and laudable enterprises, to 
which man's attention has been turned in his straggles to gain a foothold in the business 
world, and to secure a competency for himself and family, may be mentioned that in which 
John W. Singleton is engaged, which was establishetl March 1, 1890 at 322-324 Lafayette 
Street, Indianapt)lis, under the name of the Indianapolis Steam Carpet Cleaning Works. The 
building covers an area of 50x120 feet, is two stories in height, and is fitted up with machin- 
ery capable of cleaning 3,000 yards of carpet daily. Mr. Singleton has been phenomenally 
successful in this business, which is constantly and rapidly on the increase, and in 1892 net- 
ted over S5,000, an increase of 100 per cent, over that of the previous year. The wide-awake 
proprietor of this establishment was born in Warren, Peun., May 21, 1865, a son of W'illiam 
and Anna E. (Jones) Singleton, who were also born in the Keystone State. The father was 
a producer of petroleum, and carried on a prosperous business in oil fields at Duke Center, 
Penn., for many years. Owing to the fact that he was crippled, he was the only one of fif- 




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teen brothers that did not serve during the entire Civil War, the youngest brother enlibting 
at the age of sixteen. Thirteen or fourteen of these lirothers were mustered out of the serv- 
ice at the close of the v?ar, not having received a scratch. The father died in March, 1881, 
but his widow survives him, and is a resident of Irvington, Ind. In the county in wliich he 
was born John \V. Singleton was reared, and he received a high-school education at Warren, 
Penn. He afterward became a pedagogue, and followed this occupation for three years, at 
the end of which time he abandoned it, and in Novemljer, 1H80, came to Indianapolis to 
accept the position of book-keeper tor J. B. McElrain & Co., a position he held until he 
engaged in his present Hue of work. On October 8, 1890, he led to the altar Miss Adaline 
Treat, a native of New Haven, Conn., and a daughter of Thelis and Celia B. (Baldwin) Treat, 
also natives of the Nutmeg State. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Singleton, 
Charlotte, born July 29, 1891. Mr. Singleton is independent in his political views, and sup- 
ports the man whom he deems best fitted for the office. 

David J. Prindle. Few persons are now in existence who can remember the old-fash- 
ioned bake ovens that were used by our forefathers in years gone by, being built in the 
ground and sustained by piles of brick, beneath which fires were built and the tempting 
bread-stuffs piled for baking. This has all changed now, and the result in the modern 
bakery, with its massive ovens and scores of busy men. The name of David J. Prindle is 
widely known in this connection, and the patronage which his establishment receives leaves 
one a thorough believer in the saying that ''Bread is the staff of life.'" He estaijlished this 
business in 1886, and is carrying on a reasonably protital)lo trade, his annual business 
amounting to about S2,500. He has the honor to have been born in Jefferson County, Ind., 
at Madison, in 18(55, his parents being Merwin and Cynthia (Mefford) Prindle, the former a 
native of Vermont and the latter of Kentucky. Merwin Prindle was a railroad contractor 
during his lifetime, and he was a man of much push, energy and enterprise. He was called 
upon to pay the last debt of nature in 1880. David J. Prindle si)ent his youthful days in 
Madison, Ind., in the public schools of which place he acquired a practical common-school 
education, amply sufficient to lit him for the ordinary duties of life. In 1880 he came to 
Indianapolis and began learning the baker's trade, and until engaging in business for liiiu- 
self in 1886, labored for others. He has so arranged his premises as to have every facility 
for doing a high grade of work, and in the consummation of his duties employs a number of 
assistants. In addition to his bakery he has a first-class stand at the public market building, 
where he does an extensive business. He deals in all kinds of goods in his line, such as 
bread, cakes, pies, etc., and their admirable nature has won him wide and favorable recogni 
tion. On August 29, 1892, Mr. Prindle was united in marriage with Miss Katie McLaugh 
lin, a native of Marion County, Ind., and he and his wife are attendants of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which he is a member and in which he has served in the capacity of 
secretary. Mr. Prindle is a member of the I. O. O. F., and politically has always been a 
Republican, but not deeming it expedient to bother with j)olitics or public affairs, he devotes 
his entire time to his business, but at the same time is none the less a highly esteemed citizen. 

W. C. Lang. There is no line of business of more vital importance to the community than 
that of the grocer's calling, nor in fact one in which enterprise and integrity are better 
rewarded. The dealer in the necessities of lite must needs be a man of great discrimination 
and superior judgment and these qualities are possessed by W. C. Lang in an eminent 
degree. His establishment is located at the corner of State and Hoyt Streets and is supplied, 
not only with a fine line of groceries but also of meats, and is doing a business of satisfac- 
tory magnitude. He was born August 2(5, 1856, to Christ and Wilhelmina Lang, natives of 
Germany, who came to America many years since and located in Indianapolis where they 
lived until death, the father dying in 1802 and the mother in 1891. The subject of tliis 
sketch was but six years old when his father died and he was consequently o' liged to begin 
working for himself at the age of ten years. He followed various callings until 187^), when 
he became an employe on the Pan Handle Railroad, with which company he remained for 
eleven years being promoted to the position of day foreman and later to that of night yard- 
master. Upon leaving the services of this road he entered the employ of the C H. cV D. Rail- 
road as yard foreman and was here later also promoted to the position of night yardmaster. 
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meat business and has since devoted his time and attention to tliis line of human endeavor 
with reasonable success, his genial and cordial manner, his honesty and his fine stock of 
goods winning him many patrons. While in the employ of the Pan Handle Road. August 
5, 1870, he met with a painful accident while coupling cars, losing three lingers on his right 
hand, his thumb and little linger being all that remains. Mi'. Lang was married in 1878 to 
Miss Amanda Mitchell, a native of Indiana|)olis, by whom he has three children: Harry, 
Earl (deceased), and Harvey (deceased). In his political proclivities Mr. Lang has always 
been a Democrat, but in local affairs is not partisan, voting for the one whom he considers 
the best man, irrespective of party. 

Henry Magel. A daily provision for the material wants of life, 'which means an 
appeasing of that craving creature of man known as the appetite, is one of the most 
important necessities of existence. Without the aid of the tradesman, the whole public 
would find itself in a tangled dilemma from which extraction would be impossil)Ie. The 
mission of the merchant is so important that he is an indispensable member of society 
at large. The grocery store is one of the prime necessities of life, and one of the most 
important establishments of this kind is that owned by Henry Magel, who was born in 
Fairfield County, Ohio, November 10, 1801, a son of Philip and Anna E. (Green) Magel. 
who were natives of Germany and came to the United States in 18o8 and to Indianapo- 
lis in 1862, the father b<?ing counecled with the Big Four Railroad for a number of years. 
The subject of this sketch was but a few months old at the time -his parents came to 
Indianapolis. Here he was reared and received a good edncation in the public schools. 
After finishing his education he learned the upholsterer's business and for over four years 
was employed in the shops of the Big Four Railroad at Brighlwood, a portion of the 
time as foreman in which capacity he was acting at tht' time of his resignation. He then 
entered a retail furnishing establishment owned by Spiegel, Thomas & Company of In- 
dianapolis with which he remained as upholsterer for a number of years. In 1891 he 
embarked in the grocery business on North Delaware Street, being associated with a Mr. 
Pasquier the firm being known as Pasquier & Magel, to which business the most of his 
attention is still given, and given successfuly. In the fall of 1893 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the city council on the Republican ticket from the eighth ward by a majority of 
fifty four votes, although he was in the stronghold of the Democracy. Socially he is a 
member of the I. O. O. F. , but aside from this belongs to no secret organization. While 
a resident of Brightwood he was treasurer of the town three years in succession. He 
was married November 23, 1882, to Miss Louise Keribu, a native of Ohio, by whom he 
has three children: Aurzella, Frank and Edmund. 

Charles H. Black. A recent historical work made an effort to ascertain the names of 
the nations that were furthest behind in the actual improvements of civilization and it was 
determined that China leads the list. While there are, it is true, darker and less explored 
countries, China appears doubly dark, for the simple reason that her pretentions to civili- 
zation do not accord with her appearance. This is particularly trne ia the case of vehicles 
for conveyance. In this line America no doubt eclipses all nations, and in Indianapolis, a 
noted carriage maker is Charles H. Black, whose pre.sent desirable premises are at 44 East 
Maryland Street and 42 and 44 Sonth Pennsylvania Street, with the wood working shops on 
Louisiana Street, where his shops are, while the repository is at 44 South Pennsylvania 
Street, with the' painting and trimming department on the upper fl )ors. The shops are a 
model of thorough organization and are fully equipped with the latest tools and machinery. 
Mr. Black employs only the mast experienced, skilled workmen. He is one of the best 
judges of miterial in America, and buys only the highest grade of everything, while being 
such a large consumer, he is enaliled to secure discounts for cash, that place him in a posi- 
tion to turn out the best work at the same prices that much inferior carriages are sold for 
elsewhere. The manufactory has become renowned all over the United States for the supe- 
riority, elegance and durability of its construction and is among the first to produce all the 
new styles as they come out, being originators not imitators. Mr. Black is a thoroughly 
practical man, and is the oldest carriage manufacturer in the city. Born in Hagerstown, 
Wayne County, Ind., October 5, 1852, he has grown up in the trade in this locality, and 
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throughout Indianapolis and vicinity. His parents, George H. and Lydia A. (Beck) Black, 
were natives of the Keystone State and there made their home until 1842 when they moved 
to Indiana, locating at Hagerstowu, where they resided until 1854. The father then moved 
to Indianapolis where he became one of the popular and successful contractors and builders 
in that city. There he resided many years, dying in 1891. During the Civil War he served 
as tirstdieutenant of Company L, First Heavy Artillery, Twenty-first Indiana Kegiment, for 
nearly two years, or until the close of war. He was wounded at Brazos, Tex. His son, 
Edward E., enlisted in July, 1861, when only eight and a half years of age, as drummer boy 
of the Twenty- first Regiment band, and was the youngest boy in the United States to enlist. 
He served two years and nine months when the band was dispensed with and he returned 
home. At the time Company L was recruited by his father, George H. Black, this boy re-en- 
listed as bugler and served until the close of war. Charles H. Black, the subject of this 
sketch, was two years of age when the family came to Indianapolis, and here he was reared 
and educated, finishing the ])ublic schools and taking a commercial course in the Bryant & 
Stratton Business College. He then emljarked in the carriage and blacksmith trade with S. 
W. Drew, on East Market Square, and after serving a three years' apprenticeship, he entered 
the employ of the Shaw Carriage Company, where he remained two years in the capacity of 
blacksmith. After serving two years at carriage making with George Lowe on South Ten- 
nessee Street, he engaged in business for himself on the same street under the firm name of 
Swain & Black, and continued this successfully for one year. Then Mr. Black bought his 
partner's interest and subsequently became associated with V. M. Backus, under the firm 
name of Black & Backus, this partnership continuing one year. Mr. Black then removed 
to his present quarters. He does not attempt to compete with cheap, shoddy work shipped 
to Indianapolis, but he turns out first class hand-made work, the finest in the city or State. 
In the fall of 1893 Mr. Black was Republican candidate for city council from the tenth ward 
but although he was defeated he cut the Democratic majority, which was formerly 400, down 
to 100, thus showing his popularity. He has ever taken an active interest in the politics of 
the city and has accomplished much for the Republican party but would never accept the 
nomination for anything until last election. In the year 1870 Mr. Black was married and 
to his union has been born one daughter. Socially he has been a member of the K. of P. 
for twenty-two years. He has always taken an active interest in every enterprise for the 
city's welfare and has contrii)uted much to its advancement and progress. He is liberal in 
his views and is a supporter of church organizations, although not a member. 

C. J. Truemper, Indianapolis, was l)orn in Germany, May 4, 1853, being the son of 
Christopher and Anna (Rosendahl) Truemper, both of whom were natives of that country 
and lived there until their respective deaths. The father was a successful wholesaler and 
broker of hides, tallow, etc, and also owned and operated a hotel, being a man of wealth 
and more than ordinary intelligence. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native 
country and received a liberal education, his parents being well to do, and desirous of giving 
their children suitable advantages in the struggle for wealth, fame and happiness. He attended 
the university at Goettingen three years, where he thoroughly mastered the occupation of 
saddlery, upholstering and decorating, receiving a diploma from that famous institution. 
After completing his course at the university, he traveled throughout Germany for a year, 
working as a journeyman at his trade, after which he located near Hamburg, and secured 
a position as foreman of a large factory, continuing as such alwut five months. He then 
went to Hamburg, where he remained about a year, working in one of the largest upholster- 
ing and decorating establishments of the East, where none but the finest grade of work was 
turned out. Here he received high recommendations to Vogt, of Berlin, the leading 
decorator and upholsterer of Germany, who recently made such fine displays at the 
World's Fair, at Chicago, and who is the official decorator of the imperial court. Only 
workmen of high artistic taste, bearing the highest recommendations, were able to secure 
work there. Here Mr. Truemper spent three years, during which time he executed the 
very finest work. Owing to troubles arising from the war between France and Germany, 
and in order to escape military service, Mr. Truempei' came to America in 1873, going 
direct to Indianapolis, where he entered the employ of Alliert Gall, taking the foremanship 
of the decorating department of his business, which position he held acceptably for four 



438 MEMOIRS OF INDIANAPOLIS 

years, during which time he was also a partuer in the teut and awning department of the 
business. Mr. Truemper is the inventor of three or four valuable patents in awnin-^s 
shades, rollers, etc. which fact was one of the principal reasons that induced him to emba^'rk 
in business exclusively for himself in ISTT. He h;is been prosperous ever since, and conducts 
a large manufacturing l)U9inessiii regalias, societv goods, theatrical goods, awnintr.; etc and 
occupies for this purpose a two-story brick building. 50.xl30 feet, equipped with special 
machinery, operated by a six horse-power steam engine, and emj.lovs manv skilled work- 
men. He makes a specialty of interior and exterior decorations of buildings, and is the 
only practical public decorator in Indiana, and manv are the flattering comments, published 
and otherwise, which have been made in recognition of his natural abilitV and taste in this 
artistic direction. He was one of the originators of the annual chrvsanthemum exposi- 
tions at lomlinson Hall, and during the seven vears of its existence he has had charge of 
the same, and has executed all the beautiful decorations which have charmed the eye 
of thousands of observers. During the Columbian celebration, in 1892, Mr Truemper 
constructed and decorated the gorgeous floats for the occasion, which all so much admired 
Also during the national encampment of the G. A. R., in Indianapolis, in 18!t3. he deco- 
rated all the elaborate floats for the processions of war pageantry, which were so realistic and 
thrilling. In 1891 he was appointed chief decorator for the World's Columbian Exposi- 
tion, but owing to important business and private reasons, was unable to accept the same 
which was a real loss to the Fair management. Mr. Truemper was married in 1S78 to 
Anna Stump, a native of Indianapolis, by whom eight children have been borne, four of 
whom are living, as follows: Adolph H, Christopher J.. Lillie. A. V Mr Truemper 
is a member of the K. of P., uniformed rank: the Elks, the Red Men, the Ms-nnerchor 
Society the Turner Society, and of several social clubs. He is also a member of the 
State Floricultural Society and is president of the People's Building Association No. 4. one 
of the most successful in the city. He is a director of Castle Hall of his lodge— K 
of P.— haying passed all chairs, and is a trustee of Castle Hall Association, for the erec- 
tion of the new building which will cost $200,000. He has served officially in the Turner 
Society as treasurer, first speaker, and has held various positions of trust"in other orders 
and societies. Mr. Truemper in a Democrat in politics, and has taken an active interest in 
the past in such affairs. He is one of the sul>stantial, upright and well known German 
citizens of Indianapolis. He is a great lover of Nature and of out-door exercise and si.ort 
He has erected boats and yachts for private and public use. having purchased eighty-five 
acres of land near Nortii Indianapolis, on the White River, where he has fitted up a club 
house for public use. known as "Bellevue.'.' which he intends to make one of the most 
popular resorts for members and friends in Indiana devoted to the best interests of the 
people, and strictly a fa-nily resort. It may also be said greatly to his credit that he 
was one of the promoters and organizers of the Fresh Air Mission' for the poor children of 
the city during the heated term, which organization has proved to be tme of the most 
popular chanties m the city. All in all. he is a broad-gauged man. of highly cultivated 
tastes, of deep philanthropy and superior intelligence and public spirit. 

-M.u'RicE DoNXELLv. Tlie trade in hardwood lumber is undoubtedly one of the most 
important in Indianapolis, and the city is excellently represented in this respect by a number 
of responsible, reliable houses, among which may be mentioned that of Landers & Don- 
nelly, of which Maurice Donnelly is a member. This firm established themselves in bu.siness 
on the premises now occupied by them in 1890, at 148 South ^Vest Street, since which time 
they have met with satisfactory success, both financially and as re^rards reputation Their 
lumber yard covers aa area of 180x600 feet and is well equipped with buildincrs of all 
descriptions and is provided with every convenience for receiving and shipping the7r goods. 
They deal in all kinds of hardwood, for furniture manufacturers, agricultural implement 
makers, builders, cabinet-makers, and annually supply millions of street car and railroad 
ties, their year s sales amounting to about 10,000,00(1 feet. Thev supply a laro^e trade in 
Indiana and sister States and their time is fully occupied in. looking after their extensive 
iq'-^'o''^'''' •^^'*"'"'<"' Donnelly, the junior member of the firm, was born in Ireland April ''1 
ISoJ, his parents being Thomas and Honora (Lawler) Donnelly, the former of whom died in 
18b8. the latter being still a resident of the Isle of Erin. Maurice was left fatherless at the 



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age of uiue years, aud owing to this fact be was compelled to look out for himself at the 
early age of fourteen years; aud with this end in view he went to England, where he secured 
employment in the office of a large coal mining concern, with which lirm he remained for 
seven years, during which time he was promoted to the position of agent of the firm at 
Liverpool. In 1S82 he came^to America, and after spending a short time in New York City 
he went to Chicago, where he spent two years in the freight department of the C. M. & St. 
P. Railroad. At the end of the above mentioned time he came to Indianapolis, arriving 
in the month of August, and for four years thereafter he held a position in Landers' 
pork-house, and then became a member of the wholesale liquor firm of Hild & Donnelly, 
which tirm was in existence from 1887 to 1889, when Mr. Donnelly retired to take the 
agency of the Madison Brewing Company, with which he was connected two years. While 
thus engaged he formed a jiartnership with H. J. Landers, under the tirm name of Landel-s 
& Donnelly ami they embarked in the wholesale hardwood lumljer business, which they are 
still conducting. In 1892 Mr. Donnelly and his partner purchased a rice plantation of 600 
acres in southwest Louisiana and are extensively' engaged in the cultivation of this com- 
modity. In fact, these gentlemen are exceptionally wide awake business men and have 
built np a reputation for reliability, honesty and fair dealing which is in every sense of 
the word well deserved. In July 1891, Mr. Donnelly severed his connection with the Madi- 
son Brewing Company and accepted the management of the Indianapolis branch of the 
Terre Haute Brewing Company, which position he still retains. The growing aud prosper- 
ous business of this lu'ewery in Indianapolis and vicinity is the best evidence of Mr. Don- 
nelly's close attention to his business, the annual out-put of the sane averaging over 
80,000 barrels of which Mr. Donnelly's V)ranch disposes of over 20,000 barrels. Mr. Don- 
nelly was married in October, 1892, to Miss Sallie McCarty, a native of Indianapolis, and a 
daughter of Michael and Mary McCarty. Socially Mr. Donnelly is a member of The Elks, 
the Red Men and the Shields Club, and also the Ancient Order of Hibernians, having 
been a member of the latter order for the past ten years, and served as its president four 
years. He has been an active worker and supporter of the Democratic party aud wields a 
wide influence throughout the city. He has on various occasions been urged l)y his many 
friends to make the race for some county office, but has invariably declined, the political 
arena having no charms for him. On the 16th of November, 1893, the recorder of Marion 
County died suddenly, and the county commissioners unanimously selected Mr. Donnelly 
to till out the unexpired term of the deceased recorder. The place was tendered him 
unsolicited and is further evidence of his standing as a citizen. 

Daniel W. Noble (deceased). There is little need to portray the virtues or defend the 
memory of this gentleman, for he lives in the affection of his family and friends as a devoted 
husband, kind neighbor and public-spirited citizen. During the many years in which he 
resided in Marion County, Iiid., he was to the people all that is required in good citizenship, 
public enterprise and sympathetic friendship. In the love of his family he found his cares 
lightened aud in the respect of his fellow citizens received the reward of his faithfulness. 
This worthy representative was born in Lanesboro, Mass., February 14, 1808, and when but 
seven years of age he removed with his father to Genesee County, N. Y. He walked through 
with the wagons and helped drive the cows. From a boy he had always been industrious, 
economical and thoroughly reliable. As soon as old enough he worked out by the month 
and managed to saveenousth from his wages to embark in business for himself when a young 
man. From 1834 to 1836 he was engaged in business in Whiteford, Mich., from that date 
until 1837 he was in Boston, Mass., from 1837 until 1840 he was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
from 1840 to 1848 he was in Dayton, Ohio. During all these years he kept a book store. 
In 1840, September 8, he was married to Miss Harriet M. Blood, daughter of John Blood, 
who was born in Groton, Mass. Five children were the fruits of this union and named as 
follows: Edwin \V., born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1842, died in 1871 from the effects of a 
wound received in the array; he enlisted in the Civil War, in Company D, Twenty sixth 
Indiana Regiment; he had married Miss Ethel Hathaway in 1870, but had no children. 
Charles H. Noble served in Company K, First Indiana Cavalry, for three years; in 1865 he 
was appointed second lieutenant in the regular army by Gen. Dumont and he is now capt- 
ain of Company A, Sixteenth Infantry, at Fort Douglas, Utah; he was lirst married to 



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Miss Sallie Kline, but after her death, in 1890, he married Miss Mary E. Palmer; he has no 
children. Cyrus B. was also in the Civil War, enlisting in Company A, One Hundred and 
Thirty-second Indiana; he is now residing in Indianapolis; he married Miss Hattie Mathews 
and they have three children, as follows: Harriet M.. Mary W. and Charles C. The next 
child Ijorn to Daniel W. Noble — Frank W. — is now residing in Indianapolis: he married 
Miss Elizabeth T. Lightfoot. Daniel W., who resides on the home place, is married to 
Miss May C. Tomlinsou and they have these children: LucyE. . Edwin F. and Ruth H. 
In 1848 the father of these children removed to Indianapolis and opened a book store in 
Temperance Hall, an old-fashioned, two-story brick building standing on the north side of 
Washington Street, next to the alley east of Illinois Street. At that time he resided on the 
northeast corner of Ohio and Illinois Streets, which was then on the outskirts of the city. 
He finally sold out Lis Vmsiness and after this was associated with several others in the first 
planing-mill in the city, situated on the site of the Enterprise Hotel, on Massachusetts 
Avenue. In December, 1S54, he removed to his farm in Perry Township, Marion County, 
Ind., and there passed the remainder of his days. His record as a public and private citizen and 
neighbor was alike untarnished and in all the affairs of life he bore himself in an upright 
manner and was recognized as a man of true worth. He was thoroughly conscientious in 
all things. Though reared a Democrat he left the party at the time of the slavery agita- 
tion and ever after was an earnest Republican. He furnished three sons to tight for the old 
flag. He was not a member of any secret order nor was he a member of any church, but 
while in the city he attended the Presbyterian Church, to which he contributed liberally of 
his means. Mrs. Nol>le's father, John Blood, was reared in Groton, Mass., and was there 
married to Miss Lydia Kemp. Soon after he emigrated to Mason. N. H., and tilled the soil 
there until his death, about 1839. To his marriage were born eight children, as follows: 
John (deceased), married, and left one daughter; Moody (deceased), married, and left one 
daughter; Junia (deceased), married, and left three children; Betsey (deceased), married 
Asa Emerson and left six children: Nancy, jnarried Mr. Lakin and died, leaving one daugh- 
ter, Melissa; Mary, married Charles Nicholas first and afterward a Mr. Pratt. She is now 
deceased; Martin L. married but is now deceased, and Harriet M. married D. W. Noble 
(our subject). Mr.^. Noble's great-grandfather came from England. 

Philip Stoops. The calling of the farmer is as old as the world, and the majority of the 
men who have followed it have led upright and blameless lives, and the career of Philip 
Stoops has been no exception to this rule. He was born in Nicholas County. Ky.. February 
24. 1815, where he continued to reside until he was eighteen years of age, his educational 
advantages being quite limited in the meantime, for what few schools there were were of an 
inferior kind. In the fall of 1833 he came with his parents to Indiana, locating in Marion 
County, where the father purchased 160 acres of land, the timber on a considerable portion 
of which had been deadened but not cleared. Here he erected him a house and on this farm 
made his home the remainder of his days, dying in 185il. Prior to this be had succeeded in 
clearing about eighty acres of land and also found time to serve his country in the Black 
Hawk W'ar. He was early in life a Whig and then became a Republican and as such con- 
tinued to the last. While living in his native State of Kentucky he united with the Presby- 
terian Church but upon his arrival in Indiana, as there was no church of his denomination in his 
immediate neighborhood, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch. He was married 
thrice, first in Pennsylvania, to Nancy James, by whom he became the father of seven children: 
William, who married a Miss Graham and died leaving two children. McClellan and Susan; 
John; Philip; Betsey, who married Jacob Shearer and died leaving three children. John, George 
and Laban; Alexander, who married Elizabeth Rayburn and died leaving two children, 
James and Alice: Henrj', who married Amanda Hunter an<l died leaving three children, 
Rufus, Nancy aud Alice; Nancy (deceased), who married Andrew Shearer and became the 
mother of several children. For his second wife Mr. Stoops, Sr., took Rosanua Kephart and 
the following children were given them: Joseph (deceased); Polly, who married Nathan 
Davis; Samuel, Andrew, Ellen, who married Benjamin Springer: Sarah, who married 
Andrew Vansickle; Franklin, who died in the Federal service in 1803; Robert, who lives in 
Kansas, having served three years in an Indiana regiment during the war; Delilah, who 
married John Hanes. of Hancock County, Ind. ; Martha, who married Jeremiah Coffin, and 



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Jacob. Tbe father of these children died in 1S55 at the age of sixty-three years, his birth having 
occurred in Pennsylvaoia. The paternal grandfather, William Stoops, was also a Pennsyl- 
vanicin, born in 1750 and died in Kentucky aboiit 18'25, having l)een a soldier of the Kevolu- 
tiou. Philip Stoops, the subject of this sketch, remained with his parents until he was about 
twenty-three years old and aSjsisted his father in caring for the younger members of the family. 
In 1838 he entered eighty acres of land in Hancock County, which he kept for several years 
but never lived on, and finally sold it for $200. He next purchased eighty acres in Warren Town- 
ship, Mai'ion County, on which no improvements had been made and after his marriage in 
1838 to Edith, daughter of John Vansickle, they settled on this land and began housekeep- 
ing in a little log cabin. At various times he increased his acreage until he was the owner 
of 140 acres, only ten acres of which were cleared, but since that time he has cleared eighty 
acres. In 1861 he purchased a 100 acre tract in Warren Township, and in 1S6() bought 
eighty acres in Lawrence Township, and about ]8Sy forty more acres in that township. 
His entire land now amounts to 390 acres. To himself and wife the following children were 
liorn: Alexander, who married Catherine Morris, has four children: Mar)', Elsworth, Fran 
ces and Sarah; John, who was three years iu the Union army, first married Sarah Marshall. 
by whom he has three children: Nora (who married Andrew Witte), Albert and Edna, and 
by his second wife. Nancy Baker, )iee Carr. he had one child — Myrtle; Mary, who married 
Newton Ford, left two sons: Charles and Everett; Amanda J., who married Joseph W. 
Irwin in 18fi4 and became the mother of seven children: Charles (who died in 1873), Edgar 
(who died in 1871 ), Margaret (who died 1873), Mary (who died in 1889), Laura (who died in 
1890), Emma J. and Walter S. ; Charles W. was in the Federal service about six montlis and 
died unmarried; Francis Marion married Anna Wilmington, and during the war served six 
months in the Union army; Oliver married Elizabeth Beard by whom he has one child, Elsie 
Blanche; and Albert, who married Laura Hardesty. Mr. Stoops was left a widower in 
1873. He has for many years been connected with the Methodist Church and politically is 
a Kepublicau. His son in law, Joseph W. Irwin, was born in Butler County. Ohio, iu 1841 
and came to Indiana in tbe spring of 1861, locating in Marion County, where he enlisted in 
August. 1863, in Company B, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry from which he was honorably discharged on February 23, 1864, at Indianapolis. 
He is a son of Robert Irwin, and is a man of sound principles and much intelligence. Polit- 
ically he is a Republican and he has long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Peter Kissel. Among the substantial German-American citizens of this country, 
and especially of Marion County, Ind.,well worthy of mention, is Peter Kissel, who is a 
product of Prussia, Germany, where he was born on February 19, 1823. He was brought 
up in his native land, and attended the schools of his country from the time he was six 
years of age until he was fourteen, after which he began assisting his father, Henry Kissel, 
who was a small farmer, being the owner of altout twenty acres of land, all of which was 
in a high state of cultivation, and he was also a skillful weaver of linen. At the age of 
twenty the subject of this sketch drifted into the army, in which he served three years, 
being stationed in the city of Berlin. After serving out his term he returned home, and 
remained there until he came to America. February 17, 1848, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of George Glosner, a native of Prussia, and a week after his 
marriage he was called out for military service, liut did not remain on duty long. April 1, 
18ri2, he and his wife and two children sailed from Bremen for America, and after a voyage 
of thirty seven days landed at Philadel]ihia. From there they came to Marion County. Ind. , 
arriving May 2."), 1852, and Mr. Kissel at once secured a job on the Center Railroad, which 
had just started. Here he worked until the fall, then jiurchased sixty-five acres of land in 
Warren Township, for which he paid •*!600. There was no clearing or house on the land, 
but during the fall and winter he put up a cabin, and the following spring moved into it. 
There he has lived ever since, but has greatly improved his property, and atone time added 
ninety-six acres to it. Besides this he lias 233 acres for which he paid $4,000, but lost it 
all owing to the dishonesty of the man from whom he had purchased it, who had it mort- 
gaged for $0,000 unknown to Mr. Kissel. Mr. and Mrs. Kissel became the parents of ten 
children, three of whom died iu infancy, and the rest grew to maturity: Elizabeth, who is 
dead, became the wife of Christian Droger, and left nine children; William, Christina (^who 



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married Fritz Sutmeyer), Chris, Louisa (wlio married Chris Miller), Anna, Mena, Emma, 
John and Benjamin; Peter married Mary Caspari, by whom he had seven chiklren, and for 
his second wife chose Louisa Donner, and Ijy her has one daughter; Christina married John 
Buchfink, and has six chiklren; John married Marian Nane, and has three children; George 
P. married Sophia Nane, and has one daughter, Stelhi; Henrietta married Charles Fritsche, 
and has these children, Harry, Etta and Gustav, and Henry. Peter's children by his first wife 
were Melinda, Lena, George, Anna, Margaret, Leonard and Elizabeth. His only child 
by his second wife was named Florinda. Christina's children were named as follows: 
Anna, Mary, John, Lena, and Lisetta; John's three children are John, Eda and Emil. 
Mr. Kissel has always been a Democrat politically, and his first vote was cast for 
Jaiues Buchanan. He and his wife have long been earnest and worthy members of the 
Evangelical Church, and he is a substantial and honorable man, highly esteemed in the 
section in which he resides. He has given his sons laud as they married and settled in life, 
but still owns the home place, and is possessed of a comfortable competency. His father- 
in law was George Glosner. who married Margaret Raab, their children being Margaret 
(deceased), Elizabeth (Mrs. Kissel), and Mary (deceased). 

William B.\de. This gentleman is a successful German American farmer, who has 
made his own way in the world and is now in possession of a considerable amount of this 
world's goods. He was born in Prussia, Germany, October 5. 1837, and came to America 
with his parents in ]S46, sailing from Bremen to Baltimore, and nine weeks and two days 
later they landed in Indianapolis, Ind., where two of the father's brothers preceded him 
about ten years. Mr. Bade's father purchased sixty acres of land of a Mr. Lowman in 
Warren township, fifteen of which were cleared, and on this farm young William was brought 
up, his education l)eing limited to such schools as were held in the vicinity of his home, and 
lasted only until his fourteenth year. He remained with his parents until he attained his 
majority, then he began laboring for the various farmers in the vicinity, and so continued 
until he was twenty five years of age. He then purchased eighty acres of land of Frederick 
Piel, whose daughter, Ellen, he had married in March, 1S62, and there being a small frame 
house on the place, the young couple moved into it and began housekeeping. In this house 
they continued to make their home until 1888 when they erected a neat and commodious 
new dwelling-house. In 1865 Mr. Bade added twenty acres to his original purchase, in 1868 
twenty acres more, but in 1870 sold this tract. To himself and wifechildren as follows have 
been given: Mary, who married Chris. Brinkman, has three children : Emma, William and 
Ida; Mena. who married Chris. Ropp; Louisa; Henry; William and Ida. Mr. Bade has 
always been a Democrat, and his first vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas. He has served 
several times as supervisor of his towushi]), but aside from this has not been an aspirant for 
office. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church, as is his wife, and he has held 
official position in the same. He is a son of Aaron Bade, who was born in Prussia in 1808. 
The latter was engaged in herring fishing during the summer months, as well as following 
the occupation of farming, and by this means he made a comfortable living. He was 
married to Christina Coleman, and after coming to America and locating in Marion County, 
Ind., he became the owner of sixty acres of land, to which he later added twenty acres. On 
this fertile and well kept farm he resided until his death in 1880. He was also a Democrat 
and a member of the Lutheran Church. He and his wife became the parents of the follow- 
ing children: William, the subject of this sketch: Frederick, who married Marv Bade and 
is the father of three children: William, Emma and Charles; Henry, who married Emma 
Brademeyer and has two children: Paulina and Emma; Christina, who married Frederick 
Bucksot; Andrew, who married Mary Prange, and has three children: Albert. Louis and 
Frank, and a child that died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1847, about 
one year after their arrival in America. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, also bore the name of Aaron Bade, and liis arrival in the United States dates from 
1841. but about four years after his arrival he died in Wheeling, W. Va. , at the home of his 
son, Frederick. 

William Sanders. The earliest ancestor of which the subject of this sketch has any 
knowledge, was Joel Sanders, his grandfather, who was presumably a native of South Caro- 
lina. He was an early emigrant to Georgia, in which State he married and spent the rest 



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of his days, his death occurring before the subject of this sketch was born. He was the 
father of two chihhen, William, and Barbara, who married Samuel Whitson, by whom she 
became the mother of one daughter. Charity. Their son William was born in the Palmetto 
State in 1777, was taken by his parents to Georgia and in 1800 removed to Ohio and in 1832 
became a pioneer settler of the Hoosier State. He located on a farm of 320 acres in Deca 
tur Township, Marion County, which he bought of Martha Hawkins and her heirs, and here 
he lived a contented, prosperous and useful life until the hand of death closed his career in 
1841. He was united in the bonds of matrimony with Amy, daughter of Daniel Williams, 
and to them a good old fashioned family of thirteen children were given, two of whom died 
in infancy. Those who grew to maturity are as follows: Sarah (deceased) married William 
Scott and after his death Samuel Millhouse, who is also deceased (she left live children); 
Mary (deceased) married Enoch Mills (deceased) and is survived bj' six children; Charity 
(deceased) married Mark Mills (deceased) and has four surviving children; Rebecca 
(deceased) married Moses Rich by whom she became the mother of four children; Daniel 
(deceased) married Rachel Mills, then Mary Haughton, and for bis third wife took Cynthia 
Mendenhall (he has five surviving children); Rebecca (deceased) married Moses Reid and 
has four living children; Joel married Mary Bates first and afterward Elizabeth Jones (he 
has two children); Eli (deceased) first married Ruth Mills and afterward Jane Burham and 
has a family of ten children who survive him; Elihu (deceased) was married to Bathsheba 
Boles by whom he has three surviving children; Rhoda and William. The father of these 
children was a member of the Friends Church and politically was a Whig. The subject of 
this sketch, a sister and his brother Joel are the only surviving members of his father's fam 
ily, and like their father before them they are all members of the Quaker Church and like 
him and all who belong to that religious sect, are honest, industrious. God-fearing, peaceable 
and laW'al)iding people. William and Joel are Republicans in their political views, and 
l)oth have served as supervisors in their township. They are men of worth and have good 
and comfortal)le homes, the result of honest and persistent effort. 

Nathan Ratliff. Among the representative farmers of Decatur Township we are 
pleased to present a sketch of the gentleman whose Tiame appears at the head of this para- 
graph, and whose pleasant home and excellent farm attest, the thrift and enterprise of the 
owner. His father, Joseph Ratliff, was born in North Carolina in 1788 and there grew to 
manhood and married Miss Rebecca Lamb, daughter of Isaac Lamb. In 1816 he came to 
Indiana and located in Wayne County, near Richmond, and there resided until the sjiring 
of 1824, when he moved to Henry County, Ind. Here he entered 440 acres of land, the 
patents being signed by John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson, settled in the green timber 
and there resided until his death in 1837. To his marriage were born nine children, as 
follows: Jane, deceased, married Bailej- Pearson and became the mother of a family of 
children. Three of her sons served in the Civil War. Reuben, deceased, was married 
twice. His first wife was Margaret Kendall. His second marriage was with Penelope N. 
Bell, deceased, and they have two living children, Margaret and Elias. Huldah (deceased) 
married Daniel Pressnall (deceased), and these children were born to them, Rebecca, Han- 
nah. Joseph, Lindley M.. Jesse. Cynthia, Elizabeth and Sarah. Anna (deceased) was the 
wife of John Hinshaw (deceased), and they have children living as follows: Cynthia, John 
and Rebecca. Elizabeth (deceased) was the wife of Elisha Dana and they have several children. 
Jesse died unmarried. Eli married Jane Draper and they have three children. Huldah. 
Calvin and Charles. Nathan (our subject), and John (deceased), who married Asenath 
Palmer and became the father of one child, Franklin. The father of these children was a 
Quaker in his religious views and never bore arms. He was an elder in the Friends Church 
when he died. Previous to his death he had cleared about ninety acres of land in Henry 
County, Ind., and was a prosperous farmer and an excellent citizen. Richard Ratliff, the 
grandfather of our subject, was a native of North Carolina, born about 1762, and came to 
Indiana about 1816. He died in Henry County, Ind., about 1827. He had married Miss 
Bettie Pearson and to them were born these children: Anna, Joseph, Nathan, Mary, 
Jonathan, Richard, Gabriel. Elizabeth and Cornelius. All are deceased (1893) except the 
last named who resides in Grant County, Ind. The subject of this sketch was born in Henry 
County, Ind. , about four miles west of Newcastle, December 9, 1824, and there he was 



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' taught the anluons duties of the farm. He received his education in the subscription 
schools of those days, three months during the winter session, and attended until seventeen 
years of age. He was only thirteen years of age when his father died and he remained on 
the old home place till about forty years of age. He was married first in 1852 to Penelope, 
d:inghterof Tristram Coggeshall, a native of North Carolina. Six children were born to this 
union. Cyntliia, who married J. M. Ballard; Dr. Barclay KatlifF, of West Newton, who mar- 
lied Miss Emma Allen and became the father of one daughter, Hilary: William H., unmarried; 
Millicent H. died when twenty-five years of age; Ruth E.. unmarried, and Naomi, who died 
when twenty-four years of age. Mr. Ratliff's tirst wife died February 22, 1864. and our sub- 
ject was married again in ISf)'") to Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Casterling) Furnas, 
and to this second union were bora three children, Joseph F., unmarried: Luther H. and 
Mary, the last two also unmarried. While residing in Henry County onr subject acted as 
one of the three trustees of Harrison Township. In politics he is a Republican and cast his 
first vote for Martin Van Bnren in 1848. The next election he voted for John P. Hale, also a 
Free Soiler; in 1856 he voted for John C. Fremont, and since then he has voted the straight 
Re()ublican ticket. He lielongs to the Friends Church. 

WiLMAM Leem.\n. On the farm on which he now resides William Leemaa first saw the 
light of ilay, Novemljer 20, 18^13, and there he has made his home ever since. This land, 
consisting of 240 acres, was entered by his father, John Leemau, at an early day, the patent 
being signed by President Andrew Jackson. The educational advantages of W'iliiam Lee- 
man were confined to the early subscription scliools of Decatur township, which he attended 
about two months out of tlie year up to the age of twenty one, although during this time he 
missed attending several winters. Politically he has always been a Republican, and cast his 
first Presidential vote for John C. Fremont. He has long been a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and is an active member of the Masonic fraternity, liesides being a worthy, 
upright and useful citizen of the section in which he has so long made his home. His father 
was born in the vicinity of Bardstown, Ky., in 1800 and in early manhood came with his 
parents to Indiana, locating in Hendricks County, near the Marion ('ountyline. He was mar- 
ried in 1829 to M-ugaret, daughter of Parker and Mary (McCreery) Keeler and as above stated 
became possessed of a fine farm of 240 acres in Marion County, the most of which was cov- 
ered with a heavy growth of timber. He built thereon a log house in which he lived until 
his death in 1847, prior to which event he had become the father of two children: James, who 
was born March 7, 1S31, and was married to Nancy, daughter of John Vogus, after which 
he resided on a portion of his father's farm until his death, in 1883, his wife having been 
called from life in 1871, leaving four children: Rosenna. who married Eli Stiusou and has 
one child, Chester: Pliama J. who married Reuben P. Cox, and has one daughter, Ada: 
Enoch S., ami William P. The father of these children was a Republican, and a member of 
the Jlethodist Episcopal Church, with which church his mother was connected, while his 
father was a communicant of the Christian Church. Robert Leeman, the paternal giand- 
father of the subject of this sketch, was a Kentuckiau by birth and upon his removal to Indi- 
ana in an early day. he entered eighty acres of land in Hendricks County, upon which he lived 
until his death. His family consisted of eight children whose uaujes, so far as remembered, 
are as follows; John; George, who married a Miss Cook, and died in 1889; Sarah (deceased), 
first married a Mr. Jessup, by whom slie had two children, and for her second husband, 
wedded James Merritt, by whom she had several children; Martha, now the widow of Edward 
Merritt; Elizubeth. tiie widow of Edward Sharp; Cornelius who married Sarah A. Schultz; 
William, who inarried Harriet Edwards; and Jane, who married William Edwards. Robert Lee- 
man was a soldier of the War of 1812. The mother of William Leeman, the subject of this 
sketch, died on the February, 20, 1889. 

WiLLi.AM Bo.ATKKiHT. This gentleman is a product of Marion County, Ind., his birth 
occurring on the farm owned by his paternal grandfather, \\'illiam Cool, in Wayne township, 
September 16, 1837. There he resided with his parents until lie was about twelve years of 
age, after which he made his home in the vicinity of his liirtbplace. but upon another farm, 
until he was about twenty seven. He attended the early subscription schools quite regularly 
until he was about fifteen years of age, and after that irregularly up to the age of twenty- 
one. November 7, 1865, he won for his wife Eliza J., daughter of Charles and Mary 



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(Jobuson) Robiuson, very soon after which he tnoved on to u rented farm of eighty acres in 
Center township, where he made his home for about a year, then rented 3<)0 acres in Decatiir 
township, and two years later he rented 1 2( I acres more. His next move was to the river in the 
vicinity of Cold Springs where he rented thirty acres of Mr. Barth and seventy-live acres of 
N. McCarby, the thirty acres being principally devoted to the raising of garden products. 
Some time later he purchased twenty acres in Belmont (now West Indianapolis) out of which 
he made a garden, iu addition to which he still continued to rent a part of the land belong- 
ing to Mr. McCarby, in all from fifty tive to seventy-five acres. He then purchased 124 
acres in the southeast part of Decatur township of John Billingsly, for which he paid 110,000 
in cash iu 1871, and to this tract he has added from time to time until he is now the owner 
of 375 acres, about thirty-five acres being still devoted to gardening. He has always been 
a Democrat politically and his first Presidential vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas. He 
became the father of seven children, one of whom. Marietta, died in iufaney. The others 
are; Nellie, C!harley, William B., Bertha M., George and Laura B. The mother of these 
children died in 18S3, since which time Mr. Boatright has remained unmarried. His father, 
Carey Boatright, was born iu Virginia in 1810 and when grown came to Indiana, locating in 
Marion County, where he laid out what is now West Indiana, or rather what was then known 
as Boatriglit's addition to Indianapolis. He was married in 1836 to Sarah, the daughter of 
William Cool, and William, the subject of this sketch, was their only child. She was his 
third wife and died in 1885. He was by trade a carpenter, but later turned his attention to 
farming, in which occupation he was fairly successful. 

WiNFiELD Tayloh Wkight. Ou the farm on which he is now residing the subject of 
this sketch first saw the light of day November 0, 1847, and there he was reared and l)ecame 
familiar with the duties attendant upon farm life. He obtained a practical education in the 
common schools which were conducted in the vicinity of his rural home, and a part of the 
time attended the subscription schools which were in vogue in his early boyhood. His school 
days ended when he was about fourteen years of age, and he then assisted his father on the 
farm until his marriage, which occurred December 20, 1876, to Maria, daughter of Charles 
Robinson, when he began doing forhimself. His union has resulted in the birth of a daughter, 
Minnie. Mr. Wright has always been a Republican in politics, and has served in the capacity 
of supervisor of his district, but aside from that has not been an aspirant for office. He and 
his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and command the utmost respect 
in the community in which they live. The father of Mr. Wright, Hiram Wright, was born 
in Washington County, Ind., January 18, 1819, and lived there until 1831, when he came 
\yith his parents to Marion county and located in Perry Township on a farm on Lick Creek. 
There he resided until 1845, when he was married to Mary A.* daughter of Andrew Hoover, 
and came to Wayne Township, locating on 160 acres of land, which had been given him liy 
his father. Here he lived until his death in 1888, having been first a Whig and afterward 
a Republican in his political views, and served as one of the three treasurers of Wayne 
Township. To him and his wife six children were given, three of whom lived to maturity; 
as follows: Winfield T. , the subject of this sketch; Missouri who married Bales Fatout, of 
Indianapolis, and had one daughter: Pearl R. ; and Noah, who married Emma Brice and has 
seven children: Austin, Oscar, Nellie, Edna, Frank, Harry and Margaret. The paternal 
grandfather was Noah Wright, who was born in North Carolina, August 30, 1784, and at an 
early day came to Indiana locating in Washington County, where he was married to Susanna 
Parr, by whom he had a family of six children: Betsy A. (deceased), who married James 
Rooker, and had one son: Hiram; Hiram; Isaac (deceased), who married Ellen Martin and 
had two children: Alfaretta (Bailey) and Harriet (Myers); Folly A. (deceased), who married 
Morris Wise (deceased); Jasper N., who married and became the father of five children: 
Susan (Kegi-ice), Elmer, Newton, Harry and Jane; Susanna (deceased), who married Eli 
Haverstick, and has two children: Mary (Morgan) and Christiana (Moffett). The father of 
these children died in 1863, having at one time served as sheriff of Washington County, Ind. 

FnRMAN Stout. Agricultural pursuits have formed the chief occupation of this gentle- 
man, and the wide-awake manner in which he has taken advantage of every method and idea 
tending to the enhanced value of his property, has had considerable to do with his success 
in life. Born in Marion County, Wayne Township, Ind., November 9, 1850, he is a son of George 



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W. auil Sarah (Homaii) Stout, who celebrated their nuptials in 1849. The father wae a 
native of Illinois, horn in lH2h, ami he there reujaiiied until six years of age, when he 
came with his parents to Marion County, Ind. His father, Thomas Stout, purchased 240 
acres and on this passed the rest of his days. George W . Stout grew to manhood on this 
farm and secured a fair education in Marion County. His marriage resulted in the birth of 
six children, three of whom are living at the present time: Furman, our subject; Anna, who 
married Moses A. Williams, and Joseph C, who married and became the father of two chil- 
dren. Politically Mr. Stout is a Democrat. Although not a member of any church he was 
public spirited and contributed liberally to all worthy enterprises. His wife died in 1868 
and he was married the second time. He was a soldier in the Mexican War. Thomas Stout, 
grandfather of our subject, was a man of education and tilled many positions of trust and 
honor. He affiliated with the Democratic party and served in the State Senate and House 
of Representatives. He was also elected commissioner of Marion County, Ind., and tilled 
that position many years. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. The subject of this sketch 
grew to mature years in his native county, received a fair education in the schools of Wayne 
Township and assisted his father on the farm iintil twenty-tive years of age, when he cele- 
brated his nuptials with Miss Kansas Brown, daughter of Peter B. and So]ihia (Holmes) 
Brown. In 1S79 he and his family moved to Butler County, Kan., and he there tilled the 
soil until 1883, when he returned to Wayne Township, Marion County, Ind., satisfied to 
remain there. He bought 150 acres of the Brown heirs and on this he has since made his 
home. His marriage resulted in the birth of four children, as follows: George E., Everson, 
Walter and Ella. Like his father and grandfather, our subject is a Democrat in his political 
views and is quite prominent in local politics. In 1884 he was elected trustee of Wayne 
Township, and was re elected to that position. In 1891 he was elected commissioner of 
Marion County, In<l., and that office he now holds to the entire satisfaction of all. Socially 
he is a Mason. 

William Co.ssell. We present with pleasure a sketch of the life history of one of the 
liest known farmers and citizens of Marion County, Ind., William Cossell, whose birth 
occurred in Butler County, Ohio, March 11, 1811. His parents, John and Mary (Holmes) 
Cossell, were married in Kentucky. The father was a native of Germany, born in 1764, 
and came to America about the time of the Revolutionary War. He first settled in 
Maryland, then in Kentucky, afterward in Ohio, and finally, in 1823, he made a perma- 
nent settlement in Indiana. There his death occurred aljout 1850. His marriage resulted 
in the birth of twelve children, two of whom died young: George (deceased), William (our 
subject), Frank (deceased), Polly, David (deceased), Martha, Peter (deceased), Betsy, Seth, 
Jane and Tiny (twins), and Sallie. The father of these children was a soldier in the War 
of 1812. In politics he was a Democrat. Our subject's grandfather, Peter Cossell, was a 
native of Germany, born in 1727, ami came to America after his marriage. He was a 
soldier in the Revolution and died about 1817. William Cossell passed his youthful days 
on a farm, and came to Marion Count}', Ind., with his parents in 1823. For one year 
his parents resided in Indianapolis, but the next year they bought about 135 acres in 
Wayne Township, all green timber, aud on this farm our subject grew to mature years. 
His education was received in the primitive log school-house of pioneer days, in Wayne 
Township, and he also attended a school in Perry Township, about three miles from his 
home. When sixteen years of age he left the school room, but remained under the 
parental roof until twenty-five years of age. He selected his life companion in the person 
of Miss Hannah Hoover, daughter of Andrew Hoover, and this union was celelirated in 
1836. After his marriage he moved on a tract of 16(1 acres he had purchased in Wayne 
Township for $900. Of this tract eight or nine acres were "bushwhacked," and a little 
log cabin erected. In this cabin Mr. and Mrs. Cossell resided for a year, and then a 
hewn log cabin, 18x16 feet was erected. Three years later Mr. Cossell erected the frame 
house in which he now lives. He has cleared about 100 acres and has ever been classed 
among the representative pioneer settlers of the county. Of the nine children born to his 
marriage four died when young. The others were named as follows: Abijah, who is single; 
Eliza married Samuel Corbeley and they have two children, Louisa and George; Mary 
married Isaac Julian, but is now deceased; Andrew married, first, Miss Mary Dyke, who 




THOMAS TACGART. 




CHAEI.KS RIEMAX. 

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bore him two chiklreu, Charley and Bert (his second marriage was with Miss Lizzie 
Armstrong, daughter of Tiiomas Armstrong); aud Emily, deceased. Although uot a strict 
partisan, Mr. Cossell generally votes with the Democratic party. He is not a member of 
any church, nor is he a member of any society, but he is public spirited and liberal, and 
contributes freely to all worthy causes. He had the misfortune to lose his wife in 1889. 

Andrew W. MoOuat. Like many of the prominent citizens of Marion County. Ind., 
Mr. Andrew W. McOnat is a native of the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, born in Lexing- 
ton, May 8, 1830, and when an infant came with his parents, Thomas and Jeanette S. (Lock- 
erbie) McOuat, to Indiana. The father was a native of Scotland, born in 1795, and remained 
in his native country until grown. He then crossed the ocean to America, located in Le.x- 
ington, Ky., and was there married to Miss Lockerbie. About 18'21 he moved with his fam- 
ily to tlie Hoosier State and located in Indianapolis, where he purchased property. To his 
marriage were born these children: Elizabeth A. (deceased), Ona Fiutler (deceased), George 
(died in 1872), Robert L. (deceased), Andrew W. (our subject), and Mary G. The father 
of these children died in 1838 leaving the family in limited circumstances. The son, George, 
assumed control of the family and greatly assisted his mother in rearing the younger mem 
bers. He never married but remained with his mother. For sixteen years he served as 
deputy United States marshal under different administrations and was a very popular man. 
In politics he was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in this section. He took a 
deeper interest in matters of a higher character than mere material things, and not only won 
an enviable reputation for public spirit, as shown in his various labors for the material and 
moral advancement of the county, but he was also admired and respected for personal and 
social qualities of the highest order. No better man made his home in this county. Andrew 
W. McOuat grew to manhood in Indianapolis and there received a good, practical education, 
being one of the "Old Seminary Boys." He was married in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 18r)3, to 
Miss Ellen M. McCrossin, daughter of Patrick McCrossiu, a native of Dublin, Ireland. 
Previous to his marriage, in 184(), Mr. McQuat entered the employ of Jacob and Charles 
Cox aud learned the turner's trade, serving a four years' apprenticeship. In 18')], he and 
his brother, Robert L., embarked in the .stove and tinware business, and carried this on 
iintil 1870, when our subject retired. He was out of business until 1880 when he bought 
out his brother and carried on the business very successfully until 1887. He then retired 
and is now residing in a lieautiful brick house on a farm of 245 acres in Wayne Town- 
ship. This land he purchased in 1883 and he has it well cultivated and well improved. 
Although not a member of any church or society he is liberal and generous in his su]>port 
of all worthy enterprises and is a public-spirited citizen. Nine children were born to his 
first union, five of whom are now living: Thomas, George (who married Miss Jennie Wright), 
Mary F. (who married Clay Rockwell), Jennie (who married George Catterson), and Will- 
iam A. (who is single). Mr. McOnat married for his second wife Miss Barbara Nelp who 
bore him four children, as follows: John Paul, Malcolm, Kenneth and Donald. Like his 
brother George, our subject is a stanch supporter of Democratic principles, and his tirst 
presidential vote was cast for Franklin Pierce. 

James H. Huls. The hotel is a modern invention and is practically limited to enlight- 
ened countries. The ancient caravansary of the East was merely a place where travelers 
and their camels, donkeys and horses might rest together in one great common apartment, 
no board being supplied, and they were usually owned by the city or country. In many 
self-styled civilized countries to-day dependence for food and shelter is had upon private 
families. The modern hotel is a product of the age and is in keeping with its dignity and 
importance. It is a marvel of comfoi't, luxury and ease. Among the hotels of Indianapolis 
may be mentioned the "Castle Hotel,'' situated at 28.V Massachusetts Avenue, the projuietor 
being James H. Huls, who is a bright, cheerful, social gentleman, who looks after the wants 
of his gnests with careful attention. It is not every man who " knows how to keep a hotel," 
and many have been disappointed in the experience. The successful hotel keeper must be a good 
judge of human nature; must know how to make his guests feel at home without being fussy; 
must be a connoisseur in the matter of good things to eat and supply them ; must know now 
to hear the complaints of cranks, and of men and women who have never been much at 
hotels, without being disturbed. Mr. and Mrs. Huls are very competent hotel managers, and 



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keep a well-equiiiped honse. Cleanlinpss, which is said to be nest to godliness, is apparent 
everywhere, and this house is a popiihir stopping place with the traveling pnblic. Mr. Huls 
was born in Wayne Township, Marion County, lud., in 1845, and was reared on a farm — a 
good plage to develop good muscle and correct habits. It was this yoiing man's habit to 
teach school in winter and work on his father's farm in summer. Later he came to Indian- 
apolis and engaged in several lines of business which he carried on very successfully. He 
selected his wife in the person of Miss Mary V. Deputy, daughter of George Deputy. She 
is a ladj' of much force of character, and tills well her position in life. After marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Huls engaged in the grocerj' business for tive years, at the corner of North and 
Douglas Streets, and kept boarders for a number of years. Mr. Huls was for a time assist- 
ant superintendent of the county infirmary. The experience of our subject and wife in the 
boarding-house was a good schooling for their present position. The Castle Hotel is a new 
house, both as to building and furniture, and from top to liottom it is in " apple pie order." 
Joseph Huls, father of our subject, was a native Kentuekian, born in Fleming County, No- 
vember 21, 1821, where he lived on a farm until fifteen years of age, attending school in 
Flemingsburg. In 1830 he came with his jiareuts to Indiana and located in Marion County. 
Wayne Towushiji, where he made his home until 1878, after which he moved over the line 
into Hendricks County. He remained under the parental roof until 1844, when he married 
Miss Elizabeth Nun, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Oliuger) Nun, and subsequently rented 
what is known as the McDowell farm, which he cultivated for twenty-five years. In 1875 
he bought the farm in Hendricks County and there he resides at the present time. He is 
a Repul)lican in politics, and a member of the Christian Church. Five children were born 
to his marriage, as follows: James H., our subject; Mary J., wife of James Wills, is the 
mother of three children, Edith. George and William; George W. ; Harrison F., who mar- 
ried Miss Victoria Mitchell, and they have two children, Willard and Ernest; and Charles 
B. The mother of those children passed away in February, 1890. Thomas Huls. grand- 
father of subject, was a native of the Keystone State, born in 1783, and was married in Ken 
tncky to Miss Elizabeth Miller. In 1830 he came to the Hoosier State where he died about 
1856. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife died in 1879. They were the parents 
of twelve children, ten of whom lived to mature years, as follows: Henry, deceased: Mary, 
deceased; Alexander; Joseph; Richard, who enlisted in the Seventieth Regiment Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. and died while in service; Sanders; James, 
deceased, was a soldier in the Civil War, and his death was the result of wounds received 
wiiile in service; John, also a soldier, died while in service; Rachel; and Alfred, deceased. 
He was a soldier in the Seventh Regiment, Indiana Infantry, and died in 1888. Our sub 
ject's paternal great-grandfather was Richard Huls, and his great-great-great-grandfather 
Huls was Ijorn in Germany. His great grandfather on the maternal side, William Miller, 
was a soldier in the Revolution. 

Ernst Hukriede. One of the most beautiful and appropriate ideas in the decorations for 
house parties and other entertainments is the use of flowers, and among those who follow the 
occupation of growing them in Indianapolis is Ernst Hukriede who has aided largely in the cult- 
ure of its inhabitants by placing at their disposal large quantities of the choicest and most bean 
tifulcut flowers at reasonable prices. He shows the utmost taste and skill in his arrangement 
of floral designs, and in the matter of decorations he shows undoubted artistic talent. He has a 
well stocked green house located on State Avenue and Sycamore Street, near the German 
Orphan Asylum, and his retail store is at 528 Virginia Avenue. Mr. Hukriede is a German 
bv nativitv, his birth occurring in Prussia, August 20, 1837, and on the farm belonging to his 
father, Henry Hukriede, who died in Prussia about 1802, he was reared and learned lessons 
of industry, honesty, and economy, which have since been of great benefit to him in his walks 
through life. The early education of Mr. Hukreide was not neglected and in the schools of 
his native land he acquired a sufficient knowledge of books to enable him to successfulh" battle 
with the world when he left home and friends to seek his fortune beyond the Atlantic. He 
landed in the city of New York on Noveml)er 25, 1864, the day after Thanksgiving, and he 
at once came west as far as Cincinnati, and during the year that he remaineil in that city, he 
did what his hands found to do, and did it with all his might. Being pleased with this 
country he determined to make it his future home, and in order to further any business enter- 



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prise he might undertake he determined to learn to read and write, as well as speak, the Eng- 
lish language, aud pursued his studies with such earuestiiess and zual that he is how proti- 
cient with the AngloSaxou language. The various occupations that he had followed have 
been thoseof brick making, paper-making and railroading, being for twenty-one yearsconnected 
with the passenger service of the Vandalia Railroad. While still connected with this road he 
built a green-house at 37 Henry Street, but after a time sold this property and erected his 
present commodious and substantial greenhouse, which is well located and has a paying 
patronage, which has been built up through the energy and fair dealing of Mr. Hukriede and 
his son, Frederick R., who has been associated with him for some time. Mr. Hukriede is an 
Independent in politics, aud votes rather for the man than the party. He is a liberal patron 
of the German Orphan Asylum. In 1S70 he was married to Miss Johanna Schelleuberg, a 
native of the same place as himself. She died June 25, 1876, leaving three children, Freder- 
ick R., being the only surviving member. His present wife was Miss Sophia Martin, who 
was born in Mecklenburg. Germany, and both are members of the church and are liberal con 
tributors to enterprises of a worthy nature. Mr. Hukriede may be termed a self-made man, 
for upon his arrival in Cincinnati he had just 5 cents, in money, and what he now has, has 
been earned by his own efforts since that time, a fact greatly to his credit. 

Mrs. Ellen Butcher, florist. The calling of the florist is one for which women seem 
to be naturally adapted, for their love of the beautiful and their finely developed artistic 
sense, as well as their industry and vigilance (without which the business would be a fail- 
ure), are essential to success in this line of work. Mrs. Butcher's home and green-house are 
at Irviugton, Ind., but she keeps a well supplied stand at the market-house, also a large 
supply of all kinds of fresh vegetables during the season. She has followed the calling of 
a florist for some fifteen years, but commenced with a very limited stock, which she gradu- 
ally but continuously increased, until she now has three large green-houses, surrounding 
which are seven acres of ground, a large portion of which she uses for bedding plants. She 
also formerly dealt in small fruit, but her flowers and vegetables now occupy most of her 
time and attention, although she raises sufiicient fruit for her own use. Her place is noted 
far and wide for its beauty and for the fact that every nook and cranny of it is utilized and 
kept in the neatest possible manner. Mrs. Butcher was born in Germany, that country that 
has given to the United States so many of her most estimable, enterprising, thrifty and 
industrious citizens, and in girlhood came to this country with her parents and settled with 
them in Blair County, Penn. In that State the father was called from life, but the mother's 
death occurred in Marion County, Ind., at the home of Mrs. Butcher, near the city of 
Indianapolis. Mrs. Butcher attended the common schools of Pennsylvania, where she 
ol)tained a practical education. She has always had a great fondness for flowers, but never 
raised them only for her own pleasure until she commenced in earnest some fifteen years ago. 
She is the only florist that has a stand in the market place, and conseqently makes laige 
sales there. She raises everything that there is a demand for, and has many rare aud 
beautiful plants, her green-houses being "bowers of beauty." She is assisted in her labors 
by her daughter, and deserves much credit for the way in which she has bent the force of 
circumstances to her will, and for the competence which she has gained. She is a member 
of the Indiana Society of Florists and has long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Irvington, Ind., in which she has been trustee. She has been a class leader, a 
Sunday-school teacher, and for years has taken a deep interest in church affairs. She is held 
in high esteem by all who know her, and her good name and honor are above reproach. 

Samuel W. Cochr.\ne. As a discriminating and competent man of affairs aud as an effi- 
cient and thoroughly posted contractor and builder, Samuel W. Cochrane has not his supe- 
rior. He was born in the city of New York in 1835, a son of Robert Cochrane, who was a 
native of Scotland, who learned the calling of a contractor and builder and when a middle 
aged man came to the United States and located in the city of New York. He became the 
superintendent for an extensive contractor there, doing public work, and after a time moved 
to Richmond, Va., where he engaged in contracting for himself. In 1850 he took up his 
residence in Madison, lud., where he was later called from life. In the public schools of 
Richmond, Va. , Samuel W. obtained a good practical education as he grew up, and at odd 
times worked under his father at the carpenter's trade, thoroughly learning the details of 



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tbe business, and after be bad reaebed a suitable age be and a hrotber became tbeir fatber's 
associate in business. Later Samuel W. branclied out for biniself and coming to tbe city of 
Indianapolis in 1864 to Ijuild a liouse, be decided to remain and bere bas made bis borne 
ever since. For a sbort time be was in tbe Fifty-tiftb Indiana Regiment as first lieutenant 
and was a participant in tbe battle of Kicbmond, Ky., wbere bj' a miracle be escaped deatb. 
He was wounded on tbe bead by a passing cannon ball, but fortunately not severely. In 
tbis city be built tbe fourtb and nintb ward scbool- bouses, tbe Wyandotte block, tbe Holli- 
day block and many otber business blocks, as well as numerous bandsome and costly private 
residences. For four years be was engaged in farming in Jefferson County, but witb tbat 
exception bis time and attention bas been given to contracting, in wbicb be may be said to 
bave been remarkably successful and commands bis full sbare of work. He was married 
in 1858 to Eliza Taylor of Jefferson County, Ind., by wbom be bas two daugbters. Socially 
be is a member of tbe I. O. O. F. and is trustee of Meridian Lodge, No. 480 of tbat order. 
He is a memtier of Cbapman Post of tbe Gr. A. li. , is a member of tbe Builders Escbauge 
and the Contractors Association. He is an agreeable and affable gentleman, courteous and 
kind hearted, and bis friends are legion. 

George S. Henry. If any firm in Indianapolis possesses a monument to its progress it 
is tbe firm of Henry & Worthington, contractors, for tbeir name is identified with tbe erec- 
tion of some of tbe noblest structures in the city. George S. Henrj-, tbe senior member of 
the firm, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1839, and is the son of John Henry, who was a 
successful farmer near tbat city. Our subject received his education in Parma, N. Y., and 
partly served an apprenticeship before the war. Filled with a patriotic desire to serve his 
country, he enlisted August 5, 1862, in the One Hundred and Eighth New York Volunteers, 
and was afterward transferred to tbe Regulars, Fifteenth United States Infantry, witb which 
be remained tbi'ee years and six months, lacking the time be was with the former company. 
His command was at Lookout Mountain when the war closed but be was stationed at Mobile, 
Ala., until December 13, 1805. He was in many battles, the most prominent being Sharps- 
burg, Chickamauga. Missionary Ridge, and the fight from Dalton to Atlanta. At tbe close of 
service he came to Indianapolis, and began working at his trade. He has been contracting 
most of the time since then and for some time was in partnership with Charles L. Wollen- 
weber, James Williams and recently with Mr. Worthington, bis present partner. It is 
hardly necessary to state that Mr. Henry is one of tbe most popular and reliable con- 
tractors in the city, and is well liked by all who bave dealings with him. In politics he is 
a stanch Republican. 

Robert Worthington, junior member of the above mentioned and well-known firm is 
a product of Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., born November 20, 1861, and tbe son of J. 
M. Worthington, who was a native of the Empire State. The father came west many years 
ago and sold goods to the Indians. He was a partner of Samuel Moore who was the founder 
of Mooresville, and passed the remainder of his days in M<jrgan County, this State, bis 
death occurring in 1877, when sixty-eight years of age. For many years be was a farmer 
and was very successful in that occupation. He held a number of public offices and was 
sheriff of Morgan County two terms, just prior to the war. In religion he was a Methodist 
and in politics be was a Republican. Robert Worthington was the youngest of nine children 
and his education was received in the schools of Mooresville, from which he graduated. In 
1870 be came to Indianapolis and started to learn his trade, first in the car works. Later he 
went to Streator, 111., and was under R. C. Meyer, the father of Billy Meyer, the pugilist, 
servint' an apprenticeship of three years. After that be embarked in business there, con- 
tracting, and remained in that place for four years when he returned to Indianapolis and 
opened a restaurant at 156 West Washington Street. This be followed for nearly four 
years and having made considerable money, he quit business and went back to tbe old trade. 
For some time he was foreman for J. E. Shover, but subsequently be formed a partnership 
with Mr. Henry and has continued with him since. Mr. Worthington is a popular business 
man, and is abundantly worthy of the large measure of success attending his efforts. Polit- 
ically he is a Republican, and socially a member of the K. of P., Lodge No. 56. 

LoDis L. L.^NGE. Among the most popular and successful painters, grainers and paper- 
hangers of the city of Indianapolis, the name of Louis L. Lange stands prominent, and as 



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a contractor in his liue he has all the busiuesH he can properly attend to. He was born in 
Napoleon, Ripley County, Ind., fifty three years ago, his father, Joseph E. Lange, having 
been born in France. When a young man of about sixteen years of age he came to the 
United States and in 1837 located in the city of New York, after which he moved to Brook- 
ville, Ind., and later to Kijiley County, this State, and here followed the calling of a mer- 
chant and farmer, and as he was shrewd and far seeing in his views he made a success of 
his enterprises and accumulated a competency. He became a leader of the Democratic 
party in Ripley County and there held many positions of honor and trust, in the discharge 
of which he showed himself capable, honorable and painstaking. He was also prominent as 
a Mason and on numerous occasions represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge of the State. 
At the time of his death he was about the age of sixty-nine years, and during all this time 
naught was ever said derogatory to his honor. He was married to Julia Ann Lindley in this 
State, but she was born in Ohio, and still survives him. Louis L. Lange was the eldest of 
their thirteen children and received a good common education in the public schools of Rip- 
ley County, after which he attended the State Universit}' for two years. Upon leaving this 
institution he entered his father's store, and still later was in the recorder's office. In June, 
1861, he joined Company I, Thirteenth Indiana Infantry with which he served until June 
30, 1804, participating in the battles of Rich Mountain, Winchester, Fort Wagner, Chester 
Station, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, and many others. After the war closed and he had 
returned to his home, he learned his trade and commenced business for himself, opening an 
establishment of his own in this city in 1867. He is not only a neat, skillful and rapid 
worker but he is also artistic, and his taste in all matters pertaining to his work cannot be 
(piestioned. He has always taken an active part in the conventions of the Democratic party 
as a delegate, but has not been a political aspirant. He is also a member of the G. A. R. 
■In 1867 he was married to Mary A. Eaton, of Ripley County. 

James Tobin. Enterprise and square dealing methods frequently lead to more flatter- 
ing results than the practice of sharp and unscrupulous business measures, and when these 
qualities are combined with a thorough knowledge of the business engaged in, it is sure to 
bring a legitimate and well deserved reward. The business career of James Tobin has been 
a successful one, and as a builder and contractor he has not his superior in Indianapolis. 
He owes his nativity to Madison County, Ind., where he was born on November 4, 1862, a 
son of Thomas Tobin, who was a native of the Isle of Iriu. As a lad of sixteen years the 
latter came to the United States, and first located in the State of Pennsylvania, where he 
eventually became interested in a rolling-mill, although he was engaged in different occupa- 
tions during his life time. From Pennsylvania he removed to Ohio, and from Ohio to Indi- 
ana, and took up his residence in Indianapolis when the subject of this sketch was a child 
one year old. He was always quite actively interested in the political issues of the day, and 
at all times earnestly espoused the cause of Democracy. He was called upon to pay the last 
debt of nature about sixteen years ago. The subject of this sketch received his education in 
the public schools of Ohio, Madison County, Ind., and Indianapolis, and after the death of 
his father he resided in the Buckeye State for some time. At the age of sixteen years he 
started to learn the carpenter's trade at Camp Chase. Ohio, but after serving a shoit appren- 
ticeship he returned to Indianapolis, and here completed his knowledge of the trade. Later 
he was employed at his trade by James Cummins for two years, and at the end of that 
time he engaged in business for himself, and has built up an extensive trade, employing 
many men. and is his own superintendent and invents his own plans. He is a master work- 
man, is skillful in the mar.agement of his employes, and his work is always of a most praise- 
worthy kind. He is noted for living up to the letter of his contracts, and his services are in 
demand by owners of property and real estate agents. He has made a success of his career 
through his own perseverance and energy, and is deserving the success which has attended 
his efforts. He is quite an influential political leader, and has always labored for the success 
of the Democrat party. In 1883 he was married to Miss Annie Ayers, of this city, but a 
native of Ohio, and they have a comfortable and hospitable home. 

John H. Teckenbrock. This wide awake business man is a member of the well-known 
contracting firm of Teckenbrock & Ante, and was born in the city in which he is now doing 
business September 9, 1855, a son of Christian Teckenljrock, who was a native of Germany. 



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WLeD a young man of nineteen years he came to the UuiteJ States and for some time was a 
resident of the city of Cincinnati, then came to Indianapolis, which place has since continued 
to be his liome. His wife was also a native of Germany and is now enjoying a hale and 
hearty old age. John H. received his education in the schools of Indianapolis, and when a 
lad of fourteen years began learning the trade of paint contracting under Louis Helle, in this 
city, serving an apprenticeship of three years. He was then bound out for two years, but 
continued to thus labor for three years, after which he entered Br. ant & Strattou's Business 
College, and there acquired a thorough knowledge of the art of book keeping. After grad- 
uating from this institution he was engaged in the grocery business for a short time, and then 
for some time longer was with the tirm with which he had learned his trade. He next 
entered the employ of Charles W. Lyzott, with whom he worked for about a year and a half, 
at the enil of which time he started out in business for himself and continued alone 
until 1S82, when he formed a partnership with Louis Ante, and has been successfully 
engaged in contracting with him ever since. They are doing a large and paying business 
and havetiUel many important and extensive contracts in a most satisfactorj' manner, among 
the mo^t important of which may be mentioned the German Orphans' Home, the residences 
of Messrs. Weaver, Werner, Franklin and McDougal, besides many business houses throughout 
the city, as well as numerous bull lings throughout Marion county. In his political views he 
has always been a Republican, although his father was a stanch Democrat. He was married 
in 1881 to Miss Rebecca Conover, of this city, who was Ijurn in Jefferson County, this State, 
and by whom he has three promising sons and one daughter. He is secretary of the Master 
Painters Association, and socially is a member of the I. O. O. F. , Center Lodge, No. 18, 
the Order of Redmen, Red Cloud Lodge, No, 18, and others of less importance. Mr. Teck- 
eubrock is an upright citizen and has the respect of all his accjuaintances both socially and 
in a business way. 

Charles W. Re.\d. There is probably no other kind of artist — for the sign-painter, if 
he be true to his profession, is surely an artist — the result of whose originality and skill are 
everywhere so visible to his fellow men. It is necessary to expend a great deal of time and 
care^o thoroughly tit one's self for a successful career in this branch of human endeavor, 
and that Charles W. Read has done so cannot be denied, in looking at the numerous ema- 
nations of his brain throughout the city of Indianapolis. He was born in Dearborn County, 
Ind., November IG, 18t)6, a sou of William B. Read, who is also a native Hoosier and is a 
citi zen of Indianapolis, his residence being at 181 Lexington Street. He is a musician of 
far more than onlinary ability and for some time was a teacher of music in the Blind Asy- 
lum, but is now himself blind. Like many of the wide-awake young business men of the 
present day in Indianapolis, Charles W. Read received his education in the public schools, 
but when still a boy commenced working at the painter's trade, which he has since made, and 
which he expects to make, his life work, although the greater part of his attention is given 
to the painting of signs, in which he has become exceedingly expert and remarkablv artistic. 
His services are in demand all over the city and he has all the work he can conveniently do 
and do well. He showed his ability and taste in painting the floats for the Columbian Expo- 
sition, used on a certain da}', which were remarked upon for their beauty and the artistic 
manner in which they were executed. He is also well known to householders as a decorator 
of no mean ability, and the evidences of his handiwork may be seen in many of the most 
beautiful homes of the city. His place of business is at 9-1 East Market Street, and besides, 
he has a comfortable and pleasant home, where he and his wife, whose maiden name was 
Laura A. Coffin, and whom he married in November, 1887, dispense a generous hospital ity 
to their map.y friends. Politically he has always been in sympathy with the Democratic 
party and socially lie is a member of the I. O. O. F. , and the P. O. S. of A. .being secretary 
of the latter. 

William J. Mitchell. No matter how crowded may be the market in any particular 
calling, every person who possesses original and practical ideas, with the enterprise to push 
his ideas to a successful termination, is bound to win success, both as regards reputation and 
the accumulation of the almighty dollar. Such has been the experience of William J. 
Mitchell, whose career as a contractor and builder has been one of success almost from the 
time of his commencement in the business, and this is without doubt due to his thorough 



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knowledge of his calling, as well as to the fact that be always lives up to the letter of bis 
contract. He is a product of tbe city in which be lives, his birth occurring August 2S, 1858, 
and iu the public schools of Indiiiuapolis be acquired a thorough and practical education, 
amply suflBcient to tit him for the ordinary business affaiis of life. When a lad of twelve 
years be commenced learning tbe carpenter's trade and after becoming familiar with its 
details he entered the employ of William Cutter, with whom he remained eleven years, a 
considerable portion of the time acting in tbe responsible position of foreman. Upon leav- 
ing the services of this gentleman, he was with Adam Buscb for a number of years, but for 
tbe past nine years has been in business for himself and since that time has been actively 
engaged in the erection of residences, principally, although he has given considerable atten- 
tion to other buildings also. His career has been characterized by nnich business acumen 
and unlimited energy, and since starting in business for himself he has met with more than 
ordinary success, for his undoubted skill and knowledge of bis calling have won for him a large 
patronage among the wealthiest peojile of his section. Socially Mr. Mitchell is a member of 
Star Lodge No. 7, of the K. of P. In 1876 he led to tbe altar Miss Mollie Wiley, a native 
of Bloomington, Ind., and by her has one son. Mr. Mitchell's father, Bonner Mitchell, was 
born in Ohio, became a resident of Indianapolis in 1838 or 1839, and throughout life suc- 
cessfully followed the occupation of farming. 

Hiram R. Ellis. Few persons realize the magnitude and importance of the business 
of tbe contractor and builder, and to be successful in it requires that a man must be of sound 
judgment, as well as possessing a thorough and experienced knowledge of tbe calling. A 
man particularly worthy of note in this line is Hiram R. Ellis, who does bis work in the 
most satisfactory manner possible, with thoroughness, neatness and dispatch, and if tbe word 
of his patrons may be taken as a criterion, he always carries out his agreements in every 
detail. He was born in Watertown, N. Y., in 1860, and is a son of Halsey A. Ellis, who 
was a farmer by occupation, but who for tbe past fifteen years has made his home in Charle- 
voix County, Mich. He has been a pushing man of affairs, wide awake to his own interests 
and that of the sections in which he has resided, and in his political views has always 
affiliated with the Republican party. He has now reached tbe age of seventy-five years. 
In the schools of Watertown Hiram R. Ellis obtained a thorough and practical education. He 
began learning the trade of a brick-layer at tbe age of fifteen, and while serving his apprentice- 
ship learned all the details of the plasterer's trade as well as cement, brick and stone work. 
He then went to Hastings, Neb., from there to Denver, Colo., and eventually found himself 
in Seattle, Wash., working on many of the most important structures of these cities for 
seven years, then (in 1886) he came to Indiana))olis and continued contracting, being one 
year with Peter C. Weyenberg, but since then has been by himself. He has done a great 
deal of very important work, and has always done it well, bis specialty being residence work, 
and evidences of bis handiwork may be seen in all parts of tbe city. He gives almost con- 
stant employment to a large force of men, whom he personally oversees, and there is no 
slighting of any contract that may be placed in his hands — of that his patrons feel assured. 
He started in life without means, but through his own force of character be has placed him- 
self in an independent position and enjoys the confidence of all who know him. He was 
married to Miss Clara Sehleincber. a daughter of William Scbleincher, by whom he has one 
son and one daughter. Mr. Ellis is independent of all exchanges and associations, and in 
politics is a Republican. His start in life was made in the West, tbe greater portion of bis 
life has been spent there, and he is in heart and spirit an essentially western man. 

George W. Stout. There is no greater or more important industry carried on in the 
city of Indianapolis than that of building and all of its necessary accessories, and George 
\V. Stout, of that place thoroughly understands all of its details and annually fulfils a 
large number of important contracts. He is a product of tbe city in which he lives, having 
been born here on November 23, 1859, bis father, I. H. Stout, being one of tbe early resi- 
dents of this place, whither he bad come about sixty years ago. About thirty five years 
ago be located on Hasbrook Street, being one of tbe first to take up his residence there. 
He is a native of Kentucky. In the public schools of Indianapolis George W. Stout was 
educated, and after becoming thoroughly familiar with the carpenter's trade he engaged in 
contracting on his own responsibility, and continued thus until recently, when bis present 



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partnership with Vic Pickard was formed and thev have since been engaged in the building 
of sewers They have since put in hundreds of miles of pipe throughout the citv. and as 
their work is exceptionally well done, they have been instrumental in greatly augmenting 
the food and health of the community. Thus far in his career Mr. Stout hasmade his own 
way in the world, for when he started out to fight the battle of life for himself he had 
but httie means, but his energy and good judgment have placed him beyond the reach of 
want, and as his work is strictly first class, he has all the work he can properly attend to 
Me has always taken great interest in political affairs, but has shown good judgment in not 
aspiring to political position, his chief attention lieiug given to his business. He was mar- 
ried in 1S88. to Miss Lily Lewis, and in 1889. after her death, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Lizzie \A illiams. He is not a member of any social order or association, and does 
his work unhampered by any society whatever. He laid the sewer pipe on Fletcher Avenue 
aud did a great deal of suburban work. He is president of the Indiana Vault and Sink 
Cleaning Company, the most extensive society of its kind in the State, and is a thorough 
and practical workman, and honorable and upright in his business dealings. 

Granville Jared. It may safely be said that America is in the posirion to-dav to claim 
the most attractive aud magnificent homes in the universe. In European countries ^^enera- 
tion after generation glides liy. without so much as a change of a single nook or cranny of 
their homes. But no such charge can be lodged against the homes of America, for their 
style of architecture is unique and varied and this is due to the ingenuity of the architect 
whose plans are carried out ably aud to the letter by the contractor and builder, prominent 
Tfo-^o "?, '" In.lianapolis may be mentioned Granville Jared. whose place of business is 
at 18rf Beeville Avenue. Mr. Jared was born in Breckenridge County. Ky.. his grandfather, 
Joel Jared, having moved from Virginia to that State about 1806. where the father of the 
subject of this sketch was born the following year. He was broutrht up to a knowledge of 
farming and carpentering. In 1841 he moved to Illinois and located in Jasper County where 
he died in January. 1S92. He was an active politician in his dav, was first an old Henry 
Clay Whig and in lSo6 began supporting the principles of Republicanism, which he contin- 
ued to do the remainder of his days. He held official position in Jasper County for twenty 
years and was the second school commissioner of that county. He was a successful business 
man and whi e in office sold all the school lands in Jasper County aud established a school 
fund of which he was in charge for six years. The family first came to this country during 
the eiirly settlement of New England and members of it are now scattered throughout the 
length and breadth of the United States. The mother of the subject of this sketch was 
Kosa Meadows, who died in 1874 at about the age of seventy-five years. She an.l her hus- 
band were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for m"any years. Thev became 
the pareiits of twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in "order of 
birth. He received his education in the pul)lic schools of Jasoer County and learned his 
trade under his father, and to this occupation he has since given' the mo.st' of his attention 
although he farmeil for a few years in Jasper County. In 1S«>3 and 1S64 he was in the provost 
marshal s office, a responsible and dangerous position, and he passed through a number of 
thrilling experiences. In 1878 he moved to Terre Haute, Ind., where he commenced con- 
tracting and there did some extensive and important work, chief among which was the San- 
ford Fork and Tool Works. For the past three years he has been a resident of Indianapo- 
lis and since that time his attention has been directed to contracting durincr which short 
periocl he has bu.lt up an enviable reputation. In August. 1862. he joined Co^npany E. of 
he Que Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until 
he received his mseharge in February. 1863. by reason of disability, after which he was in 
the provost marshall's service in Illinois, although he was stationed at Perryville Ky He 
was married in 1853 to Miss Samantha Tomilson of Jasper County and to them a family of 
ten children were given, eight of whom are living, five .sons and three daughters. Mr. Jared 
IS a member of the G. A. R., was a Whig in politics in 1852 and since 1856 has been a Re- 
publican. 

JoHX K. Sl.\ck. One of the many who are called upon to contribute their quota of 
what is needed to make up the necessities or luxuries prepared for the comfort and well 
being of the inner man is the grocer, whose popularity is usually measured by the quality of 



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goods witli which he supplies his customers. Assuming such to be the case, the name of 
Jolin K. Slack has become a conspicuous one at Brightwood, Ind. He was born in Delaware 
County, Ind., December 9, 1867, his father being George W. Slack, a native of Bucks 
County, Penn. About forty years ago, when the latter was a young man, he came to 
Indiana, and in addition to practicing the honorable profession of medicine with more than 
ordinary success, he followed the occupation of farming until death closed his career in 
1885. He was a graduate of the Chicago Medical School, but his knowledge was not con- 
fined to the paths of physic for he was well informed on the current topics of the day and 
was an extensive and retentive reader. John K. Slack was an attendant of the schools of 
Delaware County until he was eigliteen years of age when he became a telegraph operator 
with the Bee Line Railroad, and after its consolidation with the Big Four Railroad he still 
continued with the road, and for three years was night operator at Daleville, Ind. He was 
then stationed at Brightwood at the East Yards for something over two years, and during his 
entire experience as a telegraph operator he was never laid off from work but two days. 
Upon closing his career as a railroad man he formed a partnership with Samuel Bloom and 
together they opened a well stocked grocery establishment which they have conducted with 
exceptional success up to the present time, their house being the most popular as well as 
most extensive in Brightwood. It was their aim when they started in business to make 
theirs the leading estal)lishment of their vicinity, and they have succeeded in doing so upon 
lines of sterling integrity. They handle only the highest grade of products and deal with 
the first families of the community. Mr. Slack has always been a Democrat in politics and 
at the last election he was chosen trustee of ward 1. October 28, 1891, he was united in 
marriage with Miss Katie Bloom of this city. He is a member of the K. of P., the Chosen 
Friends, the Red Men and the Pythian Sisters. 

Charles F. Wehking. The calling of the brick contractor has become a most important 
one from the fact that into nearly every structure of importance that material is put, there- 
fore, it is necessary for a contractor who expects to make a success of his calling, to become 
thoroughly familiar with every detail of the business or he will "find his house about his 
ears." A gentleman well up in this calling is Charles F. Wehking, who is a native of Ger- 
many, in which country he was born in 1846. He learned his trade in the land of his 
birth, as an apprentice, but before he had worked at it any length of time he entered the 
German army, and during the four years that he was in the service he held the rank of 
sergeant of his company, and was in the Franco Prussian War, taking part in the battle of 
August 14, 1871, and August 18, of the same year, the latter being the hardest engagement 
of the whole war. He also participated in numerous skirmishes and upon receiving his dis- 
charge he came almost immediately to the United States, and took up his residence in the 
city of Indianapolis, which has ever since been his home and with the interests of which he 
has always fully identified himself. For fifteen years after locating here he worked at his 
trade for different contractors, then formed a partnership with Henry Feltman, and they 
were engaged in contracting together for one season, but since that time he has been by 
himself. He erected the new Deaf and Dumb Asylum, many fine business buildings, and 
the handsome and substantial addition to the Denison Hotel; the addition to the State Nor- 
mal Building, at Terre Haute, Ind. ; the school buildings at Evansville; the Bank building 
and school buildings at Connorsville; the buildings at St. Mai-y's In The Woods near Terre 
Haute, and others too numerous to particularize; suffice it to say that they were all substantial 
and well con.structed buildings. In politics Mr. Wehking has made it a principle to vote 
for the one whom in his opinion is the best man for the ]iosition, but aside from this is not 
a politician. In 1872 Miss Christina Moldtlian, who was born in Germany, became his 
wife, and to them eight children have been given, six daughters surviving, a son and 
daughter Ijeingdead. Mr. Wehking is a member of the German Lutheran Church, belongs 
to the German Orphans' Home Association, as well as other charitalile and social organiza- 
tions. 

Omki T. Field. In a growing city there is no more important industry or one in 
which its exponents are in greater demand than the builder and contractor. Indianapolis" 
fine business houses and palatial residences have proven this, while the builder may with 
truth at once be designated as one of the foremost and useful developers of a vicinity. A 



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popular man in this connection is Omri T. Field whose business is located at 116 Ramsey 
Avenue. Mr. Field was born in Jackson Couutj-, Ind. . in 1871, son of Greenberry Field 
and grandson of William Field who was a native Kentuckian and a pioneer of Jefferson 
County, Ind. Greenberry Field was born in Jefferson County, Ind., in 1832, and when 
grown became a merchant in that county, continuincr in that business for some time. Sub- 
sequently lie came to Indianapolis and was engaged in the grocery business for two years, 
after which he turned bis attention to handling all kinds of stock. While a resident of Jef- 
ferson County he was township assessor and held other local positions. Since residing 
here he has served as land appraiser. Politically he has always l)een a Democrat and socially 
he is a Mason, and is an original charter member of the Chosen Friends. He is also a member 
of the Christian Church. He selected his wife in the person of Miss Eliza A. Buxton, a native 
of the Buckeye State, and three children have blessed this union: Laura A., Eva Bell, 
and O. T. The latter, our subject, received a good practical education in the city schools, 
graduating when seventeen years of age, and then served an apprenticeship as a carpenter 
under M. M. Cotton. Later he finished under George H. Hoeiette and then worked for 
William Martin, of Brightwood, as foreman, continuing in that capacity for three years. 
Since then he has been contracting for himself. His wife. Miss Lula M. Heaton, was one 
of Indianapolis' fair daughters, and a lady of much refinement. 

Ch.\rles H. Schoebshdsen. Few departments of industrial activity have attained 
greater perfection or a more deserved reputation in Indianapolis than that of contracting 
and building. The competition in this line is great, but the result has been satisfactory to 
the great public, as a higher standard of perfection has been attained. Prominent among 
the popular and successful contractors and builders of Indianapolis stands the name of 
Charles H. Schoershusen who has made a name for always discharging his obligations with 
truth to his promises, thus gaining a place in the first rank of contractors and builders. He 
was born iu Germany. April 23, 1855, and is the son of Henry Schoershusen who was also 
born in Germany, and who was a working man and an industrious citizen. Our subject 
received his education in his native land and in 1880 he came to the United States to win 
fame and fortune on this side of the Atlantic. Previous to this he had worked a little at his 
trade in the old country, and after touching American soil he located at Benton. Iowa, where 
he remained but a short time. He then came to Indianapolis and began working for William 
Kattau, of that city, and continued with him nine years, becoming foreman in that time, and 
erecting many of the finest buildings in the city. Later he commenced working for him- 
self, and success has crowned bis effort.". He was tir^t with William Phillips one season, and 
was then for some time by himself. He has erected many buildings in the city and is well 
known as a skillful and reliable workman. He came to this country with limited means and 
all his accumulations are the result of years of hard work and good management. He was 
married in his native countrj' to Miss Dora Breiheun. also a native of Germany, and three 
children were born to their union, two sons living and a daughter deceased. Mr. Schoer- 
shusen is a member of the Contractors Association, and is a wide awake, thoroughgoing 
business man. He is identified with the Second Eeform Church, and a liberal contributor 
to all worthy movements. 

John H. Gasper. The building up of Indianapolis has long been actively and prom- 
inentlj' identified with the name of Gasper, as has the erection of many of her largest and 
stateliest edifices. John H. Gasper has been one of the foremost builders and contractors 
in Indianapolis since 1871, for from the start his exceptional business acumen, reliability 
and promptness in fulfilling his agreements, secured for him wide recognition and an influ- 
ential patronage. He has become widely known and respected in the city of his adoption, 
and may well look with pride on the monuments of his handiwork in all parts of Indianap- 
olis. Mr. Gasper was l>orn in North Yernon, Jennings County. Ind.. December 30. 1S50, 
and no doubt inherits his perseverance, industry and honorable business methods from his 
German ancestors, for his parents, John B. and Elizabeth Gasper, were natives of the Father- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Gasper came to this country when single and were married in Madison, 
Ind. The father is still living, is seventy four years of age, but still enjoys comparatively 
good health. He learned the stone-mason's trade in Germany, but after coming to the 
United States became a contractor, which he followed verv estensivelv for years. He is 



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now retired. He has always taken a part in politics and in the success of the Democratic 
party. John H. Gasper, the fourth in order of birth of nine children horn to his parents, 
secured a fair education in the schools of North Vernon and subsecpiently served an appren- 
ticeship at the carpenter's trade. In 1871 he came to Indianapolis and worked at his trade 
for different parties for a member of years, after which he began contracting for himself. 
This he has continued ever since with the exception of one year when he was foreman for 
John R. Staples. As before stated, he has built some of this city's handsomest residences, 
and in his Ijusiness relations will be found liberal, punctual and upright. In 18S6 he moved 
to North Indianapolis where he now has a very pleasant home presided over by his estimable 
wife who was formerly Miss Mary F. Hatton. For some time Mr. Gasper was in partner- 
ship with William Weaver, but is now by himself. He is a deacon in the Christian Church. 
To his marriage has been born one child, a daughter. 

John T. Metsker. It would be difficult to conceive of an industry which occupies a 
more important standing in the great business rush of the West than that allied to the brick 
trade. In this business millions of dollars are invested, while the number of persons 
employed counts up into the hundreds of thousands. One of the leading men engaged in the 
brick-making business in Indianapolis is John T. Metsker. who owns and operates a large 
brick yard at the corner of Clifford Avenue and the Belt Railway. He has all the 
latest and best machinery for his business, and notwithstanding the dull season (1893), 
he has been able to sell all the brick be could njanufacture. This is owing to the well-known 
fact that he manufactures the finest brick in the Indianapolis market and is a reliable and 
trustworthy business man. Mr. Metsker was born March 4, 1854, in Hamilton County, Ind., 
and his parents, James B. and Nancy (DeMoss) Metsker, were natives of that State also. 
Mr. and Airs. Metsker were married at Noblesville, Ind., abovit 1850, and resided in that 
county until after the death of Mrs. Metsker, which occurred in 1884. Seven children were 
born to this worthy couple and named in the order of their births as follows: Henry, born 
in 1852, married Miss Flora Temple. He was an engineer on the L. N. A. & C Ry., with his 
home at Monon, and was killed in a wreck at Broad Ripple, in 1898; John T.,our subject; 
Frank, married Miss Laura Fertig, and now resides at Noblesville, Ind.; Jane, resides at the 
same place, and is the wife of Stephen Mongole; Mattie, is the wife of Andrew Barnes, 
and resides at Noblesville, Ind. ; Emma, also a resident of Noblesville, is yet single, and 
James E., residing in Noblesville, is also single. The original of this notice was married 
in the month of Novemlter, 1888, to Miss Sarah K. Sonneytield, whose parents were Indiana 
people, and now reside in Marion County, of the Hoosier State. To Mr. and Mrs. Metsker 
have lieen born one child, Roy, who is now a fine, active little boy of four years, his birth 
occurring in 1889. Mr. Metsker was reared a farmer but at an early age learned the drug 
business. This was too confining and he soon abandoned it and engaged in his present busi- 
ness of making brick. He lias made a complete success of this business, is a man of excel- 
lent qualities and is most thorovighly admired and respected by all who are favored with his 
acquaintance. He is now Vniilding for himself a handsome brick residence with all the 
modern improvements and conveniences. He has contracted to make 3,000,(100 bricks during 
the season of 1894, and as his bricks are all burned with natural gas they are superior to all 
other kinds. 

Charles Mason. Commerce makes common the various products of earth to every 
country, so that the inhabitants of the temperate zone can enjoy to the fullest the choicest 
viands of the tropics. Snips plow every sea bearing the foodstuffs of far away climes to 
this country, coffees, teas, jellies, fruits of divers kinds, green or dried. So, just as indus- 
triously is this broad continent searching for dainty and palatable foods for distribution over 
its territory. The result/'of this is that nothing in the mercantile line can be half so inviting as 
a grocer carrying a full line of dietary articles. Prominent among the dealers in that line 
in Brightwood, Ind., is Charles Mason, who though young in years, is possessed of any 
amount of push and energy. He was liorn in London, Shelby County, Ind., August 13, 
1872, to the union of John and Sarah J. (Means) Mason who were born, reared and married 
in the Hoosier State. Their nuptials were celebrated in 1868 and after living there for sev- 
eral years (Shell)y County) they moved to Marion County and now reside in Indianapolis. 
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named as follows: Edgar, born in 1873, died in 1892; Anna, born iu 1875; Mary, born in 
1877; Harry, born in 1880, and Mellie, Iwin in 1884. The last four are at home. The 
father of these children was a tobacconist liy trade and followed this until a few years ago 
when he abandoned it for farming and has since been engaged in tilling the soil. Our sub- 
ject had his first training on a farm and from there went to Indianapolis where lie engaged 
in merchandising. For the last three years he ha.s been engaged in the grocery and feed 
business, and now has a flourishing establishment at No. 9")! East Michigan Street, Indian- 
apolis. His store is a large one, well stocked and favorably situated. He attends to all 
the busiues himself and is a wide a- wake, thoroughgoing young business man. He was mar- 
ried January 13, 1891, to 'SUss. Miiuiie Moore, a native of Boone County, Ind., born in 1872, 
and the daughter of Samuel Moore. To this happy couple has been born one child , Leo 
Dale, a fine, promising boy whose birth occurred Febuary 1, 1893. John Mason, the father 
of our suliject, true to his name, has been a memVier of the Masonic fraternity since the 
age of twenty three. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church, while our subject and 
liis wife hold membership in the Christian Church. 

Robert Davis. Among all the industries that are carried on in the flourishing city of 
Indianapolis none succeed so well as the ones that are conducted by practical men. An 
instance in mind is the success attained to bj- Robert Davis, the most efficient and able man- 
ager and superintendent of the Adams' Manufacturing Brick Company. He is a native of 
Kentucky, born in Fleming County. November 28. 1840, and is the son of John N. and Jane 
(Harmon) Davis, natives, respectively, of Floyd County, Fenn., and Kentucky. In the lat- 
ter State the nuptials of the parents were celebrated, and four chiMren were the fruits of 
this union: Fleming, born in 1828, married Miss Melinda Plank, and now resides in Met 
calf. 111.; Lucinda, born in 1830, married John Hopkins in the Blue-Grass State, and died 
in 1859; Fletcher, born in 1832, married Miss Mariah Jane Mark, and now lives in Fleming 
County, Ky., and the youngest, Robert, is the subject of this sketch. Both father and 
mother of these children are deceased. They came to this State from Kentucky in 1865, and 
remained here until 1808, when they returned to the Blue Grass State, where they passed 
the remainder of their days. In his native State the subject of this sketch passed his boj'- 
hood and youth and received his education. There he was married in 1857 to Miss Caroline 
Dillon, daughter of Britton and Mary Dillon, who were natives of Kentucky, in which State 
they passed their entire days. After his marriage, or in 1865, Mr. Davis and wife moved 
to Marion County, Ind.. and they have been residents of this county ever since. Four chil- 
dren have been born to this marriage: Fleming, born July 4, 1860, married Miss Bird Ellen 
Bartley, and now resides in this city; Mary Jane, born July 5, 1862, married Sherman How- 
terman, and resided iu Indianapolis until her death in 1881; Melinda, born in 1865. married 
Charles Pugh, and now resides in this city, and Willie U. S. G., l)orn in 1867, died when 
nine years of age. While residing in Kentucky Mr. Davis was engaged a part of the time 
in the service of the United States, carrying the mail from Maysville to Mount Sterling, 
Ky. He was thus engaged for eighteen months during the hottest part of the Civil 
War, and on one of these trips his horse was shot when about six miles north of Mount 
Sterling. Soon after this he met the Confederate Generals Kirby Smith, Longstreet and 
Humphrey Marshall, all of whom he knew. He was reared a close neighbor to Gen. John 
Morgan, his father's farm lying close to the Morgan farm. As i)efore mentioned, he came 
to Indiana in 1865, located in Indianapolis, and went to work for J. C. Adams in the brick 
business, and has continued in the same ever since. This company was organized in 1873, 
and Mr. Davis has been manager and superintendent of the same from that time up to the 
present. He has as many as KtO men working under him sometimes, and in the busy season 
makes 100,000 bricks per day. This company has a yard at Sheridan and one at South 
Indianapolis. Mr. Davis is a memVier of the order of Chosen Friends, and for many years 
has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been unusually suc- 
cessful in his enterprises, but much of his good luck is due to his good judgment and fine 
executive ability. He is a man of sterling integrity and deserves his success. 

Samuel Miller. One of the old-time citizens of Marion County, has l)een successful 
from a pecuniary standpoint, in the conduct of his affairs, and is a liberal, generous and 
high-minded gentleman whose correct mode of living has gathered about him a large circle 



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of friends and well-wishers. He was born in Frederick County, Md., January 21, 1819, and 
there coatinued to make his home until he was sixteen years of age obtaining a practical 
education in the subscription schools of that day. He came with his parents to Marion 
County, Ind., in 1835, with his father, driving through in a four horse wagon and locating 
four miles northwest of Indianapolis on a farm of 320 acres, which his father, Henry Miller, 
purchased at that time for 15 per acre, which is now worth $140 per acre. Samuel being 
the eldest of seven children, was married January 3, 1843, when he led to the altar Mar- 
garet, daughter of George Klingensmith, the knot being tied by Rev. E. Rudisel, Lutheran 
minister, both belonging to the same church. Mrs. Miller was Ijoru in Westmoreland County, 
Penn , July 13, 181S, and after her marriage to Samuel Miller they removed to an eighty- 
acre tract of laud which had been presented to the latter by his father, and was a portion of 
the old home farm and there they continued to make their home until the death of his wife, 
which took place August 13, 18^8. From this marriage live children were born: H. W. 
Miller (the eldest); John, Laura A. Miller (now Meyers); and Henry Miller: Albert having 
died in infancy. The father made his home with his son, Hiram W. Miller, who married 
Miss Elizabeth Meyers, daughter of John H. Meyers. Hiram W. Miller is a large farmer, 
owning several farms in all containing nearly 800 acres, also having been in the brickmaking 
l)wsiness for fifteen years, furnishing brick for some of the most prominent buildings in the 
city of Indianapolis. In politics he is a Democrat, holding several offices; was township 
trustee four years in his township, Wayne, and was also treasurer of Marion County two 
years, handling the funds of the county satisfactorily. He was also one of the incorporators, 
stockholders an<l directors in the State Bank of Indiana. 

J.4MES F. Akbuckle. The pursuits of life are as varied as are the tastes and capacities 
of men, and it is an interesting and useful study to observe the ilegree of their assimilation. 
Mr. James F. Arbuckle, a popular and .skillful blacksmith of Indianapolis, Ind., has fol- 
lowed that calling the principal part of his life and is regarded as one of the best and most 
reliable workmen in this part of the city. He has not, perhajis, amassed the wealth that 
many men of less intelligence have done, but he has accumulated a fair share of this world's 
goods, is well respected by all who know him, and he and family are in the enjoyment of 
excellent health. What more could one ask for? He is a productof this State, born in Jef- 
ferson County in 1833, and the son of Samuel and Nancy Arbuckle, the former a native of 
New York and the latter of Kentucky. The parents were married in Jefferson County. Ind., 
and there reared a family of nine children, as follows: James F., our .subject: John, married 
a Miss Beavers and is now deceased: George, married IMiss Vira Carr, and now resides in 
Scott County, Ind. ; Caroline, married John Ferguson and makes her home in Jefferson 
County, Ind.; Adeline, married Noah McFadden and is at home in Scott County, Ind.; 
Anna, married Jesse Law and is now deceased; Emma, married Mr. Busey and is now de- 
ceased; Louis, married Miss Artie Newton Davis and is a resident of Scott County, Ind., 
and one died in infancy. The original of this notice was reared in bis native county and se- 
lected his life companion in the person of Miss Lena Hollenback, daughter of Andrew Hol- 
leuback, their nuptials being celebrated in 1856. An old-fashioned family of eleven chil- 
dren was the result of this union: Andrew, married Miss Sallie Phillips; George, married 
Miss Lydia Chesley; Laura, married William Brooks; Lee Anna, married Alfred Williams; 
James, married Miss Pledgie Spitz; William, married Miss Dora McOscar; Oscar is single; 
Effie and Eddie (twins) are, single; Julia, married to Fred Lane, and Stella, single. All 
these children reside in Indianapolis except Laura, who is living in Crothersville, Ind. Mr. 
Arbuckle is a man whose uprightness and honesty have never been questioned and no better 
citizen finds his home in the city. 

Louis Laitner. Among the most important industries of Indianapolis is the brush 
manufactory owned and conducted by Louis Laitner. which business he has followed off and 
on since early manhood. He was bo'rn in St. Louis, Mo., in 1852, his parents being Francis 
Joseph and Sarah Josephine (Hill) Laitner, the former of whom was born in Germany and 
the later in England, although both were of Scotch descent. They were married in St. 
Louis, Mo., in 1845 and became the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this 
sketch is the second in order of birth. The eldest child was born in 1848 and died at the 
age of three years. The third was Charles Francis who is now a resident of New Orleans, 



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La., in which city he is engaged iu the manufacture of brushes. He is married and is a sub- 
stantial business man, a law abiding citizen and the worthy head of a family. The fourth 
child, Augustus F., became a sailor and about fifteen years ago shipped with five other men 
for the China seas and has never since l)een heard from and is supposed to be dead. Louis 
Lajter was brought up and educated in St. Louis, and was there married on December 14, 
1S7U, to Miss Adelia Stann. the daughter of Herman Stann of that city, and to their union 
an interesting and promising family of three children have been given: Alfred Noah, born 
June 22, 1888; Louis Fulton, born' November 10, lS8fi, and Mildred born June 18, 1890. 
\\ hile growing up Mr. Laituer learned the art of brush making very thoroughly, under the 
competent direction of his father, who was engaged in that line of work for many years in 
the city of St. Louis. He came to the States from Montreal, Canada, in 1847, and immedi- 
ately after locating in St. Louis engaged in the manufacture of brushes, which business he 
continued to follow under the name of F. J. Laitner until ISTH, when the firm became F. J. 
I>aitner & Son. In 1876 it became Laitner Bros., and in 188") became Louis Laitner. Sis 
years ago the business was dis])osed of and Mr. Laitner went into the Masonic insurance 
business, and is well known to many people in Indianajwlis in that cajiacity. After continu- 
ing in the business for eighteen months he opened a grocery store in North Indianapolis, in 
which portion of the city he has made his home for the past four years. He is now closing 
out this business and e.x|)ects soon to re-engage in the manufacture of brushes in this city. 
A large company has been organized, with Mr. Laitner at its head, with ample capital to do 
all the work, and it is proposed to run the finest brush manufactory in the United States, if 
money, energy, push and ]iractical experience can accomplish it. Mr. Laitner was assessor 
for St Louis, Mo., for one term, and with his large business experience and strict integrity 
there is no reason why he should not be at the head of the brush manuf;ieturing business in 
a very short time. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is a pushing man of affairs, 
and is one of the most public-spirited business men of the hustling city of Indianapolis. 

WiLLi.\M ScHWEoMAN. In the early history of this country necessity goaded the wits 
of the handful of individuals from which the people of the United States sprung, and its 
effects have been manifest upon their descendants in the shape of great mental activity and 
ingenuity, which characterized them as a race. Such is the case with \^'illiam Schwegman, 
who is the inventor and patentee of an improved pressure plate for veneer cutting machines. 
The advantages of this plate are many, and if it is investigated thoroughly any one will be 
convinced of its superiority al)Ove all others, no matter on what machine it may be used. Mr. 
Schwegman is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Franklin County August 20, 1853, and 
a son of Henry and Mary (Dapner) Schwegman, natives of Germany. The parents came to 
America when young, and were married in Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1820. Six children were 
the result of this union: John Henry married Miss Kate Seaforth, and now resides in 
Franklin County, Ind. ; Elizabeth, deceased; Harmon, deceased; Kale and Sophia, twins, 
now reside in Franklin County. The former married Edward Lang, and the latter Conrad 
Strausburger. and William, the subject of this sketch. The youthful days of the latter were 
passed^ in his native county, where he secured a good, practical education. On September 
U), 1S73, he was married to Miss Anna Lineman, daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (Mosel) 
Lineman, natives of the old country. Mr. and Mrs. Lineman were reared in their native 
country, but came to the United States at an early date, and were married in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Our subject and wife celebrated their nuptials in Franklin County, Ind., and they are 
now the parents of two children: Elizabeth and Louis, both at home. When first starting 
out for himself Mr. Schwegman began tilling the soil, and continued this until twenty three 
years of age, when he left the farm to learn the trade of veneerer, at which he worked for 
seventeen years. After that he engaged in merchandising at 300 Clifford Avenue, and is 
now running a fine grocery store at that place. In his business as well as social relations 
Mr. Schwegman has proven himself to be a gentleman of his word, and is well respected by all. 
His improved pressure jtlate is sought after by all veneerers, and has a fine sale. 

William Haebekle. Few among the many excellent meat markets and groceries that 
attract the eye in Indianapolis have secured a more enduring hold upon public favor and 
confidence than the establishment conducted by William Haeberle. It is one of the best 
equipped stores of its kind in the city, where patrons can always rely ujion getting a very 



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superior article, satisfactory treatmeut and promijt attention. Mr. Haeberle was born in 
Gerinaay, February, 1803, is a young man of ))lea8ing luanuers, and coiubiaes pusli, enter 
prise ami esoellent ba-iiaess qualities, and has before him a promising future. His parents, 
Gotleib and Frederika Haeberle, were natives of the old country but crossed the ocean to 
America in 1881 and settled ,in Indianapolis. They were the parents of seven children, as 
follows: (jotlieb married Miss Mary Breiniger and is now living in Indianapolis; Frederika 
married Adolph Lentz and is also a resident of this city; Christian married Caroline Off and 
is a resident of this city; Christina married Carl Meiser and makes iier home in Germany; 
Carrie married John Beyer, of this city ; Fredrick married Miss Amelia Kiefer and lives iu 
Indianapolis, and William, the subject of this sketch. The latter was about eighteen years 
of age when lie came with his parents to Indianapolis. He was married in February, 1885, 
to Miss Anna Kiefer, daughter of Jacob and Fredie Kiefer, both natives of Germany. Mi', 
and Mrs. Kiefer came to America when single and were married in Indianapolis. Three 
children have been born to our subject and wife, Fredie, born August 15, 1886; Alma, born 
December '21, 1888, and Lula, born May 21, 1889. Our subject learned the butcher's trade of 
his father and for some time has been engaged in that business. For seven years he has 
been in business for himself and has a tine grocer^' store and meat market on Brookside 
Avenue and Jupiter Street, this city. In recogition of tlie class of people he caters to, Mr. 
Haeberle has made it his aim to keep only the superior meats and the freshest and best 
groceries. His parents are living, but his wife's father and mother are l)oth deceased. To 
the latter couple were born live children, as follows: William, single and residing in Kansas; 
Annie, wife of onr subject; Jacob, single, residing in Indianapolis; Louisa, married and lives 
in this city, and Amelia, married Fredrick Haeberle, brother of our subject, and lives in 
Indianajjolis. 

Woods P. Canfielu. One of the reliable business men of Haughville, Ind., is Woods 
P. Canfield, who was born in Morristown, N. J., August 15, 1847, of which State his father, 
Isaac Canfield, was also a native. The latter was one of the owners of the old Speedwell 
Iron Works at Morristown, and was a well known and prominent Democrat of the northern 
portion of that State. The manufacturing Inisiness with which he was connected was 
very extensive and goods was shipped all over the world, and wherever used became popular, 
their trade being exceptionally extensive in Cuba. After retiring from the active duties of 
life Mr. Canfield removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. , where he spent the last few years of his life 
in comfort. He was married to Mary E. Poineer, a native of Newark, but reared in Morris- 
town, who died at the early age of thirty six years, leaving a family of seven children, of 
whom the subject of this sketch was the eldest. He was reared in his native town and 
received a liberal education at Newark and New Canaan, Conn. , where he was prepared for 
Princeton College. When seventeen years old he left school to learn the trade of a machinist 
at Newark, after which he entered and remained in his father's manufactory for several 
years. In December, 1872, he came to Indianapolis to accept a position with B. F. Haugh 
& Co. and six months later he was placed iu charge of the machine department of the 
works. Nearly all the machine iron which went into the construction of the Marion County 
Court house was manufactured under the supervision of Mr. Canfield. During the winter of 
1875-6 the works were removed to Haughville and at this time he became identified with the 
history of that place, at which time it consisted only of a few houses. Mr. Cantield remained 
in the employ of B. F. Haugh & Ci). until January, 188(), when he was appointed postmaster 
of Haughville under President Cleveland, and served in this capacity until the spring of 
1889, resigning his position just prior to the inauguration of President Harrison. He has 
been one of the prominent and influential workers of the Democratic party of HnUghville 
and Wayne Township for years, and for the past three years has served as clerk and treas- 
urer of the town. He was at another time elected to these positions but could not serve on 
account of holding the post-mastership. He has at various times been a member of the 
school board and the board of trustees, and on January 1, 1892, was apjwinted baliff of the 
County Commissioners Court, a position he still holds. After his retirement from the ]iost- 
office, he engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Haughville and at present is 
the most extensive insurance agent in the place, besides doing considerable business in this 
line in Indianapolis. He has always identified himself with the best interests of Haughville 



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and ranks among its progressive arul public sjjiriteil citizfns. He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, tbe K. of P. and tlio order of Red Men and in his political views has always been 
in sympathy with the Democrat party. In November, 1872, Mr. Cantield was married to 
Miss Sarah Wilkes, a native of Union County, N. J. 

Jacob Sieg. Indianapolis' enormous and substantial development has created an 
active market for the superior grades of brick, and thus has been developed one of the 
greatest industries here. Other cities receive their brick, as a rule, from a distance. 
Indianapolis, on the other hand, has several of the finest yards in the State, within or near 
her boundaries. One of the active, thoroughgoing men engaged in this line of business is 
Jacob Sieg, who for ten years has been active as a brick manufacturer. He is a man of 
the soundest judgment and marked executive ability and is specially qualitied to guide 
aright such important interests as these. Mr. Sieg owes his nativity to Ripley County, 
Ind., born February 25, 1856, and is a son of Godfred and Maggie (Wagner) Sieg, both 
natives of Germany. Before marriage both came to the United States, and were married 
in the Buckeye State, where they resided many years. The mother is now deceased, but 
the father resides in Ripley County, Ind., where he is engaged in farming. Tliey were 
the parents of nine children, as follows: Louisa, single and a resident of Indianapolis; 
Catherine married Andrew Ramsberger and now resides in this city; Frederick married 
Miss Susan Biel, and makes his home in Ripley County, Ind.; Maggie, now living in 
Greensburg, Ind., has been twice married, but both her husbands are deceased (she tirst 
married Peter Mack, and after his death, George Clark); Sarah, single, resides in Ripley 
County, Ind ; Henry, also a resident of Ripley County, is single; Jacob, subject: Sophia, 
single, and a resident of Ripley County; and John, single and a resident of Ripley County. 
Our subject, who is expert in all that concerns brick making, gives bis undivided attention 
to this business, and has met with unusual success. He is single. 

Robert E. Woods. In this day and age of bustle and activity, very few people stop to 
consider what we eat and how to select it. but the skillful housewife is very careful in her 
j)urchase of groceries and meats, for she knows that on their purity and wholesomeness 
depend in a great measure the health and happiness of her family. Among the prominent 
grocerymen of Woodside, Ind., is Robeit E. Woods, who carries a fine stock of goods in 
his line, and who is classed among the wide-awake, thorough going business men of the 
county. All his life has been passed in the Hoosier State, his birth occurring in Ohio 
County, September 27, 1857, and his parents, William and Lyda (Downy) Woods, were 
natives of Indiana also. Mr. and Mrs. Woods were the parents of six children, as follows: 
Sylvester, died in infancy; George A., married Miss Nancy Conaway, and now resides in 
Ohio County, Ind. ; John Wesley, residing in the same county, married Miss Amanda Blue; 
William D. , married Miss Fannie Lukius, and resides in New York city; Orpheus A., mar- 
ried Miss Ella Gotield and resides in Ohio County, Ind., and Robert E., our subject. The 
latter was reared in his native county and on his father's farm. When twenty one years of 
age he began teaching school and so successful was he in this profession, that he was sub- 
sequently elected to the office of county superintendent of schools, holding that position one 
term in Ohio County, Later he attended college but on account of failing eyesight he was 
obliged to quit his books and take a much needed rest. Following this he was in the 
United States mail service for thirteen months and then embarked in merchandising which 
he has continued for the past six years, owning one of the Ijest stores in his section. Indus- 
trious and enterprising he has made manj' friends and is highly esteemed in the community. 
Socially he is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Chosen 
Friends. He is an exemplary citizen and he and his esteemed and worthy wife have a wide 
circle of friends. He was married in 1880, to Miss Ruth A. Armstrong, daughter of Robert 
and Rachel (Potter) Armstrong, both natives of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are 
the parents of seven children, as follows: O. L., deceased; John N. , single and now living 
in southern Indiana, Minnie, died in infancy; Walter S., died when nine years of age; 
Mary B. ; naarried Adolpliiis W. Hyde, and resided in southern Indiana until her death; 
Ruth, Mrs. Woods; and Catherine E. , married George F. Simpson, and resides in Marble 
Hill, Ind. To our subject and wife have been born three children, Frank A., whose birth 



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occurred ia August, 1881; William D., born Febiuaiv 5, 1888, and Charles Edward, born 
May 26, 1888, all are living. 

William H. Bellemore. The thought which presents itself to the far seeing and con- 
servative mind when the cjuestion is propounded as to what essentials are necessary to a 
man's success in business is that they are industry, sobriety, economy and honesty, and this 
history of all well established firms will corroborate this. Among the prominent and success- 
ful business men of Indianapolis, engaged in that most important branch of industry — cooper- 
age — Mr. Bellemore holds a conspicuous place, for he has followed that calling all the active 
years of his life, having learned the trade from his father, who was a practical and skillful 
workman. He owes his nativity to Lockport, N. Y., where he was born, August 24, 1858, to 
Michael and Matilda (Blair) Bellemore, who were native Canadians, but were married in 
Lockport, and there resided until one year after the birth of the subject of this sketch, when 
they came to Indiana. They are both now dead, having become the parents of three children: 
William H. ; Scott, who was born in 185(), is married to Miss Rhoda Cramer, and is in the 
employment of the United States Government, having charge of the mail at the Union depot 
in this city; and Charles L., who was born in 1859, is now engagetl in the cooper's trade in 
this city, and is married to Mary Wilson. The subject of this sketch was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth A. Wineman, and a comfortable home at 517 South West Street, Indianapolis, 
is theirs. They have three children: Charles Edward, i)orn in 1859; John M., born in 1880 
and Harry F. , Ijorn in 1882. Mr. Bellemore has been in business for himself for nine years 
and is now a member of the firm of W. H. Bellemore & Co., which is doing a thriving business 
at the corner of Morris and West Streets. When running in full force the firm employs fifteen 
men to make flour barrels alone. Mr. Bellemore is a member of the K. of P. , Capitol Lodge, 
No. 97, of Indianapolis, of which order he has been a member for nine years. 

Hon. David Turpie. There is not a name of a living citizen of Indiana, with possibly 
one or two exceptions, which is more widely or more favora))ly known than that of the long- 
time jurist and legislator, Hon. David Turpie, who has been twice elected as United States 
Senator from this State and is a leading member of the Marion County bar, his experience 
as a law maker and judge in Indiana and as a legislator at Washington covering a period of 
nearly forty years, the intervals in which he has not been in public service having been given 
to the successful practice of his profession. Mr. Turpie was admitted to the bar after due 
preparation, at Logansport, Ind.,in 1849, and at once began a career that early marked him 
as a man of uncommon ability. In 1854 he was appointed by Gov. Wright, whom he 
later succeeded in the Senate, as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and two years later 
he became judge of the Circuit Court. He resigned both of these oiSces, however. Mean 
time in 1853, he was a member of the Indiana Legislature, and in 1858 was again elected to 
that olfice. He was first elected United States senator in 1863, for the unexpired term of 
Hon. Jesse D. Bright and immediately succeeding Hon. Joseph A. Wright, who served liy 
appointment of the governor. In 1874-75 he was again in the House of Representatives of 
the General Assembly of Indiana and was honored with the speakership of that body and 
was the last to preside as such in the old State House. In 1878, when a commission of 
three was appointed to revise the laws of Indiana, he was appointed as one of its members 
and served in that capacity during the succeeding three years. He was appointed by Presi- 
dent Cleveland, in August, 1886, United States District Attorney for the State of Indiana 
and tilled that office most ably and acceptably until March 3, 1887, when he resigned, having 
on Februtry 2 previous, been elected Unites States senator, and on the following day he again 
took up the honors and re8[)onsibilities of that exalted position. The career of Judge 'Tur- 
pie has been a most successful and most useful one. The laws of the State will ever bear 
the impress of his labor and his genius. He was an ideal speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Indiana. As a United States senator his course was one of dignity, integrity 
and devotion to his State and country and he served on such important committees as the 
committee on pensions, the committee on privileges and elections, the committee on trans- 
portation to the seaboard, etc. As a delegateat-large to the national Democratic conven- 
tion at St. Louis, in 1888, he was wise and efficient in the counsels of his party. As a polit- 
ical organizer he has few superiors. As a public speaker he is forcible, convincing and 
pleasing. There are few statesmen in Indiana, who through a period equally long have met 



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with such lipartv and unswerving approval on the part of their constituents. In politics be 
is a Democrat because he believes that a prevalence of the practical results of Democratic 
doctrine will beuetit the country. In his private life and in his intercourse with his fellow 
men he is thoroughly and consistently democratic, because he is in and through everything 
most thoroughly American, most truly democratic from the very instincts of his being. 

\Y. H. H. Miller. "William Henry Harrison Miller, ex Attorney General of the United 
States, was born at Augusta, Oneida County, N. Y., September 6, 1840, of English and 
Scotch ancestry. His father was a farmer, and he gre w up accustomed to the everyday 
work of a farmer boy, attending the district schools, and later the seminary at Whitestown, 
where he prepared for Hamilton College, which graduated him in 1861. He tanght school 
at Maumee City, Ohio, and he was thus employed until May, 186'i, when he enlisted for the 
three months' service in the Eighty- fourth Ohio Infantry, He was mustered out with Lis 
regiment in September following, and immediately began to study law in the office of Chief 
Justice Morrison R. Waite. Financial demands upon him, however, compelled him to seek- 
some remunerative employment, and he accepted thesuperintendency of the schools of Pern, 
Ind. , and while attending to the duties of that position read law as opportunity offered, so 
that he was admitted to the bar of Peru in 1SB5, and began the practice of his profession 
there, holding meantime the office of county school examiner. Mr. Miller removed to Ft. 
Wayne in 1806, and there formed a law partnership with William H. Coombs. Their busi- 
ness increased so rapid'ly that a third partner was soon admitted. Mr. Miller practiced 
often before the Federal Court, and there he attracted the attention and formed the acquaint- 
ance of Gen. Harrison, who upon the retirement of A. G. Porter from the tirm of Porter, 
Harrison & Hines, invited Mr. Miller to become a member of it. This he did, and as such 
was engaged in active practice down to the time of his appointment by President Harrison as 
attorney-general. His choice to this exalted position was most fitting. He was and had 
loner been one of the leaders at the bar. His integrity was unquestioned, his ability was 
very marked, his industry was untiring. These facts are acknowledged by all, and President 
Harrison was in a position to be better aware of them than almost any one else. Mr. Miller 
had, at that time, been engaged in some of the most important litigations before the Supreme 
Court of the State, and that of the United States. Mention may be made, by way of illus- 
tration, of the legal contest concerning the adoption of the amendment to the State consti- 
tution in 1878, and the lieutenant-governorship contest in 1886, For years, and particu- 
larly during the campaign of 1888 he had been Gen. Harrison's confidential adviser and 
chosen friend. As attorney-general Mr. Miller enhanced his professional reputation very 
greatl}' by his action in directing the United States marshal to protect Supreme Court 
Justice Field from a threatened attack by the notorious Judge Terry, of California, who was 
killed l)y a deputy United States marshal while attempting said assault, and by his protect- 
ing said deputy marshal on the high ground that it was, independently of all statutes, the 
plain duty of the executive to protect the judiciary, arguing on this ground and being sus- 
tained in the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. He appeared in numerous impor- 
tant and very difficult cases, notably the Behring Sea litigation, the contest over the constitu- 
tional validity of the McKinley bill, and cases growing out of the Inter State Tariff bill and 
the anti-lottery laws. It is doubtful if another attorney-general ever acquitted himself 
more creditably in office, all things considered, or ever retired from office with n greater 
measure of the respect of the people, irrespective of party affiliation. At the expiration of 
his term of office, Mr. Miller returned to Indianapolis, and resumed the practice of law as 
the head of the tirm of Miller, Winter & Elam. 

Judge Alex.^nper C. Ayres, The philosophy of success in life is an interesting 
study, and affords a lesson from which others can profit. In choosing a pursuit in life, 
taste, mental gifts, opportunity and disposition to labor, should be considered, if any 
young man who has a disposition to become a respectable and useful citizen desires to 
succeed therein. On November 9, 1846, a boy was born in Franklin County, Ind., who 
grew up to sturdy manhood, ambitious to excel, and possessing much energy and determi- 
nation, attributes which are essential to success in any calling. This boy was Judge 
Alexander C. Ayres, whose father, Hon. Levi Ayres, was a native of New Jersey. The 
elder Avres moved to Indiana at an earlv date and served in the Indiana Legislature. He 



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also served several terms as commissioner of Franklin County. Hia death occurred in 
December, 18S8. The scholastic training of our subject was received in the Northwestern 
Christian (now Butler) University, from whiih he graduated in 1808. Subsequently he 
began the study of law with Hendricks, Hord & Hendricks, at Indianapolis, and also 
graduated in the law school at Butler University, after he had entered the above mentioned 
law office. In 1872 Judge Ay res was admitted to the Marion County liar, and in 1873 
formed a partnership with B. K. Elliott, the same continuing until Mr. Elliott went on the 
bench. Later, Judge Ayres formed apartnership with Edgar A. Brown, now (1893) judge of 
the Circuit Court, and this continued until our subject was elected judge of the Cir- 
cuit Court. This was in 1884, and he served three years, only about half his time, 
when he resigned. After this he formed a partnership with C. A. Brown and L. N. 
Harvey. Mr. Brown went on the bench in 1890, and this dissolved the partnership, our 
subject practicing alone until January, 1892, when the present partnership, Ayres & Jones, 
was formed. Judge Ayres was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, in 1892, 
and has ever been active in political affairs, serving as president of the Hendricks Clul) 
for some time. He takes pride in assisting all public enterprises and is public spirited, 
liberal and high-minded. His entire career has been upright and honoiable and he is in 
every way worthy of the respect in which he is held. 

Albert Gall. Among the noted and representative men of the flourishing city of 
Indianapolis, Ind., stands the name of Albert Gall, whose high reputation and material 
prosperity came as the rewards of unusual natural abilities, industriously applied. He is a 
man who has maintained a high character for integrity and fidelity to the trust bestowed 
upon him, whether of a public or a private nature, and it is acknowledged by all that he is 
one of the mo.st efficient and popular State treasurers. He owes his nativity to Wisconsin, 
born in Green Bay, November 23, 1842, and came to Indianapolis with his parents in 1847. 
As he was but five years of age at that time, as a natural consequence most of his recollec- 
tions are of this State. He attended the public schools of Indianapolis until 1853, when his 
father, Alvis Gall, was appointed Consul to Antwerp, and our subject finished his education 
in that city. There he remained until 1859, when he returned to Indianapolis and entered 
the dry goods store of A. G. Williard. Shortly afterward he went to California and located 
in San Francisco, where he remained four years. Keturning to Indianapolis he entered the 
employ of G. & T. Krauss, dealers in wall paper, carpets, etc., and was in their employ for 
three months. Mr. G. Krauss then retiring the father of our subject bought his interest and 
the firm was then known as Krauss & Gall, continuing as such for three years. After this 
it was changed to Gall & Rush and three years later became Albert Gall, under which title 
it has since remained. Mr. Gall was elected State treasurer in 1890 and so creditably and 
satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of this important position, that he was re-elected 
in 1892. He is an ardent Democrat in politics and has ever been interested in the welfare 
of his party. Socially he is a member of the Elks, Mystic Shrine, Scottish Rite and is a 
Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity. He is one of the governors of the Indianapolis 
Board of Trade; is a member of the Commercial Club, German American Club, honorary 

member of Cleveland Club, Society, Sons of Veterans and Loyal Legion. Mr. 

Gall was married in 1804 to Miss Louisa Ruschhaupt, a native of Indianapolis. In our sub- 
ject the community has a faithful and unswerving friend, ever alert to serve its best interests, 
and generous in his contributions toward every movement tending to the general advance- 
ment. His father was born in Weil-de-Stadt, Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to America 
in 1840. His home was principally in Indianapolis where he practiced medicine until his 
death in 18(i7. He was surgeon of the Thirteenth Indiana Volunteers during a portion of 
the war and was connected with the medical service the remainder of the time. During Presi- 
dent Pierce's administration he was appointed Consul to Antwerp, and served through that 
administration and two years of President Buchanan's term. He was a man of intelligence 
and sound understanding. 

Hon. John C. New, known prominently over the State through his connection with the 
daily and weekly Journal of Indianapolis, the present United States Consul to London, 
England, and the Government's ex-treasurer, was born July 6, 1831, at Vernon, Jennings 
County, this State, being the son of John B. and Maria (Chalfant) New. Graduating at 



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the age of twenty years from Bethany College (Virginia), he began the study of law at 
Indianapolis, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and four years later was apjiointed circuit 
court clerk of Marion County to till out the unexpired term caused by the death of the 
incumbent. Upon the expiration of the teim be accepted the Republican nomination for the 
office, and although confronted by a Democratic majority, was elected by a decisive majority. 
Under the appointment of Gov. Morton, he became quartermaster general of the State during 
the Civil War, and consequently the governor's financial secretary — a very responsible posi- 
tion because of the enormous amount pledged by Gov. Morton for the prosecution of the war 
and for which a disloyal legislature made no provision. In 1862 he was nominated and 
elected State senator from the Indianapolis di>itriet, and in 1865 became an official of the 
First National Bank of the city, and as such continued ten years. The year 1875, unsolicited 
on bis part, witnessed his appointment to the responsible position of treasurer of the United 
States by President Grant. A year later he resigned his office. Having purchased the 
Journal of Indianapolis in 1880, he gave it his personal attention for years and caused it to 
be recognized as one of the foremost Republican State newspapers in the land. In 1880 he 
was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, displaying superior ability in his 
management of State affairs. Under President Harrifon's appointment he acceptably filled 
the consulship of the United States to the city of London. Mr. New has been twice mar- 
ried, and is blessed with a fine familv. 




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